President Trump and the federal government are policing speech, morality, and punishment of individual citizens at a level of micromanagement rarely, if ever, witnessed in America.

Why it matters: We've written extensively about the unprecedented new powers seized or granted to Trump and future presidents in the past eight months alone. • But few throw America deeper into new, uncharted waters than making presidents and the executive branch the judge, jury and executioner of words and behavior.

These actions, all public, fall into three categories: punishing individual critics ... freeing allies convicted of crimes ... and policing speech. • Before we detail them, it's important to remember that the power of the presidency was growing long before Trump. Under all five of the presiden

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