"JOHNSON leveled a new #threat at the judiciary:
ELIMINATING SPECIFIC COURTS.
"We do have authority over the fed courts -we can, we can eliminate an entire dist court.
"We have power, funding over the courts & all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures."
-J Sherman
Dershowitz argued Congress had another path: Article III only calls for a SC. Dist & Appeals courts are creations of Congress -not co-equal branches of govt.
-Patriot Pulse
#Lawless #Republicans #USPol
In this prerogative state, #judges & other legal actors deferred to the #racist hierarchies & ruthless expediencies of the #Nazi regime.
The key here is that this prerogative state does not immediately & completely overrun the normative state. Rather, Fraenkel argued, #dictatorships create a #lawless zone that runs alongside the normative state. The 2 states cohabit uneasily & unstably. On any given day, people or cases could be jerked out of the normative state & into the prerogative one.
Academic in tone, The #DualState sketches a template of emerging #tyranny distilled from bloody & horrifying experience.
As Fraenkel explained it, a #lawless #dictatorship does not arise simply by snuffing out the ordinary #legal system of rules, procedures, & precedents. To the contrary, that system—which he called the “normative state”—remains in place while dictatorial power spreads across society. What happens, Fraenkel explained, is insidious.
"A federal judge in Maryland has just barred DOGE from accessing Social Security systems, saying the group is on a "fishing expedition" that jeopardizes people's personal data."
-K Cheney
#DOGE #Lawless #Trump #Musk #SocialSecurity #USPol
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.49.0.pdf
Even as evidence emerges of potentially grave errors in their vetting process, the Trump admin appears ready to argue -they can use the Alien Enemies Act to enter the home of any person they allege is a member of Tren de Aragua, W/O A WARRANT.
Experts say such an interpretation would infringe on basic civil liberties -raise the potential for misuse. Warrantless entries: some precedent in wartime history -not in peacetime.
#DueProcess #Lawless #Trump #Immigrants #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/trump-alien-enemies-immigration-agents.html
I feel like throwing an eraser at these sleeping #influencers like one of my professors did at #HowardU BITD. Hello? Have you been paying attention? The current #fascist #lawless regime is, whelp, #lawless. They are busy #deporting #legalimmigrants & threatening to #deport #citizens. They have illegally fired #civilservants. Why would they, on god's green earth, be constrained by #international #treaties and #IARU agreements or listen to suggestions from #hams?
"Attorneys challenging Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act inform a federal judge that El Salvador's strongman islaughing at his order to send back the planes — & defendant Marco Rubio is laughing along with him."
-A Klasfeld
Trump & his henchman are as vile & lawless as he. They laugh at the law of the land. Or is it? #Trump ignores the law. Will #SCOTUS continue to let him act unconstitutionally?
#Lawless #DueProcess #Constitution #Courts #Judge #Deportations #USPol https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.21.0.pdf
DUI hire Pete can’t rehire the 16 provisional employees they unlawfully fired as the court requires them to because the mighty US military can’t handle making them new badges.
China, russia and Iran could not be reached for comment but I’m sure are quaking in their boots.
Badges, we don’t need no stinkin’ badges.
via @emptywheel
"ProPublica just obtained a remarkable directive to those remaining at #USAID: Empty the safes with the class. & personnel records & then ...
"Shred as many docs first, & reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.
The email came from from the agency's acting exec sec. I asked K McClanahan, a natsec ATTY. "Classified records are still fed records. He just filed an unauthorized disposition complaint with NARA..."
-B Murphy
#Lawless #Musk #Trump #DOGE #USPol
"How could you possibly vote for a funding bill that the VP is telling you will be overruled by the exec?"
-D Dayen
House members are set to skip town after Tues eve's planned vote on a shutdown-averting funding patch, acc to a notice sent by HSE Maj Whip Emmer's office. HSE GOP leaders want to "jam" the Senate -i.e., leave them no other option to avoid a #shutdown at midnight Fri except to pass the HSE funding bill.
#Lawless #Republicans #Trump #Musk #Vance #CR #USPol https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/11/congress/jd-vance-house-gop-shutdown-stopgap-00223400
#Syria #HTS
#lawless
@palestine
"Syrian women fear leaving the house at night amid a rash of kidnappings and ongoing security vacuum"
"Crime and insecurity have worsened since Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, took power in December"
"HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa created a security vacuum by dismissing all government police and security officials and emptying the country’s prisons, both of political prisoners and criminals"
"As planes crash, the price of eggs skyrockets with no plans to address bird flu, NIH prepares to shut down funding for cancer treatment, and the WH prepares to defy the courts, it’s comforting to know that President Musk has it all under control."
~ Greg Dworkin
#Musk #Trump #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction #healthcare #cancer #NIH #eggs #BirdFlu #AirSafety #AirTravel
/9
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/10/2302629/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-FAFO-continues-apace
"Thanks to Elon and his goons, attempting to take apart the Federal government piece by piece, we’re all about to get educated about what the Federal government does and how it impacts everything from healthcare to public education."
~ Melissa Ryan
#Musk #Trump #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction #healthcare #education
/8
"While Trump and his henchmen deconstruct the administrative state, his lawyers are embracing the logic of dictatorship. The core argument emerging in their legal filings and executive orders — one without support anywhere in the Constitution or the law — is that simply by being elected, Trump has the power to do whatever he wants."
~ Lisa Needham
#Musk #Trump #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
/7
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-article-2-dictator-logic
“'I have lived through a dictatorship before,' said another. 'I know what these look like, and the writing is on the wall for me.'”
~ USAID worker quoted by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy
#Musk #Trump #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
/6
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-trump-musk-destruction-may-have-broken-law
"Calling what’s happening a constitutional crisis 'does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy.'”
~ Margaret Sullivan quoting Jamelle Bouie
#Musk #Trump #Vance #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
/5
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/we-need-righteous-indignation-not
"Over the weekend, Musk and JD Vance each posted statements asserting that the president should or could defy court orders. A Harvard law professor joined the conversation by endorsing the notion that judicial restraints on the president violate the separation of powers doctrine."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Musk #Trump #Vance #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
/3
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-are-not-sheep-get-louder-take
"On Sunday, Vice President JD Vance declared that 'judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.'”
~ Robert Reich
#Musk #Trump #Vance #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
/2
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-to-do-about-a-lawless-president
"The constitutional crisis took several giant steps forward over the weekend as the Trump administration crossed into more or less open defiance of federal court orders."
~ Liz Dye
#Musk #Trump #coup #courts #LawandOrder #lawless #authoritarianism #dictator #PoliticsofDestruction
/1
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/maga-flips-off-judges-as-doj-argues
#ElonMusk #Power Grab Is #Lawless, #Dangerous, and—Yes—a Coup. If this were happening in any other country, we’d be calling it a #coup. #Federal #government is currently under relentless and #unlawful assault by a man no one elected to lead it. With Donald Trump’s blessing and enabling, Elon Musk and his confederates have laid siege to the executive branch in an onslaught whose appalling and far-reaching consequences have barely begun to be reported, much less understood. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/elon-musk-power-grab-trump-coup.html
