#RuleOfLaw
More analysis of the #Rwanda treaty; this time from Mark Elliot (via his Public Law For Everyone blog); contains this beautiful if critical, summation:
'the Bill reveals an astounding level of hypocrisy in the sense that it is premised on a policy that presupposes that Rwanda will honour its obligations in international law while demonstrating that the UK is prepared to breach its own obligations'!
#ruleoflaw #internationallaw
#tory #hypocrisy
https://publiclawforeveryone.com/2023/12/06/the-rwanda-bill-and-its-constitutional-implications/
*Trump Claimed Absolute Immunity From Criminal Prosecution (and the court said ‘nope’)*
(12/02/23)
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#USPolitics #RuleOfLaw #Trump #January6 #AbsoluteImmunity #JudgeChutkan #Election2024
Out now: Updated Handbook on How to Use EU Law to Protect Civic Space!
❌40+ examples of cases incompatible with #EU law
🔧3 key #RuleOfLaw tools & how to use them
💡7 recommendations to the EC by #CivilSociety
Link: https://ecnl.org/publications/updated-handbook-how-use-eu-law-protect-civic-space
Oh no, what Hungary and EU both need is to kick Hungary out of the union. It is clearly not suitable member by any measure. Out, out, out!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/05/eu-must-not-appease-viktor-orban-by-unfreezing-billions-earmarked-for-hungary
#EU #Hungary #ruleoflaw #corruption #mobrule
“If TFG is returned to the White House, this could be the last presidential #election in our lifetime.” —Jake Tapper
It could be the last of many things in our lifetime, including but not limited to:
— A free #Europe
— An independent #Justice Department
— The #ruleOfLaw
— #Equality — even safety — for minority groups
— NATO
— An open #internet
What would you add to the list???
🇪🇸 In today's @EP_Justice meeting on the state of #RuleOfLaw in #Spain, ECR MEP @Jorgebuxade stressed the severity of the ongoing threat to Spanish democracy posed by the country's socialist government
#NoAmnesty https://t.co/JY5MafxRUI
https://twitter.com/ecrgroup/status/1731709591929376781
No one is above the law including indicted frontrunners.
https://thedemlabs.org/2023/12/03/no-one-is-above-the-law-including-indicted-republican-frontrunner-trump/
#ruleoflaw #nooneisabovethelaw
No one is above the law including indicted frontrunners - English audio
https://thedemlabs.org/2023/12/03/no-one-is-above-the-law-including-indicted-republican-frontrunner-trump/
#ruleoflaw #nooneisabovethelaw
"Big losses for Trump."
“Defendant’s four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens," writes Judge Chutkan.
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #LawandOrder #JackSmith #JudgeChutkan #RuleofLaw #crime #criminal
"The history books are going to have to devote at least a chapter to what happened yesterday to Donald Trump. Trump’s motion to claim presidential immunity from civil suits was rejected by the D.C. Court of Appeals, and his motion to dismiss the federal charges against him brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith was denied too."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #LawandOrder #JackSmith #JudgeChutkan #RuleofLaw #crime #criminal
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-a-day-for-the-rule-of-law
Was halten Sie eigentlich von der offiziellen Ansage der Regierung Israels, alle Kämpfer der Terrororganisation Hamas seien tote Leute? Ist das rechtlich dasselbe wie die Ankündigung, keine Gefangenen zu machen und kein Pardon zu geben? Schon so eine Ankündigung zählt m.W. als Kriegsverbrechen.
Here's @davidallengreen on the #SupremeCourt's #Rwanda judgement & why the #tories are now boxed in, with their only option to actually find a way (however hard that might be) go make a policy work that seems unworkable in any potential form.
For #RuleofLaw geeks (of which I am one), the section of the post on the strength of customary international law is especially sweet!
