https://www.europesays.com/2058246/ 29 women killed by men, 14 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in April: report #akp #democracy #erdogan #HumanRights #IstanbulConvention #Justice #law #oppression #RuleOfLaw #ŞabanYaztırmak #SerdarHarmancı #SevilayYaztırmak #TheWeWillStopFemicidePlatform #Turkey #TurkeyWomensRights #turkiye #ZelihaÇinibulak
Interview: Democratic Governor Tony Evers on the administration's threat to arrest Wisconsin officials over defying its mass deportation agenda.
What we’re seeing is "an absolute degradation of the rule of law," says fmr DoJ officer Lisa Graves.
There's a broader attack on "governors who dare to speak up,"
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/5/tom_homan_wisconsin_constitution
#ruleoflaw #trump #usconstitution #uspol #wisconsin #intimidation .
The reich-wing administration has criticized #Germany's decision to ban #afd the far-right party, after a deep review of their activities.
According to columnist Heather Cox Richardson, Germany's Foreign Office responded thusly:
This is #democracy. The decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our #Constitution & the #ruleoflaw. It is independent #courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that #rightwing #extremism needs to be stopped.
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Our Founders believed in freedom of #speech, but were alert to the threat of #populism. Some of their attempts to mitigate that threat through representation government worked out reasonably well — separation of powers, the House of Representatives — while others — the Senate, the Electoral College — developed largely as sops to smaller states or slave states, have not.
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Jennifer Rubin: Putting tRump’s threats in writing doesn’t make them #law: A judge demolishes Trump’s assault on law firms
#TheContrarian #BerylHowell #PerkinsCoieLLP #Harvard #trump #executiveorder #ruleoflaw #university #education
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/putting-trumps-threats-in-writing
Is America Pissed Off Enough at Trump & Musk for a General Strike?
YES
“Nothing, nothing, NOTHING can move w/o our labor, & it’s time to exercise our power in a united working class.
-S Nelson
"The US hasn’t seen such a massive labor action in 78 years. But the oligarchic wreckage of this admin is fueling multiple movements toward that goal."
#Tariffs, #RuleOfLaw #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #Courts #Deportations #USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/193370/general-strike-trump-musk-sara-nelson-labor-unions
Interview: Democratic Governor Tony Evers on the administration's threat to arrest Wisconsin officials over defying its mass deportation agenda.
What we’re seeing is "an absolute degradation of the rule of law," says fmr DoJ officer Lisa Graves.
There's a broader attack on "governors who dare to speak up,"
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/5/tom_homan_wisconsin_constitution
#ruleoflaw #trump #usconstitution #uspol #wisconsin #intimidation .
Oh look, capitulator #CBS News wrote about Judge Beryl Howell's calling out capitulators
“If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models lauded when this period of American #history is written.”
#Constitution #trump #ruleoflaw #law #capitulation
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-perkins-coie-law-firm-unconstitutional/
"Trumpland"
"The corporate coup d'état... began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains.
"Fascism is birthed by a bankrupt liberalism that has surrendered its traditional role in a capitalist democracy.
"It no longer ameliorates the worst excesses... by instituting incremental & piecemeal reforms.
"It scolds & moralizes the disenfranchised workers it betrayed."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumpland
#trump #uspol #resistfascism #freespeech #ruleoflaw #liberalism #capitalism .
ICYMI - After just 100 days, we, as a nation, and as a community, are economically poorer, academically poorer, culturally poorer, less free and deeply worried about the next 100 days and beyond'
ICYMI - After just 100 days, we, as a nation, and as a community, are economically poorer, academically poorer, culturally poorer, less free and deeply worried about the next 100 days and beyond'
Analysis: "Trumpland"
"The corporate coup d'état... began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains.
"Fascism is birthed by a bankrupt liberalism that has surrendered its traditional role in a capitalist democracy.
"It no longer ameliorates the worst excesses... by instituting incremental & piecemeal reforms.
"It scolds & moralizes the disenfranchised workers it betrayed."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumpland
#trump #uspol #resistfascism #freespeech #ruleoflaw #liberalism #capitalism .
Analysis: "Trumpland"
"The corporate coup d'état... began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains.
"Fascism is birthed by a bankrupt liberalism that has surrendered its traditional role in a capitalist democracy.
"It no longer ameliorates the worst excesses... by instituting incremental & piecemeal reforms.
"It scolds & moralizes the disenfranchised workers it betrayed."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumpland
#trump #uspol #resistfascism #freespeech #ruleoflaw #liberalism #capitalism .
Analysis: "Trumpland"
"The corporate coup d'état and collapse of American democracy began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains.
"The Christian fascists & oligarchs... are making war on verifiable fact, the rule of law & the transparency & accountability that is only possible with a free press, the right to dissent, a vibrant culture & a separation of powers, including an independent judiciary."
#immigration #ice #secretPolice #ruleOfLaw
"The search warrant brandished by the agents sought someone else, who wasn’t at the home where Marisa and her daughters had moved a few weeks ago. As is often the case in 2025’s stepped-up immigration raids, it wasn’t exactly clear who the agents were or even which agency they worked for. Although initial news accounts attributed the operation to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, subsequent reports suggested the officers were from ICE’s sister agency, the little-known Homeland Security Investigations. The 6,000-member HSI is a cornerstone of an ascendant secret police in America."
"Human rights nightmares show ‘the crazies’ who wanted to abolish ICE were right
The nightly parade of horror stories about an American secret police proves the current system is broken beyond repair."
The difference between is and ought.
Marco Rubio all but admits, that Republicans are a RW extremist, autocratic political party, as he admonishes the German Foreign Office for labeling the AfD as an RW extremist party & standing for the Constitution, the rule of law, democracy, & protecting immigrants' rights.
“The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity,” Jackson told a judges’ conference in Puerto Rico. “The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law.”
Take note of Doug Ford using the same lines of attack on Ontario’s judges and judiciary as Donald Trump.
“Our judiciary is the most "accountable" profession there is. Name another job where every word you utter, every decision you make, every act you perform, is recorded. Where you are subject to be appealed. Where the press watches you carefully. Where there is a Judicial Inquiry Committee that looks over your shoulder should anyone complain about you.”
“A society in which politics plays a role in conviction and prosecution is not a safe one, as we have seen in the US.“
