President Trump broadened his campaign of retaliation against lawyers he dislikes with a new memorandum that threatens to use government power to punish any law firms that, in his view, unfairly challenge his administration.
The memorandum directs the heads of the Justice and Homeland Security Departments to “seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable and vexatious litigation against the United States” or in matters that come before federal agencies.
Mr. Trump issued the order late Friday night, after a tumultuous week for the American legal community in which one of the country’s premier firms, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, struck a deal with the White House to spare the company from a punitive decree issued by Mr. Trump the previous week.
Fucking hell, can we get rid of this fascist mother fucker yet, please? How in the fuck did we create a system that was ostensibly meant to directly counter tyranny and then just yield to and roll over when a tyrant manages to win the presidency with an obedient congress?
How are we even on the back foot here? How is it harder to prevent or undo fascist policies than to pass them in the first place, EVEN WHEN THEY ARE OBJECTIVELY ILLEGAL?! How did we create such a toothless system of checks and balances as to render them non-existent when someone just decides to ignore them?
This country has apparently been operating on the honor system for 250 years. We have had the audacity to hold ourselves up as the ideal and expect others to model themselves after us. And then at the first attempt of a coup and installation of dictatorship, we are just impotently watching it happen. This is insane.
We need more Luigi’s. I will say I had a cancer scare recently, and had it gone the other way I’d be one.
Survivor here, I’ll pact with you to share the same fate. The only answer at this point
Guys, for your own safety and freedom, maybe don’t publically post your desire to assassinate public figures online.
The bigger problem is he isn’t the one actually coming up withany of this shit. He’s just the one with the sharpie. Trump goes away tomorrow and this will continue.
Mm, but Trump is the cult leader. No one actually likes the rest of them and some would feel more capable about pushing back against Vance. Anyway, Trump, Musk, and Vance are all problems.
Yup. Peter Theil and Stephen Miller in particular seem hell bent on pushing this shit.
How did we create such a toothless system of checks and balances as to render them non-existent when someone just decides to ignore them?
Because it was created 250 years ago by a whole bunch of people who seem to have believed that laws would just be enforced via gentlemans’ agreement/honor system and therefore was no need to call for actual consequences for breaking those laws. It just took over 200 years before someone came around and figured out that there weren’t a whole hell of a lot of teeth to those pesky amendments and it was off to the races…
President Trump broadened his campaign of retaliation against lawyers he dislikes with a new memorandum that threatens to use government power to punish any law firms that, in his view, unfairly challenge his administration.
That’s what happens in
a free countryI mean a dictatorship.I’d love to see lawyers interpret “unfairly” in this context.
Trump’s America has long crossed the Rubicon. He will continue to only double down, as any dictator does.
America and the world (except for the Neo Axis powers) will continue to suffer. Unless by some miracle democracy still functions in US.
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