In a legal sleight of hand, Republicans want to strip judges of their power to enforce rulings — because holding Trump in contempt might actually work…
We should start by looking at what's happening under the current laws. Under Bondi's direction, the DOJ has filed multiple pleadings before judges Xinis and Boasberg that violate federal Rule 11, which requires factual support for factual allegations. Trump's opinion that the deported men are violent criminals is an unsupported opinion, not fact, and she knows it. She not only supervises the filings of false and unsupported pleadings, she fired the attorney who followed the rule of candor and told the truth.
Bondi's repeated appearance on Fox News also violates federal ethics rules on trying cases in court, not on TV.
Bondi's pointed attacks on federal judges, delivered to a nationwide audience and echoed by Stephen Miller, Musk, and Vance, amounts to stochastic terrorism.
Blondie lied during the Senate confirmation hearings saying that she would not weaponize her office if confirmed which she is flagrantly doing. This seems to be the normal thing to do. Look at the number of nominees to the Supreme Court that have ruled the opposite of what they declared they wouldn't do during their hearings. A law should immediately be enacted that if one's actions is found to be contrary to what was declared at a congressional hearing, that liar instantly loses their position....
Violating the duty of candor can lead to serious consequences for lawyers, including:
Disciplinary action: by the relevant bar association.
Disqualification: from a case.
Civil liability: to opposing parties.
Criminal penalties: in some cases.
Examples of situations where the duty of candor applies:
Making arguments in court .
Preparing and submitting legal documents .
Conducting discovery .
Giving testimony .
Importance of the Duty:
The duty of candor is crucial for maintaining the integrity of the legal system and ensuring fair and accurate outcomes. It helps to ensure that the court has all the relevant information it needs to make informed decisions. By upholding this duty, lawyers contribute to the public's trust in the legal profession.
At the Cabinet meeting where she praised Trump for fentanyl seizures, she spoke to him like you would while potty-training a toddler. Look what little Donald did! Oh, she is scary good, even if she sounds stupid.
If this ever turns around, I hope she loses more than her license.
You are exactly right. This ahole and blondie are so corrupt it’s not even real anymore. I fear she holds the keys to the car and the a hole is telling her where to drive. In other words, they, like the a hole, are breaking the law with impunity.
Trump is at the Capitol, trying to button hole support. I've been writing about the Medicare aspect.
From Heather Cox Richardson last night : "...12 swing-state Republicans who don’t want drastic Medicaid cuts, and 31 hardliners who do. House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) can afford to lose only three Republican votes on the measure. Nicole Lafond of Talking Points Memo reported today that Trump will go to Capitol Hill tomorrow to talk Republicans into voting for the measure."
We need to encourage Don Bacon R. NE. and other Republicans who are standing up to Trump and MAGA Mike. He and Reps. David Valadao, R-Calif., Don Bacon, R-Neb., Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., Rob Bresnahan Jr., R-Pa., Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., Jen Kiggans, R-Va., Young Kim, R-Calif., Robert Wittman, R-Va., Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., and Jeff Hurd, R-Colo signed a letter:
“Many hospitals — particularly in rural and underserved areas — rely heavily on Medicaid funding, with some receiving over half their revenue from the program alone,” the representatives wrote. “Providers in these areas are especially at risk of closure, with many unable to recover. When hospitals close, it affects all constituents, regardless of healthcare coverage.”
Besides the Medicaid issue, Republican Reps have called out Trump/Musk on national security and tariffs.
On MSNBC Saturday, Velshi asked Bacon about tariffs. He said, in essence, any Reagan Republican would remove Trump tariff authority. To do that, they need all of the House Dems.
Plus Bacon said Trump has a "moral blindscape" re Ukraine. Retired General. Russia is not a superpower. Mexico with nuclear weapons.
Says anyone who served has to oppose Hegseth, SIGNAL.
Says we are better than any other country in agriculture. Says Trump has broken free trade. In essence, we are losing the trade war
The BIG SHOCK we got here in Baghdad By the Sea is the SCOTUS approval of eliminating temporary status for Venezuelans. They are saying that many will be tortured, murdered if they have to return.
We are represented by 3 Cuban Amedican Republicans. Cubans will bear the same fate. Please object to the Cuban American National Foundation, 1820 Jefferson Pl NW. Washington, DC 20036. Dupont Circle, Downtown. Directions · (202) 530-1894, and to
Meanwhile, the Afrikaners, suffering from unconscionable and unprecedented levels of prejudice and violence, are welcomed with open arms. Could it be that the Venezuelans happen to speak Spanish rather than a Northern European tongue? Or that they are not relatively rich?
I believe the Cuban-Americans are free-and-clear in that were they to start being deported, the Congresspeople you mention would, at least part of the time, start voting Democrat. Considering that the Republicans' hold on the House is razor-thin
I don't believe even they would be willing to cross that bridge. Another consideration is that by this time a fair percentage of Cuban-Americans are going to be 3rd generation.
We are a majority Dem county. They vote for the 3 amigos due to Cuba policy. Obama ended wet foot/dry foot.
