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Trump did this by EO, with photo op… -not just about punishing Krebs & Taylor -a msg to everyone who might consider “crossing” him. We often say this is how #authoritarianism begins.
The GOP is right that America wants to “move on” from the 2020 election -a real problem for them: Trump won’t.
This latest attack on the #ruleoflaw is a naked attempt to use the DOJ as a tool of pol oppression.
It'd be grossly unethical for #DOJ ATTYs to accept this kind of order.
#USPol https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5242757-trump-krebs-taylor-justice/
#ConvictedFelonTrump 's Executive Orders to investigate, for political reasons, Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for "undermining the strength of our democracy itself" are laughable illegal weaponizations of #DOJ 100% inconsistent with our democratic principles and #Constitutional #RuleOfLaw. #Politics
“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535
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I am driven by my emotions.
"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."
"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".
"What did it all involve? Nothing at all. What scandal had they uncovered? None whatsoever. It was a great festival of vacuity. It proved nothing except for what happens to people who fight for liberal values in an era of #populism."
Striking 13 · A good man in government
https://www.europesays.com/uk/10612/ The time has come to punish Orbán, Germany’s next government says – POLITICO #Breaches #EU #EUCommission #Europe #France #FriedrichMerz #GermanElection2025 #Germany #HumanRights #hungary #Judiciary #Negotiations #OlafScholz #Poland #Policy #Regions/Cohesion #Rights #RuleOfLaw #RussiaSanctions #Sanctions #Security #ViktorOrbán
Trump’s Latest Executive Order Lays Bare His Authoritarian Ambitions
His directive to the Justice Department to investigate Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, whose only crimes were telling the truth, is a frontal assault on the rule of law.
If we fail to hold Trump accountable for turning the justice system into a tool of revenge, we are not just rewriting the rules—we’re erasing them.
#Democracy #RuleOfLaw #Corruption
https://newrepublic.com/article/193854/trump-justice-dept-executive-order-taylor-krebs-authoritarian
The New Republic · Trump’s Latest Executive Order Lays Bare His Authoritarian AmbitionsHis directive to the Justice Department to investigate Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, whose only crimes were telling the truth, is a frontal assault on the rule of law.
https://www.europesays.com/1985118/ Prominent Turkish academic ends political commentary, fearing imprisonment #AKParty #akp #democracy #erdogan #HumanRights #Justice #law #NurayMert #oppression #RuleOfLaw #Turkey #turkiye
"WOW. Sec Noem: the Venezuelans the Trump admin is paying El Salvador to hold should be detained there "for the rest of their lives."
I can't think of anything more unamerican than life in prison with no trial. 75% of them have no criminal record at all!
No law permits the US to pay another nation to imprison someone. These actions are unlawful & abandon basic #ruleoflaw principles."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
Noem, Homan, Miller, Trump... are committing #CrimesAgainstHumanity!
"The stock mkt is something we measure every day, so we can see & track it in RT.
But when we see the charts of a STR
trajectory -also summarize what’s
happening with cancer & Alzheimer’s res, AC freedom, nat sec, basic #rights, the #ruleoflaw, America’s standing in the world...
If we could measure each, they'd all look the same.
Trump’s chaos, extremism & incompetence: DESTROYING THEM ALL.
Most won’t recover nearly as quickly as stk prices can—or at all."
-D Pepper
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Yes, he’s an idiot, and he couldn’t care less what the Constitution or other laws say, but brave his stench for a minute and listen to what he’s saying - he always projects. He want to have one day voting, controlled by him.
He’s going to sign an EO declaring federal authority to control elections.
Then he’ll suspend them alleging war time powers.
And declare himself President for life.
Listen.
"If the government can disappear anyone it wishes, dump him in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/opinion/trump-deportations-gulag-prison.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U4.gWud.Zsk_iY8AaxHY&smid=url-share
#Trump #ruleoflaw #deportations #humanrights #ICE #geopolitics @geopolitics
The New York Times · Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
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"The Government's conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law." ~ Justice Sotomayor pg17
"The Court's legal conclusion is suspect." ~ Justice Sotomayor pg2
![Cite as: 604 U.S. ___ (2025) 1
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A931
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, ET AL. v. J. G. G., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE THE ORDERS ISSUED BY
THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
[April 7, 2025]](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/303/101/012/583/965/original/4130a9ce8a98e340.png "Cite as: 604 U.S. ___ (2025) 1
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A931
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, ET AL. v. J. G. G., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE THE ORDERS ISSUED BY
THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
[April 7, 2025]")
"A lawyer's spring break trip to the Dominican Republic with his family ended on a troubling note at Detroit Metro Airport on Sunday: He was detained by federal agents, questioned about his clients, and asked to give up his cellphone, he says.
But Dearborn attorney Amir Makled, who is representing a pro-Palestinian demonstrator who was arrested at the University of Michigan last year, stood his ground. He didn't give up his phone.
"I'm an American citizen. I'm not worried about being deported," Makled said he recalled thinking to himself in the airport interrogation room. "So, I tell them, 'I know you can take my phone. I'm not going to give you my phone, however ... 90% of my work is on my phone. You're not getting unfettered access to (it).' "
What followed was a 90-minute, back-and-forth verbal tussle between Makled and two federal agents, who, he said, ultimately released him without taking his phone, but looked at his contacts list instead. For the 38-year-old civil rights and criminal defense attorney, it was a daunting experience that he says highlights a troubling phenomenon that's occurring across the United States: Lawyers are getting targeted for handling issues the administration of President Donald Trump disagrees with."
Detroit Free Press · Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
The Venezuelan detainees may not be unilaterally removed by the Trump adminstration.
Removal should be challenged in Texas courts, not D.C. courts.
"... the critical point is that the Supreme Court said individuals must be given due process to challenge their removal under the Alien Enemies Act."
~ ACLU
"... detainees must receive notice [...] within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs."
"Challenges to removal under the AEA [...] must be brought in habeas."
"... today’s order and per curiam confirm that the detainees subject to removal orders under the AEA are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal."
"The only question is which court will resolve that challenge."
"The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia."
~ SCOTUS
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf
#ACLU #5A #DueProcess #SCOTUS #habeascorpus #RuleOfLaw #law @law
Nobody should be disappeared - that’s what it is - to a hard labor prison in a foreign country without due process.
That includes U.S. citizens, immigrants with or without legal documentation, tourists, every human.
This is mob street violence not caring who gets caught in the crosshairs.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-supreme-court-deportations-aliens-enemies-act/
#uspol #ruleoflaw #immigration #supremecourt
Democracy DocketSupreme Court Allows Trump to Deport People Under Wartime LawRead more here.
“Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court's three liberal justices in dissenting with the majority ruling.
In the dissent, they wrote that the administration's "conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law".
Trump called the ruling a "great day for justice in America".”
Unconscionable. The Roberts court has killed the #Constitution and #RuleOfLaw in the U.S. They shame the entire profession. I am aghast.
bbc.comUS Supreme Court allows Trump to use Alien Enemies Act for deportationsA judge had blocked the Trump administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.