https://www.europesays.com/1959594/ Congressman Neal Dunn addresses Social Security, Medicare, DOGE cuts in Monday tele-town hall #bill #congress #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #judges #medicare #Musk #NealDunn #Politics #Republican #SocialSecurity #Tallahassee #TownHall
Comprensive RT @cmorris: My new column:
The US as an Authoritarian State: Danger to the Global Rule of Law
“Checks & balances among the three US branches of government are in tatters… It is unclear whether the #US legal system can withstand the Trump administration’s increasingly brazen threats against #judges & #lawyers.” | SLaw: Canada’s Online Legal Magazine https://www.slaw.ca/2025/03/25/the-us-as-an-authoritarian-state-danger-to-the-global-rule-of-law/ #Trump #internationallaw #humanrights #ruleoflaw #DEI #immigration #law #lawfedi /1
Rs are plotting ways to respond to the judges. The House is set to vote on the No Rogue Rulings Act, Wed *limit the power of the nearly 700 dist judges to impose nationwide injunctions.
Any changes would be subject to the 60-vote filibuster in the Senate.
House GOP hard-liners have been discussing include cutting off funding for the fed District Court in DC & other lower courts, & even breaking up the existing system of dist & circuit courts.
#Courts #Judges #USPol
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/congress-judges-gop-impeachments-injunctions-026855
Elon Musk is trying to influence it and is promising millions for supporters of his petition against "activist judges".
#Musk #Judges #Elections
#Wisconsin
Justice Sonia Sotomayor defends 'fearlessly independent' judiciary amid Trump attacks
> Remarks by the liberal justice came as President Donald Trump and his allies have harshly criticized judges for blocking his agenda.
My new column:
The US as an Authoritarian State: Danger to the Global Rule of Law
“Checks & balances among the three US branches of government are in tatters… It is unclear whether the #US legal system can withstand the Trump administration’s increasingly brazen threats against #judges & #lawyers.” | SLaw: Canada’s Online Legal Magazine https://www.slaw.ca/2025/03/25/the-us-as-an-authoritarian-state-danger-to-the-global-rule-of-law/ #Trump #internationallaw #humanrights #ruleoflaw #DEI #immigration #law #lawfedi /1
#politics ##alt #oligarchy #law #judges #RuleofLaw
Heather Cox Richardson Elimination of Judges and Security Clearances Democrats Rule of Law
3/27/25
"At the end of his dissent, Stevens also offered up a prediction of his own. “The court’s ruling threatens to undermine the #integrity of elected institutions across the nation,” he wrote. “The path it has taken to reach its outcome will, I fear, do damage to this institution.” #Musk & #Trump are now calling for the removal of #judges who disagree with them & defying federal #court orders. Rarely has a prophecy from dissenting justice been proven so obviously correct."
https://newrepublic.com/article/193058/elon-musk-citizens-united-kennedy
![Text from article:
It is unsurprising now that survey after survey after survey shows that public faith in democratic institutions is at a record low. Not all of the decline can be traced directly to campaign finance issues, of course, but a great deal of it can. Trump capitalized on that disaffection in his initial campaigns for office: He criticized Citizens United and suggested that his wealth would insulate him from the corrupting influence of campaign donations. “When you give, [elected officials] do whatever you want,” he claimed during one of the 2015 primary debates. He appears to have taken that reasoning to heart after Musk’s own contributions.
At the end of his dissent, Stevens also offered up a prediction of his own. “The court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the nation,” he wrote. “The path it has taken to reach its outcome will, I fear, do damage to this institution.” Musk and Trump are now calling for the removal of judges who disagree with them and defying federal court orders. Rarely has a prophecy from dissenting justice been proven so obviously correct.](https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/114/220/944/776/292/096/original/554dd46651fb8727.png "Text from article:
It is unsurprising now that survey after survey after survey shows that public faith in democratic institutions is at a record low. Not all of the decline can be traced directly to campaign finance issues, of course, but a great deal of it can. Trump capitalized on that disaffection in his initial campaigns for office: He criticized Citizens United and suggested that his wealth would insulate him from the corrupting influence of campaign donations. “When you give, [elected officials] do whatever you want,” he claimed during one of the 2015 primary debates. He appears to have taken that reasoning to heart after Musk’s own contributions.
