Yesterday, in our weekly conversation about what’s going on in the courts, Adam Klasfeld of All Rise News walked me through yet more of the Trump administration’s unprecedented and sometimes terrifying tests of our legal system, especially around immigration.

Exhibit A is the dramatic arrest of New York mayoral candidate Brad Lander, who, as Adam points out, wields not-a-tremendous amount of power as New York City’s top accountant. But thanks to the aggressive actions of a couple of ICE agents who yanked his neck and then cuffed him in the corridor of a New York immigration court, (claiming he assaulted one of them, but possibly because he was walking out with an immigrant who had just appeared before a judge and whom they wanted to arrest), Lander could become the latest political martyr created by Trump. (Of course, Republicans claim that’s exactly what he wants, given the upcoming mayoral election in which he’s polling third, and that the whole thing was a stunt. Lander was released with no charges after a few hours, but, astonishingly, DHS made sure to troll him on X, writing: No Man Is Above The Law).

Watch the full conversation at Vicky Ward Investigates.