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#usconstitution

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New Trump admin motto appears to be “move fast and violate federal law and the US Constitution.” This looks like the beginning of a new Constitutional crisis, as the executive branch breaks the law and ignores the lawful orders of federal courts.

“BOSTON (AP) — A doctor from Lebanon who arrived at the Boston airport was deported over the weekend without explanation, despite having a U.S. visa [granted just 6 days ago] and a job teaching at Brown University.

“A judge had ordered she not be sent back until there was a hearing, but government lawyers said customs officials did not get word in time.

“It’s the latest deportation of a foreign-born person with a U.S. visa in the past week, after a student at Columbia who led protests of the Gaza war was arrested, and another student’s visa was revoked. The Trump administration also transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations.

“Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, had been granted the visa on March 11 and arrived at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday, according to a complaint filed on her behalf by a cousin in federal court.”
apnews.com/article/trump-immig

Interview: More than 250,000 have signed a petition to "Impeach Trump Again".

"This president has already committed multiple abuses of power since assuming the presidency, & the framers designed the Constitution to ensure that we would not have a monarch or a tyrant govern this nation.

“When we see these abuses of power, we have to invoke this impeachment clause.”

~John Bonifaz of Free Speech for People

democracynow.org/2025/3/12/don

#Trump #ImpeachTrumpAgain #USPol #Autocracy #USConstitution .

Democracy Now! · “Impeach Trump Again”: John Bonifaz on Fighting Trump’s Lawlessness, Corruption & Attacks on JudgesBy Democracy Now!

Interview: More than 250,000 have signed a petition to "Impeach Trump Again".

"This president has already committed multiple abuses of power since assuming the presidency, & the framers designed the Constitution to ensure that we would not have a monarch or a tyrant govern this nation.

“When we see these abuses of power, we have to invoke this impeachment clause.”

~John Bonifaz of Free Speech for People

democracynow.org/2025/3/12/don

#Trump #ImpeachTrumpAgain #USPol #Autocracy #USConstitution .

#NEWS: A federal judge on Monday refused to immediately order the #Trump White House to restore The #AssociatedPress' access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not demonstrated it had suffered irreparable harm in the matter. But he urged the government to reconsider its two-week-old ban, saying that case #law "is uniformly unhelpful to the White House.”

#FreeSpeech #FreePress #USConstitution #GulfOfMexico
apnews.com/article/ap-lawsuit-

You know things are bad when this is how the PBS NewsHour starts (last night):

"The federal government is closed today in observance of Presidents Day, but the Trump administration's effort to permanently scale back the size and scope of the federal work force continues in full force. As Laura Barron-Lopez reports, President Trump's actions in his first few weeks also fueled demonstrations on this holiday weekend.
LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: This Presidents' Day...
PROTESTERS: This is what democracy looks like!
LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: ... protests across the country, pushing back against President Trump's first month in office and what organizers say are his antidemocratic and illegal actions. They call it the No Kings Day protest, even as the president suggested in social media posts this weekend that he is above the law, stating: 'He who saves his country does not violate any law.' Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin responded on CBS.
REP. JAMIE RASKIN (D-MD): The dominant objective of this administration is corruption and lawlessness.
LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Trump's declaration comes as his administration faces multiple restraining orders from judges, who have in some cases said his actions are likely unconstitutional."
youtube.com/watch?v=vzV6U9xl9x

youtube.com/watch?v=bWkY9oQR-L

#JesseDollemore 🚨 ALERT 🚨

'#SlackJawMushMouth' #WhiteSupremacist #TomHoman THREATENS #AOC w/ARREST for Educating People About The #USConstitution

#ImmigrantsLIVESMatter #USAFascistShitShow

So, the point of the vid is to highlight that U.S. citizens, including Congressmembers have the right (esp. if she's a well-educated #lawyer) to educate the rest of the citizenry about their right to refuse to talk to #ICE.

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@thekitmalone@hoosier.social

Suddenly, my efforts to mirror the Constitution of the United States (before Donald Trump took office), does not seem so crazy. lol

#Constitution #UsConstitution

RE:
https://misskey.de/notes/a36993391l

misskey.deLinux Is Best (@Linux_Is_Best)Constitution of the United States The Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article I Section 1 All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section 2 The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three. When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. ( Continues onto next post. )

After waves of ethnic cleansing, an aggressive war of conquest, a massive civil war, decades of legally sanctioned racial subjugation, and the current assumption of executive power by an unelected South African drug addict, I do not want to be told that the US Constitution is anything other than one of the most bloody awful instruments of government ever devised.

The chaos is intentional: “Our federal government rests on the U.S. Constitution. The three different factions of Trump's MAGA Republicans agree that the government must be destroyed, and they are operating outside the constitutional order, not eager to win legal victories so much as determined to slash and burn down the government without them.”

#Politics #USPolitics #USConstitution #RethuglicansTakeTheWheel #USConstitutionalOrder #LettersFromAnAmerican

heathercoxrichardson.substack.

Letters from an American · February 1, 2025By Heather Cox Richardson