Trump tells DOJ to prosecute teachers who “unlawfully” support trans or nonbinary students
Trump tells DOJ to prosecute teachers who “unlawfully” support trans or nonbinary students
The latest executive order threatens funding for schools that teach about gender and race.
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Dipshit Donnie, your executive orders are not laws. They also only apply to federal government. As far as I know, we don't have federal schools except for the armed forces academies.
They'll probably end up making federal aid contingent on being assholes. Just like how Reagan coerced the states into 21 year old drinking age by withholding highway funds.
It works like this:
- Teach at a public school
- That school receives funding directly or indirectly from federal programs under the executive branch, including the Department of Education
- DEI support disqualifies institutions from receiving Federal funds
- Supporting DEI and trans rights while receiving Federal funds counts as defrauding the US government
- DOJ takes up the case
While EOs are not laws, they have the potential to do massive amounts of damage because most of the government runs on agencies under control of the Executive. And while universities and public schools are not federal, they receive shit tons of funds through grants, contracts, and subsidies from a wide array of federal agencies (see: academic panic at the NSF and NIH halting grant review and funding as a result of Trump’s recent orders).
We're deciding right now how much power Executive Orders have.
It had strict definitions for its use, now the president is trying to stretch that power further.
How many people comply without being physcially forced is what determines how much power he truely has.
How many people comply without being physically forced is what determines how much power he truly has.
That’s why the reduction of protections for federal employees was so important to implementing this phase. A lot of people have already been fired or reassigned which makes it really difficult for them to “do” anything.
The ones they're trying to get to resign can't be fired due to unions and they know it
How many people comply without being physcially forced is what determines how much power he truely has.
Bingo.
So far America appears to be overflowing with pussies who are willing to bend the knee to an anti-democratic felon rapist.
Our ancestors are weeping.
That is exactly what I was saying how Reagan coerced states to raise drinking age.
Right on. I was just outlining how they’d probably make it personal against the teachers.
Laws have actual words though. You can't just make up a fraud case. You have to prove to judge and jury beyond a reasonable doubt the law was violated.
I know this. You know this. The judges know this. The jury knows this.
This does damage by subjecting the teachers to suspensions, trials, legal fees, etc. to the point that they take a plea bargain or resign. It makes the schools hyper-sensitive.
If the courts don’t throw these cases out immediately, then the tactic worked.
I hate that you're right. The teachers could eventually win a lot of money for malicious prosecution but it would certainly have a chilling effect.