“The Trump administration’s vision of a reactionary constitutionalism (if it is even constitutionalism) is reminiscent of the illiberal constitutionalism of the Confederate States of America.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o... - ThreadSky

tribelaw.bsky.social • 2 days ago

“The Trump administration’s vision of a reactionary constitutionalism (if it is even constitutionalism) is reminiscent of the illiberal constitutionalism of the Confederate States of America.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/john-roberts-trump-us.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=2CAB803B-DD8A-452F-AE5F-1EC36740FED2

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trumpwatchdog.bsky.social•2 days ago

If stupidity were a talent, half of the internet would have Grammys by now. Let’s rethink our choices.

wildflower-farm.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is this about his recent statement? Everyone seems to have heard him protecting judges & law...

Given everything, I took something different from it. I heard a recommendation rather than remove judges appeal it to the suppreme court for rubber stamping.

chemparrot.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh come on. He knew what he was doing.

lcarver69.bsky.social•2 days ago

He cannot do what we don’t let him do. There are more of us than him.

princemyshkin2.bsky.social•2 days ago

We’ve managed to keep the seesaw, which is our government, from having one side on the ground. We are very close to ground zero.

jacksquatto.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh my gosh, anyone asking me to believe Senōr Roberts will have an epiphany is asking an awful lot.

slewsky.bsky.social•11 hours ago

The Klan

pashleyg.bsky.social•2 days ago

Now everyone knows why trump fought hard to get the Supreme Court to give him immunity
Trump knew why he was asking for immunity and what he was going to do to need that immunity in place for him

Now nobody can check him and stop him from doing what he is planning to do to your country

in-prose93.bsky.social•2 days ago

And my insider in politics /history reminded me of the confederates in why the whole reason the confederate states were not to be allowed back into holding office. Yet here we are now, same element is not healthy for a union to stand is it.
Maturity of a nation needs mature individuals to lead

bluegirl55.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://youtu.be/8gcGjoMzLXI?si=Ncw_3wsPOMjeyHGU

jaystu.bsky.social•2 days ago

kenwyant.bsky.social•2 days ago

How about we go straight to Appomattox Court House?

drew04.bsky.social•2 days ago

Article Navigation
Journal Article
Rousseau’s illiberal constitutionalism: Austerity, domination, and the circumstances of politics
Eoin Daly
International Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 20, Issue 2, April 2022, Pages 563–579, https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moac027
Published: 20 June 2022

cousinb.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not reminiscent; it's the same people.

lovexlove4real.bsky.social•2 days ago

So glad you were able to describe it w/ accuracy. It does help to know what the ILLNESS is, in order to handle it.

sharonlindsey.bsky.social•2 days ago

thmshoward.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump officials think they're untouchable hiding behind governmental immunity- there MUST be a way to sue them in their PERSONAL capacity. When their houses & personal wealth are put on the line, their behavior will change IMMEDIATELY

pyoter.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don't stop professor... your country needs you.

tink51.bsky.social•2 days ago

So what, they're telling me he wasn't intelligent enough to fucking figure out the repercussions when he wrote his ruling? Give me a fucking break...

stephjmom.bsky.social•2 days ago

Everyone underestimates what Trump will or would do.

Including Obama.

I mean they all SEE he's a fool.

An absolute moron.
Then on top of it, they think others would never stand for it or go along.
Trump is a complex problem.
Everyone, including fans, think he's something other than what he is.

real-aj-johnson.bsky.social•2 days ago

He’s the BIGGEST CON 🇺🇸 has ever had. Unfortunately, most 🇺🇸s fell for his 💩 and believed all his LIES (that or something really wasn’t right about the last election). Whoever says that he is not a dictator (till now) is an f’ng moron or misssing screws ⬆️ there!

🇺🇸 needs 🙏🙏🙏

stephjmom.bsky.social•2 days ago

But he'd be capable of nothing without the enablers... the Republicans could stop all this ...

Media could too.

margoby.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s no accident. The slavers never left us. They’ve been hiding in the wings!🧐

avikdey.bsky.social•2 days ago

Professor, with respect, no it's not hitting Roberts and even if it did hit there is very little Roberts can do about it - he is not in charge.

emptythis.bsky.social•2 days ago

It should. many of the policies being considered
and implemented are a clawback by modern day
confederate mindsets.🤡

litster.bsky.social•2 days ago

What is happening with the MAGA/GOP is eerily similar in vibe to the late fall of 1860...

baggiesman.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think Roberts now realises that the corruption of SCOTUS means that Trumpraperfelon can get rid of THEM. All he has to do is claim that it was a ‘presidential duty’.

azindivisible.bsky.social•2 days ago

Except that Roberts knows full well he only is where he is today because of the Coup of 2000, aka Bush v. Gore.

Carry on.

wish2wander.bsky.social•2 days ago

And we all know how well that ended!

msmilack75.bsky.social•2 days ago

yes

juliatowe.bsky.social•2 days ago

Confederates were Nationalists.I told my husband,recently,that we as a nation missed the boat when we allowed the hierarchy of the Confederacy to just go home.They should have been tried for war crimes, convicted, hung.We shouldn't have allowed that bullshit to be glorified by their descendants.

cdb87.bsky.social•2 days ago

You can draw a straight line from the Confederacy losing the war to keep people enslaved and not being punished by the world and the country, to what is happening today. Segregation is already back. It's truly disgusting.

prairiehouse.bsky.social•2 days ago

Finally hitting him? Are so many people really so brain dead that they think any Rep is acting in good faith?

vpo311.bsky.social•2 days ago

“Make America great again” has always meant the 1800s… white supremacy + gilded age

judithanne.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was thinking 1950s.
But now we all know it's really the gilded age.
I guess they don't remember how that ended.

smarternow.bsky.social•2 days ago

Some in the South love him because they have never gotten over losing the civil war and have been quietly waiting for a "do-over".

westonhaus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Roberts, Alito, Thomas... absolute mental midgets in a storied history of SCOTUS justices. The only thing Roberts doesn't have is an actively evil streak like the other two, but they've pretty much set themselves up to abdicate any power they might have with Trump v. US.

Morons.

aspasia431bc.bsky.social•2 days ago

State’s Rights makes those who buy into it feel more powerful as they lose their rights.

starjet.bsky.social•2 days ago

SCOTUS FAFO

real-aj-johnson.bsky.social•2 days ago

Professor Tribe:

How can we make the SCOTUS overrule the presidential immunity ruling? Who and what needs to be done?

We are in a constitutional crisis now would you agree???

Would really appreciate your response and guidance.

Thank you in advance!

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