Turns out I'm still a writer. New today on NIDC:
Fascist Word Games and the Birth of an American Dictatorship
"Step by step the Christian Nationalist Trump regime has followed a playbook that transforms fascist propaganda into administrative reality, while purposely fracturing the rule of law to liberate itself from judicial oversight. If the United States was a Middle Eastern oil-producing nation full of Muslims, our government would be openly advocating for an invasion to “liberate” the American people and stop “tyranny.” Of course, maybe none of that matters anyway because unless someone stops him, there will be no law in this country except Trump’s word, and no America to save, except what Trump wills America to be."
"Justice Dept SPOX:
"The SC ruled that Judge Boasberg has no right to seize control of the President’s authority to conduct foreign policy — he should have never issued his order. His underhanded attempt to maintain power over this case is a judicial power grab that the Department of Justice will fight by all means necessary."
-S MacFarlane
The world is aghast, Trump & his enablers are #lawless. Public pressure is escalating.
#CrimesAgainstHumanity #Immigrants, #Racism, #HumanRights #USPol
I'm so amazed that the Libertarian Party in Texas had the cojones to pass the #resolution for #impeachment for #lawless, #dictatorial #pronouncements that "violate the #constitutional #separation of #powers." ... https://tinyurl.com/mujcx4za (2/3)
"Trump defies court orders and betrays Afghans":
https://baptistnews.com/article/immigration-updates-trump-defies-court-orders-and-betrays-afghans/
#military #immigration #lawless #Trump #politics
…More significantly, if the #Trump admin can defy court orders with impunity, & #Congress is unwilling to act, there is no reason for it to respect the constitutional rights of American citizens either. The Roberts Court will now have to decide whether to side with the #Constitution or with a #lawless president asserting the power to disappear people at will. This is not a power that any person, much less an American president, is meant to have.
Jesse Lee: "Trump is asserting his right to disappear *people he knows are innocent* to dictatorial prisons abroad, never to be seen again, and neither the Supreme Court nor anybody else can do anything about it."
#lawless #Trump #HumanRights #politics
Video: ICE agents smash a car window to detain a Maryland woman - The Baltimore Banner https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/video-ice-arrest-wesminster-elsy-noemi-berrios-QJ7CIME76ZGPZEBW5C3REEPZ6E/ #lawless #fascism #immigration
The #bible warns us about being manipulated by the #lawless people.
"There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other #Scriptures.
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability." #christian #republican #Evangelical #southernbaptist #catholic #elonmusk #jesus #lent #easter
https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/2-peter/passage/?q=2+peter+3:15-17
Steve Vladeck: "There were 46 cases in which federal judges blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges, appointed by 5 different presidents, of both parties, to 11 different district courts, in 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?"
#lawless #Trump #politics
@Linux I truly wish if this rumour was true, #democracy will be saved if this #lawless #trump is six feet under by now.
"JOHNSON leveled a new #threat at the judiciary:ELIMINATING SPECIFIC COURTS.
"We do have authority over the fed courts -we can, we can eliminate an entire dist court.
"We have power, funding over the courts & all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures."
-J Sherman
Dershowitz argued Congress had another path: Article III only calls for a SC. Dist & Appeals courts are creations of Congress -not co-equal branches of govt.
-Patriot Pulse
#Lawless #Republicans #USPol
In this prerogative state, #judges & other legal actors deferred to the #racist hierarchies & ruthless expediencies of the #Nazi regime.
The key here is that this prerogative state does not immediately & completely overrun the normative state. Rather, Fraenkel argued, #dictatorships create a #lawless zone that runs alongside the normative state. The 2 states cohabit uneasily & unstably. On any given day, people or cases could be jerked out of the normative state & into the prerogative one.
Academic in tone, The #DualState sketches a template of emerging #tyranny distilled from bloody & horrifying experience.
As Fraenkel explained it, a #lawless #dictatorship does not arise simply by snuffing out the ordinary #legal system of rules, procedures, & precedents. To the contrary, that system—which he called the “normative state”—remains in place while dictatorial power spreads across society. What happens, Fraenkel explained, is insidious.
"A federal judge in Maryland has just barred DOGE from accessing Social Security systems, saying the group is on a "fishing expedition" that jeopardizes people's personal data."
-K Cheney
#DOGE #Lawless #Trump #Musk #SocialSecurity #USPol
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.49.0.pdf
Even as evidence emerges of potentially grave errors in their vetting process, the Trump admin appears ready to argue -they can use the Alien Enemies Act to enter the home of any person they allege is a member of Tren de Aragua, W/O A WARRANT.
Experts say such an interpretation would infringe on basic civil liberties -raise the potential for misuse. Warrantless entries: some precedent in wartime history -not in peacetime.
#DueProcess #Lawless #Trump #Immigrants #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/trump-alien-enemies-immigration-agents.html
I feel like throwing an eraser at these sleeping #influencers like one of my professors did at #HowardU BITD. Hello? Have you been paying attention? The current #fascist #lawless regime is, whelp, #lawless. They are busy #deporting #legalimmigrants & threatening to #deport #citizens. They have illegally fired #civilservants. Why would they, on god's green earth, be constrained by #international #treaties and #IARU agreements or listen to suggestions from #hams?
"On a podcast in April 2024, Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary, praised a rancher for killing an unarmed migrant who trespassed on his property and said the rancher should have gotten the #MedalOfHonor":
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2025/03/17/the-benefits-of-bukeles-bromance-with-trump-00233651 #racism #lawless #monsters #politics #immigration #military
"We win again! Our administrative stay
DENIED by the 9th circuit."
-N Eisen