Charlotte Clymer: "If Pres. Biden or Obama or Clinton or any Democrat seriously floated the idea of running for a third term as president, the GOP would immediately hold congressional hearings and threaten impeachment. It would dominate rightwing media for months. What will Sen. Schumer's response be?"
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The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Massachusetts, takes a broader approach than a flurry of other recent lawsuits challenging the federal govt’s #deportation policies on college campuses. Those suits, including 2 involving a #ColumbiaUniversity student & a recent grad who are #GreenCard holders, aim to stop individual deportation proceedings.
The lawsuit filed Tues challenges the #Trump admin’s overall approach to deportation, saying it is #unconstitutional.
"This is nothing less than government compelled speech – a textbook #FirstAmendment violation. The #government is explicitly forcing a private entity to dedicate resources to supporting specific #political initiatives. That a major #law firm would accept such an obviously #unconstitutional demand, rather than challenge it as #PerkinsCoie did, represents a complete abdication of their professional responsibilities"
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/paul-weisss-shameful-surrender-makes-every-lawyer-there-complicit-in-trumpian-constitutional-desecration/
Is #Trump planning to declare #MartialLaw on April 20? The frightening claim, explored
Story by Charlotte Simmons, March 14, 2025
"First, the essentials. Martial law is the term for when civilian government and legal processes (such as mayoral jurisdiction and police officers, respectively) are overtaken by state military, so as to make demands on behalf of the nation’s leader, and then enforce those demands with their wealth of resources. Typically, martial law is invoked in dangerous situations, such as natural disasters or major #CivilUnrest.
"This is different from the United States’ #InsurrectionAct, wherein those civilian enterprises are not replaced by military personnel and resources, but supplemented by them. More importantly, the official nature of the Insurrection Act allows the #POTUS to deploy the military domestically during emergencies, as the #PosseComitatus Act of 1878 prohibits the use of the military against American civilians. In short, the Insurrection Act can waive the rules of the Posse Comitatus Act to create a sort of #MiniMartialLaw. Remember this.
"Recently, fears have been rising over whether or not the United States could enter martial law on April 20 under Donald Trump. But why then? What is it about April 20 that holds significance? When Trump first took office back on January 20, he signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency at the United States’ southern border, requiring the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to submit a report about what the 'situation' is at said border, together with recommended actions for 'resolving' said 'situation.' This report needed to be submitted within 90 days.
"When this order was signed, Trump also declared that 'A #NationalEmergency exists at the southern border of the United States…I hereby declare that this national emergency requires use of the Armed Forces…' This, directly references the potential execution of the Insurrection Act.
"The Secretary of Defense? #PeteHegseth. The Secretary of #HomelandSecurity? #KristiNoem. Two of Donald Trump’s most prominent yes-men. And guess how many days January 20 and April 20 are apart? Ninety.
"So, essentially, on April 20, there’s a not-insignificant chance that those two aforementioned Trump yes-men are going to tell Trump whether or not he should deploy the military in the southern United States so as to crack down on immigration. Except, as we saw with the case of #MahmoudKhalil — a recent #ColumbiaUniversity graduate who played a major role in that student body’s recent #ProPalestinain campus occupations — it doesn’t matter if you have a green card or if you haven’t committed any crimes; under this presidency, #ICE will illegally detain you if they think you’re troublesome to the vision of #TrumpsAmerica. They’re trying to deport Khalil for speaking out against #genocide as we speak. This is a direct, wholly #unconstitutional attack on #FreeSpeech.
"And here’s why that distinction between the Insurrection Act and martial law was so important earlier. On April 20, Trump will constitutionally — through the Insurrection Act — be allowed to deploy the military against #AmericanCivilians, and his government has already demonstrated that legal American civilians who have not committed any crimes are at risk for detention and deportation. It’s not technically martial law, but this #Trumpian cocktail is just as bad, if not worse.
"#Khalil’s detention — again, occurring in response to his speaking out against the #genocide of #Palestinian people — was made on the grounds of Trump’s executive order prohibiting #AntiSemitism. How long before more executive orders (none of them made in good faith, let’s be clear on that) just so happen to limit more ways of speaking, acting, and thinking? A scary thought, and a horrifyingly pertinent one."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/is-trump-planning-to-declare-martial-law-on-april-20-the-frightening-claim-explored/ar-AA1AUIqy
#USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Crackdown #CriminalizingDissent #NDAA #ExpandedPowers
#USPresidency #NationalEmergency #Terrorists #Activists #USPol #BorderEmergency #Gitmo #IllegalDetention #IndefiniteDetentionClause #IndefiniteDetention
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The #Trump admin is appealing a judge’s order requiring #ElonMusk & #DOGE to comply w/evidence demands from Democratic state ofcls who claim the #billionaire is exercising #unconstitutional #power across the US govt.
