Just 100 days into his second term, legal experts warn that Trump’s campaign for expanded authority has exposed fundamental weaknesses in the country’s constitutional order. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/pre... - ThreadSky

democracydocket.com • 6 days ago

Just 100 days into his second term, legal experts warn that Trump’s campaign for expanded authority has exposed fundamental weaknesses in the country’s constitutional order.

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/president-donald-trump-100-days-assault-democracy/

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moira32.bsky.social•6 days ago

interesting we keep.calling this Trump's campaign he is a puppet for Heritage, Christian Nationalists.

kevinbarron.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s like the brilliant Kaos series - without the irony.
Charlie Covell is prescient!

nwsoftwareguy.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's pretty simple. Trump insurrected. He broke the 14th Amendment Section 3. Stole secrets. NO ONE IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION EVEN ATTEMPTED TO MOVE FAST. In fact they moved so fucking slow it was an international embarrassment. Laws don't matter if they can be broken and nothing happens.

sammythecat.bsky.social•6 days ago

May America survive this admin’s attacks long enough to wisely repair and strengthen the constitutional order. Elect Democrats up and down the ballot and throw out MAGA GOP traitors! 💙🇺🇸💙

hillaryshouldawon.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah, they’re pretty EXPOSED

seekthetru.bsky.social•6 days ago

Tough assessment….. duh you idiots. Why are politicians afraid of this idiot? He’s a bully, crush his feeble ass

tiemsaint.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump’s daily madness will not stop til he crushes us. We can stop it with one huge collective strike. Please sign & share. At least 220k people from each state are needed - we can do this-Trump does not have a mandate. https://generalstrikeus.com

mikeytheeye.bsky.social•6 days ago

Throwing Rule of Law on the trash heap! As for trade: "embargoes, tariffs, decoupling & isolation" as a trade strategy do NOT lead to Chinese capitulation. They lead to our high costs/tax & shrinking supplies of critical imports.The precedent from the 1930s when we did it to Japan, is Pearl Harbor.

elizabethpearce.bsky.social•6 days ago

The weakness in our Constitution and system of government is that it depends on good people. Any organization or endeavor reliant on people rather than systems or process has an inherent potentially fatal flaw

woodsfoxa.bsky.social•6 days ago

What gave u that idea ? Oh … when Congress has rolled over and sold their souls to the dev- L ? Yeah that’s right . People u are all going to hell for doing this ! You can’t make this bowl of garbage up ! Repent ! Y’all need Jesus Christ , the real God who is coming back soon !

bgrly.bsky.social•6 days ago

it's always been entirely voluntary ..

glowcircuit.bsky.social•6 days ago

No shit, this country is toast.

hobobuzz.bsky.social•6 days ago

there's a major chapter on Desensitizing the Weak-Minded in Trump's Black Book for Dictators. Marching uniformed troops and tanks down the streets of our capital would be an orgasmic event in his tiny brain appendage. Oppose the fool.

kina48.bsky.social•6 days ago

So what can we do to fix this?!?

zirogas.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump couldn't accomplish any of his crimes without a complicit Congress, enough supportive Supreme Court Judges and a bad Citizens United decision.

politicalgal.bsky.social•6 days ago

We will see more of this in the coming three years.

felabayomi.bsky.social•6 days ago

Blame the Supreme Court and @democrats.org . They let this happen. He shouldn’t have been on the ballot in the 1st instance.

wiskietangofoxtrot.bsky.social•6 days ago

WAKE UP FOLKS!

dadhyde.bsky.social•6 days ago

"I campaigned on not upholding the Constitution, which I've never read, so you did vote for this and should not be surprised."

lettepete.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is deeply concerning. How can we best support organizations working to protect our constitutional rights right now?

koconnie.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thank you, Merrick Garland. Couldn’t just charge him with treason, which would have prevented him from running a second time, could you?

kina48.bsky.social•6 days ago

Line started before Merrick. Look @faux entertainment, oan & other right wingers, evangelical indoctrination, turtleneck McConnell& other republican speakers of the house, cowardly senators(republican mostly but some democrats share in this as well.), etc. putinski and muskrat more recently.

vero1986.bsky.social•6 days ago

It may be a radical departure from past norms, but to awaken the plurality from their apathetic political slumber will require a seismic shift in strategy. A public recognition that Trump’s GOP is not fit for office The constitutional crisis is here #ProtestTheGOP
#Fucktrump

crisafulli.bsky.social•6 days ago

Exposed? The Heritage Foundation was 100% aware.

spencerdow.bsky.social•6 days ago

Big hole here:

I didn't know one can be president and organize fraud electors in several States, gather an armed rebellion against Constitutional order, and order that armed rebellion to levy war on Congress...

