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President Trump's plans to use the military to quell protests "should raise a bright red flag for anyone concerned with the future of American democracy," @lizagoitein.bsky.social writes.

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Today Lawfare is launching a new tracker, Alien Enemies Act Proclamation: The State of Play The table, created by @rparloff.bsky.social, is following challenges to deportations occurring under the Alien Enemies Act invocation. Find it here: www.lawfaremedia.org/alienenemiestable

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This should be more than sufficient to allow a person who wants to go protest to seek and obtain an injunction against the use of force against protesters

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My strong instinct is that Trump's threats against Americans' first amendment right to peaceably assemble is going to massively juice attendance at Saturday's protests. www.nokings.org

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MADDOW: “What is this country going to allow him to do? This is an attempted authoritarian overthrow of the 🇺🇸 Constitution and Government… imposition of a dictatorial regime. The strength of the movement against him is what will determine our fate as a country.”

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Yeah but he isn't wearing a tan suit now is he? 🎤🫳

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Dear circuit judges deciding whether to go senior, dudes like these are who they’ll try to replace you with.

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I propose a Projection Presumption. When you hear them accusing someone of nefarious motives, proceed from the presumption that they’re actually describing their own motives. #ProjectionPresumption.

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Great thread on 19c background to Posse Comitatus Act

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Been said a million times before, but, with the benefit of hindsight, the far right's zany accusations against Obama and Biden turn out to be fantasy projection. Their past couple decades of fever dreams about Dems, all emerging now as their own fascist blueprint.

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In retrospect, maybe making a Four Seasons Total Landscaping presser prop the US AG may not have been a magnificent idea.

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100%.

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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

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We have fallen very far, very fast. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Describing the administration’s domestic use of military force as a response to protests is misleading the public. Focusing on whether the administration’s domestic use of military force is legal or not is misleading the public.

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Not in response to the protests but in response to Trump and his admin’s desperate desire to unleash the military domestically

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Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously attempting to shape how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

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Five reasons to be highly skeptical of the Trump administration’s new criminal charges again Kilmer Abrego Garcia: slate.com/news-and-pol...

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You couldn’t get 90% of lawyers to agree on whether puppies are cute or ice cream is sweet, but my man you got 90% of lawyers to agree you should not be bar president. Very impressive! Maybe save the sore-loser scolding about politicization for your loved ones, though.

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Impeachment articles on this alone should be submitted overnight. California should refuse cooperating with the federal government on anything. The legislature should pass a broad anti-commandeering law. And every governor worth their salt should fly to California and pledge mutual assistance.

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The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III, and I count at least 15 of them that Donald Trump has also committed in whole or in part. Particularly notable right now: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

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I posted here a few times that we were still in the before times. The times that seemed real bad at the time, and were, but that would prove in hindsight to have been before the shit really hit the fan. I think the before times are now ending.

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It would be so great if Democratic elected officials started acting as if the president was trying to arrest them all, because he is.

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