Congressional Republicans, egged on by Elon Musk and other top allies of President Trump, are escalating calls to remove federal judges who stand in the way of administration efforts to overhaul the government.
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Has Elon read the Constitution?
Good luck getting a 2/3 vote in the Senate to convict and remove any judge, Republicans. It's only happened 8X in US history. And ideological differences aren't a valid basis to impeach judges.
The one who should be thrown out on his CORRUPT PARASITIC a$$ IS MUSK!! Divest Elon! Get him out of our govt until there’s NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST! What is he doing with our data? Sending to Putin? NOBODY KNOWS! #wtf
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Everybody remembers that kid from phys-ed who, a day later, would still be griping about being called out in kickball. It looks like that kid grew up and bought a Justice Department and some Representatives. ... I guess we did need to watch out for what his dad was going to do to all of us.
And is no-one seriously worried?
Comrade donald is making Putin look like an amateur when it comes to grinding down any opposition.
I suppose Maduro is the closest recent similarity.
Maybe the general public should escalate calls for the Republicans in the House and Senate to step down. They are not fulfilling their obligations to the Constitution.
The threats are meaningless and the judges know it. Even IF you can pass Articles of Impeachment in the House (Not likely given the razor thin majority), you'll NEVER get 67 votes to convict in the Senate.
that's the next step
they HAVE to overhaul the Justice system at the circuit courts and state level install more judges loyal to tWumpy like that crook Bondi as AG in the DOJ.
kill free press ...
soon we will be Russia , Hungary,Jina,N.Korea
Let’s just scrap the Constitution and the separation of powers it was based on. Do you not understand the concept of an independent judiciary? Or are you all just mindless sheep?
We need to remove ALL Republican Fascist Pols instead!!! They are the ones who are our enemies. They lie, they steal, they cheat, they do all they can to hurt people. They are evil through and through.
Our leaders need to project a coherent, aligned and believable plan for public to rally support. GOP did so with P25 (it seems).
Offering better ideas is not a heavy lift -- use media more effectively, be timely in response to events, align talk points, stiffen resolve with solutions. #makeaplan
Luckily, impeachment suggest going against the constitution, so these idiots can flap their jaws all they like - it is they who are killing it, and will be sorely aggrieved when the people finally start taking 'actual' pot shots, and not fake blood sm-ear photoshoots, for serving Putin. Tick tock
The separation of powers is a constitutional principle that divides the government into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. The purpose is to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful
Legislative: Makes laws
Executive: Enforces laws
JUDICIAL: Interprets laws
Geez, it has to be REALLY difficult to paint such authoritative things as a normal partisan, democratic behavior again and again and again, NYT. Yet you try again and again and again.
They are not overhauling government, they are taking it apart piece by piece without maintaining many of its functions. Millions of people, including many magats, will be hurt financially and health wise
NO ONE gets into the White House, let alone the Oval Office, by ‘mistake’!
And no Russian ‘journalist’ is ever really a journalist.
We all know Putin had one of his agents in the Oval Office to send a message.
Is that why trump was so deranged?
Was he putting on a desperate show for his ‘BOSS’!
Hey, why not investigate Benghazi again? Hillary's laptop?
This story should read "Republicans waste the public's time and money on politically motivated efforts to distract from the disaster happening in the White House".
If Americans don't do anything to stop this, it's because they doesn't deserve better. They should read about the rise of Hitler after his democratic election. Let's hope there is a global boycott of Tesla so that this company remains and sells only in the United States.
Why can't we remove Republicans who are getting in the way of decent folk living their lives in peace??? Impeach...recall...whatever is allowed by your State.
Hey they have the power. It’s called impeachment. I say go for it! And we wonder why Biden vetoed the bill expanding the court in his last few days in office.
These idiots don’t understand that this is part of the checks and balances of our government. This not a monarchy, it’s democracy. Our forefathers set it up this way for a reason.
They should start with the Supreme Court who gave Trump immunity. The most corrupt SCOTUS in the history of the United States of America 🇺🇸 single digit millions. It's not surprising that they are for sale, it's surprising how cheap they are.
