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Yes, the US and El Salvador are running a concentration camp. The US Holocaust Museum would be an expert on the subject.
Slovakia adopts Russian-style law targeting NGOs – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/929735/ #Democracy #HumanRights #NGOs #RobertFico #RuleOfLaw #SlovakPolitics #Slovakia
I wrote an essay on my blog about the tactical order in which the current US President and his cronies are doling out indignities, such as the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation case and the lack of due process.
I hope my essay just restates a lot of things you already know. But I really don't think any of this can be said too many times.
Law and Ordering
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2025/04/law-and-ordering.html
Why people in the US should care about people disappearing.
https://youtube.com/shorts/mYXGRfGasA8?si=9WRAxVuKF3DuwcVs
#Trump #democracy #ruleoflaw #geopolitics @geopolitics
When you're the king, you can do anything.
Every fucking Republican owns this.
#AmericanCollapse #Fascism #RuleOfLaw #Dictatorship
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/17/irs-harvard-tax-status/
#Grassley has been in the #Senate for 44 years. He must have a boatload of cred from his GOP colleagues. He could make a difference in any one of these issues: #tariffs #deportations #separationofpowers #ruleoflaw.
If he won’t use his accumulated powers in this situation, there is no reason for #Iowa to keep electing him.
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Sign the petition.
Tell your reps this is a red line.
We are a nation of laws, not of kings.
https://resist.bot/petitions/PRKASP
#RuleOfLaw #NoKingsInAmerica #ChrisKrebs #DefendTheConstitution
Over 1000 lawyers, in 42 states, trained to do #ProBono work for federal employees being attacked by #DOGE. “We are still operating as though there is a #RuleOfLaw”
“Using the [notwithstanding] clause to pre-empt judicial oversight is constitutionally allowed – and probably popular in some circles – but can be a step towards abuse of power. Put simply, anyone who is okay with someone else’s rights being infringed arbitrarily has to recognize that their own are also at risk.
#Poilievre ‘s position on the #Charter shows once again his #Contempt for #Canadians , #Canada , and the #RuleOfLaw .
#SCOTUS has been redistributing our civil rights and giving more to the rich and powerful.
“They’ve disenfranchised the marginalized while making it easier for the corrupt to commit crimes. The gap between the two tiers of justice is growing as fast as the gap between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us.”
Here we go - a ruling of “probable cause” of contempt against the Trump official for disobeying the court’s order. Provides an opportunity for reply before being referred for prosecution. #RuleOfLaw #Judiciary #Law
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“…[Supreme Court]’s later determination that the TRO suffered from a legal defect, however, does not excuse the Government’s violation. Instead, it is a foundational legal precept that every judicial order “must be obeyed” — no matter how “erroneous” it “may be” — until a court reverses it. Walker v. City of Birmingham, 388 U.S. 307, 314 (1967). If a party chooses to disobey the order — rather than wait for it to be reversed through the judicial process — such disobedience is punishable as contempt, notwithstanding any later-revealed deficiencies in the order. See id. at 314, 320. That foundational “rule of law™ answers not just how this compliance inquiry can proceed, but why it must. See id. at 320. The rule “reflects a belief that in the fair administration of justice no man can be judge in his own case,” no matter how “exalted his station” or “righteous his motives.” 1d. at 320-21.
The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it. To permit such officials to freely “annul the judgments of the courts of the United States™ would not just “destroy the rights acquired under those judgments”; it would make “a solemn mockery” of “the constitution itself.” United States v. Peters, 9 U.S. (5 Cranch) 115, 136 (1809) (Marshall, C.J.). “So fatal a result must be deprecated by all.” Id.”](https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/348/601/646/568/287/original/c52a474c8a61818b.jpeg "Text:
“…[Supreme Court]’s later determination that the TRO suffered from a legal defect, however, does not excuse the Government’s violation. Instead, it is a foundational legal precept that every judicial order “must be obeyed” — no matter how “erroneous” it “may be” — until a court reverses it. Walker v. City of Birmingham, 388 U.S. 307, 314 (1967). If a party chooses to disobey the order — rather than wait for it to be reversed through the judicial process — such disobedience is punishable as contempt, notwithstanding any later-revealed deficiencies in the order. See id. at 314, 320. That foundational “rule of law™ answers not just how this compliance inquiry can proceed, but why it must. See id. at 320. The rule “reflects a belief that in the fair administration of justice no man can be judge in his own case,” no matter how “exalted his station” or “righteous his motives.” 1d. at 320-21.
