Isometimes wonder what headline writers today would make of the news out of Washington from yesteryear.

It was John Adams, the country’s second president, who sought to criminalise the opposition and left behind draconian legislation like the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, which the Trump administration has used to sidestep immigration law .

Abraham Lincoln shut down hostile newspapers during the Civil War , trampling all over the First Amendment right of free speech. “Honest Abe” even suspended habeas corpus , a legal protection which Donald Trump the other week seemed to mistake for a person. New Feature

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt won four elections, which violated the norms set by George Washington that presidents should only serve

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