(if you've not come across DAG before, you're getting some the best legal commentary available)
R to @SamGoodman22: Despite the bleak outlook for #HK’s future. I consider myself fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with some of bravest, selfless, & most inspirational activists, who have given up much to stand for #democracy, #ruleoflaw, & #freedoms far too many of us take for granted. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/SamGoodman22/status/1729864150971732170#m
D(e)F: Addressing democratic backsliding in Hungary: Biting intergovernmentalism, made in Berlin
By York Albrecht
#BerlinPerspectives #BitingIntergovernmentalism #RuleOfLaw #Hungary
https://www.foederalist.eu/2023/11/york-albrecht-hungary.html
Main argument against a windfall tax is a standard #ruleoflaw argument that laws (and by extension taxes) should be predictable; one might argue that a windfall tax is arbitrary & punishes behaviour that was legal at the time (again retrospective legality is generally seen as not being fair under a the rule of law);
2nd Q.; you set a level for 'normal profits' then impose a windfall tax when profits are by some set margin persistently above that - but could be gamed, of course
[Video] Fmr. #USAttorney #Trump’s #lastminute #pardon is ‘#violation of the #ruleoflaw’
The #NewYorkTimes reports new #details - and broad #implications - about #DonaldTrump’s #decision to #pardon a #convicted #drugsmuggler with ties to #JaredKushner
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WashingtonDC #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Corruption #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate
Panama Supreme Court rules Canadian firm's mining contract is unconstitutional | CBC News https://bit.ly/3uKlhpi #Panama #Courts #RuleOfLaw #Mining #cdnpoli @canadiangreens @cdnpoli
This had escaped my attention: Shortly before the end of the incumbent government's term, #Poland has selected a new candidate for the #ECJ after having effectively boycotted the Court since the end of Marek Safjan's tenure in 2021. *Honi soit...*
- https://ruleoflaw.pl/the-government-approved-a-polish-candidate-to-the-office-of-judge-of-the-cjeu/
R to @dreynders: As far as the amnesty law is concerned, the Commission is currently analysing the draft law to ensure that it is compatible with EU law. The #RuleOfLaw is what unites us.
The Commission will carry out this analysis carefully and, as in all cases, independently and objectively.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/dreynders/status/1727635895111557374#m
[2023-11-23 10:31 UTC]
The failure to fully deal with the violent past is having devastating consequences on respect for #HumanRights, the #RuleOfLaw and social cohesion in the region of the former Yugoslavia.
Time is pressing to achieve effective #justice, reparations and truth for the victims. 👇
Read the report (English)
Read the ‘Report in a nutshell’ (English and French)
Read the detailed summary (available in Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, English, French, Serbian)
"Pedro @Sanchezcastejon is a threat to 🇪🇸 #Spain’s territorial integrity and the rule of law in Europe. I urge the @EU_Commission to condemn Pedro Sanchez and call for his immediate resignation" 🗣 @CristianTerhes
#EPlenary #RuleOfLaw https://t.co/zUimc36GWt
https://twitter.com/ecrgroup/status/1727380019276882217
"...the “basic structures of colonialism” underpin all major schools of international jurisprudence."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-gaza-genocide-hamas-colonial-war
"The amnesty law is a betrayal of the Spanish people, of the @EU_Commission, of the separation of powers, and of the judiciary." 🗣 @MazalyAguilar in #EPlenary
#RuleOfLaw #StopAmnesty #Spain https://t.co/CtJ7JcR3ex
https://twitter.com/ecrgroup/status/1727371004463460777
"We often hear the #RuleOfLaw discussed in the #EPlenary, particularly in relation to governments the left doesn’t like. In #Spain, we’re witnessing one of the clearest examples of politics taking over the judiciary ever in Europe. It’s political trickery."
🗣 ECR Co-Chairman… https://t.co/CaL4hn0gJh https://t.co/2PI0pPruSX
https://twitter.com/ecrgroup/status/1727365896828489827
The #RuleOfLaw situation in 🇪🇸 #Spain is dire and worsening.
The socialist government's abuse of power must be immediately addressed by the EU.
Thank you, @Santi_ABASCAL for coming to the @Europarl_EN to discuss the situation.
We stand with you, on the side of democracy.… https://t.co/SjYi3bLdpY https://t.co/AHz1RnvgBR
https://twitter.com/ecrgroup/status/1727347186344562726
Hungary’s ruling party submits bill on ‘protecting national sovereignty’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/hungarys-ruling-party-submits-bill-on-protecting-national-sovereignty/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EUfunds #Hungary #illiberaldemocracy #populism #ruleoflaw
#HeatherCoxRichardson 's
*Letters from an American*
(11/20/23)
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[Note: Sorry I'm posting my regular newletters/blogs in the evening. I got caught up this morning then had work.]
