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Former Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe compared President Donald Trump's disregard of the law to some of history's worst autocrats in a CNN interview Wednesday.

Tribe's comments came after Trump upped his retaliatory measures against the Ivy League university for defying him on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as allegations of antisemitism. So far, Trump has threatened to cut billions of dollars in grant money and attempted to revoke Harvard from enrolling foreign students — a move that has since been blocked by a federal judge as a "blatant violation" of the Constitution.

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Before Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed into law a bill that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every K-12 and state-funded university classroom last week, he said, "I can't wait to be sued."

NBC News reported Monday that the state's education department was, in fact, sued by nine families.

"The families, who are Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and nonreligious, alleged in court papers filed in the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana, that the new law 'substantially interferes with and burdens' the parents’ First Amendment right to raise their kids in whatever religion they want," the news outlet noted....