At the end of his dissent, Stevens also offered up a prediction of his own. “The court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the nation,” he wrote. “The path it has taken to reach its outcome will, I fear, do damage to this institution.” Musk and Trump are now calling for the removal of judges who disagree with them and defying federal court orders. Rarely has a prophecy from dissenting justice been proven so obviously correct.")
"Over the past 4 weeks, #Trump has taken increasingly disturbing actions each week to undermine #lawyers who have been willing to oppose him — or even just defend people who have different views than him... Trump and allies have also gone after, with increasing vitriol, #judges who have ruled against his new admn’s overreaching acts.
Looked at clearly... #DonaldTrump wants to, and is working to, destroy the rule of #law."
https://www.lawdork.com/p/donald-trump-lawyer-attacks-and-the-rule-of-law
“Bondi warns Crockett”
Trump has threatened “his enemies” for decades, but now he threatens judges with impeachment, & he’s instructed “his AG” & his Cabinet, Musk, Senators, Reps, & enablers to also make vicious threats, at times, even bordering on death threats.
“Trump’s Attorney General just issued a threat to Rep. Jasmine Crockett, telling her to “tread very carefully” when criticizing Elon Musk.”
-BT Cohen
#Constitution #1A #Fascism #Judges #Courts #Musk #USPol
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/23/bondi-jasmine-crockett-musk-tesla-protests-00244256
Susan Crawford is Awesome! Wisconsin should make her the next SC Justice of WI
#SusanCrawfordFacts
#Judges Matter
#Trump’s declaration that he & the AG are the sole authoritative interpreters of federal #law for the executive branch; the transformation of ordinary spending responsibilities into discretionary tools to punish partisan foes; the stripping of #security clearances from perceived enemies & opponents; the threat of #criminal prosecutions for #speech deemed unfavorable by the president; & the verbal attacks on #judges for enforcing the law.
In this prerogative state, #judges & other legal actors deferred to the #racist hierarchies & ruthless expediencies of the #Nazi regime.
The key here is that this prerogative state does not immediately & completely overrun the normative state. Rather, Fraenkel argued, #dictatorships create a #lawless zone that runs alongside the normative state. The 2 states cohabit uneasily & unstably. On any given day, people or cases could be jerked out of the normative state & into the prerogative one.
Elon Musk lashes out at US judges as they rule against Doge
#Musk lambastes #judges as leftwing activists in more than 20 posts as #Trump admn’s judiciary clash intensifies
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/22/elon-musk-doge-judges-usaid
"In the days after a federal judge ruled Elon Musk’s dismantling of #USAID likely violated the #constitution, [Musk] issued a series of online attacks against the #American judiciary... & called on #Congress to remove his newfound legal opponents from office."
@ErikJonker what can #judges do to stop #trump's anti-constitutional actions. 'Cause he ain't not listening!
"Musk, who serves as a senior adviser to Donald Trump, posted about judges who ruled in opposition to the administration more than 20 times within 48 hours this week on X, the social network he owns, repeatedly framing them as radical leftist activists and seeking to undermine their authority."
~ Nick Robins-Early
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #courts #judges #LawandOrder
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/22/elon-musk-doge-judges-usaid
Elon #Musk lashes out at US #judges as they rule against #Doge - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/22/elon-musk-doge-judges-usaid "Musk lambastes judges as leftwing activists in more than 20 posts as Trump administration’s judiciary clash intensifies" and yet right-wing judges are strangely acceptable...
The Administration Can’t Even Take a Hint from the Chief Justice
Will No One Rid Us of This Turbulent Musk?
https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/the-administration-cant-even-take
"Musk’s response was far worse. Yesterday, he made the maximum allowable donations to the seven #Republican members of #Congress who have filed or vocally supported the #impeachment of the #judges. The intent is unmistakable. He is showing #contempt for #Roberts and the #Court"
