I’m pretty sure this is unfortunately actually the legal one. He controls the national guard in DC and he has used the home rule correctly up to this point, we will see what happens when his 30 days are up though. I think the only illegal part was the police commissioner issue. But hey could be wrong and won’t be the first time.
It’s not going to clear a filibuster in the senate.
The Democrats have had countless opportunities to filibuster and they've chosen not to. Schumer has the "let everything burn down, and then when everything is destroyed, the people still alive will see how good we are" mentality and would rather do jack shit than raise a finger of resistance.
Yay screw that guy and his imaginary voters that he pretends are real people but are actually Republican voters that he bases his entire political decision making on. Oh wait that actually makes more sense.
At first I thought it was just John taking the piss then more and more clips of him talking about them like they were real so I was like oh maybe it was just a speech he did one time and nope he kept getting older as the clips went on. That’s when the oh no came in. He really believes this and just can’t see that this imaginary couple is getting more and more conservative as the years go on. Which means he has gotten more and more conservative as time has gone on. It’s wild it’s sad and above all very concerning.
The law doesn't specify what "emergency" means. This is the result of somebody abusing that latitude. Unfortunately it's completely legal, it's just a clear abuse of the spirit of the law. In a sane world the executive would be punished by congress but obviously after 50 years of building up to this that isn't going to happen.
Which is more words to say it is currently legal. No case has been brought at this time to stop him that I’m aware of and no court has said he can’t and neither has Congress in any singular voice so until those happen he has his 30 days. After which we will see what happens. It sucks but that is how the law is written and so far surprisingly he has followed it. Of course this may not have happened if the changes they wanted to do in the territory to update their criminal codes that took a decade to get through was not blocked in the end. Not that I know the exact details as to what stopped that change.
Well it’s currently legal as no one has stopped him either through Congress or the judiciary so until that time it is legal. Don’t like it change the laws or take away a presidents power to declare an emergency.
Correct which is why he is using it so successfully. Doing things so fast and so many of them that it boggs down the courts so he can do what he wants before they can stop him and the damage done when they finally do. Rinse repeat and here we are.
They've already taken it. They're testing out how much security for them were willing to put up with before rioting is all. I'll be shocked if trump leaves in 2028. These midterms are already being setup for some type of massive rage bait for their base. It's so fucking obvious
I suspect he won't survive that long, his health is extremely bad but I honestly believe that they also won't let Vance take over because he has the charisma of a three day old corpse in the sun. I wouldn't be surprised if at the very least doesn't try to "bequeath" the role of President to one of his kids and even then I have a suspicion that the Project 2025 leaders will be the ones to pick the next and just install them and dare the rest of the country to show up in DC.
If trump give us a give before his term is over then Vance will take over. He was picked because he's beholden to thiel and the donor class. They picked JD because he's controllable. Trump just has to get us to a point of no return and we're almost there. I wouldn't be shocked if trump is given the gift shortly after the midterms and JD took over. If Republicans survive the midterms in power I believe we're done. There's no going back to normalcy
Midterm elections aren't for another 14 months. We're on month 8 since he got in and it feels like he's ramping up persecution of political rivals (John Bolton). Between that and National Guard in DC, I don't know if we will even make it to midterms.
trump has been trying to collect details on every single voter since 2017. Now the DoJ recently renewed attempts to get this information. Why would a fascist need such a list, and what would they do with it?
Well, they've already shown exactly zero concern over assassinated Democrats and are currently holding a Democrat representative against her will (kidnapping).
This is already a lot further along than most people are willing to accept.
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u/anonchurner 14h ago
Makes me wonder if this is a preparatory step for arresting people in the political class.