"A president who talks openly about going for a third term, who signs executive orders which contradict his country’s constitution, who got a rigged supreme court to grant him immunity, who ignores court orders, who has his underlings hand out massive million dollar cheques to people to induce them to vote, even though it is explicitly against state law. To watch the United States is to watch the law dissolve into authoritarian government."
"We should all take a good hard look at what’s happening in the US. Not the noise or the clamour, but the bleak constitutional reality of it. This is what happens when you give up on the rule of law."
~ Ian Dunt
#Trump #authoritarianism #Constitution #LawandOrder #ThirdTerm
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https://iandunt.substack.com/p/want-to-know-how-trump-gets-in-just
Ich sage schon immer, wir müssen hart gegen die Mafia vorgehen! In meiner zweiten Amtszeit werden wir das härteste Vorgehen gegen organisierte Kriminalität jemals sehen. Niemand kann besser gegen Verbrecher kämpfen als ich. Die Razzien sind erst der Anfang! Meine Regierung wird spektakulärer sein als jede andere. #politik #usa #lawandorder
https://www.europesays.com/1950277/ Convicted founder of electric vehicle startup Nikola pardoned by Trump #AZStateWire #business #DonaldTrump #ElectricVehicles #GeneralMotorsCo #GeneralNews #LawAndOrder #NikolaTrevorMilton #Politics #technology #trump #U.S.News #Utah
The woman who killed Tejano music icon Selena in 1995 has been denied parole https://www.inbella.com/972418/the-woman-who-killed-tejano-music-icon-selena-in-1995-has-been-denied-parole/ #CorpusChristi #CriminalPunishment #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #GeneralNews #homicide #Houston #JenniferLopez #JuanA.Lozano #LawAndOrder #LegalProceedings #prisons #SelenaKillingParole #SelenaQuintanillaPerez #shootings #Texas #Theft #TXStateWire #U.s.News #YolandaSaldivar
"Everyone on that group chat, including the Vice-President, the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Advisor, and the Secretary of State, knew that what they were doing was against the rules, the guidance, and the law. But they were doing what they were doing, I would suggest, for a reason: precisely because it allowed them or their colleagues to compromise the rights of Americans."
"Using Signal enables American authorities to violate the rights of Americans. Signal is attractive not because it is secure with respect to foreign adversaries, which it is not, but because it is secure with respect to American citizens and American judges. The autodelete function, which Mike Waltz was using, violates the law."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #Signal #LawandOrder #rights
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/signalgate-violating-national-security
The (In)complete legal and ethical record of Donald J #Trump, the most prolific criminal in history.
"If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #LawandOrder #fascism #authoritarianism
https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3ll5rxk57tk2t
#LawAndOrder is the buzz phrase for 'arrest all the poors - esp the brown ones'
Rich ytguys laugh at laws - they play golf with the judge ffs
#Black folks get lectured about 'accountability' & 'ignorance is no excuse'
Ytguys get 'God's grace' bc 'assume positive intent'
"Musk, who serves as a senior adviser to Donald Trump, posted about judges who ruled in opposition to the administration more than 20 times within 48 hours this week on X, the social network he owns, repeatedly framing them as radical leftist activists and seeking to undermine their authority."
~ Nick Robins-Early
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #courts #judges #LawandOrder
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/22/elon-musk-doge-judges-usaid
"In 1978, when [Václav] Havel writes of Czechoslovakia, he is also writing of America in the future:
'Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past, it falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future.'”
~ Heidi Cuda
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #authoritarianism #education #immigrants #LawandOrder #courts
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https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-being-braver-than-we-want
"Nearly all the actions that he's taken in the first 60 or so days of this shameless and shameful regime are the authoritarian versions of policies Republicans have been fantasizing about for most of the century."
~ David Pepper
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #authoritarianism #education #immigrants #LawandOrder #courts
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https://thecause.substack.com/p/the-trump-regime-had-a-54-year-and
"Add a rightwing media ecosystem manufacturing consent and obeyance in advance, along with a weak and divided opposition offering feeble resistance. Join all the dots, critics say, and America is sleepwalking into authoritarianism."
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #authoritarianism #education #immigrants #LawandOrder #courts #media
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"Eviscerating the federal government and subjugating Congress; defying court orders and delegitimising judges; deporting immigrants and arresting protesters without due process; chilling free speech at universities and cultural institutions; cowing news outlets with divide-and-rule."
~ David Smith
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #authoritarianism #education #immigrants #LawandOrder #courts
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/mar/22/trump-administration-authoritarianism
"Trump’s deportations rely on tattoos—it’s bullshit. It turns out tattoos inspired by a reggaeton artist who endorsed Trump are also a marker of gang involvement."
~ Adrian Carrasquillo
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #Venezuelans #LawandOrder #tattoos
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-deportations-tattoos-bullshit-anuel-aa-dhs-ice
"But if this gets to the Supreme Court and a majority there upholds Trump’s position, do we really think Trump won’t at least be sorely tempted to galumph his way through that open door? What will happen when a future roundup includes naturalized citizens? Or even birthright citizens, a category we know Trump wants to eliminate? And what happens when it simply becomes anyone who the president doesn’t like?"
"Now Trump’s attorney general has invoked yet another obscure and controversial law in an effort to shut the judge up. And finally, Trump now demands that Congress impeach the judge because of his refusal to accept the laws of the land. ...
Let us recognize the stakes: Today, it’s noncitizens who are the victims of Trump’s lawlessness. Maybe Trump will stop there."
"Now we can summarize Trump’s position here. He invoked an ancient (and often criticized) law during non-wartime, which no president has ever done. A federal judge said, Hey, wait a minute and ordered the action ended (that is, he ordered those airplanes turned around). Trump ignored that order; the planes flew on."
~ Michael Tomasky
