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Is the show equipped to take on Donald Trump, a former SNL host whose own absurdity often defies parody?

Why wouldn’t he shoot for the moon with an attorney general who gleefully defies everything the Justice Department once stood for?

The move, which defies a UN recommendation, means potentially locking up even more young people.

It also defies common sense: In regular English usage, a person has “cast” their ballot when they’ve returned it—by, for instance, dropping it in the mailbox.

Those who worked with Kamala Harris when she was San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general say her approach to being a prosecutor was nuanced and defies labels.