#USPolitics #Politics #FarRightExtremism #MAGA #Election2024 #AntiDemocratic_Action #ConcentrationCamps #NaziRhetoric #AntiIslamic #AntiSemitic #SpeakerJohnson #Trump
#Argentina #Dictators #LiberalDemocracy #Freedom #HumanRights #Pluralism #Security #RuleOfLaw #Democracy
#History #Histodons
“… in retrospect, it was the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that started the unravelling of the collective commitment toward the protection of civilians and children. The U.S.-led coalition’s response to that tragedy included the illegal invasion of Iraq, the official sanction of torture, and the establishment of “black sites” out of the world’s view; the coalition seemed to say, “We can do what we want, and we will.”
“If parliament were to pass legislation the effect of which was to reverse a finding of fact made by a court of competent jurisdiction, that would raise profound and important questions about the respective role of the courts and parliament in countries that subscribe to the rule of law.”
“The situation in Gaza grows more dire by the hour. UN experts as well as a group of 800 genocide and international law scholars have warned that the situation is now approaching genocide.
While this is overwhelming, there is so much that can be done. Prime Minister [] Trudeau must call for an immediate ceasefire in line with Canada’s legal obligations and the raison d’être of international humanitarian and human rights law..”
https://www.cips-cepi.ca/2023/11/17/on-israel-gaza-canada-must-rise-to-the-humanity-of-the-moment/
“the unimaginable continues to unfold: Israel’s military assault on #Gaza has killed over 11,000 people, more than 4,000 of whom are infants and children.
Entire family lines have been extinguished.
Half a million more people are facing death by starvation and dehydration due to Israel’s tactics. Necessary medicines are unavailable…hospitals repeatedly bombarded and deprived of fuel are shutting down.“
https://www.cips-cepi.ca/2023/11/17/on-israel-gaza-canada-must-rise-to-the-humanity-of-the-moment/
#HumanRights #Israel #Law #InternationalLaw #Genocide #RuleofLaw
Dutton's first few words imply exactly that @Neil1808 .
Patterson says otherwise, but the opposition still has the government drafting legislation before the High Court's reasons are known. That's idiotic. I'm disgusted that our government allowed themselves to be manipulated.
@Qldaah
#AusPol #RuleOfLaw #SeparationOfPowers
Can Democracy survive a polity reduced to the lowest common denominator and media that's largely not fit for purpose?
"... the politics of immigration and asylum are charged with appeals to that dark truth at the core of so much Australian politics: we are an anxious postcolonial people whose racialised fear of the other is a pressure point all too easy to finger for political gain.
The referendum vote in October was all the proof you need of that, and if you wanted an example of how deeply that 60 per cent majority lesson has been taken to heart by both the major parties in our political “contest”, and how much it will inform the play of affairs before and during the next election, you only needed to read what the Senate enacted at 10.40 last night."
https://www.themonthly.com.au/the-politics/jonathan-green/2023/11/17/fear-and-voting
#AusPol #SeparationOfPowers #RuleOfLaw #DogWhistling
From Zack Beauchamp
"This incendiary language is backed by an incendiary policy agenda. #Trump & his team have a series of proposals... remaking the #DOJ into a tool for jailing his enemies & sending troops to suppress protests... to launch mass anti-immigrant raids & detain the people he rounds up in camps. They have extensive plans to... [put] people ready & willing to undermine the #RuleOfLaw in key positions to act on Trump’s dubious orders."
https://www.vox.com/2023/11/14/23958866/trump-vermin-authoritarian-democracy
"Trump declared in the first rally of his 2024 presidential campaign: “I am your retribution.” He later vowed to use the Justice Department to go after his political adversaries, starting with President Biden and his family.
Beneath these public threats is a series of plans by #Trump and his allies that would upend core elements of American governance, #democracy, foreign policy and the #RuleOfLaw "
#GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-2025-second-term.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-kw.cPPL.yaCuCm07o_3U&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
ht: @melaniesill
A couple of days ago, a state secretary at the Slovak #culture ministry (!!!) asked #Catholic #Church bishops to enthrone #Jesus * as the king of #Slovakia.
