Our mid-January selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law. These two weeks have been a bumper period for abuses since Trump took office.
I find the DOJ defiance of court orders the most troubling. Lindsey Halligan is one example. The DOJ's assertion that no US court can compel release of the Epstein Files is another. If open defiance of the courts is countenanced by the Supreme Court, democracy is doomed.
I'm sorry, but what's going on in Minnesota is not ICE being bad, but rather police not actually enforcing the law (kind of important for "the rule of law") against people harassing and attacking people for supporting ICE, or, even worse, just not saying anything. They're creating checkpoints. But yeah, sure, it's Trump who's so terrible
Well, we the people have moved from urging the writing letters to Schumer et al, which is as realistic as letters to Santa, to now pompously citing legal violations, ignoring the fact that the legal apparatus, long since laden with sell-outs all the way up to the SCOTUS, are met with amusement by the controlling coupists. Both are really just part of the great common comiseration instead of commitment to real resistance, lamentations instead of real retabutive action. To the end, we will weep as a herd instead of realizing that war is real war. Our maudlin wallowing in our victimhood is our train to Dachau. ICE brings guns, we can't even manage knives.
"The independence of the Federal Reserve has been one of the few remaining holdouts against Trump’s attempt to centralize all power in his person and have every agency run by his lackeys. In this case, Trump’s takeover of the Justice Department, which is no longer insulated from direct presidential control, makes this next takeover more likely."
The DOJ is now Trump's paramilitary legal force whose sole role is to advance the President's "policies and priorities". This dovetails perfectly with the law enforcement arm of the US Government, formerly known as the FBI. And Executive Order 14215 appoints Russell Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget, the financial authority to "5(b) consult with independent regulatory agency chairmen and adjust such agencies’ apportionments by activity, function, project, or object, as necessary and appropriate, to advance the President’s policies and priorities. Such adjustments to apportionments may prohibit independent regulatory agencies from expending appropriations on particular activities, functions, projects, or objects, . . . ", which is the very intent of that Executive Order. To defund agencies and projects that do not align with Trump's "policies and priorities". Or with Trump's whims. Trump wins. The rest of America loses. And now there's deployment of the 11th Airborne. Talk about suckers and losers. We Are.
Why won't they act? I can think of three reasons. First, they don't need to. Of Congressmen who sought re-election in 2024, over 90% were re-elected. Second, they are afraid to. Trump was re-elected largely because he promised to take decisive action on a national problem which the Congress and the Biden administration ignored but the voters didn't. Finally, they may be unable to. The Congress has delegated so much power to the executive branch that they will find it hard to get that power back.
I find the DOJ defiance of court orders the most troubling. Lindsey Halligan is one example. The DOJ's assertion that no US court can compel release of the Epstein Files is another. If open defiance of the courts is countenanced by the Supreme Court, democracy is doomed.
Yup, this goes to the administration's general problem with any entity that can act as a meaningful curb on its power.
I'm sorry, but what's going on in Minnesota is not ICE being bad, but rather police not actually enforcing the law (kind of important for "the rule of law") against people harassing and attacking people for supporting ICE, or, even worse, just not saying anything. They're creating checkpoints. But yeah, sure, it's Trump who's so terrible
Well, we the people have moved from urging the writing letters to Schumer et al, which is as realistic as letters to Santa, to now pompously citing legal violations, ignoring the fact that the legal apparatus, long since laden with sell-outs all the way up to the SCOTUS, are met with amusement by the controlling coupists. Both are really just part of the great common comiseration instead of commitment to real resistance, lamentations instead of real retabutive action. To the end, we will weep as a herd instead of realizing that war is real war. Our maudlin wallowing in our victimhood is our train to Dachau. ICE brings guns, we can't even manage knives.
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"The independence of the Federal Reserve has been one of the few remaining holdouts against Trump’s attempt to centralize all power in his person and have every agency run by his lackeys. In this case, Trump’s takeover of the Justice Department, which is no longer insulated from direct presidential control, makes this next takeover more likely."
The DOJ is now Trump's paramilitary legal force whose sole role is to advance the President's "policies and priorities". This dovetails perfectly with the law enforcement arm of the US Government, formerly known as the FBI. And Executive Order 14215 appoints Russell Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget, the financial authority to "5(b) consult with independent regulatory agency chairmen and adjust such agencies’ apportionments by activity, function, project, or object, as necessary and appropriate, to advance the President’s policies and priorities. Such adjustments to apportionments may prohibit independent regulatory agencies from expending appropriations on particular activities, functions, projects, or objects, . . . ", which is the very intent of that Executive Order. To defund agencies and projects that do not align with Trump's "policies and priorities". Or with Trump's whims. Trump wins. The rest of America loses. And now there's deployment of the 11th Airborne. Talk about suckers and losers. We Are.
His intent is to attack Mexican cartels, using Greenland as a distraction.
Why won't they act? I can think of three reasons. First, they don't need to. Of Congressmen who sought re-election in 2024, over 90% were re-elected. Second, they are afraid to. Trump was re-elected largely because he promised to take decisive action on a national problem which the Congress and the Biden administration ignored but the voters didn't. Finally, they may be unable to. The Congress has delegated so much power to the executive branch that they will find it hard to get that power back.