Now POTUS & Elon are harassing existing federal employees by asking for 5 bullets every week on Mondays by midnight. A cease & desist letter should be issued to protect those still employed & providing a public service. Seems like Congress, Unions & Federal courts are needed.
You can’t impeach a judge just because you don’t like his ruling! This is STILL America where we have checks and balances, appeal courts and our crooked Supreme Court for now anyway! STOP THE STEAL OF OUR COUNTRY & CONSTITUTION! STOP TRUMP & the useless GOP Congress!
Whatever happened to the judicial independence? They learn from stalin’s era “people’s courts”? Inquisition legal process is flawed and does not provide defences to the accused.
Fixed your headline for you:
"Congressional Republicans, whom we fought tooth and nail to put into power, egged on by Elon Musk and other fascist buddies of President Trump, are escalating calls to remove federal judges who stand in the way of the Nazi coup"
Bunch of spineless assholes. If you got in to politics, do the right thing and quit pandering to a blowhard immigrant from South Africa and an orange traitor turd that hates our country.
So, they 're attempting to control the press (through access), Congress through intimidation and now the Judicial branch through impeachment (guess Donnie has forgotten how well that worked against him . . . )
I would love to see some GOP lawmakers strap on a set an change parties to put a stop to Trump and his plan to end democracy in this country. Were only thirty days in, what’s the country going to look like at the end of his term? It’s not going to be pretty without lawmakers saying enough is enough.
"...who stand in the way of administration efforts to cancel the Constitution, destroy popular and needed government programs, and create a monarchy under Donald Trump." Fixed if for you.
Dear @nytimes.com, you are failing. It's not your job to describe the rise - oh nope, too late - the being of facism as a normal ongoing. It would be the job of the free press to alert people, to inform, to shout it out loud: F A C I S M.
Remember who these fascist collaborators are when we finally overthrow this dictatorship. They know what they are doing and they are cowards with no integrity!
"Walk a mile in another man's shoes"... that to stir our senses to understand things that don't make sense.
We have a new gov't... one that can either succeed or fail but as an American I choose success. If you think the former administration was taking care of you, you have a separate problem.
The end of trias politica, the separation of powers, is near. Never in my 55 years could I have imagined that the USA would end up like this, I feel sick, I feel sad, I feel sorry.
When will the party of John McCain do the right thing for the US by showing your integrity and not allow someone like Elon to “egg them on”?! What’ll it take for you to show some spine for the good of our country?
It’s a shame that you call it, “overhaul,” it is nothing more than destruction of the government what they are doing. You continue to use deceitful words like that and I will discontinue my subscription. Report the truth as harsh as it might be
They pressured DA’s Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis too. Who thinks it’s OK for a co-equal branch of the government to interfere with an independent judiciary?
Didn’t John Roberts refuse to testify to Congress about ethics for that same reason?
Yes. As the article says, impeachment. But in general that's very difficult to do, as we saw twice w/Trump.
A judge or official may be more easily "impeached" bc that's in the House (Trump *was* "impeached" twice). But getting a Senate conviction to remove from office requires a two-thirds vote.
This is the line people. This is the line that cannot be crossed. This is the step that makes it an actual coup by an entity hostile to the Constitution, to democracy, to American rights.
It may have already begun/never ended. Reconstruction was a time of mass incarceration and lynching. Which extended in the 60s and 70s. We still have mass incarceration but now we have school shootings.
I'll be surprised if they can get a majority in the House to bring impeachment and there's no path to conviction in the Senate, so why are they pushing this charade?
Funnily enough, he learned all his sadistic tricks from us. He watched how we handled slavery & thought, "Those guys really know what what they're doing."
Now here we are, full circle, no doubt educating the next generation of fascist pigs and Nazis as we go. They can only dream of this cooperation
This looks very much like a mass suicide. We are witnessing a mass suicide in a sect, and they want to take as many Americans as possible with them. This is not irony that I am making here. It is reality. The vital prognosis of the USA is engaged. But it seems as if the Americans are hypnotized 😳
Why are you doing this distraction reporting instead of sounding the alarm that a coup is underway? At least, let them know that the removal of personnel is a big stage in the overthrow. https://youtu.be/_7nIqdwhdqA?si=iztF3KKQrn3gceXy
Dear @nytimes.com, it's nice that, somehow, somewhere in the many words of this article you mention that, what Republicans are trying here is undermining the balance of power mandated by the Constitution. It would be helpful if you could overcome your fears and say this loudly right in the headline.