This happened in the 21st century in the country whose Constitution says, in its Article I, something along these lines:
The Slovak Republic is a #sovereign, #democratic state governed by the #RuleOfLaw. It is not bound by any #ideology or #religion.
Just imagine how fucked in his head this dumbass #Christian #fanatic must be.
* A character from the collection of stories written by a bunch of heavily stoned dudes some 2,000 years ago
More info: https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/state-secretary-asks-church-to-make-jesus-king-of-slovakia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Original drawing by #shooty ( https://www.instagram.com/p/CzrEL-iMign/?igshid=ODhhZWM5NmIwOQ== )
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See #AltText for #Translation
Given their disregard (indeed animosity to the #ruleoflaw) this doesn't seem so outlandish a suggestion as one might hope it was!
Surely this bit of "folk wisdom" is oversimplified, and probably includes some bad assumptions/definitions, nevertheless I find it essentially true and a significant argument against the rule of law:
"Good people don’t need laws and bad people don’t follow them."
(from: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/strangers-in-a-tangled-wilderness-life-without-law )
An interesting thing about this is that "good people" (or at least those who self-identify as such) also don't obey laws.
Anyone who has ever knowingly and intentionally driven faster than the speed limit can fuck all the way off if they try to promote the rule of law! Same with anyone who has ever withheld any info or "fudged" any reporting of transactions in order to pay less taxes.
Such hypocrisy reveals the true character of "rule of law".
Another thing about this is that our system tends to select bad people to make the laws and to enforce them.
It's just a circle of shit all around.
Of course the rule of law does not rule the world, it is subservient to the true god of this world: Capital. So again the rule of law stans are simply wrong; their picture of how things work is defective and dysfunctional.
When you hear the rabid #Tory right demanding the Govt. ignore the #SupremeCourt's ruling on #Rwanda, you know they have no interest in the #ruleoflaw but rather are only interested in the rule of the chosen ones....
If progress is a journey from the dictatorship of violent power-holders to the rule of law (however problematic some laws might actually be), then the #Tories are only really interested in returning us to feudal rule of propertied elite!
Can #EU #talks #boost #LGBTQ+ #rights in #Ukraine, #Moldova, and #Bosnia?
#Announcing the #recommendation last week for #talks to start with the three #countries, #Commission #President #UrsulavonderLeyen said that could only happen once #outstanding #conditions related to the #RuleOfLaw and #democracy were met.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #EuropeanUnion #Ukraine #Moldova #Bosnia #Representation #Culture
@chidi_anagonye @passenger @aral
And that's why we still read about the #RuleofLaw & try to figure out what it actually means.... like all intersting ideas its not settled
@ChrisMayLA6 @passenger @aral The rule o' flaw? ;) #ruleoflaw
Thanks for you very kind words.... I fear that while at the time I wrote the book the #ruleoflaw seemed to be settled (which I broadly saw as a good thing), actually I seemed to have, in retrospect, been writing at its high water mark... hope you enjoy the rest of the book!
@JamesGleick Suggestion for another poll:
Why should we not trust an ex-official constantly inciting crimes?
https://time.com/5913960/trump-endangering-national-security/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DisqualifyTrump #IncitementToViolence #IncitementToInsurrection #Treason #DefraudingAmerica #LootingAmerica #SellingOutAmerica #ServingPutin
Joe Biden & his extraordinarily active team have initiated their leading support for ***40,000 infrastructure projects***!
Remember, they did this within less than 3 years!
While other former presidential seatholders may have merely achieved close to 20,000 bribe transfers, spiting out thousands of lies, freeing thousands of Taliban terrorists & countless domestic terrorists & criminals for dollars within about the same timeframe.
P.S.: We need to talk more about how much Joe Biden is giving to us instead of taking only!
It's time to be grateful for compassionate American President caring for & benefitting everyone!
Thank you President Biden for being there & helping, where you're needed!
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bidens-infrastructure-law-has-begun-40000-projects-will-it-help-him-2024-2023-11-10/
#AmericaWon #PresidentBiden #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters
@wendinoakland We may remember, that Trump is a defendant in four lawsuits so far, charged with 91 counts so far.
He is the incorporation of what the Founders understood by unacceptable extreme misdemeanor, unworthy to hold any government or other public office & disqualifyingly refusing to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed.
