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/
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 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
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
.
#Sadism #Fascism #Deportations #DueProcess #RuleOfLaw #Immigrants #GOPDeathCult #ElSalvador #CECOT #USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/193442/trump-deportation-mistake-el-salvador
... 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.'
2/
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
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.
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
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.
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
" That is a choice of law clause for a potential civil lawsuit between the consumer and Proton. "Which you would only need to include for the countries of rule laws you are subject to. Period.
"If criminals fail to follow the law, does that mean the government shouldn’t follow the law either?
The purpose of due process is to make sure the government doesn’t punish innocent people. The way it works is that when the government makes an accusation against someone, that person is then allowed a court process where they can defend themselves. The purpose of this process is to make sure that the government can prove its case against someone before punishing them.
(...)
Of course, there are costs associated with court processes. Former President George W. Bush once acknowledged how liberal democracy can be inefficient: “If this were a dictatorship, this would be a heck of a lot easier. Just so long as I’m the dictator!”
But the cost of the government not being forced to prove its case before punishing people is that you end up punishing innocent people. There’s reporting out there that suggests the administration may be deporting people on the basis that they have football tattoos; the tattoos are alleged to be tied to the Venezuelan gang mentioned above.
Almost all Americans would say we don’t want violent criminals entering and residing in our country illegally. But did people really vote for Trump so that he would deport people based on mere suspicion without having to prove that the people being deported actually are violent criminals?"
https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/due-process-matters-because-we-dont
Here is the #Trump administration following court orders regarding funding of #RadioFreeEurope #RFE #RL
"The DC Circuit has *rejected* DOJ's effort to lift Judge Boasberg's block on Alien Enemies Act deportations.
Ruling is 2-1, with Judge Walker dissenting."
-K Cheney
Good news for the #RuleOfLaw & the deportees rotting in an El Salvadorian slave prison.
#Deportations #Constitution #DueProcess #ElSalvador #Sadism #Immigrants #USPol https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41845/gov.uscourts.cadc.41845.01208724047.0.pdf