AI The "wet feet, dry feet" policy was a U.S. immigration policy towards Cubans that existed from 1994 until 2017. It allowed Cuban citizens who arrived in the U.S. illegally, either by land or sea, to be granted the right to stay and apply for legal residency. Cuban nationals who were intercepted at sea were considered to have "wet feet," while those who entered by land were considered to have "dry feet".
In 2017, President Barack Obama announced the end of the policy, and Cuban nationals, regardless of how they entered the US, were subject to removal. This change coincided with the thawing of relations between the U.S. and Cuba, which saw increased travel and trade between the two countries. The shift to the end of the policy was meant to discourage illegal immigration from Cuba and encourage the country to accept the return of its citizens.
Other immigrant groups wanted an equivalent policy. I can go on for a month. I am the author of Breaking Up with Cuba (2010).
Consider our Afghans on temporary status. Most had been US contractors and theif families. To return is death by the Taliban.
A lot of people from banana republics, i.e. El Savador, Bolivia, Guatemals, etc face the same fate.
It's over. Those that can't accept are living in denial. It really is Germany 1933.
The hopeful liberal has been citing all of the lower court rulings against Trump, and I keep saying they are lower case, but when it reaches SCOTUS, they rule in favor of find a way to get off the hood without implicating themselves.
Take the birthright citizenship ruling. Rather than piss off Trump and America, they circled back to the ultra right wing 5th circuit court
Trump is doing what he damn well please, in public not behind doors or screens, he is violating the constitution, in public, he told us he is not bound by his oath of office He is using the government police and investigative power to go after enemies and critics, not only of him, but of Israel.
And what recourse do we have? A vote in 2026? Even if victorious, all that can be done is to stop project 2025 for two yeas
He can be impeached but what difference does that make. The senate won't remove him.
He has already been impeached three times, and 34 felonies, yet there he sits, the very first elected felon, and the first American dictator.
What is going to save us? Our elections? Yeh sure.
I can think of a few Democracies that went dictatorship, and then became democracies (of a sort)again, but they are all multiparty democracies. . America is a two party system, with a couple of non serious stringers like the Green and Libertarian party.
The minority party is also the controlling party, and what it doesn't control politically, it controls via fear and threats.
Bong Son, 1967, an NVA company is constantly charging a MACV compound. Wave after wave, dead bodies abound, into the night and the next day. No one lay down and played dead.
Fought to the end, their end
Our enemy is forelorn hope, see the sunny side, the sliver lining, where none exists.
Forelorn hope is passivity, making excuses is passivity and a losing proposition.
A kick in the gonads or ass, pulling the interned victim up by an ear, get out there fight aggressively not passively.
Keyboard warriors ain't won shit,Nor is fighting via rules of the massah.
What is needed is list of passive resistance, not more kveteching over the shit that they are doing which we know are wrong and illegal.. TV hosts can talk for weeks about the Trump family grift. What does that achieve, we have to do something about it, using whatever tools we have.
Yep, a few more republicans, in the house, how about the senate. Nothing happens without the senate. Trump will veto shit he doesn't like
I know Daniel, play the game, hang on to rules, traditions, the law, the constitution and the institution will hold.
Except there is no institution left, he Trusk destroyed it all in his first 99 days., What now continue playing house, pretending the the constitution and institutions will Protect us
Quoting chapter and verse of a law is no help when the regime ignores the law and creates its own.
Consider that the Republicans are playing a long game: 1) Trump is getting old, both physically and mentally, and quite possibly wll not serve out his term; 2) at which time Vance becomes president (at the very least he most likely will run in 2028); 3) were a Democrat to be elected in 2028 the legislation currently under consideration would give the Democrats that same power, something I sincerely believe the Republicans would not want; 4) which brings up the distinct possibility that Trump's campaign statement toward a "Christian" audience that "You won’t have to vote any more" needs to be taken at face value.
We are watching a slow-rolling coup. In that there isn't massive direct action we are empowering it.
Not that one could not see this coming. If Trump's congressional minions succeed in neutering SCOTUS, voters still at least have the option of voting for a Democratic majority next year to stymie our Fuhrer. The unknown is whether MAGA really is a cult or if enough Republicans and independents will see the light and vote Blue to overcome Red Rule. Personally, I doubt that most MAGAs yet fully understand what their government is doing to our Democracy, and very soon to their general welfare.
Good grief! Trump declared a trade war on the entire world! The US not only upset the global economy (ours included) but also alienated all of our allies. Many MAGAs I have spoken with seem to view politics as an amusing game, clueless as to the dire consequences of their votes.
Since our government serves mainly in the interests of corporations and the wealthy, it is inevitably going to lean toward authoritarianism and against democracy. It would help the courts if they could have control over the U. S. Marshals to enforce their decisions; as it stands now, POTUS has all the enforcement tools. But ultimately, we just need to get corporate money and influence out of the political system. Democracy is for real people only.
Pundits, Rep. Raskin, and podcast reporters are hearing this bill is DOA when it gets to the Senate.
