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“The Trump Administration seems hellbent on dismantling the system of checks and balances which are the pillars of a democratic society,” said Mandeep Tiwana, Interim Co-Secretary General of CIVICUS, in a press release. “Restrictive Executive Orders, unjustifiable institutional cutbacks, and intimidation tactics through threatening pronouncements by senior officials in the Administration are creating an atmosphere to chill democratic dissent, a cherished American ideal.”
Don’t give the Administration all the credit, Congress deserves some credit, also, for enabling this imperial Presidency and abdicating its role as a check on the Presidency just because of the ® after his name.
The Courts have bent over backwards, also, to find minor jurisdictional reasons to delay having to put out any firm rulings against the Administration.
The Courts have bent over backwards, also, to find minor jurisdictional reasons to delay having to put out any firm rulings against the Administration.
Can you imagine what it’s going to be like teaching law in the next decade? I’m not jealous
No, it will be easy. The law will be whatever President Donald Trump Jr. and Chief Justice Eric Trump say it is. Easy peasy!
Conservatives are on record threatening to take away law school funding if they don’t start teaching their made up theories like constitutionalism and originalism. The problem is there is no legal premise or theory behind them because they just made it all up.
I sometimes tutor government, and I’ve had some crazy moments where just reading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution out loud seems like it’s almost dangerous.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Thomas Jefferson was brilliant, even he was a slaver and child rapist.
Can you imagine what it’s going to be like teaching law in the next decade?
“Do what the President says. Class dismissed.”
The US has been flagrantly and unabashedly rolling back civil rights reforms and imposing fascist dragnets since the fucking Nixon Administration. That it’s taken the rest of the world this long to notice is more a sign of our deteriorating economic position than anything specific to the Trump administration.
Nobody was putting the US on a watchlist when we started snatching people and shoving them into Gitmo, over twenty years ago. Nobody seemed to care when we laid siege to the Ecuadorian Embassy in an attempt to illegally extradite Julian Assange or when we handed Israel a fresh batch of ordinance to assassinate Al-Jazeera journalists and Gaza City ambulance drivers. Hell, you can open the whole big ole Black Book of American War Crimes - from paying Contras to rape Nuns in Nicaragua to carpet bombing wedding parties in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen to propping up military juntas across The Philippines and Indonesia to hunt labor organizers for sport.
Like, fuck this country. But fuck all those NATO and NAFTA shills that went along with our decades of atrocity.
this is so fucking pathetic to see, and if America keeps this up they’re gonna drive all their smart capable people out of the country. I’m currently seeing if I can use my engineering experience to get a job overseas tbh. tired of living in this Idiocracy
I really think that’s part of the plan. If all the smart libruls leave then they can guarantee their future electoral victories. It’s the same with the anti-trans and abortion legislation in backwater states. Make life miserable for those affected, they leave to greener pastures, Repubs lock down their states for another generation.
You can still vote in elections if you live overseas, but also, they’ll probably change that before the next one.
Yet another reason why overseas citizens should get to have a shared representative in Congress.
My “rep” in WA State is hardly going to spend effort on non-resident issues.
Freedom of travel is a constitutional right, BTW. There is no need for internal passport, unlike Russia… whom they admire and want to emulate…
I’m happier every single day I’m not American.
I’m a newfoundlander. In some alternate history, if Newfoundland hadn’t joined Canada, I might have been American
that shit is terrifying
I’m happy every day they stay on their side of the border.
Why? The people trying to cross the border are the ones fleeing persecution or insanity. The people trying to leave aren’t what make this place a shit hole. They are probably actually people that might be fun to hang out with. Your statement comes off xenophobic and othering.
They might just be happy every day that we’re not being invaded.
I’m still waiting for Europe and Canada to finally grow a pair and label Trump’s government a hostile administration and deal with him accordingly. I understand they’re probably hedging on the next presidency to change things, but at this rate there will never be elections again.
in Canada it won’t happen before the election (my guess)
Good. I was afraid the human rights abuses would be overlooked just because it’s the US
Well, our rates of incarceration, treatment of PoC and indigenous populations should have landed us on the list long before trump took office the first time. I think what this shows is that the USA has completely pissed away it’s soft power to the point where international organizations can include the the US without fear of retaliation.
Should have happened decades ago.
About damn time
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