transylvaniantwist.bsky.social
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Bad at what, specifically? Because McConnell managed to cynically abuse his power to basically capture the judiciary for an entire generation. He was a lot more effective as an opposition leader than Schumer has been—by a huge margin.
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Ah yes, the parable of the racist Samaritan
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Maybe that we accomplish more when we work together than when we're at each other's throats, maybe that directing anger at the people who voted the way you wanted doesn't help you get more of what you want, or maybe it's just a funny meme. Everyone likes memes.
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If a federal judge cannot issue a federal order stemming from a federal founding document declaring a fundamental set of rights, WHY HAVE LAWS AT ALL?
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If the plain text of the Constitution isn’t a guaranteed right, how can we put any faith in a statutory right?
And that’s a wild presumption, given the way the Feds have been behaving. They absolutely are questioning U.S. citizens’ right to be here, if they look Hispanic.
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That’s been done: in the previous reich, people had to produce papers going back three generations to prove they had no Jewish parents or grandparents.
In this Reich, I wonder how we’ll prove that none of our grandparents had a Spanish accent.
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“Your papers, please.” Oh, and your parents papers, and their parents papers, and a DNA sample and…”
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Now good luck explaining to the ICE agent stuffing you on a plane to South Sudan that you qualify as a member of a nationwide class as to whom the EO is blocked
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From the bench, Sotomayor calls today's decision "a travesty for the rule of law."
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similarly situated people, you are full stop SHIT OUT OF LUCK.
"A republic, if you can keep it."
We didn't.
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We need Democrats in Congress to stop confirming his nominees, stop voting for his legislation, stop playing like this is some normal moment. Our Democracy is collapsing and Dems are barely doing anything. The party should be using every tactic in the book and inventing new ones. Turn up the heat.
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They need to be impeached when there’s a Democrat in office, otherwise Trump gets to appoint their replacement.
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"pack the court" needs to be a campaign promise from the '28 Dem nominee
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Funny, I seem to rember quite a few nationwide injunctions from 2021-4 that the Court had no problems with.
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I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
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KBJ, in dissent, calls today's ruling "profoundly dangerous" and an "existential threat to the rule of law." She expresses her "deep disillusionment" with the court and suggests that the conservative supermajority continues to crown Trump a king above law. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS demand to see their official LEA creds/ID & warrant signed by a magistrate. When they refuse call 911 and report a kidnapping in progress or an assault by threat by armed police impersonators. Record everything & loudly call out any identifying descriptors such as tattoos, etc.
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Interestingly, Alexander Solzhenitsyn said in The Gulag Archipelago, that the NKVD/KGB wouldn't have succeeded in their mass arrests if people had made a fuss and got support from neighbours, etc in exactly this way. Nice one!
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Face masks are the same as white hoods or pantyhose over the face and head! If your face is covered, you don't intend to follow the law.
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Masked cowards. This isn’t Afghanistan.
No badge = don’t fucking believe a word they say about who they are.
Showing a badge and credentials isn’t optional. They’re not the fucking Taliban. This isn’t a fucking police state.
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Ask for credentials. Any federal badge must be accompanied by credentials. I see no badges on that group.
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Massive shout out to this brave lady. These are not ICE. They are either J6ers, MAGA or Proud Boys either way they are not authorised to do this, they are not documenting who or where they are taking people either. CRIMINALS!!
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Jeans, t-shirts, beer guts, no ID's, and non-governmental license plates. Sure, we believe you're federal agents.
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I think we can put "Customs and Border Protection" in quotations, or even call it "impersonating a federal employee" considering they can't and won't identify themselves or show a warrant.