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very zen
This argument suggests the existence of some kind of foreign policy loophole whereby the Executive could disregard the law to bring anyone accused of a national security threat outside of US territory, at which point he, as President, could do whatever he wants to them on national security ground.
Read what your government claims it can do to you. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
even Gasparino gets it
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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“the brilliant prosecutor Danielle Sassoon”
Scalia on impoundment
supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
Monitoring the speech of American citizens and taking retaliatory action are not qualities anyone should want in an FBI Director.
luckily there are no skeletons in his closet
NEW on RFK Jr: In audio we uncovered from his radio show he read and praised a description of Trump and his supporters as "belligerent idiots," "outright Nazis," and "cowards" and "bootlickers."
He also compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.
www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/p...
RFK Jr. on Chemtrails: ‘I Am Persuaded’
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-on-...
Dalio: It is now clear that Donald Trump and those he is choosing will reform government and the country like a corporate raider engaging in a hostile takeover of an inefficient company, making huge reforms to it by changing the people, slashing costs, and infusing it with new technologies. Think of Gordon Gekko and the perspective he conveyed in his “greed is good” speech, while recognizing that this is coming from the President of the United States, who is going to take that approach to the central government and the entire country. As mentioned, the most recent analogous historical cases were the hard-rightist states in the 1930s. To be clear, I am not saying that Trump and those in his government are fascist or will behave as fascist leaders did in many respects; what I am saying is that, in order to understand those who are now taking control with nationalistic, protectionist, top-down, government-led economic and social policies, and who have little tolerance for internal opposition and are embroiled in international great powers conflicts, it is worth understanding how those states with analogous policies in the 1930s behaved.
Ray Dalio: I'm not comparing Trump to 1930's fascists, but to understand Trump you have to understand 1930's fascists.
time.com/7177760/trum...
that was then...
Can we please quit saying that Trump wants to “recess appoint” his unfit nominees?
He wants Congress to shutdown so he can install these unqualified people, no questions asked.
He wants to gut Congress as a check on his executive power.
Say that.
I am not sure what’s the fuss in Moscow about. Ukraine struck Crimea with ATACMS many many times. Is Lavrov suggesting that Crimea unlike Bryansk is not, well, really Russian? www.wsj.com/world/europe...
2023: "I’m not saying [the Trump-as-Dictator] scenario is impossible, just that it requires every Republican in the legislative branch to accept a role akin to obedient eunuchs." www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-...
Trump threatened to do this during COVID (April 2020) www.cnbc.com/2020/04/16/t...
Twitter post by @EdWhelanEPPC: "As predicate for Trump's exercise of adjournment power, one House of Congress would seek other House's consent to adjourn and be denied. So Speaker of House would need to be complicit in evisceration of Senate's advice-and-consent role."
Twitter post by @EdWhelanEPPC: Hope it's wrong, but I'm hearing through the grapevine about this bonkers plan: Trump would adjourn both Houses of Congress under Article II, section 3, and then recess-appoint his Cabinet.
let's see, what's a cultural reference my audience will understand?
Thread on the wrong rock game
John Cornyn of TX, another vote to acquit: "Given that the Constitution makes legal offenses committed while in office subject to investigation and prosecution as warranted, after a President is no longer in office, I believe that is the Constitutional method of accountability."
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, another vote to acquit: "the Constitution does not allow impeaching private citizens--even those who formerly occupied federal office. Private citizens are subject to accountability for their actions under our legal justice system."
idahonews.com/news/local/r...
Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, said this when he voted to acquit: "Trump is still liable for everything he did... We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation and presidents are not immune..."
www.axios.com/2021/02/13/m...
John Cornyn of TX, another vote to acquit: "Given that the Constitution makes legal offenses committed while in office subject to investigation and prosecution as warranted, after a President is no longer in office, I believe that is the Constitutional method of accountability."
