President Donald Trump claimed Friday that "the law" gave him the authority to deport undocumented migrants without having to explain himself to a judge.
On Friday morning, Trump continued his attack on the judiciary, posting to Truth Social, writing, "No District Court Judge, or any Judge, can .....
I wanna see a headline stating that a freak hurricane wiped out every Republican in the house, the Senate and the executive branch, miraculously sparing any non party members and the buildings themselves without a scratch.
About 250 could save millions of lives. Considering around 9000 die every day in the U.S. they would make a 2.7% uptick for one day, and maybe everything can get better
The more important take from this article is that Trump has escalated his claims and now claims that nothing he does is subject to judicial review at all.
The scary part is that there is a non-zero chance that the Supreme Court could rule in his favor. And at that point, God help us all.
The second amendment was created to make it impossible for the president to have a standing army.
That was the whole "militia" thing. Federalist Paper29 covers the entirety of it in like ... 12 paragraphs.
The states would have to require every man to own a firearm and train to be in a militia as designated by Congress that would muster for national defense because armies make empires. And newly created US Americans wanted to be free of imperial horseshit.
The second amendment wasn't to defeat a president who broke bad. Men elected to POTUS were never supposed to be like Trump. And that was our, as US Americans, biggest blindspot. That an American president would never treat Americans like how American presidents treat smaller nations.
I am optimistic the SCOTUS won't take the bait. Not because they're against Trump, but rather because they don't seem as eager to surrender their own power than Congress is. Even in their notoriously pro-Trump rulings last year, they took care to keep the Judiciary involved in interpreting the extent of the Executive's powers.
Yet Roberts and the scrotus were fuckin dumb enough to give potus nearly complete immunity, which is functionally the same. If the courts rule against any specific action there is nothing to stop him from immediately doing it again.
At that point, he'll die, Vance will take his place, and will be so un-charismatic that he'll be defeated by a Democrat in 2028 which will find themselves with all this power thanks to the Supreme Court... but will prefer to take the high road and reach across the aisle only to get fucked once again.
I'm pretty sure that would effectively end all state mandates to participate in the Constitution, effectively dissolving it.
It's very clear that Trump does not realize that dissolving the Constitution means states no longer need to adhere to the joined Republic. That agreement IS the Republic. If it no longer exists, then States are their own territories, and DC is nothing.
States activate their reserve guard forces, assume control of stationed assets, and stop sending DC money. That's it. Then it's every state for itself, and guess where all the good shit is he thinks he's just going to order around? In those "Coastal Elite" states he's always belittling.
No incoming money, no people to order around, and only his little cavalcade of dipshits who no longer have positions of power...
As somebody else had mentioned, he'd be killed in a heartbeat, and then the groveling and backtracking would immediately begin to try and undo what he's done.
Any backtracking would be useless, once the country is gone there is no way to put it back together without a lot of bloody violence. Even then it will be a powder keg ready to explode again as soon as the leader who managed to put it back together is gone.
These 50 states are held together by a common history and the republic they participate in. The history is meaningless once the republic is gone. At least we will get to see the birth of a bunch of new nations. But that will come with a ton of war as the wanna dictators in red states try to take whatever they can.
When Trump dies, someone else will take over his role, and that other person is bound to be a lot smarter than Trump (it's a very low bar). At this point, it seems to me like the only thing that might stop the usa's descent into fascism, is Trump completely destroying the economy in record pace because of his unfathomable stupidity. If the usa opposition can't defeat fascism with Trump in charge of the fascists, then they have no chance with someone like Vance in charge.
The allies had the same dilemma with Hitler in WW2. They had a solid plan to assassinate Hitler and they really wanted to, but Hitler's meddling incompetence was helping them win the war.
Additionally, British officials believed that Hitler’s incompetence and flawed military tactics were, in fact, advantageous to the Allied cause. They argued that by leaving Hitler in power, the Allied forces could continue to leverage his bungling strategy against the Germans. They believed that replacing Hitler with a competent successor could pose a greater challenge, as they might be more adept at waging war against the Allies.
Source: https://ahistoryfactaday.org/the-controversial-decision-to-not-assassinate-hitler-in-1944-weighing-political-pragmatism-and-conventional-tactics/
But I'd say the people who are smarter are already manipulating him behind the scenes anyhow. Anyone coming after would at least have less of a cult following hopefully