American Bar Association says Trump is not following the rule of law
American Bar Association says Trump is not following the rule of law
"No American can be proud of a government that carries out change in this way," the group's president wrote in a searing statement.
Summary
The American Bar Association (ABA) condemned Trump’s administration for disregarding the rule of law, urging courts and attorneys to push back.
ABA President William R. Bay criticized Trump’s rapid executive orders and restructuring of government agencies, including USAID’s dismantling.
He reminded the administration of the three coequal branches of government and praised a federal judge for blocking Trump’s executive order against birthright citizenship, emphasizing that the 14th Amendment guarantees this right.
Amid multiple lawsuits and government turmoil, Bay called on elected officials to defend legal norms, stating, “These are not partisan or political issues… We must stand up for the values we hold dear.”
And why should he? He is doing a coup, so current laws will soon be ex-laws anyway, and won't apply to him.
Shitcan a whole mess of dirty lawyers then, association in charge of professional lawyerin' licensing, ffs.
This is my shocked face :O
Uh yeah? Last summer the highest court in the land essentially ruled that he doesn't have to so long as he's the president. Only Congress has the authority to stop him now through impeachment and conviction.
Every single one of those ecg-swasti-scribbles on an executive order will be pushed back as the presidential power authorized by the highest court prior to the election.
What do they say about SCOTUS?
Maybe if we keep telling him that he's breaking the law he'll feel bad and stop
It's worked so far.
Lawyers really believing in "the law" like Trump is a black teenager that they can encage and torture.
No shit Sherlock! Where have they been the last nine years, auditioning for "Idioacracy" II?
It's like we have evolved into to two species. One with intelligence, and the other with shit for brains.Gasps
…no shit
Aaaand this is why he freed a bunch of gun toting fascist supporters
In addition, the ABA announced that the cow goes "moo" and fire is hot.
In other news ABBA announced that you are the "dancing queen"
They mostly ask if my mother knows that I'm out
I would like to state for the record that I am no such thing.
In fact, I'm much closer in ability to the Dancin' Fool Frank Zappa wrote about 😁
(Also, I may be sweet at times, but I'm not young, being almost two and a half times 17 😁)
A man who's above the law isn't following the law??
Daaaaaaaang.
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...so, uh... I noticed he's still not in jail. Did y'all have a backup plan?
Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.
Hey, just what you see, pal.
The Luigi 9mm.
checks Dem playbook Nope, seems it's still rousing speeches to the press, fundraising emails, and fuckall else. Good luck!
Don't forget clever names for bills that will die in committee.
Time for a new opposition party, ffs.
Ooooo, fundraising, that'll help
fuckall else
Or, the only thing they can do; which is nothing.
Remember: America didn't want them. America looked at a choice between "felon" and "prosecutor" and cop voters chose the felon. Military people voted for the person who shirked his responsibility and denigrated them at every turn. Farmers who could read Project 2025 voted for the person who was going to run them bankrupt so his big-farm friends can buy up the land.
... and Shill Stein told the rest to essentially throw their vote.
The democrats can't do anything but try - TRY - to preserve the records that aren't yet purged. They're not going to stop what's happening, and we're going to see an exodus of people who can leave the country. Infrastructure, water, power, communications, all these sectors have no oversight, and no guarantee of stability. America will fall apart; eating poisonous food, drinking poisonous water, power plant workers choking to death alone in a hospital basement hallway.
America has no working FEMA, but it has worsening floods, fires, hurricanes and tornadoes. And it chose the guy whose response to a hurricane involved a sharpie, Thiel's couch-jumping altar boy, a rich man-child and the entire cast of goodfellas to take care of America and all the faith and money and blood and sweat on which its built.
Get to higher ground.
Man, who gave him permission to do whatever he wanted while in office with legal impunity?
As a friend of mine says: "The American Bar Association is a very agree-to-disagree organization. If the ABA is warning about an imminent collapse of the rule of law, we are down to studs and wires."
Yeah everyone's poking fun and cracking jokes, but this is a very politically neutral organization coming out and saying "No seriously, the country is on the verge of total collapse." Yes, we all know that and yes, it's silly nobody else is saying it, that doesn't stop this from being a big huge warning sign.
And he won't care. He is in the middle of a coup, why should he care for the soon to be former law?
American Bar Association is bucking for the "Most obvious statement ever" award.
At least they were willing to say it.
There are quite a few nominees this year, and it's only February.
Of 2025.
My exact reaction. Thanks for weighing in on it, very helpful contribution!
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The rules do not apply.
Tangential - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCR0ScrXBno
A clown, a felon and a rapist walks into a barassociation
What else did you expect a convicted felon to do?
Now now, don't be besmirching the good felons by lumping them in with the Mango Mussolini..
Rot in prison.
Failing that... fire up the Luigi signal?
No shit.
He never has, why start now?
So do something about it?
The only ones who can do something about it are those with nothing to lose.
Good thing we all stand to lose everything if we do nothing.
Somebody should write a letter.
Or maybe someone high in the hierarchy of the Democratic party should give a rousing speech to the press, send out fundraising emails, and then do fuckall else.
The American Journal of Obviousness (AJO) says this is correct.
Do we really need the bar to tell us that?
I'm sure he'll stop immediately, now that it's been pointed out.
Do we need it? Not pressingly, but it’s better than silently acquiescing.
Ummm, I meant that the information was obvious.
Yes he is. Official acts. Not a crime. SCOTUS said so.
There's a difference between "you can't jail him for this" and "this is now a law you have to enforce."
Of course if Congress and the Supremes roll over, then it can become the law.
Where there is no consequence, there is no law.
You cannot tell him to behave, you have to force him.
When has he ever? His whole selling point is a scofflaw
Okay, go ahead and stop him then.
Maybe if you file the right motion he'll stop.
Or maybe you'll all end up sounding like sovereign citizens.
"No! These specific primates signed this parchment with these letters so it means you're not allowed! Violence doesn't make you right!!"
Duh, and or hello.
hes finished
Yeah, glad we had that confirmed by the experts. We clearly wouldn't have been able to tell otherwise. /s
"You wanna put that in a memo and label it shit I already know?"