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How Donald Trump is remaking the law in his own image

No president has been doing so much so fast to transform the law in America.

Just as no president has shown such little regard for its norms and traditions.

The chaos in President Donald Trump’s White House and his unconventional public statements have sometimes obscured his administration’s agenda for the law. But it is concerted, consistent and could have an impact for decades.

Over the past year, the Trump administration has reversed the US government’s legal position on voting rights and election law, on the arbitration of workplace disputes, labor union power, and protections for gay and transgender people.