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #TakeCareClause #DisqualifyTrump #NationalSecurityThreat #EnemiesOfTheLaw #CareerCriminals #CareerFraudsters #Espionage #Treason
@georgetakei Who are the "GOP's" obstructive acts serving?
Putin.
#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #NationalSecurityThreat #Insurrection #Rebellion #ObstructionOfNationalDefense #ObstructionOfGovernment #WeakeningAmerica #ServingPutin #ServingRussia
@marcelias The maps are in fact pursuing racist advantage.
Which means: The racist rebels, disguised as "Republicans", formally ratified the Reconstruction Amendments to regain U.S. congressional representation, but don't accept any loyalty to the Constitution & the Union.
@RollingStone The party, that refuses to accept majority rule demands to be disqualified from holding public office.
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #Insurrection #Rebellion #14thAmendmentSection2 #14thAmendmentSection3 #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #AbortionRights #WomensRights #CivilRights #HumanRights
@RollingStone Did the FBI also investigate money being laundered after Trump issued questionable pardons not only by the (welcomed) end of his occupation of White House?
https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #Trump #MoneyLaundering #OrganizedCrime #CriminalNetwork #RICO #Russia #TrumpTower #TrumpCondos #Mafia
@Free_Press Trump's incessant incitement of the public abusing the publicity & reach of formerly having held presidential office (hostage) is a major national security threat.
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #Trump IncitementToViolence #IncitementToRiot #IncitementToInsurrection #IncitementToCommitACrime #NationalSecurity #NationalSecurityThreat
@davidtoddmccarty Right! Guys like regulation-adversary Elon Musk shouldn't be allowed to infect & subvert elections & governments eg by buying & weaponizing a multimillion user internet platform, to the disadvantage of most people.
#RuleOfLaw #JusticeMatters #Democracy #PartyFinancing #Donations #Contributions #DarkMoney #OligarchInfluencers #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #CleanGovernment #Corruption #Bribery #Lobbyism #MuskSuX #AntisocialMedia #ElectionInterference #Misinformation #Disinformation #EnemiesOfDemocracy
@indivisibleteam Did Alito ever believe in his own publicly uttered claims?
#RuleOfLaw #WomenWin #WomensRights #WomensSelfDetermination #DefendTheConstitution #AbortionRights #Contraception #CivilRights #HumanRights #RoeVWade
@georgetakei "If the majority does not control, the minority must ‑‑ would that be right? Would that be just or generous? Assuredly not!"
— Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Steubenville, Ohio, February 14, 1861 —
https://theconversation.com/abortion-rights-victories-show-this-issue-is-unlikely-to-fade-in-2024-elections-3-things-to-know-217249
#RuleOfLaw #SaveLives #DefendTheConstitution #MajorityRule #WomensRights #HumanRights #WomensSelfDetermination #AbortionRights #GOP #Insurrection #Rebellion
@DemocracyMattersALot The "Republican" proposal to slash IRS funding alone constitutes a corrupt act & underlying bribery by the "GOP's" richest donors, to the disadvantage of low- & medium-income Americans.
Connecting that proposal with the alternative to stop aid to Israel is an act of illoyalty & corruption in favor of America's richest tax evaders, which can hardly be outperformed.
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Corruption #DefraudingAmerica #LootingAmerica
Abraham Lincoln, Republican: “The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible, so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left.”
Mike Johnson, "Republican": You're wrong! America's not a democracy!
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/27/mike-johnson-christian-nationalist-ideas-qa-00123882
#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #MikeJohnson #Insurrection #Rebellion #Overthrow #Confedereds #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfDemocracy
@Miriamm 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Rudy's legendary Total Scapegoating...
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #BigLie #Insurrection #Jan6 #ProsecuteALLRebels
@DemocracyMattersALot No one gives less fucks about American lives than mob boss Donald Trump, his breed & his clan.
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #Trump #PandemicResponse #TrumpsIndifferenceKilledAmericans #ClassAction #CriminallyNegligentManslaughter #InvestigateTrump #ProsecuteTrump #DisqualifyTrump #JailTrump #MassMurder
Today's 'Republican" Mike Johnson gives zero fucks for real Republican Lincoln's views on the legitimacy of democratic majority rule.
