Is Tom Cruise heading up the proactive arrest task force?
Thread with receipts from a Harvard Law prof on why the van arrest in Portland was unconstitutional:
That’s a good thread, but is it really unconstitutional if there are no consequences?
So “unconstitutional” is meaningless. Thanks.
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It’s not meaningless. There’s already an ACLU-led lawsuit about this and I’m sure other lawyers are lining up since it’s a case sure to end up in the Supreme Court.
EDIT: Well, it’ll go to the Supreme Court if Trump wins in November. If Biden wins, I’m sure he will put a stop to this practice and not try to appeal any of the impending injunctions.
If there is anything that the disastrous DJT admin has shown, it is that you can wipe your fat ass on the constitution if the senate is in your pocket. The system needs extreme reform, but that ain’t coming.
Menzo
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Donald Trump can not ignore a court injunction preventing these sorts of renditions. He gets away with a lot, but I’m not aware of him blatantly disregarding a court order, and there have been a lot.
Edit: well, a Google search of “trump ignores court order” shows that I’m wrong, and there have been a couple instances of him, in fact, blatantly ignoring a court order.
Most recently it’s the Supreme Court’s order to re-open applications for DACA.
Yup. If you have a Senate guarantee of never getting impeached and no one is willing to invoke the 25th, you can do whatever the fuck you want. I’ve said since 2016 that the Trump presidency is showing us that a whole bunch of stuff we thought were hard rules that had serious teeth really mean nothing because the lawmakers assumed higher officeholders would have basic respect for the law or at least a sense of shame.
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Turns out a bunch of Gentleman’s Agreements isn’t a great way to run a country.
Gas these Antifa, ‘Chad’.
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Robert Evans, the journalist on the ground in Portland who’s been posting so many videos, has written a summary of the protests in Portland. He provides a great deal of context to some of the videos and photos posted upthread:
As an aside, Belling the Cat has to be in the top 5 Aesop’s Fables.
I know that successfully suing the Federal government is like winning the lottery, but the Harvard law professor made a pretty compelling case that was unconsitutional/illegal. I hope the lawsuit gets pursued the kidnapped guy gets a lot of money and a bunch of folks lose their jobs.
Of course, in 2020 I’ll settle for a judge simply ordering the feds to stop this shit.
Very informative, thanks for linking that.
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That’s not Federal property to my knowledge, but laws and jurisdiction are suckers.
In fairness I’m not sure how you could build a system that would be resistant to a political party with a majority simply deciding that it no longer cares about the law, the common good, or indeed anything other than the exercise of raw power. It’s possible I just lack imagination, though.
The stuff stymied by the Senate is a by-product of the shitty way we proportion our representatives. I don’t think there is much we can do without overhauling the basic system.
But there’s a whole bunch of stuff that people assumed were actual laws with consequences and clear processes that Trump has shown were really just gentlemen’s agreements or traditions. That’s the stuff that this Presidency has bowled over.
There’s a nice Latin term for that:
And on that point, Mike Duncan (of the History of Rome and Revolutions podcasts) has an interesting book about the deterioration of Mos Maiorum that ultimately lead to the fall of the Roman Republic (with relevant modern parallels and non-parallels, it’s from 2017):