The #DOJ is arguing the lower court judge’s “unusual & highly invasive” order “raises grievous separation-of-powers concerns” by requiring a presidential adviser & the WH to turn over info about their activities….
#law #USpol #transparency #TrumpPurge
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-19/trump-administration-fights-order-to-turn-over-doge-information
2 Officials Who Helped Dismantle #US #Aid Agency Are Named as Its New Leaders
Secretary of #State #MarcoRubio said he had canceled 83% of #USAID’s programs. A federal judge found that efforts to shutter the agency were likely #unconstitutional.
#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #DOGE #ForeignPolicy #SoftPower #TrumpPurge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/usaid-doge-leadership.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1B3ACA71-70A6-4630-8DE3-5A77E2B20013
The New York Times · USAID’s New Leadership Includes DOGE Official Who Helped Dismantle Agency
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Analysis: A Strike at the Heart of DOGE and Musk...
...With a Surprising Star Witness
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/analysis-a-strike-at-the-heart-of
"the surprising star witness...
Musk himself! With assists from #Trump & his press secretary.
It turns out, with their non-stop tweeting & trash-talking about what they’ve been doing... quotes from them turn out to be the best #evidence negating the DOJ’s desperate defense of DOGE’s #unconstitutional actions."
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Trump and Musk are building a new spoils system
When ideological targeting becomes cronyism
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-are-building-a-new
"Trump, via #Musk, is engaged in #impoundment, which is #illegal & #unconstitutional. It also vastly weakens #Congress. & yet, the #Trump pitch to get Congress to pass appropriations is that he will ignore what they actually pass! Impoundment is a feature, not a bug, in their model for governing."
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Ever since #MafiaDon packed the #SCotUS with sycophants who declared him unimpeachable & #AboveTheLaw, he has been taking full advantage, committing a string of #unconstitutional actions that would have gotten him #impeached a dozen times over *already* under normal circumstances.
Best example: His *first* impeachment in 2019 was for attempting to attempting to withhold weapons "appropriated by Congress" for #Ukraine. Not an Executive power.
#DOGE is one giant violation of that power.
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The 15-wk #AbortionBan had already been paused since Dec, when Reuss & other providers filed suit, which argued that the ballot measure, which adds constitutional protections for #abortion until about 24 wks, meant the ban was now #unconstitutional. #Arizona’s AG, Kris Mayes, had agreed not to enforce the ban while litigation played out.
The short ruling, from Judge Frank Moskowitz of #MaricopaCounty superior court, agreed the 15-wk ban was unconstitutional & forbade AZ ofcls from enforcing it.
How much did Nazi Elon spend to shoot his car to Mars???
and you think this guy cares about efficiency? you believe he gives a shit about working people?
Wake the fuck up.
a couple of pathological liars claim that gov't doesn't have money to pay civil servants so they need to be fired by peeps with no authority, no expertise, and no experience in the field.
meanwhile these pathological liars claim that gov't has enough money to give $$$ Trillions to billionaire aristocrats.
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The suit asks a federal district court in Maryland to ban the #Education dept from acting on these #threats, saying the letter is an #unconstitutional infringement on #FreeSpeech & a twisting of long-standing anti-#discrimination #law. It was filed by the American Federation of #Teachers, its MD affiliate & the American Sociological Association, working w/Democracy Forward, which has filed several suits challenging #Trump admin actions.
Mike Johnson will not act unless the people force him to act.
So we all have to tell our obnoxious uncles to call Johnson and demand that he start the process to remove the lawless dictator from the executive branch.
The #AssociatedPress sued 3 #Trump admin ofcls Fri over #access to presidential events, citing #FreedomOfSpeech in asking a federal judge to stop the 10-day blocking of its #journalists.
The lawsuit was filed Fri afternoon in US Dist Court in Washington, DC.
