Chilling warning as Trump admin quietly hands itself new weapon to lock up homeless vets

The Department of Justice and Department of Veterans Affairs just quietly handed themselves a troubling new weapon, analyst Steve Kennedy wrote Thursday in Slate.

They announced a partnership allowing VA attorneys to become federal prosecutors with the power to petition state courts for guardianship and conservatorship over veterans deemed unable to make medical decisions.

"On its face, the policy sounds like a bureaucratic fix to a real problem," wrote Kennedy.

Hospitals struggle...