2/3rds required to convict. If senate couldn’t convict Trump when overwhelming evidence existed on 1/6, records crimes, attempting a coup, and lying nonstop I’m pretty sure judges will be fine and these fascists threats are not gonna happen
The word for destroying the separation of powers is Gleichschaltung.
Open your history books on page 1933!
Don’t hide behind bothsideism!
Tell it like it is!
Trumpistan is turning into a fascist dictatorship!
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It's the Aileen Cannons, breaking all the rules, who are the true judges now.
Hard to believe how badly the executive and legislative branches have betrayed this country. This is treason. Where are the guillotines?
Good luck getting a 2/3 vote in the Senate to convict and remove any judge, Republicans. It's only happened 8X in US history. And ideological differences aren't a valid basis to impeach judges.
Keep beclowning yourselves, Rs.
Or start with Clarence "Bribery" Thomas.
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Comrade donald is making Putin look like an amateur when it comes to grinding down any opposition.
I suppose Maduro is the closest recent similarity.
they HAVE to overhaul the Justice system at the circuit courts and state level install more judges loyal to tWumpy like that crook Bondi as AG in the DOJ.
kill free press ...
soon we will be Russia , Hungary,Jina,N.Korea
Perhaps his geography isnt so good and he really meant the US as thats more likely
SEND THEM HOME TO PUTIN!!!
Offering better ideas is not a heavy lift -- use media more effectively, be timely in response to events, align talk points, stiffen resolve with solutions. #makeaplan
Make no mistake, this is a fucking coup.
Legislative: Makes laws
Executive: Enforces laws
JUDICIAL: Interprets laws
More crime! More robbing the people! More killing people through starvation and gutting civil rights protections!
How can anyone admit to egging on this ongoing crime spree?
Was that a subtle pun, NYT? Egged on?
And no Russian ‘journalist’ is ever really a journalist.
We all know Putin had one of his agents in the Oval Office to send a message.
Is that why trump was so deranged?
Was he putting on a desperate show for his ‘BOSS’!
This story should read "Republicans waste the public's time and money on politically motivated efforts to distract from the disaster happening in the White House".
Please safe the land of the free and the land of the brave.
Good luck America.
Holy fucking shit, NYT. This is low, even for you.
https://bsky.app/profile/risingbluevoices.bsky.social/post/3lis7la4rkk2g
https://www.independent.co.uk
Elon Musk's protege 'Big Balls' is grandson of executed KGB agent ...
Fixed
"Congressional Republicans, whom we fought tooth and nail to put into power, egged on by Elon Musk and other fascist buddies of President Trump, are escalating calls to remove federal judges who stand in the way of the Nazi coup"
We must preserve our liberty from being sold off one word at a time by tyrants!
Seems, you are gleichgeschaltet.
Regards from Germany.
We have a new gov't... one that can either succeed or fail but as an American I choose success. If you think the former administration was taking care of you, you have a separate problem.
Didn’t John Roberts refuse to testify to Congress about ethics for that same reason?
It all depends what tribe you're in. The courts were our last hope, so of course the MAGA Congress licking trumusk's boots is tearing them down too.
Not Aileen Cannon tho
A judge or official may be more easily "impeached" bc that's in the House (Trump *was* "impeached" twice). But getting a Senate conviction to remove from office requires a two-thirds vote.
The Technocrats now control the narrative.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...
@cnn @meidastouch @msnbc
Now here we are, full circle, no doubt educating the next generation of fascist pigs and Nazis as we go. They can only dream of this cooperation
Like all traitors….
Fyp
https://youtu.be/_7nIqdwhdqA?si=iztF3KKQrn3gceXy
Open your history books on page 1933!
Don’t hide behind bothsideism!
Tell it like it is!
Trumpistan is turning into a fascist dictatorship!