I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from Iran–Contra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige.
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Julia Carrie Wong
I’m not a lawyer or anything but I feel like you can draw a pretty direct line from John Yoo being allowed to slip back into the comforts of tenure and the occasional NYT oped to what’s happening with the CECOT and doj
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Bank collapse in 2008 did too. We need accountability fast.
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But, yeah ... a direct line.
It's really here now though, all the way here.
Jeff Davis and the rest of the heads of the Confederacy not being shot for treason.
Etc., etc., etc.
It’s a long tradition.
Who knew??!!!?
Science degree, based on Constitutional
Law, so yeah, we know this shit is illegal.
Until the Blob holds its own responsible, until there are consequences for losing wars, Trump and his elk will gain power
The time to actually take the moral high ground and enact justice was then and the left dropped the ball SO hard
Honduras
Grenada
Iraq
Libya
Afghanistan
And America's first nations
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ulysses-grant-launched-illegal-war-plains-indians-180960787/
This led directly to Abu Ghraib, which you should look up if you don't know.
Surely they’re all in their hovels sitting on their collective dirty hands, no?? /s
https://jasonegenberg.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-turning-the-us-government
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#EndImpunity
#EndAutogenocide