We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country” Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts. In less than a month, Donald Trump has come through on his promise to exact retribution on his enemies and to set about overhauling the federal government. Whole agencies are potentially being tossed, to use Elon Musk’s heedless language, into “the wood chipper.” To understate matters radically, Trump has sparked many debates. One of them is how close is the United States to a constitutional crisis: Are we headed toward one, on the brink, or already there? If there is going to be a concerted resistance to Trump’s blizzard of executive actions, it will likely play out largely in courts across the country and, ultimately, in the Supreme Court. And if the Administration spurns court orders, what happens next will conceivably determine the fate of democracy and the rule of law in our time. Chief Justice John Roberts himself said in December, as the Biden Administration began closing shop and the incoming Trump Administration made its intentions increasingly clear, that in our current politics, we now live with the “specter of open disregard for federal court rulings.” And what would such a conflict look like with MAGA loyalists like Pam Bondi leading the Justice Department, Pete Hegseth leading the Department of Defense, and Kash Patel leading the F.B.I.? Some legal scholars recommend a keep-your-powder-dry attitude for the time being. But there has arguably not been such a potentially dramatic test of the country’s constitutional order since the Civil War era. Read More
California state Republican party just held State convention and elected Black woman first Republican state chair. She participated in a California Republican party program to recruit and train diverse party leaders. DEI OKIYAR Has she been a Democrat, however qual, she would have been disparaged as unqualified DEI hire.
Two Republican state legislators in Minnesota introduced a bill to make 'Trump derangement syndrome" a recognized mental illness. One of the cosponsors was just arrested for sexual contact with a minor. Someone is deranged.
Trump humiliated as Putin keeps US President 'waiting over an hour' Donald Trump was left humiliated as he waited over an hour for his phone call with Vladimir Putin. The Russian dictator was addressing the annual congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow before he laughed off a warning that he was leaving it late for his call to the US president. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/politics/government/ar-AA1BaH5u
All we heard for 4 years from the Right is that Biden was senile. Yet this mush brained psychopath squirts out one insane midnight tweet after another and all we get from the Right (what a fucking oxymoron) is crickets. What an impressive "statesman". This country deserves everything we have coming..................
In an unhinged interview with Laura Ingraham, Trump praised Russia and Putin while denouncing Canada as a very "nasty" country. In a poll, 88% of Americans list Canada as favorite foreign country. Russia is second from last, ahead of only North Korea.
Trump has successfully negotiated a deal with Russia! Hahaha, fuck Putin! We're winning again! The deal? The US and Russia are going to play hockey.
