"I'm not Spartacus!" Thanks for that! I needed a chuckle today.
I really do believe one of the strategies being used here is to simply clog the court dockets with what are junk cases that have little chance of being won by Trump but will take time to litigate and eat up the resources of the opposition. In the meantime they do what they want knowing that the judicial system can't keep up as they flood the field with shit.
As the recent cases of some of the immigrants reveals. By the time the court can act the illegal detention and deportation has already taken place. Now the government claims they can't do anything. This, too, will have to be litigated and as several hundred similar cases work their way up to the Supreme Court in a few years a final resolution might be made.
Meanwhile the damages have been done and the objectives of all the illegal actions Trump has taken will have been met.
Something I am going to start researching is the legal community response to Joseph McCarthy and the Red Panic of the 1950's. Even liberals like Hubert Humphrey helped pass laws to outlaw membership in the Communist Party. Was there any attempt to blacklist law firms (other than the ACLU) for representing reds, pinkos, and commies, etc. Did law firms just quietly acquiesce? I know there were individual lawyers who resisted but did they suffer consequences?
The problem is that the courts, as an independent, coequal branch, committed suicide a few years ago, in Trump v. Anderson. They're just taking a long time to die.
The fpotus (aka Project 2025) is ordering the federal government to ban lawyers, in firms he is exacting revenge upon, from federal courthouses, and from speaking to federal employees. Unilaterally. With no basis in reality, just bogus accusations. The few firms not allowing the extorting actions by him, and fighting the orders, will not see a court redress, if they get one, for weeks, or months, or never. Fpotus is not obeying judge's rulings against him, or this regime, anyway. He has unilaterally threatened universities into right-wing stands or no funding. Unilaterally. He is unilaterally threatening to cut funding or threatening to sue museums, for showing any ethnic or female based art exhibits as "racist" and "divisive". Unilaterally, he has issued edicts that are illegal and unconstitutional, and carried them out even when overturned by the courts. No one, not a single person, has been able to stop this onslaught. He is the sole power censoring media, law firms, museums, events centers, universities, and entire federal government agencies. Congress in Republican hands will not stop him. Our institutions are caving to pressure and extortion.
So what exactly will stop him? Only a military coup, or an armed uprising by citizens, I think. I don't see any other option.
"I'm not Spartacus!" Thanks for that! I needed a chuckle today.
I really do believe one of the strategies being used here is to simply clog the court dockets with what are junk cases that have little chance of being won by Trump but will take time to litigate and eat up the resources of the opposition. In the meantime they do what they want knowing that the judicial system can't keep up as they flood the field with shit.
As the recent cases of some of the immigrants reveals. By the time the court can act the illegal detention and deportation has already taken place. Now the government claims they can't do anything. This, too, will have to be litigated and as several hundred similar cases work their way up to the Supreme Court in a few years a final resolution might be made.
Meanwhile the damages have been done and the objectives of all the illegal actions Trump has taken will have been met.
Something I am going to start researching is the legal community response to Joseph McCarthy and the Red Panic of the 1950's. Even liberals like Hubert Humphrey helped pass laws to outlaw membership in the Communist Party. Was there any attempt to blacklist law firms (other than the ACLU) for representing reds, pinkos, and commies, etc. Did law firms just quietly acquiesce? I know there were individual lawyers who resisted but did they suffer consequences?
The problem is that the courts, as an independent, coequal branch, committed suicide a few years ago, in Trump v. Anderson. They're just taking a long time to die.
tRump is dumber than I could imagine ...
The fpotus (aka Project 2025) is ordering the federal government to ban lawyers, in firms he is exacting revenge upon, from federal courthouses, and from speaking to federal employees. Unilaterally. With no basis in reality, just bogus accusations. The few firms not allowing the extorting actions by him, and fighting the orders, will not see a court redress, if they get one, for weeks, or months, or never. Fpotus is not obeying judge's rulings against him, or this regime, anyway. He has unilaterally threatened universities into right-wing stands or no funding. Unilaterally. He is unilaterally threatening to cut funding or threatening to sue museums, for showing any ethnic or female based art exhibits as "racist" and "divisive". Unilaterally, he has issued edicts that are illegal and unconstitutional, and carried them out even when overturned by the courts. No one, not a single person, has been able to stop this onslaught. He is the sole power censoring media, law firms, museums, events centers, universities, and entire federal government agencies. Congress in Republican hands will not stop him. Our institutions are caving to pressure and extortion.
So what exactly will stop him? Only a military coup, or an armed uprising by citizens, I think. I don't see any other option.