BIG - BIG HOLE

thorskettle.bsky.social•6 days ago

Too many people watch too much TV & chase click bait. They take their rights for granted & they elected Trump. What an irony. The people who believe America is in decline are the reason America is in decline. 74 million of us voted against tyranny. Stand up! Protect & defend our constitution!

pamballard3.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah, our Supreme Court conservatives that gave him immunity.

speerheld.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump is a LOSER. It only took Hitler 53 days to dismantle the government.

coconutlizard.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes, it has. I kept thinking in the four years that Biden was in, who are really smart, would shore those up from things that they had said on TV. I don’t think anyone knew this was coming, but I do think we missed the big opportunity. I honestly thought that’s what we were doing.

coconutlizard.bsky.social•6 days ago

That’s why I am encouraging, not that I’m anybody important, 🇨🇦 and Australia to please do the same and everybody else in the world if there are holes in your constitution fill them in now while you have a chance you worked hard to win the elections.Fill those holes please. Learn from our mistakes.

v8nic.bsky.social•5 days ago

Canada and Australia have parliamentary democracies, we don't elect an executive president, we vote for a party, that party's leader is the PM. Our constitutions are very different to the US.

coconutlizard.bsky.social•4 days ago

I like yours better!

czeckmate2024.bsky.social•6 days ago

Another entry for my “Duh” file.

oconnellmark.bsky.social•6 days ago

cotatiworld.bsky.social•6 days ago

Too much of our expectations for political positions are 'norms' not laws that they have to follow.

sun2stars.bsky.social•6 days ago

So accurate! Why didn’t we learn that lesson with Trump45?

cotatiworld.bsky.social•6 days ago

We never thought it would happen again!

americanbarbi.bsky.social•6 days ago

Marc Elias is going to jail.

lito59.bsky.social•6 days ago

The main key in my opinion was that previous leaderships kept the checks and balances of our democracy.
Unfortunately we have reached a time in our society that integrity is not a high priority or even expectation.
Integrity used to be seen as a strength. IT STILL IS A STRENGTH!

lito59.bsky.social•6 days ago

Great article!
The fundamental weakness has always been the human factor.
The authors of the constitution, as well as many previous leaders knew this and regardless of their own integrity, believed (for the most part) in the sacredness of the document. 1/2

libertyjustice.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes, those "fundamental weaknesses" are in the Republican party.

brayloudly.bsky.social•6 days ago

Hmmm... if only Dems had some idea this could happen. What have they been doing since 2016??!!

boomr.bsky.social•6 days ago

The only weakness letting this happen is Congress.

olgals.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just now? 🤨

susiecubone.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thank you. WTH did folks think (and I use the word loosely) the Project 2025 architects have been studying exhaustively?

sun2stars.bsky.social•6 days ago

Right! Duh. Remember Trump45 ignoring subpoenas, the absurdity of impeachment as the only out when the parties are so equally divided? Remember Trump’s Insurrection?

suziequark10.bsky.social•6 days ago

IMPEACH THIS TREASONOUS CRIMINAL NOW🔥🔥
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-interview-says-doesnt-know-130844364.html

tlsimm1.bsky.social•6 days ago

yes we need the Citizens to rise up and set up independent watch dogs to protect the Constitution from the Congress, President and the Supreme Farce.

happycamper22.bsky.social•6 days ago

Since 2016 to present I've continuously been stunned to learn you could drive a Tesla truck through the holes in our Constitution & our most fundamental laws that hold democracy together.

mattguitarm.bsky.social•6 days ago

We’ve always assumed a good man would be elected due to the scrutiny of the primaries and presidential campaign trails.

sun2stars.bsky.social•6 days ago

Constitution isn’t flawless. Beyond that, this partisan, religion-biased, rule-free, corrupt SCOTUS re-wrote it to overturn Roe, let billionaires rule the vote with Citizens United, trash the Insurrection Act during the primary, give multi-felon Trump full immunity which ended Separation of Powers

daniel-crow.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump has exposed the people, not the constitution.

People voted for him 2x.
SCOTUS made up a law - he can kill anyone without consequence.
He has "love affair" with psychopathic dictator Putin.
He called WWII casualties "suckers".
The other 2 branches are his whores.

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