Patriot Acts - Baker, David
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"Patriot Acts" is a darkly comedic political satire, wrapped inside a legal thriller. The story, which takes place in the not-too-distant future, centers on the plight of an immigrant teenager, snatched from her mother at a border crossing as part of a cruel family separation program. She's shipped off across the U.S. and threatened with deportation, even though she's receiving critical medical treatment. Her volunteer lawyers, on a whim, attack the Government Officials behind these schemes, labelling them as domestic terrorists, invoking the Patriot Act, the post 9/11 anti-terror law. Their…mehr

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"Patriot Acts" is a darkly comedic political satire, wrapped inside a legal thriller. The story, which takes place in the not-too-distant future, centers on the plight of an immigrant teenager, snatched from her mother at a border crossing as part of a cruel family separation program. She's shipped off across the U.S. and threatened with deportation, even though she's receiving critical medical treatment. Her volunteer lawyers, on a whim, attack the Government Officials behind these schemes, labelling them as domestic terrorists, invoking the Patriot Act, the post 9/11 anti-terror law. Their targets are members of the Administration of bombastic U.S. President. H. Stennis "Deuteronomy" Stuggs, a former televangelist narrowly elected on a nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-crime agenda.
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David Baker is a probate attorney, licensed in New York and Illinois. He's part of the country's largest group of Estate and Trust lawyers, where he's worked for 44 years. There, he started and heads a group that focuses on contested estate, trust and guardianship cases. He also ran the firm's Pro Bono program for many years. "Patriot Acts" is his second book. His first book, "Death Is No Excuse", a surprisingly entertaining guide through late-and-end-of-life planning, has been widely praised by readers as well as judges and academics in the field of Probate Law.