Raskin: There are some people who are so rich and equip themselves with battalions of lawyers that they feel that the law doesn't apply to them, they can get away with anything. That's a major threat to the rule of law.
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The ultra wealthy hire legal teams to produce “tax letters” which costs them from several to tens of millions of dollars, but since the IRS doesn’t have the resources to fight them they settle, and the oligarchs walk away with hundreds of millions more than they would have.
The tax letters are thousands of pages long and almost entirely bullshit, but the IRS must perform their due diligence, so they settle rather than spending huge amounts of time, personnel & $$$ on it.
Probably one of my more hot takes is that private lawyers shouldn’t exist, the lawyer you get should be random and from the government
Or we could just have a less case by case way of enforcing law
Excuse me mister raskin, But Donald trump does get away with everything. He's been convicted and convicted and convicted and never suffers the consequences. I'm losing faith in our justice system. It's very different for the rich versus the poor
Yes, and then of course we have our corrupt conservative, right wing Supreme Court just telling some people the law doesn't apply to them, they can get away with anything. I mean, yes, they're also talking to rich people, but it's not like those rich people need a battalion of lawyers.
But it’s b/c they HAVE gotten away with it! Money makes you nearly bulletproof in this country.We have continuously allowed this to happen. We bailout sleazy banks, we let them buy elections & we let them crime all they want & fucking justify calling it “white collar” as if there are no victims.
Daddy Trump gave Donnie an army of lawyers while he was still an infant, just so he could start using him as a tax dodge from the beginning. Later they became his personal force field, he never had to ask "Is this right?", he only asked "How can I get away with it?".
These rich conservatives remind me of The Great Gadsby: “They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Raskin is way behind the times. On July 1, 2024, the SCOTUS made Donald J Trump completely above any rule of law as long as he is POTUS. Hardly cost Trump anything to get that ruling.
If the rule of law doesn't apply to them, it doesn't apply to the people. #Revolution #WeThePeople #FightTheOligarchy #ProtectInnocentPeople Oh, & #ImpeachTrumpWithoutCongress becuz he's disregarding the Constitution. @raskin.house.gov The people pay your salary. Get his a$$ OUT of the White House.
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That's every billionaire and multi-millionaire in America. That is why we need to tax them hard - so hard that they can't afford to litigate away their lawlessness.
Oh yeah, this has been happening for a longtime it’s just a public, and widespread demonstration of the hubris of those who are wealthy and not just the rich.
wait. they CAN get away with anything, as we witnessed tr*mp get away with his jan. 6 traitor acts and the theft of top secret papers. so please explain how there is any "rule of law" at all in the usa which is not defined by the money one possesses.
AND…Hedgehog has done it again… he used his PERSONAL phone to text military actions ⁉️
Texting US military actions in Yemen with his wife and brother❗️
tRump uses “national security” & “executive”orders to do whatever the fuck he wants.
I came to realize this myself. Trump has gotten away with many crimes and abhorrent behavior, for so long, he KNOWS he's above the law. And so does his junta.
Wonder if when those lawyers started law school, they thought, 'One day, I'm gonna fight for as much injustice as possible, and ignore all the constitutional law I will learn here at my fully funded university'
And there are some people, a very few, that are ultra rich that buy politicians and get laws written for them. So the law doesn’t apply to them, legally.
It doesn’t even cost them that much. The return on investment is insane.
politicians are insanely cheap to buy relative to the 'return on investment' for getting corporate industry preference drafted into law & written into the tax code. for congress it can be a little as in the few thousands
There are those that dislike Trump very much, enough to vote for him to see exactly what we are seeing, an inequality to such a degree to exaggerate the existing inequality.
Or, they don't bother with the battalions, but just purchase one US Supreme Court Justice. 6 are available for creative financing/favors for very good friends
The US had years to stop this but did nothing. The focus was money, underestimation of the threat, and looking the other way. The Far Right took maximum advantage. You won’t be the only country alas.
@raskin.house.gov that concept isn’t new. What is new is a #President armed with immunity via SCOTUS and surrounded by inept, morally corrupt, obsequious people.
It points to the fact that our laws are too easy to manipulate. We must limit and regulate the appeals process, end judge shopping and hold lawyers in contempt who file meaningless petitions. We also need limits on amicus briefs
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Narcissistic authoritarian sociopathic pathological liar wannabe king is bankrupting the government by dismantling, weakening it and tanking global economy so he can have COMPLETE CONTROL. Will be sending us to concentration camps like the Jews and Japanese. Let’s nip him in the bud ASAP
It was 1775 when Paul Revere rode into history. In less than 100 days the Trump project 2025 Admin is on the verge of grinding us into the abyss. If this fascist cabal is not stopped we may never recover. I never imagined I would say to the Free World don't give up on us!
Narcissism increases with wealth. Some of the rich elites in this country want to own and control everything. They won't stop until their sick vision (a dystopian nightmare) is finally realized.
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It always has been.
Or we could just have a less case by case way of enforcing law
Pretty easy to target, pretty difficult to catch as THEY make the laws & the exceptions.
A team of Lawyers, unavailable to us mere mortals..
https://substack.com/@ailx/p-157652141
Doesn't matter if it costs you a dollar, as long as I get 10 cents!
https://www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics.html
I think it will require lawmakers who aren’t for sale.
I believe that this is a bipartisan issue.
It will require solidarity among the decent.
https://substack.com/@ailx/p-157652141
Thanks to EXTORTION!
Still waiting…….
5 + million in the streets AND…..
The BAR has never been this low.
Texting US military actions in Yemen with his wife and brother❗️
tRump uses “national security” & “executive”orders to do whatever the fuck he wants.
#SignalGate
#RememberEveryoneDeployed
#DoSomething
https://generalstrikeus.com/
That seems unequal to everyone else.
It doesn’t even cost them that much. The return on investment is insane.
REPUBLICANS
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AND YOU LET THEM. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK JAMIE. CONGRESS CAN DO SOMETHING EXCEPT
REPUBLICANS
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WILL NOT. TALK ABOUT FUCKING REPUBLICANS.
This is what we need!
Anybody else would have already been locked up and forgot about by now
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Narcissistic authoritarian sociopathic pathological liar wannabe king is bankrupting the government by dismantling, weakening it and tanking global economy so he can have COMPLETE CONTROL. Will be sending us to concentration camps like the Jews and Japanese. Let’s nip him in the bud ASAP
It was 1775 when Paul Revere rode into history. In less than 100 days the Trump project 2025 Admin is on the verge of grinding us into the abyss. If this fascist cabal is not stopped we may never recover. I never imagined I would say to the Free World don't give up on us!