As courts issue orders that pause or restrict a number of Donald Trump’s actions, a more seismic conflict potentially lies ahead: Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?
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That is when the American people make a choice between authoritarianism and democracy/the rule of law. I'm hoping the US military would step in. Here's the thing: he is going to do it. There needs to be a plan before he does it. The readiness is all.
Wow the media is finally recognizing that this is likely in a hostile takeover. If one more person says to me, nothing bad will happen that’s why we have checks and balances. I swear!
I invoke the military, the FBI, and the CIA, to consider their duty to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America and arrest Donald Trump and Elon Musk. As president, Trump is in violation of the US Constitution and therefore there is no obligation for others to obey him.
This is a fight that has to be fought and sooner is better than later. Scotus has to "shit or get off the pot". The justice system owes it to Americans and reestablish their own credibility.
This is the important question behind all the DOGE bull. Is America governed by three separate, *equal* branches, or is the Executive more powerful than the others? What happens when one branch overrules another?
Supposedly the third branch would weigh in, but that's Congress. So who knows.
Congress should then act immediately to impeach Trump and remove him from office. Vance should be investigated for inciting the disobedience and may be impeached as well.
If they failed to act, then only the military is left to remove him from office.
Even under the purview of the executive branch, the duty of the US Marshalls is to the Constitution and the Courts.
Will they actually do that? Who knows.
If the politically-appointed leaders of the Marshalls order the Marshalls to ignore the orders of the courts, order the Marshalls to arrest the leaders of the Marshalls. Order lower-level Marshalls to serve as acting leaders. Hold any Marshalls that won't follow the law in contempt. 1/
The courts have many tools at their disposal. Any Marshall that doesn't comply, from top to bottom, could personally be held in contempt. And they can be given exponentially increasing fines, fines that can't be pardoned by POTUS. 2/
If a regular low-level Marshall is given the choice of:
1. Arrest your own clearly corrupt agency head on contempt-of-court
OR
2. Personally be held in contempt and face a million dollar fine.
This is the constitutional crisis everyone has been warning about. We're finally forced to acknowledge it. The appeals court ruled for frozen federal funds to be disbursed today. It will end up at the SCOTUS. Heritage foundation did a lot of work. We'll see whether the rightwing are irredeemable.
It's been high time for rebellion a while now, but your fellow citizens are more interested in #caturday images and Superbowl sport results. You have EXACTLY what you deserve over there.
Be part of the rebellion! Join the country-wide protest at your Capitol on Monday, February 17th. https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
If you can't go, maybe support local protests. And protest by limiting your spending to only buy what you need; the less money we give them, the less they have to use against us!
Ever since 2016, we have watched Trump simply do and get away with whatever he wants. Now he has a whole pack of people who follow him & do the same. It isn’t if they have the power, it’s will they use it. They would have to jail him to stop him and let’s be honest, that isn’t going to happen.
It is not a discussion. The regime s illegitimate as it is. Throwing around unconstitutional decrees is already cause for removal, ignoring court rulings is a crime. Which is appropriate, for a convicted criminal. Fortunately, a deportation system to Gitmo has been put in place just for that type
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Elon can't get that seat legally.
Elon wants that seat.
Watch and see.
Everyone said trump would never make that seat again and here we are.
Elon already has access to our systems, it's done.
He's not doing all this to advance trump.
Supposedly the third branch would weigh in, but that's Congress. So who knows.
Germany 1938.
If they failed to act, then only the military is left to remove him from office.
#RESIST
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/566
Will they actually do that? Who knows.
1. Arrest your own clearly corrupt agency head on contempt-of-court
OR
2. Personally be held in contempt and face a million dollar fine.
What do you think they'll do? 3/3
If you can't go, maybe support local protests. And protest by limiting your spending to only buy what you need; the less money we give them, the less they have to use against us!
The first time is the nub,
The signpost, and
The wall with a big "The End" scrawled up it.
The Wall will be the SCOTUS decision.
(riffed from Asimov's "Mother Earth")