John Oliver just did a show on the Alliance Defending Freedom, and I wonder if they are the source of this "gem" or should I say "germ" of an idea. Regardless, it is more right-wing fuckery.
Lastly, seeing to it that Trump's lawyers are kept in check with contempt hanging over them is one thing, but we are already in a constitutional crisis. Until he is out of office, nothing will happen to Trump with the exception of being impeached and convicted by Congress. SCOTUS neutered themselves and all of us. Those poor men in prison for life in El Salvador and now the Venezuelans!
It's pitchforks and torches time. See you in the streets.
If you have ever bitten down on an ice cube and felt your head go numb that is the reaction I had after reading Thom's article which including the quote from Erwin Chemerinsky. "Without the contempt power judicial orders are meaningless ..." If the house and senate pass the big beautiful bill they can increase the national debt by $2.5T, a tax cut for the rich, push millions off Medicaid, effectively make Trump dictator and render themselves powerless. Tic tack toe, destroy the co equal powers of the three branches of government and put control of government into the hands of one man. Do I have this bassackwards am I overstating the impending disaster?
The second phase is about to launch. Did you read about the newly established committee to advise re getting God back into government? The second secret phase was not included in Project 2025. Excuse me if I can’t give specific references. I am reading too much shit like this bunch of comments. I’m sure you can google, second phase although I haven’t tried it.
Krasnov is up to his puppet masters plan to destroy America. This is both an act of a traitor and an act of war by a foreign country. Does the media care. Not at all. The rich that own the media want their raid of the American people to pay their bills. Greed and hate is on display while nobody seems able to observe the facts on the ground. Let nobody forget there be dragons.
If this provision is not removed, and SCOTUS does not declare it unconstitutional, then the only recourse left to those opposed to the felon in chief, the MAGAtocracy and the MAGAtariat will be the aggressive use of the Second Amendment. We all know what that will mean. Perhaps that is what these loathe some people really want. Too many don’t like our country as it evolved up to 2016, and would prefer that it be destroyed rather than progress. The future is at best sure to be contentious beyond all memory, and at worst bleak. I hope our grandson has the time and the sense to leave this broken place for a better country, assuming we do not, by inadvertence or idiocy, destroy the planet.
The one thing that I've been saying is the only answer, immediately, to this "BIG BEAUTIFUL BS", is to motion the SCOTUS to review and reverse their criminal immunity decision.
Without Chutkan's answers, on remand, we don't what constitutes core powers except Art. II, sec.II, which is limited in true scope, as KBJ indicated in oral arguments last summer, and the Senate, if coerced could change language in the bill to define the powers as that limited scope and those that go beyond are for the courts to interpret. The fkn cowards.
If Congress cedes power and they, themselves can be indicted, with no check, what is their point in signing this? Threats? By signing they are accepting his already proclaimed threat. The biggest of them all. To themselves as they aren't protected in anyway.
I see no point in either branch wanting to be sideline players to their own detriment.
The only way this could happen is if the other justices invalidate Thomas and Alito votes because they were conflicted. IMHO the other justices had a duty to come forward.
Trump v. CASA is a forthcoming United States Supreme Court case addressing whether lower-court judges have the authority to issue "universal injunctions" to block the enforcement of policies nationwide. While Trump v. CASA does not directly address birthright citizenship in the United States, it centers on several universal injunctions blocking Executive Order 14160.
Thanks for the article and a reminder as to what the responsibilities of the 3 branches of Government are in our Democratic Republic.
.........Article I: Congress solely controls the ability to declare war, raise taxes, and spend money; all spending and taxation must originate in the House of Representatives, and Congress also has oversight power (and the power of the purse) with regard to both the president and the Supreme Court. They can even defund either, and have the power to pass laws limiting what the Courts can rule on as well as the power to limit presidential behavior.
Article II: The president has the power to appoint justices to the Supreme Court and must enforce laws Congress makes, but has considerable power to investigate members of either branch for criminal conspiracy and other illegal or even unethical behavior; the president controls the police agencies of the nation, starting with the FBI.
Article III: The Supreme Court (and its inferior courts) can restrain both Congress and the president by declaring their actions unconstitutional or in violation of existing law. Their only power other than moral persuasion — as Hamilton pointed out in Federalist 78, writing that they have “neither a sword nor a purse” — their only tool to force compliance with their orders is the power, established by law, to hold the subjects of their rulings or the people pleading them “in contempt of court,” which can lead to substantial fines or even jail time.
To clarify my comment on Montesquieu: the Founders (and, of course, myself) believed deeply in democracy, but not in direct democracy. Their Constitution was an answer to Montesquieu's, and Plato's concern. Without the buffer the Electoral College was meant to provide, direct election of our president became a gaping hole in their plan to design a system that would protect us from elective despotism.
Hartmann's opening paragraph about Montesquieu and Iroquois raises several issues that unfortunately cast some doubt on the rest of the article – valuable though it probably is.
The anthropologist/sociologist David Graeber (the Dawn of Everything) does suggest that an Iroquois tribal leader and philosopher who visited France in the early eighteenth century, might have influenced, and even met Montesquieu, who might have taken ideas from that visitor.
