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Trump administration 2024-2028

Mills Bomb said:
I think this is a big wrong side of history moment, when the truth comes out and becomes widespread, I expect it's going to be ugly.
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And people who don't know Weiss's themes might also be on the wrong side. Weiss is typically strong on civil liberties.

"We need to do a better job of explaining the legal rationale by which the administration detained and deported these 252 Venezuelans to CECOT. It's not as simple as Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act and being able to deport them immediately. And that isn't the administration's argument. The admin has argued in court that detainees are due "judicial review"—and we should explain this, with a voice arguing that Trump is exceeding his authority under the relevant statute, and another arguing that he's operating within the bounds of his authority. There's a genuine debate here. If we cut down Kristi Noem analysis we'd have the time."

One way of setting a frame to interpret that is that she's trying to give the administration room to make excuses.

Another way is that she's trying to give the administration no room to hide - if they make their best case and it doesn't pass public and legal muster, they're cooked. If they do make a case, it should (will, given the way their ramblings are treated now) prompt pushback from activists and scholars and civil libertarians in general which could lead to reform.
 
Since the topic is being discussed, you can easily find and watch it for yourselves now.

Pulled ‘60 Minutes’ segment airs in Canada, spreads online​

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In fact in the spirit of giving, here you go.

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Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1ptk38x/the_60_minutes_segment_covering_the_detainment_of
 
Retired AF Guy said:
SCOTUS hands big loss to POTUS ruling he did not have the authority to Federalize the National Guard to enforce laws in Illinois.
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Impossible. Must be fake news. SCOTUS is in POTUS's pocket and the US is minutes away from becoming authoritarian/fascist.
 
Brad Sallows said:
Impossible. Must be fake news. SCOTUS is in POTUS's pocket and the US is minutes away from becoming authoritarian/fascist.
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They aren’t far off. The separation of powers is the only thing preventing it currently.

They are doing the same thing my company does with my union. Have so many grievances filed (in this case court cases) that by time it’s heard the damages have long been done.
 
Eaglelord17 said:
They aren’t far off. The separation of powers is the only thing preventing it currently.
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Statement of obvious. The separation of powers is always the only thing preventing "it" - where "it" is almost any flavour of more centralized executive-centric government. The point is that another nail has been driven into each of the coffins of the theory that SCOTUS answers to Trump and the more general theory that US institutions are about to collapse into the necessary vestigial states required for the conditions of "authoritarianism" to be satisfied.
 
Staff note: Moved all the Trump-class ship traffic to this new thread on that here.

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brihard said:
No, you just use the super simple functionality built into Acrobat Pro that cleanly and reliably does a proper job of this. Guarantee DOJ already has teams of e-discovery pros who do this all day every day for a wide range of civil and criminal litigation. I really can’t wrap my head around how they were this inept.
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The guys who knew what they were doing probably got canned by DOGE.
 
Brad Sallows said:
Why is it not equally possible to take an uncharitable view the other way?
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This is what makes the discussions here a bit of a one-way street not worth bothering with.

Folks from the right here want to lump everyone who isn't with them as being on the other side and somehow see us as apologists for the extreme left.

Most of us here are centrists who happily call out the stupidity on the left and the right. The reason you are missing that is because, with the possible exception of DEI, leftist extremism is substantially more subtle than the verbal diarrhea that spouts out of MAGA. Your side is an easy target. The fact that most MAGA apologists don't see that is half of the problem.

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Bit perplexing as to what they did/said that set him off.

“The Failing New York Times, and their lies and purposeful misrepresentations, is a serious threat to the National Security of our Nation,” he wrote.

“Their Radical Left, Unhinged Behavior, writing FAKE Articles and Opinions in a never ending way, must be dealt with and stopped. THEY ARE A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! Thank you for you attention to this matter. PRESIDENT DJT”.
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www.the-independent.com

Trump calls the NYT ‘a threat to national security’ in late night social media rant

Trump lashed out at the widely-respected newspaper in his latest attack on the media
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FJAG said:
This is what makes the discussions here a bit of a one-way street not worth bothering with.

Folks from the right here want to lump everyone who isn't with them as being on the other side and somehow see us as apologists for the extreme left.

Most of us here are centrists who happily call out the stupidity on the left and the right. The reason you are missing that is because, with the possible exception of DEI, leftist extremism is substantially more subtle than the verbal diarrhea that spouts out of MAGA. Your side is an easy target. The fact that most MAGA apologists don't see that is half of the problem.

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I think this sort of hypocrisy is sort of a core identity of the MAGA right.

I called out a poster here for being essentially a MAGA parrot, and rather then defending against my accusations (Which honestly, I'd totally respect if they said I was wrong and proved me wrong) the only response was basically a rant calling me a radical leftist with "TDS" and essentially textbook MAGA insults used by everyone in the movement.

Even if you are a centrist and dislike left-wing extremism as well, unless you're with them you may as well be a massive partisan "Liberal" in their eyes.

That's just sort of the political climate with these folks, and talking to them about it, or asking questions - it's essentially fruitless.

There is absolutely nothing Trump could do that would make them walk away from the movement, it's their identity. It's for this reason, I think we truly are in cult territory at this point.

And let be clear, I have no problem with any views, I don't care if someone voted for Trump in the past, but we're just kind of at the point where, uhh.... Things have gotten just ridiculous and quite honestly very bizarre. Just today, "Trump class" battleships built in 2.5 years? It's more and more crazy all the time!
 
Mills Bomb said:
I think this sort of hypocrisy is sort of a core identity of the MAGA right.

I called out a poster here for being essentially a MAGA parrot, and rather then defending against my accusations (Which honestly, I'd totally respect if they said I was wrong and proved me wrong) the only response was basically a rant calling me a radical leftist with "TDS" and essentially textbook MAGA insults used by everyone in the movement.

Even if you are a centrist and dislike left-wing extremism as well, unless you're with them you may as well be a massive partisan "Liberal" in their eyes.

That's just sort of the political climate with these folks, and talking to them about it, or asking questions - it's essentially fruitless.

There is absolutely nothing Trump could do that would make them walk away from the movement, it's their identity. It's for this reason, I think we truly are in cult territory at this point.

And let be clear, I have no problem with any views, I don't care if someone voted for Trump in the past, but we're just kind of at the point where, uhh.... Things have gotten just ridiculous and quite honestly very bizarre. Just today, "Trump class" battleships built in 2.5 years? It's more and more crazy all the time!
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In the Before Times, a president acting like this would have been impeached or 25th amendment’d.

I would also say that there is nothing conservative about MAGA. It’s white Christian nationalism and tech anarcho-capitalism.
 
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