The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it. To permit such officials to freely “annul the judgments of the courts of the United States™ would not just “destroy the rights acquired under those judgments”; it would make “a solemn mockery” of “the constitution itself.” United States v. Peters, 9 U.S. (5 Cranch) 115, 136 (1809) (Marshall, C.J.). “So fatal a result must be deprecated by all.” Id.”")
#TimothySnyder has written an extremely relevant article concerning “state terror” which is being promoted by the US regime through dehumanizing language and their abandonment of the rule of law.
#fascism #authoritarianism #ruleoflaw #terrorism #tyranny #oppression #abuseofpower #gulags #concentrationcamps #foreignpolicy #AbregoGarcia #dueprocess
https://snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&r=1meiee
This precisely.
If it's "foreign policy" to move people out of the country to a foreign prison without due process, where they have no rights, and leave them there without recourse, then individual rights have already been capriciously violated. Trump's DOJ wants to violate the law.
And this administration wants the country to believe (or pretend) that is somehow normal. It's not. It's the end of the rule of law.
"The reality is that of 238 migrants — mostly Venezuelan — that officials accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang and expelled to the Central American country in mid-March, just a small fraction had ever been charged with serious crimes in the US.
Hundreds of pages of US legal records and American government statements reviewed by Bloomberg News found five men charged with or convicted of felony assault or firearms violations. Three men were charged with misdemeanors including harassment and petty theft. Two others were charged with human smuggling.
For the rest of the men, there was no available information showing they committed any crime other than traffic or immigration violations in the US.
(...)
The findings raise questions about how the Trump administration determined that the migrants sent to El Salvador were violent criminals. The US maintains that all of the Venezuelans on the flights had committed a crime because they were in the country illegally, a senior official with the Department of Homeland Security said in an email. The official said many of the men who lacked US records were nonetheless terrorists, human-rights abusers or gangsters.
Many of the men allegedly associated with Tren de Aragua were deported under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 without court review."
It's rare to find educated people with morals such that they'll stand for something beyond self-interest.
A.Crespo, #law professor at #Harvard, explains on #C4news how the #university's lawsuit to uphold the #1stamendment is liminal for the #ruleoflaw in the US, and how either #academia & the law profession stand up as one, or #fascism wins. Have 40 years of ultra economic liberalism entirely destroyed democratic society or have the basics of human cooperation survived?
https://www.channel4.com/news/trumps-uni-crackdown-is-not-about-anti-semitism-harvard-professor
One thing that is becoming clear from the rule of the Court of Tangerine Tyrant... if the US constitution fails to contain the danger of Trump's administration, people like me who support a written constitution as a way of improving UK politics are going to have some re-thinking to do.... because Trump is the very sort of leader a written constitution would be expected to protect people from.
If a constitution doesn't work in this case, then how useful would it be?
The DOJ lawyers and everyone in the Trump regime who has as much as whispered his name in a hallway better pray that Mr. #AbregoGarcia doesn’t perish in El Salvador while their actions delay rather than ensure his safe return, lest the inquiry turn into a homicide and crimes against humanity investigation. The Trump regime will not last, but the International Criminal Court will.
-> Remember that Trump was afforded the full extent of legal protections during his criminal investigation and trial, but seems to want to deny due process to all others. <-
This article raises "questions about the integrity of the process by which Abrego Garcia has been deemed a gang member, even as Trump and his minions have been extraordinarily cavalier in throwing around the MS-13 smear."
#USpol #USpolitics #TrumpAdministration #RuleofLaw
https://newrepublic.com/article/194010/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-trump-deported-error-another-hit