Mike Johnson would be well OK with an American minority's dictatorship.
Like any other decadent bastard of American democracy would be.
Important insight into the mind of an un-American speaker of the House! Must-read.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/27/mike-johnson-christian-nationalist-ideas-qa-00123882
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #Jan6 #Insurrection #MikeJohnson #Rebellion #Confedereds #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfJustice #EnemiesOfDemocracy
"the Times warned its readers that #DonaldTrump — if returned to the White House in 2025 — is grooming a new team of extremist government lawyers who would be more loyal to their Dear Leader than to the #RuleOfLaw, and could help #Trump install a brand of American #fascism.
You say you didn’t hear anything about this? That’s not surprising...
“Trump Allies Want a New Style of Lawyer if He Returns to Power,” was the original online headline"
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/journalism-free-press-gaza-extremism-20231105.html
@fraying Don't waste your rhetorical gems like "fascist" on a plainly organized criminal entity, which is committed to abuse power to solely line its pockets.
@TonyStark Most if not even all of House "Republicans" voting pseudo-religious fanatic neo-puritan & Leonard Leo's protégé Mike Johnson into the Speaker's office is a clear goodbye to the Constitution post-1865.
A poorly shining example of servility to Putin & other enemies of America.
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #MikeJohnson #Jan6 #Insurrection #Overthrow #FakeChristians
@marcelias Replacements should have to undergo security clearance procedures & tests scrutinizing loyalty & adherence to the U.S. Constitution.
And neutralization of/accountability of terrorists attacking election officials verbally or physically, to disrupt the electoral process as fair & free as it should be.
#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #ElectionOfficials #ProtectElections #BanTheGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfTheLaw
@Free_Press Hundreds of thousands Americans could still be alive, hadn't careless bleach- & light-therapy "expert" Trump been put into White House in 2016.
Take it as a matter of fact.
https://www.businessinsider.com/analysis-trump-covid-19-response-40-percent-us-deaths-avoidable-2021-2
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #COVID #Trump #Pandemic #PandemicResponse #Dereliction #Sociopathy #AntisocialPersonalityDisorder #TrumpsLootingAdministration #CriminallyNegligentManslaughter #ClassAction
@realTuckFrumper Mike Johnson no longer has his Confederacy (has been defeated), but is still on his own crusade against the Fourteenth (Reconstruction) Amendment, which Louisiana & the other ex-Confederate states had to ratify to regain representation in Congress.
SCOTUS's 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (use of contraceptives) was based on the Fourteenth Amendment.
P.S.: Leonard Leo's protégé Johnson is either intellectually unable or unwilling to tell contraception from abortion.
https://www.concordlawschool.edu/blog/constitutional-law/contraception-and-the-14th-amendment/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #14thAmendment #AbortionRights #ContraceptionRights #Contraception #Freedom #DueProcessClause #EqualProtectionClause #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Overthrow #CleanSCOTUS #JudicialInsurrection #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Bribery #MoneyLaundering
@marcelias The Rule of YOU, the People is to be defended in court.
Support @marcelias & his excellent team in their legal battle for voting rights & against electoral fraud!
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendTheUnion #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #EliasLawGroup #MarcElias #Democracy #VotingRights #CivilRights #HumanRights
😎🤔 So Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon warns Special Counsel not to warn her of Trump's attempts to manipulate her, if Jack Smith's alarming message would be longer than 200 words.
Prefer to be given a drawing, Ma'am, like the individual, who nominated you for the district court job?
https://www.salon.com/2023/11/03/unbelievable-cannon-scolds-jack-smith-for-warning-that-is-trying-to-manipulate-her/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #JudgeAileenCannon #AileenCannon #TrumpJudge #TrumpTrial #TrumpStoleFederalProperty #TrumpStoleTheDocs #NationalSecurityThreat #Espionage #ObstructionOfJustice #Theft #Treason
@georgetakei Allowing a sociopathic insurrection-inciter to run for (any) public office in the United States is a questionable proof of "American exceptionalism".
