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If I worked for #Putin, all I’d want to see happen in the US is:
—> Get rid of competent leadership in the #military, and everywhere else
—> Destroy American domination of world #trade, driving allies to turn to #Russia
—> Enfeeble the US #economy
—> Divide the American people
—> Weaken #democracy and #democratic institutions
It’s almost like the titular #President of the United States is under the control of the dictator of Russia.
"It made me wonder how Miller plans to prove that someone “illegally” entered our country — it’s not an invasion no matter how many times he says it, that’s a whole different thing — if he doesn’t believe in due process. What if a bizarro future Democratic president claimed he’s illegal? He does spend an awful lot of time yelling on television in a way that reminds me of this Austrian guy. Are we sure he’s American by birth?
Wait, stop, he’s not allowed to dispute it or prove otherwise. That would be due process and application of the rule of law. Miller seems to want the government to be judge, jury, and executioner without the need for the public process that has defined our country for the past 250 years.
When I say 250 years, I’m not exaggerating. Due process — the principle that allows people to defend themselves against accusations by the government and have their day in court — has to some extent defined America’s values since before the Founding.
While we haven’t always perfectly lived up to the ideal of guaranteeing that everybody is innocent until proven guilty — think slavery, Jim Crow, Japanese interment, or the Red Scare — it’s always been one of the lodestars of the American ethos."
https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/the-founders-believed-in-due-process
The American Saga · The Founders Believed In Due Process Even for People Who Killed Americans
Robert Shrimsley (FT) writing about the Right's hatred for the Rule of Law, relates the following (great) joke:
'a man who finds a magic lamp, summons the genie and is offered the statutory three wishes. “First, I want a world without lawyers,” he says. “Done,” says the genie who then turns to leave. “What about my other two wishes,” the man protests. The genie replies, “sue me”!'
Populists attacks the Courts & the Rule of Law because they know its the last defence of democracy!
Raphael: you have a law degree, do you not?
‘This is not legal’: Dem scorches Ted Cruz after he explodes at judges blocking Trump
https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-amy-klobuchar-judges/
Raw Story · ‘This is not legal’: Dem scorches Ted Cruz after he explodes at judges blocking Trump
WI's high turnout suggests that voters can grasp that courts/ #RuleOfLaw matters. It turns out families talk about more than the price of groceries. Dems shouldn’t shy away from raising issues of justice & fairness & indiv #rights.
One of the leading issues -was in the st SC contest 2 yrs ago, was #ReproductiveRights. Dems in WI hammered away at the theme that the R-backed cand -would ban abortion +ARG their SC could affect citizens’ access to HC.
#USPol #Resist #Courts https://www.thebulwark.com/p/wakeup-call-wisconsin-democrat-supreme-court-booker-crawford-booker-filibuster-musk
The Bulwark · A Wakeup Call in Wisconsin
The right attacks judge who tried halting Trump’s reckless deportations
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/2/2313925/-The-right-attacks-judge-who-tried-halting-Trump-s-reckless-deportations
Daily KosThe right attacks judge who tried halting Trump’s reckless deportationsIn concert with President Donald Trump, Fox News is amplifying right-wing attacks against Chief Judge James Boasberg , who issued an order halting Trump’s mass deportations.
The Trump ...
Elon Musk is a private citizen who is breaking the law, and by law he can be arrested.
The fact that he is not is the problem. Period.
"What they're actually doing here is openly declaring for themselves the power to commit "oopsie" deportations and then
*not* rectify them.
The Trump admin just admitted that a Salvadoran man was deported in error. Shockingly, Trump and JD Vance don’t seem to want to fix their mistake"—and the implications of that are dark
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#Sadism #Fascism #Deportations #DueProcess #RuleOfLaw #Immigrants #GOPDeathCult #ElSalvador #CECOT #USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/193442/trump-deportation-mistake-el-salvador
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... should offend every American who believes in human rights, the rule of law, and common decency. The #Constitution guarantees everyone DUE PROCESS, a right to challenge and dispute the legality of their detention or deportation IN COURT!
The latest despicable example of cruelty is the deportation of a Maryland man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was deported due to an 'administrative error.'
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The Atlantic · An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
Another example of a Western democracy government using Israel and Palestine to demolish their democracy: https://www.972mag.com/germany-deport-foreign-residents-palestine-activism/
When a democratic government puts itself above the law, there's no rule of law nor a democracy.
#democracy #Germany #Deutschland #RuleOfLaw #HumanRights #FirstTheyCame @israel @palestine
+972 Magazine · Germany to deport four foreign residents for pro-Palestine activismThe four have not been convicted of any crime but are alleged to have participated in protests against Israel's assault on Gaza.
The Trump administration destroyed the life of an innocent man and his family but won't do a thing.
"The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/
#usa #ruleoflaw #deportations #elsalvador #trump #geopolitics @geopolitics
The Atlantic · An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
Well done, la #France 
And that's how to deal with corrupt, wannabe fascists in waiting: catch them for their crimes *before* they become candidates.
the Guardian · National Rally president calls for ‘peaceful mobilisation’ after Marine Le Pen convicted of embezzlement – as it happenedJordan Bardella says in petition there is a ‘dictatorship of judges’ as French far right leader barred from running for public office for five years
Brian Tyler Cohen and Glenn Kirschner run through this week’s judicial decisions refuting and rebuking the Trump regime’s attacks on individuals, Constitutional rights, and the rule of law.
Spoiler: Trump keeps acting without legal authority, the courts keep documenting it and ordering those unlawful actions stopped.
It’s no surprise he’s going after law firms and judges.
Independence UK style:
The Sentencing Council's guidelines on pre-sentencing reports have been derided as 'two-tier' guidance despite an extensive consultation process.
But, Shabana Mahmoud now says she will 'legislate if necessary' to stop such a change, by which she means if she doesn't get what she wants she'll change the law.
So much for the 'independence' of the Judiciary, then... although such political actions are hardly unprecedented!
#RuleOfLaw #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/mar/28/sentencing-council-england-wales-rejects-calls-review-two-tier-justice-rules
The Guardian · Keir Starmer says all options on table in ‘two-tier’ row with Sentencing Council
One word is going to start coming up more & more as the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant tries to extend the influence of its decisions (such as those against diversity policies), and that word is:
'extraterritoriality' - the projection of national legal sovereign power into other jurisdictions.
The US has always used forms of extraterritoriality, but Trump may be about to make this a much more contentious issue as he tries to reach deep into other domestic jurisdictions.
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Check and balances are not magical devices, but rather things people must be willing to follow and enforce.
The dollar in your wallet is just paper, but because we believe it is more, it is.
Ultimately, belief, or the lack there of, can be a very powerful and dangerous thing, if left unchecked.
#RuleOfLaw #Justice #Constitution #President #Potus
A company truly outside Us Jurisdiction does NOT have terms and conditions concerning Us Customer and Us Laws, because they do not need them, because they do not apply to them. The same way, they do not need to include the other 200 or so, nations around the world.
It is rocket science. This is not hard to understand.
#RuleOfLaw #Proton #ProtonMail #ProtonPass #ProtonVpn #ProtonDrive #ProtonCalendar #ProtonWallet