Last week’s federal court decision forbidding the Trump administration from punishing the AP for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico was to take effect Monday. The administration is appealing the decision and arguing with the news outlet over whether it needs to change anything until those appeals are exhausted.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit set a Thursday hearing on Trump’s request that any changes be delayed while case is reviewed. The AP is fighting for more access as soon as possible.
“Despite court order…” is becoming the ubiquitous intro to news about the Trump administration.
Yup, America officially becomes fascist. The executive simply doesn’t respect the judicial branch anymore.
Mark my words, Trump will not let go gently come 2029.
Mark my words, Trump will not let go gently come 2029.
That’s the most depressing thing I’ve read for a long time. Even in the best case scenario we’re stuck with this bullshit until twenty twenty fucking nine!!
eh idk, maybe we’ll get a military coup and a new constitutional convention. We’ve been overdue for one since the last civil war
Can’t say I had US military junta on my 2020s bingo card.
What are the consequences?
Plenty of presidents have defied court orders. The type of order matters greatly. Defying injunctions is only contempt of court. This was a ruling, as was the return of Garcia. These are defining of a constitutional crisis.
Nobody in this administration should ever use the word ‘constitution’ in any context other than when playing D&D.
Like they’d be cool enough
Or when taking a shit, ie: daily constitutional.
More likely using up their daily stash of opium.
Then posting to xitter.
And for the fifth time this month, we stress test democracy!
If there is no push back, I’d say it’s broken and we’re not testing anymore.
I mean, if they’re going to refuse to honor a supreme court decision that instructs them to facilitate the return of a legal immigrant from the foreign prison they sent him to, why the hell would they care about a DC circuit ruling?
Americans are still going “CAN THEY DO THAT???” every day.
When they announce martial law, people are still going to be like “Well, this is not good, I’m going to rethink my vote!”
Naw they’ll be too busy at work to bother.
When the announce martial law
Why bother even announcing martial law? Trump’s DHS is functionally implementing it as we speak. We are in a state of de facto martial law whether we want to acknowledge it as such or not.
I mean, you’re absolutely right, there’s no need to do things by the book when you never picked up the book in the first place.
That’s all complacent liberal America wants to hear, that there’s NO formal declaration of martial law, thus everything must be fine!
They can’t return that guy, because he’s probably dead…
Whether they are appealing or not, this sounds like the administration is breaking the law. The ruling to allow AP doesn’t stop taking effect if an appeal is in process.
The Trump Administration keeps abusing that. They appeal something, and just do whatever they want until the appeal is processed.
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Petty little man. So what good is a court if nothing is ever enforced?
Its not. This is the breakdown of social agreements that have been long standing. Unless something is done to enforce these orders, we’ve effectively lost the rule of law, and things will get bad fast.
If the administration can ignore the courts, I guess everyone can now ignore the courts.
I think we all know that’s not how this works.
It absolutely works that way if you think like a North Irishman. Before they lost their balls, that is.
But someone might get hurt!
The working class has been getting hurt throughout human history.
That’s how you get tased and thrown into a cage 🤷
tho tbh there’s a decent chance of that happening anyway
Silly Americans are so new at this.
No, you see that’s when they announce martial law and roll out the ol’ Death Squads (they’ll have a patriotic name) to enforce the “new order” on the populace.
Americans gonna be shouting “Wait, this is illegal!”
This is going out to all my lib friends
Oh, yeah…
- The Reagan Regiment
- The Liberty Legion
- The Freedom Battalion
- The Constitution Guard
- The Federalist Front
- The Heritage Watch
- Stars & Stripes Corps
- The Patriot Brigade
- The Founders Force
These smooth-brained motherfuckers are so predictable I can do this all day.
Don’t forget, the most Anti-gay group out there, is called “The Proud Boys”
My money is on thinly veiled racism like “The National Purity Patrol” or “American Neighborhood Street Cleaners”
Yet more evidence that it doesn’t actually matter in the eyes of the Trump administration what the law says, or what a judge says, if there is nothing behind it to physically make them follow it or face actual consequences.
Yet more evidence that Americans can’t identify threats with even a shred of accuracy.
Like, when we were all saying “He’s gonna be a dictator!” and he was all like “I’m gonna be a dictator!” and then he gets into office and starts doing a dictatorship suddenly everyone is 😮
Most aren’t even shocked. They could care less.
They couldn’t care less
Fixed it for you.
A convicted felon is defying court orders and nothing happens. Fuck yeah merica! 🦅🦅🏳️🌈
The fourth box of liberty must be opened.
Is that the one in the safe under the bed?
Jesus. What happened to the first 3?
Corrupted, defanged, and ignored.
Why is this shocking to anyone and why isn’t anyone doing anything to stop it? Lots of talk. Zero action.
The media and the Democrats, and probably many Americans, still seem to think that if you keep pointing out how things are wrong, illegal, and against the rules, sooner or later a system will kick in to stop them. They haven’t yet adjusted to the reality of a fascist government. There is no longer freedom of speech or rule of law in the USA. There are no longer human rights. Your life can be ruined at any moment on the whim of the leader or his enforcers.
Too true, flooffloof.
And America wonders why Canadians are staying home in our safe democratically-run nation.
Poilievre just got a bump in the polls right when he said he would do the exact same thing in Canada, deporting people who speak up for Palestine. It’s a really critical moment for Canada, and crucial that everyone vote, and get their friends to vote, to keep this man away from power.
For now, as long as we all vote ABC…
Just like the rest of the world we are certainly not immune and probably as close as we have ever been to having a pro fascism PM in charge.
How’d the liberal party do passing that electoral reform they promised?
Courts need to look into getting some paramilitary deputies to do their enforcements. Slippery slope, I know, but without enforcement they’re just yelling at a bowl of rancid jello
So you’ll be taking trump to task now AP, and not just running soft interference for him, working on normalizing him and supporting all his fascist enablers?
Yeah, didn’t think so. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out AP.
You mean like this article from the AP we’re taking about? How are they supporting trump with this article?
Hahaha - them reporting on being burned by the clown they consistently played along with? Maybe.
I get the feeling you have no idea what the AP is or what it does.
That’s funny I was going to say the same thing about you!