I think a much more likely, if conventional, view makes the British system the model for ours: a bicameral legislature, an independent judiciary, and an independent king, reined in by the legislature and the courts. The American system dispensed with the parliament-chosen prime minister, but kept the king, who is elected virtually directly by the people – although the American president was originally to be chosen by an Electoral College which long ago became merely a rubber stamp.
It's important to note that Montesquieu rejected democracy. This was precisely because he believed, following Plato, that direct election, "pure democracy", as Madison called it, was likely to lead eventually to a popularly elected tyranny, as is now happening in the United States. Montesquieu proposed, not democracy, but a benevolent monarchy, to be led by a Platonic "philosopher-prince" ("Republic" was never any such thing by our modern definition of the word, nor was it even the true title of Plato's book, but that's another story). We have now gotten what Jefferson called "elective despotism", which was our Founders', and Montesquieu's, worst fear.
In 2017, during my very brief time on FB, before I was threatened with death numerous times, I said we were, then, in the midst of a slow-moving coup. Nine years later, the juggernaut is plowing through the civilian world like a killdozer. We see the ineptitude of the Constitution, its blind trust in some more noble aspect of humans. Checks and balances were then a farce, too. It might have been better if three sets of citizenry voted for each of the three branches. All branches had the same power, and the citizenry, sans phony representative democracy, controlled the military and the federal police forces, to guard against the very institutions they were managing, and the rotten, stinking, greasy, slimy clutch of nihilists who were often chosen to manage those branches.
Did not happen. It only takes a certain level of deranged grey matter, loaded with toxins, drugs, and a lack of oxygen, to careen way out of bounds, infatuated with nor-epinephrine seductions, to corrupt the souls of so many weaklings.
Look no further than the reactionary christian rabble in M. Johnson, itself with a brain obliterated by homo-erotic fantasies and delusions of sanctioned pornography in heaven. These cults have functioned in DC for centuries. The Cromwell gene lives on. Lock n Load. When this rubber meets the road, we will see where our resolve actually lies.
I agree. I died briefly in 2008. I saw the entrance to Heaven. I was given the choice to stay but told that I had made everyone, including animals fight, now was my turn. I was needed - so I came back - apparently for “such a time as this”.
Mike Johnson is attempting to force this country into a false version of christianity which is evil and cruel.It’s an abomination to the followers of Jesus Christ.
The Catholic Church (the Seat of Peter) saw this coming too. That’s why the conclave was so short. That’s why they selected the man who is Pope Leo.
The Republicans who are attempting to overthrow our Constitution in the dead of night are filled with darkness - hate and cruelty.
They are liars and thieves - exactly what Jesus Christ described in John 10.
The Bible is a Living document
“Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth”
We are Lights in little pots of clay.
The men (only men got to write the Constitution but they had wives who talked to them and had helped them during the Revolutionary War) - knew that a time like this would come.
Trump isn’t Cyrus from the Old Testament - he’s Haman from the Book of Esther.
Americans are armed to the hilt and In God We Trust is on our currency and on the wall over the Speaker’s podium
President Eisenhower had been through WW2. He knew what horror a monster can inflict on people and he called on the Almighty to protect this country from that horror.
My Evangelical Bible group studied Psalm 18
My take on it was that David cried out for help and God gave it to him. David. David killed them all and let God sort them out”
The rest of the Southern Evangelicals agreed that it said that.
The Republicans in Congress took an oath. The Second Amendment is to enforce that oath. In God We Trust has HIS name on the money - not some two bit wannabe caesar
These media pieces that seem to be reacting to the “Biden conspiracy” tell-all book that was recently released are not only book reviews and reactions, but also a subtle reeducation of Democrats to accept more middle of the road to right-leaning candidates. The cult members of this society are being systematically reprogrammed to accept no real choice in candidates at all. This ultimately insures that MAGA ideologies are furthered in the future.
We should start by looking at what's happening under the current laws. Under Bondi's direction, the DOJ has filed multiple pleadings before judges Xinis and Boasberg that violate federal Rule 11, which requires factual support for factual allegations. Trump's opinion that the deported men are violent criminals is an unsupported opinion, not fact, and she knows it. She not only supervises the filings of false and unsupported pleadings, she fired the attorney who followed the rule of candor and told the truth.
Bondi's repeated appearance on Fox News also violates federal ethics rules on trying cases in court, not on TV.
Bondi's pointed attacks on federal judges, delivered to a nationwide audience and echoed by Stephen Miller, Musk, and Vance, amounts to stochastic terrorism.
https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/pam-bondi-should-lose-her-law-license
Blondie lied during the Senate confirmation hearings saying that she would not weaponize her office if confirmed which she is flagrantly doing. This seems to be the normal thing to do. Look at the number of nominees to the Supreme Court that have ruled the opposite of what they declared they wouldn't do during their hearings. A law should immediately be enacted that if one's actions is found to be contrary to what was declared at a congressional hearing, that liar instantly loses their position....
Her statements as AG could bring sanctions and/or contempt proceedeings in both state or federal courts.
