With contempt for the Constitution - Trump, Elon, and MAGA push to impeach judges (1 Viewer)

[superchuck500]

Trump has demanded judges who rule against his administration be impeached. Elon has agreed. MAGA in Congress has introduced articles of impeachment. Of course, this is blatantly unconstitutional and it's also wildly pathetic. Instead of being strong and law-abiding but taking their case to the higher courts, the fascists want to just impeach the judges. This has prompted the chief justice to make public comment that no, we don't do that.

 

[wardorican]

Not surprised.

I mean, c'mon Trump. Even if your premise was accurate, that the will of the people is to remove illegal immigrants, it's not by any means necessary. It's not like the will of the people is for you to kill them all and dump the bodies across the border (not to give the maniac ideas).

There are legal limits to almost everything.

 

[superchuck500]

Not surprised.

I mean, c'mon Trump. Even if your premise was accurate, that the will of the people is to remove illegal immigrants, it's not by any means necessary. It's not like the will of the people is for you to kill them all and dump the bodies across the border (not to give the maniac ideas).

There are legal limits to almost everything.

You can tell from their comments and posts that they literally think the president can do anything he wants. Anything that stands in the way of that, including the law or the Constitution is wrong and must be destroyed.

It's crazy. Elon just lost another ruling (on USAID) - he's going to get even more aggitated.

 

[wardorican]

You can tell from their comments and posts that they literally think the president can do anything he wants. Anything that stands in the way of that, including the law or the Constitution is wrong and must be destroyed.

It's crazy. Elon just lost another ruling (on USAID) - he's going to get even more aggitated.

Remember the cute old days when Fox News would call Obama, Emperor Obama for his EO's.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I don't know how anyone reads this, or really any of his tweets (truths?) and honestly thinks this guy should be in charge of anything much less the President of the United States

 

[Dragon]

I don't know how anyone reads this, or really any of his tweets (truths?) and honestly thinks this guy should be in charge of anything much less the President of the United States

The only one vicious, violent and demented is Trump himself

 

[efil4]

This is all like a bad movie plot.

I still cant understand how we got to this point. TFG is simply the most petty and vindictive 78 yr old on the planet. Its remarkable how aggrieved he portrays himself to be, all by the doings of EVERYONE but him.

And 77 million said " yeah this guy...this guy would make a great King...err President"

to borrow a British term " bloody ell"

 

[longtime lurker]

Agencies are placing reinstated employees in leave status. Judge says that violates his order.

To date, only the Transportation Department is promising its reinstated probationary employees will soon be back on the job.

www.govexec.com

 

[superchuck500]

 

[Optimus Prime]

President Donald Trump and his allies are in the middle of a weeks-long attempt to undermine the judges overseeing an avalanche of lawsuits against them. Judges who rule against him have been cast as corrupt, impeachable or criminal, and the president is incredulous that any federal judge could strike down a command from the executive branch as unconstitutional.

The administration has already repeatedly tested how far it can defy court orders, but a legal fight over the president’s authority todeport immigrants under a rarely used wartime law is steering the United States towards a dangerous constitutional crossroads, according to legal experts.

A timeline for those deportation flights and court orders is crucial to determine whether administration officials openly defied the judicial branch.

Officials could be held in contempt of court — an impeachable offense, according to Bruce Ackerman, Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale Law School and author of We the People, a multivolume series on the constitution.

Trump’s “assaults on the rule of law” could mean “we might well once again see an impeachment,” Ackerman told The Independent.
But nobody is certain what will happen next.

The administration is deploying a legal theory that would effectively grant the president limitless authority across the government and, by extension, over the courts, which have long acted as a critical check on the presidency.

“The unitary executive theory is really just a way to cloak the morphing of a democratically elected president into a dictator with the appearance of legality,” writes legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance.

“If presidents can do whatever they want, including putting people on a plane and sending them to prisons in a foreign country with no due process whatsoever, then really, who are we?” she wrote. “We are inevitably headed, whether it’s in this case or another, to a confrontation between a president who has rejected the rule of law and a judge sworn to enforce it. We are in an exceedingly dangerous moment for democracy.”…………

What happens if Trump continues to defy court orders?

Trump could be on a path to contempt of court or his own impeachment, legal experts tell Alex Woodward. But nobody knows where a ‘dangerous moment for democracy’ is headed

www.independent.co.uk