The administration’s racist goon squads have absolutely been steamrolling the Constitution since Trump’s return to office. When ICE et al started roving throughout the nation looking for anyone non-white enough to be foreign, all rights were considered expendable.

The DHS made swift work of the Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendments by denying arrestees due process and access to legal representation. Officers grabbed people, sent them far from their home states, and shoved them into planes headed to foreign hellhole prisons as quickly as possible in hopes of nullifying the inevitable legal challenges.

The 14th Amendment got kicked while it was still down when the administration decided birthright citizenship was no longer a thing. And the entire administration simply pretends the First Amendment doesn’t apply to anyone who says things or does stuff it doesn’t like.

The Fourth Amendment got turned into a doormat last May when the DHS Office of Legal Counsel (usurping the role usually held by the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel) told federal officers they no longer needed judicial warrants to enter homes so long as they could semi-credibly claim the person they were seeking was subject to immigration court order of removal.

Edit: here is the nyt article this is based on. Thanks lemming n0respect https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/ice-expands-power-agents-warrants.html

    • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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      8 hours ago

      I wonder how many non white trump donors there are that are within reach of normal people

      • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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        Depends on your definition of reach. The rich like lots of windows, and those are pretty accessible points of entry to small fast moving metallic objects. The tools that use those small metallic objects are also pretty easy to acquire in most of the US for a pretty reasonable cost.