E.G. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/publications/model_rules_of_professional_conduct/rule_3_3_candor_toward_the_tribunal/comment_on_rule_3_3/?login
AI Consequences of Violating the Duty:
Violating the duty of candor can lead to serious consequences for lawyers, including:
Disciplinary action: by the relevant bar association.
Disqualification: from a case.
Civil liability: to opposing parties.
Criminal penalties: in some cases.
Examples of situations where the duty of candor applies:
Making arguments in court .
Preparing and submitting legal documents .
Conducting discovery .
Giving testimony .
Importance of the Duty:
The duty of candor is crucial for maintaining the integrity of the legal system and ensuring fair and accurate outcomes. It helps to ensure that the court has all the relevant information it needs to make informed decisions. By upholding this duty, lawyers contribute to the public's trust in the legal profession.
Spot on as usual, Sabrina!
At the Cabinet meeting where she praised Trump for fentanyl seizures, she spoke to him like you would while potty-training a toddler. Look what little Donald did! Oh, she is scary good, even if she sounds stupid.
If this ever turns around, I hope she loses more than her license.
Who is going to dibar Bondi, and BTW you don't have to be a lawyer to be AG
Pam is a member of the Florida he Florida Attorney General (AG) is required to be a licensed attorney in the state
Why would they start following the law now?
You are exactly right. This ahole and blondie are so corrupt it’s not even real anymore. I fear she holds the keys to the car and the a hole is telling her where to drive. In other words, they, like the a hole, are breaking the law with impunity.
Thanks Thom.
Trump is at the Capitol, trying to button hole support. I've been writing about the Medicare aspect.
From Heather Cox Richardson last night : "...12 swing-state Republicans who don’t want drastic Medicaid cuts, and 31 hardliners who do. House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) can afford to lose only three Republican votes on the measure. Nicole Lafond of Talking Points Memo reported today that Trump will go to Capitol Hill tomorrow to talk Republicans into voting for the measure."
We need to encourage Don Bacon R. NE. and other Republicans who are standing up to Trump and MAGA Mike. He and Reps. David Valadao, R-Calif., Don Bacon, R-Neb., Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., Rob Bresnahan Jr., R-Pa., Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., Jen Kiggans, R-Va., Young Kim, R-Calif., Robert Wittman, R-Va., Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., and Jeff Hurd, R-Colo signed a letter:
“Many hospitals — particularly in rural and underserved areas — rely heavily on Medicaid funding, with some receiving over half their revenue from the program alone,” the representatives wrote. “Providers in these areas are especially at risk of closure, with many unable to recover. When hospitals close, it affects all constituents, regardless of healthcare coverage.”
Besides the Medicaid issue, Republican Reps have called out Trump/Musk on national security and tariffs.
On MSNBC Saturday, Velshi asked Bacon about tariffs. He said, in essence, any Reagan Republican would remove Trump tariff authority. To do that, they need all of the House Dems.
Plus Bacon said Trump has a "moral blindscape" re Ukraine. Retired General. Russia is not a superpower. Mexico with nuclear weapons.
Says anyone who served has to oppose Hegseth, SIGNAL.
Says we are better than any other country in agriculture. Says Trump has broken free trade. In essence, we are losing the trade war
The BIG SHOCK we got here in Baghdad By the Sea is the SCOTUS approval of eliminating temporary status for Venezuelans. They are saying that many will be tortured, murdered if they have to return.
We are represented by 3 Cuban Amedican Republicans. Cubans will bear the same fate. Please object to the Cuban American National Foundation, 1820 Jefferson Pl NW. Washington, DC 20036. Dupont Circle, Downtown. Directions · (202) 530-1894, and to
Mario Díaz-Balart
Congressman, R-Florida
Phone: (202) 225-4211. Fax: (202) 225-8576. Doral District Office. 8669 NW 36th Street. Suite 100. Doral, FL 33166. Phone: (305) 470-8555. Fax: (305) 470-8575
Carlos Giménez
Congressman, R-Florida
Phone 202-225-2778, 14221 SW 120th St. #115. Miami, FL 33186. Phone: (305) 222-0160. Key West. 1100 Simonton St. Room 1-213. Key West FL, 33040. Phone: (305) 292-4485.
Nicole Malliotakis
Congresswoman, R-New York
(202) 225-3371. Staten Island District Office. 1698 Victory Blvd. Suite 2L. Staten Island, NY 10314. Phone: (718) 568-2870. Brooklyn District Office.
María Elvira Salazar
Congresswoman, R-Florida
305-668-2285 (Miami) or 202-225-3931 (Washington, D.C.).
Meanwhile, the Afrikaners, suffering from unconscionable and unprecedented levels of prejudice and violence, are welcomed with open arms. Could it be that the Venezuelans happen to speak Spanish rather than a Northern European tongue? Or that they are not relatively rich?
I believe the Cuban-Americans are free-and-clear in that were they to start being deported, the Congresspeople you mention would, at least part of the time, start voting Democrat. Considering that the Republicans' hold on the House is razor-thin
I don't believe even they would be willing to cross that bridge. Another consideration is that by this time a fair percentage of Cuban-Americans are going to be 3rd generation.