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #ProtectThePeople #DisqualifyTrump #NationalSecurityThreat #PublicDanger #Sociopathy #ImminentDanger #CareerCriminals #CareerFraudsters #OrganizedCrime #ConspiracyAgainstTheUS #ConspiracyAgainstRights #Jan6 #Insurrection #Overthrow #Terrorism
@marcelias 😎😂 Today's "Republicans" are as much a "Grand Old Party"
as a career criminal fraudster would be "your favorite president".
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@marcelias "Republicans" brazenly want to sow public distrust towards the electoral system & process they themselves are rigging (per voter suppression & -intimidation, gerrymandering & disenfranchisement & other instruments of fraud).
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@marcelias Most of today's "GOP" is an anti-constitutional, un-American, anti-American lawless entity & national security threat, puppeteered by Putin to weaken America.
#RuleOfLaw #GOP #DefraudingAmerica #LootingAmerica #SellingOutAmerica #ServingPutin #Treason #Insurrection #Rebellion #CapitolAttack #Jan6 #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #NationalSecurity #NationalSecurityThreat
" #Trump has already vowed to be his supporters’ “retribution.” What could be more disruptive and dangerous than an indicted president trying to pardon himself & his cronies and seeking revenge against prosecutors & judges? This amounts to a formula for destroying the #RuleOfLaw and roiling the country for another four years.
Do #Americans really want to bring on a period of unparalleled #conflict and #chaos?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/30/chaos-trump-election-2024-biden/
@marcelias 😎🤔 Fourteenth Amendment Section 3.
Disqualify all of Trump's co-conspirators inciting & engaging in insurrection against the authority of the United States & the laws thereof, and giving aid & comfort thereto.
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@marcelias As for Louisiana's resistance against Reconstruction & incarceration, it's worth to revisit SCOTUS's remarkable reasoning in Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897), especially elaborating on the noun "liberty" contained in the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause:
"The 'liberty' mentioned in [the Fourteenth] amendment means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties, to be free to use them in all lawful ways, to live and work where he will, to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling, to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper, necessary, and essential to his carrying out to a successful conclusion the purposes above mentioned."
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@TexasObserver The intention of Abbott & his interstate co-insurrectionists seems to be pretty clear: Full on attack against the Reconstruction Amendments.
Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1, Clause 2:
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States..."
This also applies to the right of free movement.
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@marcelias (Ex-) Confederate state passed new, highly gerrymandered congressional & legislative maps as well as a county board of commissioners map.
Reminder: The states of the defeated Confederacy needed to ratify the Fourteenth & 13th & 15th (Reconstruction) Amendments to regain U.S. congressional representation.
The other way round, their continued subversion of their own mandatory ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments should strip them of congressional representation again.
The Fourteenth Amendment's Section 2 might offer a friendly path to remind them of their duties & obligations to strictly abide by the stipulations of the Fifteenth Amendment.
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State actions can undermine the #ruleoflaw by using the law to underpin order but to punish those it sees as a nuisance:
As protestors face staggering #legal costs from injunctions that they were unaware of, @goodlawproject note:
'Ordinary citizens who are taking peaceful action in protest at the Government’s failure to tackle climate change are being punished to the point of being crushed. And we have to ask ourselves: is this the free and democratic country we want?'
@marcelias Every single one of those 126 House "Republicans", who signed the amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania before SCOTUS in 2020 should already be disqualified to hold any office under the United States, for *election subversion* (<= Nancy Pelosi).
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@AmandaMarcotte The question arising from their despotic actions is:
How many people does it take & what would they have to do to be held accountable for insurrection against the authority of the United States being the supreme power deciding what's good for people & country & what's not?
Insurrectionary local MAGA extremist clubs definitely don't supersede constitutional provisions & the authority of U.S. government responsible for enforcement of the Constitution's directives.
MAGA book-banning is no better than Nazi book-burning.
We better be prepared to prevent, what happened after the latter today!
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@marcelias The obsessively voter-defrauding so-called "Republican party" needs to be taken off the ballots as they would be in any properly working free democratically governed country intent to ensure free & fair elections on behalf of all voters, whose voices deserve to be indiscriminately heard & counted.
Time to stop today's Confederate "GOP" from going on to sh*t on Abraham Lincoln's grave & legacy.
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@marcelias You cannot achieve long-term "bipartisan" agreements with an entity committed to eradicate pluralism & democracy from a country's & nation's vocabulary — and parliaments.
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