#AP says its case is about an #unconstitutional effort by the #WhiteHouse to control #speech — in this case refusing to change its style from the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”
#law #FreePress #autocracy
https://apnews.com/article/ap-lawsuit-trump-administration-officials-0352075501b779b8b187667f3427e0e8
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#Trump on Thurs again raised the prospect of serving for an #unconstitutional 3rd term asking a crowd at a WH event whether he should run again & receiving audience chants of “4 more years!”
Trump’s escalating rhetoric stoked further alarm among critics who say he is governing w/an #authoritarian playbook & fear he could attempt to seize #power undemocratically, as he attempted to do after losing the 2020 election. The #Constitution’s 22nd Amendment limits presidents from holding the office >2X.
#Trump again raises idea of running for an #unconstitutional third term
The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a #king & quoted a #dictator in suggesting that he was #immune from following laws
#USpol #Constitution #law #authoritarianism #democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-third-term-king-unconstitutional/
The Washington Post · Trump again raises idea of running for an unconstitutional third term
#Americans have to accept a sad reality
The #Congress will not be able to save you from the #Trump fascist 'administration'
Congress does not have the numbers or means to stop Trump #Musk
#unconstitutional #illegal acts
Not even the #Judicial #Institution can stop Trump
since it is controlled by Trump
Only the -people- the American can stop the #fascists ..
But you have to act immediately
Can’t #judges recommend disbarment proceedings against #lawyers who bring frivolous or illegal or #unconstitutional prosecutions? I’m not a lawyer but don’t the #courts still have some power here?
This is racist, #unconstitutional, and morally indefensible. Tell Congress: Stop #Trump’s #racist mass deportations! https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwoUsWLkUMWlo_0JmZttSlm39hibSOAWFjMlolZNRsUp16xPbqfS2r_2NQwISmyiU0t0Phkf_3OnJn7c9OB6HCoh9XVb32m8ByGu85PEAUcMtnTsocZtsRlk047puvttHsC8uz7olBoY-KWO-ONtRN1dgM-2BCk_SGLA1Jtj68LhOwJVXMw87S_gJSNYxOy5vVR-xMuF0Uqbuyc-I7c6MFP4Vak9KYR4Xtv1Rs6NbQJYhR7VE4uJ8AuYcataSoRQ0gD2jQxRcl7XW2DBUItZ9zV1yegN39pHviLCV792dJm81NiZp0OXcbb0PNGvYlRRTY96cSV71RyisYOH4Av3fo_0b1mmadV0exnLaMRFgZ_VkgGdGSEenXVeh5LNxywXdsD4zIIQPPXt3GdSR2obXFf1VL29SWywfTG_JgZ_EqXeFyiO9vlc21KMb8gDJvbSFxNz_YMjVRAjtTQdZyipiwpcM/4du/p6sWKrxkQi-uFMfcjA0xDA/h0/h001.Ev-ZbLwG4zY_DdOgjZtdQxnY8LcRb4l4LS8NtBBbzPY
click.actionnetwork.orgSign to send a message to your members of Congress: Stop Trump’s racist mass deportations! ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids are terrorizing immigrants across the United States. Federal agents are violating immigrants’ constitutional rights by arresting people without reasonable suspicion. Even though being here as an undocumented person is a civil violation and not a crime, federal agents are arresting undocumented people who have no criminal records. Trump’s mass deportation policies are also harming people with valid visas and U.S. citizens who are impacted by racial profiling, including people from Puerto Rico and people who are Indigenous to these lands, because they are brown. For example, some Native residents of Arizona and New Mexico have already reportedly been questioned or detained by federal immigration agents, so Tribal leaders are encouraging people to carry identification documentation and sharing Know Your Rights information for encounters with agents. The Trump administration has also challenged the constitutional right to birthright citizenship, including Native people’s citizenship -- ignoring the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and 100 years of case law in addition to the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. The administration is emboldening federal agencies (including ICE, Customs & Border Patrol, and the FBI) to disregard laws and abuse power across the United States, which endangers all of our communities. Government officials around the country are joining organizations to challenge many of these actions in court. Now, members of Congress must also step up and do more to push back. They can refuse to fund immigration raids or detention centers, reject Trump nominees, vote no on xenophobic policies, conduct oversight visits of immigration detention centers, and speak out forcefully to pressure the Trump administration to walk back their illegal actions. But they need to hear from us. Click ‘START WRITING’ to send a message to your members of Congress: Act with urgency to protect our communities and stop Trump’s racist mass deportations.