We are a majority Dem county. They vote for the 3 amigos due to Cuba policy. Obama ended wet foot/dry foot.
AI The "wet feet, dry feet" policy was a U.S. immigration policy towards Cubans that existed from 1994 until 2017. It allowed Cuban citizens who arrived in the U.S. illegally, either by land or sea, to be granted the right to stay and apply for legal residency. Cuban nationals who were intercepted at sea were considered to have "wet feet," while those who entered by land were considered to have "dry feet".
In 2017, President Barack Obama announced the end of the policy, and Cuban nationals, regardless of how they entered the US, were subject to removal. This change coincided with the thawing of relations between the U.S. and Cuba, which saw increased travel and trade between the two countries. The shift to the end of the policy was meant to discourage illegal immigration from Cuba and encourage the country to accept the return of its citizens.
Other immigrant groups wanted an equivalent policy. I can go on for a month. I am the author of Breaking Up with Cuba (2010).
Consider our Afghans on temporary status. Most had been US contractors and theif families. To return is death by the Taliban.
A lot of people from banana republics, i.e. El Savador, Bolivia, Guatemals, etc face the same fate.
Thanks for the clarification.
It's over. Those that can't accept are living in denial. It really is Germany 1933.
The hopeful liberal has been citing all of the lower court rulings against Trump, and I keep saying they are lower case, but when it reaches SCOTUS, they rule in favor of find a way to get off the hood without implicating themselves.
Take the birthright citizenship ruling. Rather than piss off Trump and America, they circled back to the ultra right wing 5th circuit court
Trump is doing what he damn well please, in public not behind doors or screens, he is violating the constitution, in public, he told us he is not bound by his oath of office He is using the government police and investigative power to go after enemies and critics, not only of him, but of Israel.
And what recourse do we have? A vote in 2026? Even if victorious, all that can be done is to stop project 2025 for two yeas
He can be impeached but what difference does that make. The senate won't remove him.
He has already been impeached three times, and 34 felonies, yet there he sits, the very first elected felon, and the first American dictator.
What is going to save us? Our elections? Yeh sure.
I can think of a few Democracies that went dictatorship, and then became democracies (of a sort)again, but they are all multiparty democracies. . America is a two party system, with a couple of non serious stringers like the Green and Libertarian party.
The minority party is also the controlling party, and what it doesn't control politically, it controls via fear and threats.
This isn't the time to lay down and play dead.
That is what I am NOT doing.
Bong Son, 1967, an NVA company is constantly charging a MACV compound. Wave after wave, dead bodies abound, into the night and the next day. No one lay down and played dead.
Fought to the end, their end
Our enemy is forelorn hope, see the sunny side, the sliver lining, where none exists.
Forelorn hope is passivity, making excuses is passivity and a losing proposition.
A kick in the gonads or ass, pulling the interned victim up by an ear, get out there fight aggressively not passively.
Keyboard warriors ain't won shit,Nor is fighting via rules of the massah.
What is needed is list of passive resistance, not more kveteching over the shit that they are doing which we know are wrong and illegal.. TV hosts can talk for weeks about the Trump family grift. What does that achieve, we have to do something about it, using whatever tools we have.
There are Republicans like Bacon who can fit it. We need to encourage them.
BTW, we had 272nd NVN run through our line....I came home and went to law school.
Yep, a few more republicans, in the house, how about the senate. Nothing happens without the senate. Trump will veto shit he doesn't like
I know Daniel, play the game, hang on to rules, traditions, the law, the constitution and the institution will hold.
Except there is no institution left, he Trusk destroyed it all in his first 99 days., What now continue playing house, pretending the the constitution and institutions will Protect us
Quoting chapter and verse of a law is no help when the regime ignores the law and creates its own.
Just jaw dropping astounding how easy it was, too. Once they got the right front man.
I've quoted Hawley, other Republicans who say it's dead on arrival in the senate. You've missed it.
There are 7 Republican cosponsors on the bill that would strip Trump tariff authority.
Are that 7 in the House? If so, then it doesn't matter, unless there are enough defectors in the Senate.
Wouldn’t it be against the constitution to pass a law that would make the constitution useless for the judiciary?
Better to play it than to be it. Or is it?
Consider that the Republicans are playing a long game: 1) Trump is getting old, both physically and mentally, and quite possibly wll not serve out his term; 2) at which time Vance becomes president (at the very least he most likely will run in 2028); 3) were a Democrat to be elected in 2028 the legislation currently under consideration would give the Democrats that same power, something I sincerely believe the Republicans would not want; 4) which brings up the distinct possibility that Trump's campaign statement toward a "Christian" audience that "You won’t have to vote any more" needs to be taken at face value.
We are watching a slow-rolling coup. In that there isn't massive direct action we are empowering it.
Not that one could not see this coming. If Trump's congressional minions succeed in neutering SCOTUS, voters still at least have the option of voting for a Democratic majority next year to stymie our Fuhrer. The unknown is whether MAGA really is a cult or if enough Republicans and independents will see the light and vote Blue to overcome Red Rule. Personally, I doubt that most MAGAs yet fully understand what their government is doing to our Democracy, and very soon to their general welfare.
