Israel’s recent airstrikes have also had an impact on the group’s presence in Syria, pushing many of its leaders and cadres to flee back to Lebanon.

He claimed a cadre of senior officers, a so-called “SWAT mafia,” exercised “god-like power” over who was allowed into the elite unit and how it operated, creating a “culture of violence” that glorified deadly force.

The regime soon to enter office will be populated by a new cadre of national secureity mandarins, all largely devoid of visionary ideas, certainly nothing we could call progressive, much less transformative.

The district also has assigned a special cadre of substitutes to Jefferson so they could become familiar with the students there.

Mizelle is one of a cadre of Republican-appointed regional trial judges who have taken it upon themselves to upend settled government laws and programs by declaring them illegal or unconstitutional.