These scholars pointed to other Trump actions they say blatantly broke the law, such as freezing trillions of dollar in federal spending and dismissing members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), even though they were confirmed by the Senate and had several years left in their terms.
“Without any doubt Donald Trump is the most lawless and scofflaw president we have ever seen in the history of the United States,” said Laurence Tribe, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars and a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.
Tribe said Trump has carried out “a blitzkrieg on the law and the constitution. The very fact that the illegal actions have come out with the speed of a rapidly firing Gatling gun makes it very hard for people to focus on any one of them. That’s obviously part of the strategy.”
It feels like he is just trying to overwhelm opponents and the courts with a massive barrage of violations. It takes months or even a year for these things to work their way through the system. In the meantime he can slow them down and just keep enacting his edicts. By the time anyone stops him he could’ve had them going for months.
He also knows his supporters are so disconnected from reality and slaves to conspiracy theories that he can do anything and deflect it and his supporters will nod in agreement like trained seals.
Yeah, with emphasis on the German.
Don’t use words like Blitzkreig. It gets Elon all excited and he starts seig heiling everywhere.
If you can’t hold someone accountable for their actions in a court of law, there is no law.
Eventually you are left with the law of force
This is what he learned in the 8 years since he was first elected. That laws aren’t real and no one wants to enforce then. When you impeach someone twice and nothing of consequence happens, of course they stop fearing consequence.
Also, the dude isn’t going to live much longer. He probably figured he’d turn the crazy up to 11 and tear off the knob, because why the hell not?
He learned his lesson, just not the one anyone wanted him to learn.
This is why I take a behavioral science lens to so much of politics. They will learn the lesson you teach them. This is why principles are so important and shouldn’t be partisan or ignored.
It’s so simple that it’s kind of maddening that so few people get it.
I mean, there’s definitely still law. Just for little people with no resources.
“Law and order” was always code for “brutalize the minorities because we can.”
Fines have always been code for “you must be this rich to play.”
Who could’ve fucking predicted this?! So crazy (I’m leaving the US)
Have any good suggestions on where to go?
Following
It’s easy to do unconstitutional things when you haven’t read the constitution and have only been president once before
Convicted Felon elected to Presidency continues doing crimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe
Shock and awe (technically known as rapid dominance) is a military strategy based on the use of overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy’s perception of the battlefield and destroy their will to fight.
The Shock Doctrine, Milton Friedman’s “Economic Shock Treatment.”
The tools of oppression finally worming their way home to the USA. The CIA did this to other countries countless times.
Yeah but who’s gonna impeach him?
Congress! Oh wait…
Who’s going to actually enforce the impeachment.
Oh wouldn’t it be something to see, say, the 101st airborne dragging him out of the white house bunker while he yells orders at the secret service to defend him.
Exactly.
Even if they do it a third time, whos gonna vote to convict him? Who’s going to enforce it? There simply aren’t any consequences for him.
Exactly. He’s got Congress and the supreme court. Ain’t no one gonna do anything.
Don’t worry folks, the rest of the US just need to tell Trump “hey, that’s illegal!” and he’ll stop. If you need proof, just look at all the other times in history that dictators’ plans have been blocked by the courts.
When you’re the president, they let you do it! Grab 'em right in the rule of law.
🐸 Nigel is the pot a little warmer today?
Don’t worry, we’re only making plans for Nigel. Oooohhh.
We only want what’s best for him…