Good grief! Trump declared a trade war on the entire world! The US not only upset the global economy (ours included) but also alienated all of our allies. Many MAGAs I have spoken with seem to view politics as an amusing game, clueless as to the dire consequences of their votes.
Not if he suspends elections.
Since our government serves mainly in the interests of corporations and the wealthy, it is inevitably going to lean toward authoritarianism and against democracy. It would help the courts if they could have control over the U. S. Marshals to enforce their decisions; as it stands now, POTUS has all the enforcement tools. But ultimately, we just need to get corporate money and influence out of the political system. Democracy is for real people only.
With judgments can garnish bank accounts, lien property, etc, even without "police" powers.
First Things First
Pundits, Rep. Raskin, and podcast reporters are hearing this bill is DOA when it gets to the Senate.
John Oliver just did a show on the Alliance Defending Freedom, and I wonder if they are the source of this "gem" or should I say "germ" of an idea. Regardless, it is more right-wing fuckery.
Lastly, seeing to it that Trump's lawyers are kept in check with contempt hanging over them is one thing, but we are already in a constitutional crisis. Until he is out of office, nothing will happen to Trump with the exception of being impeached and convicted by Congress. SCOTUS neutered themselves and all of us. Those poor men in prison for life in El Salvador and now the Venezuelans!
It's pitchforks and torches time. See you in the streets.
If you have ever bitten down on an ice cube and felt your head go numb that is the reaction I had after reading Thom's article which including the quote from Erwin Chemerinsky. "Without the contempt power judicial orders are meaningless ..." If the house and senate pass the big beautiful bill they can increase the national debt by $2.5T, a tax cut for the rich, push millions off Medicaid, effectively make Trump dictator and render themselves powerless. Tic tack toe, destroy the co equal powers of the three branches of government and put control of government into the hands of one man. Do I have this bassackwards am I overstating the impending disaster?
The second phase is about to launch. Did you read about the newly established committee to advise re getting God back into government? The second secret phase was not included in Project 2025. Excuse me if I can’t give specific references. I am reading too much shit like this bunch of comments. I’m sure you can google, second phase although I haven’t tried it.
I just read about this Christian National want god in government was in Heather Cox Richardson’s letter today, or last night’s. Scary stuff!
Krasnov is up to his puppet masters plan to destroy America. This is both an act of a traitor and an act of war by a foreign country. Does the media care. Not at all. The rich that own the media want their raid of the American people to pay their bills. Greed and hate is on display while nobody seems able to observe the facts on the ground. Let nobody forget there be dragons.
If this provision is not removed, and SCOTUS does not declare it unconstitutional, then the only recourse left to those opposed to the felon in chief, the MAGAtocracy and the MAGAtariat will be the aggressive use of the Second Amendment. We all know what that will mean. Perhaps that is what these loathe some people really want. Too many don’t like our country as it evolved up to 2016, and would prefer that it be destroyed rather than progress. The future is at best sure to be contentious beyond all memory, and at worst bleak. I hope our grandson has the time and the sense to leave this broken place for a better country, assuming we do not, by inadvertence or idiocy, destroy the planet.
The one thing that I've been saying is the only answer, immediately, to this "BIG BEAUTIFUL BS", is to motion the SCOTUS to review and reverse their criminal immunity decision.
Without Chutkan's answers, on remand, we don't what constitutes core powers except Art. II, sec.II, which is limited in true scope, as KBJ indicated in oral arguments last summer, and the Senate, if coerced could change language in the bill to define the powers as that limited scope and those that go beyond are for the courts to interpret. The fkn cowards.
If Congress cedes power and they, themselves can be indicted, with no check, what is their point in signing this? Threats? By signing they are accepting his already proclaimed threat. The biggest of them all. To themselves as they aren't protected in anyway.
I see no point in either branch wanting to be sideline players to their own detriment.
Thoughts?
The only way this could happen is if the other justices invalidate Thomas and Alito votes because they were conflicted. IMHO the other justices had a duty to come forward.
At present, no case involves immunity. Here is the list of pending cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pending_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases
Trump v. CASA is a forthcoming United States Supreme Court case addressing whether lower-court judges have the authority to issue "universal injunctions" to block the enforcement of policies nationwide. While Trump v. CASA does not directly address birthright citizenship in the United States, it centers on several universal injunctions blocking Executive Order 14160.
Doesn't address immunity.
Thanks for the article and a reminder as to what the responsibilities of the 3 branches of Government are in our Democratic Republic.
.........Article I: Congress solely controls the ability to declare war, raise taxes, and spend money; all spending and taxation must originate in the House of Representatives, and Congress also has oversight power (and the power of the purse) with regard to both the president and the Supreme Court. They can even defund either, and have the power to pass laws limiting what the Courts can rule on as well as the power to limit presidential behavior.
Article II: The president has the power to appoint justices to the Supreme Court and must enforce laws Congress makes, but has considerable power to investigate members of either branch for criminal conspiracy and other illegal or even unethical behavior; the president controls the police agencies of the nation, starting with the FBI.
Article III: The Supreme Court (and its inferior courts) can restrain both Congress and the president by declaring their actions unconstitutional or in violation of existing law. Their only power other than moral persuasion — as Hamilton pointed out in Federalist 78, writing that they have “neither a sword nor a purse” — their only tool to force compliance with their orders is the power, established by law, to hold the subjects of their rulings or the people pleading them “in contempt of court,” which can lead to substantial fines or even jail time.
To clarify my comment on Montesquieu: the Founders (and, of course, myself) believed deeply in democracy, but not in direct democracy. Their Constitution was an answer to Montesquieu's, and Plato's concern. Without the buffer the Electoral College was meant to provide, direct election of our president became a gaping hole in their plan to design a system that would protect us from elective despotism.
Hartmann's opening paragraph about Montesquieu and Iroquois raises several issues that unfortunately cast some doubt on the rest of the article – valuable though it probably is.
The anthropologist/sociologist David Graeber (the Dawn of Everything) does suggest that an Iroquois tribal leader and philosopher who visited France in the early eighteenth century, might have influenced, and even met Montesquieu, who might have taken ideas from that visitor.
I think a much more likely, if conventional, view makes the British system the model for ours: a bicameral legislature, an independent judiciary, and an independent king, reined in by the legislature and the courts. The American system dispensed with the parliament-chosen prime minister, but kept the king, who is elected virtually directly by the people – although the American president was originally to be chosen by an Electoral College which long ago became merely a rubber stamp.
It's important to note that Montesquieu rejected democracy. This was precisely because he believed, following Plato, that direct election, "pure democracy", as Madison called it, was likely to lead eventually to a popularly elected tyranny, as is now happening in the United States. Montesquieu proposed, not democracy, but a benevolent monarchy, to be led by a Platonic "philosopher-prince" ("Republic" was never any such thing by our modern definition of the word, nor was it even the true title of Plato's book, but that's another story). We have now gotten what Jefferson called "elective despotism", which was our Founders', and Montesquieu's, worst fear.
In 2017, during my very brief time on FB, before I was threatened with death numerous times, I said we were, then, in the midst of a slow-moving coup. Nine years later, the juggernaut is plowing through the civilian world like a killdozer. We see the ineptitude of the Constitution, its blind trust in some more noble aspect of humans. Checks and balances were then a farce, too. It might have been better if three sets of citizenry voted for each of the three branches. All branches had the same power, and the citizenry, sans phony representative democracy, controlled the military and the federal police forces, to guard against the very institutions they were managing, and the rotten, stinking, greasy, slimy clutch of nihilists who were often chosen to manage those branches.
Did not happen. It only takes a certain level of deranged grey matter, loaded with toxins, drugs, and a lack of oxygen, to careen way out of bounds, infatuated with nor-epinephrine seductions, to corrupt the souls of so many weaklings.
Look no further than the reactionary christian rabble in M. Johnson, itself with a brain obliterated by homo-erotic fantasies and delusions of sanctioned pornography in heaven. These cults have functioned in DC for centuries. The Cromwell gene lives on. Lock n Load. When this rubber meets the road, we will see where our resolve actually lies.
I agree. I died briefly in 2008. I saw the entrance to Heaven. I was given the choice to stay but told that I had made everyone, including animals fight, now was my turn. I was needed - so I came back - apparently for “such a time as this”.
Mike Johnson is attempting to force this country into a false version of christianity which is evil and cruel.It’s an abomination to the followers of Jesus Christ.
The Catholic Church (the Seat of Peter) saw this coming too. That’s why the conclave was so short. That’s why they selected the man who is Pope Leo.
The Republicans who are attempting to overthrow our Constitution in the dead of night are filled with darkness - hate and cruelty.
They are liars and thieves - exactly what Jesus Christ described in John 10.
The Bible is a Living document
“Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth”
We are Lights in little pots of clay.
The men (only men got to write the Constitution but they had wives who talked to them and had helped them during the Revolutionary War) - knew that a time like this would come.
Trump isn’t Cyrus from the Old Testament - he’s Haman from the Book of Esther.
Americans are armed to the hilt and In God We Trust is on our currency and on the wall over the Speaker’s podium
President Eisenhower had been through WW2. He knew what horror a monster can inflict on people and he called on the Almighty to protect this country from that horror.
My Evangelical Bible group studied Psalm 18
My take on it was that David cried out for help and God gave it to him. David. David killed them all and let God sort them out”
The rest of the Southern Evangelicals agreed that it said that.
The Republicans in Congress took an oath. The Second Amendment is to enforce that oath. In God We Trust has HIS name on the money - not some two bit wannabe caesar
These media pieces that seem to be reacting to the “Biden conspiracy” tell-all book that was recently released are not only book reviews and reactions, but also a subtle reeducation of Democrats to accept more middle of the road to right-leaning candidates. The cult members of this society are being systematically reprogrammed to accept no real choice in candidates at all. This ultimately insures that MAGA ideologies are furthered in the future.