@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL wins grievance against NFLPA, putting an end to yearly team report cards
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-grievance-nflpa-team-report-cards/
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgI donated to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School https://www.brennancenter.org/
Due to the dire threats to the USA from the current administration and the Republican party I am donating as much money as I spend on myself this year to protect us from those threats to our way of life.
@kctipton@mas.toIf We had a Functional Constitution, We Wouldn’t have an Illegal War https://contrarian.substack.com/p/if-we-had-a-functional-constitution
@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.socialUne #petition intéressante
Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement
https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.
@servelan@newsie.socialFulton County argues FBI seizure of 2020 ballots shows ‘callous disregard’ for constitutional rights - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/08/fulton-county-fbi-seizure-2020-ballots-constitution-00770938
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution plans to cut around 50 positions, or ~15% of its workforce, with about half of them in the newsroom, as it seeks to cut costs (J. Scott Trubey/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/business/2026/02/the-a
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFulton County argues FBI seizure of 2020 ballots shows 'callous disregard' for constitutional rights (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/08/fulton-county-fbi-seizure-2020-ballots-constitution-00770938
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p54#a260208p54
@cdarwin@c.im”A MUST-READ FOR THIS ERA"
-- JAKE TAPPER
KIM WEHLE:
HOW TO READ THE CONSTITUTION
— AND WHY
https://kimberlywehle.com/how-to-read-the-constitution-and-why/
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineSeems this is becoming relevant today. No potus can suspend or change elections.
Congress could, if it wanted to, pass laws about elections. But there is no mechanism for the Feds to choose things about elections beyond that.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/art…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI had heard about this story (because it's local) but didn't hear about the biking angle of it...
https://fat-bike.com/2026/02/beach-bikers-beware-new-wisconsin-trespassing-ruling/
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialNotice how Congress never communicates explicit consequences to #Trump for any of his crimes? (And he owns the SCOTUS)
He's never faced any penalty, any consequence or even a threat against his criminal fascism. No one even bothers to adhere or even reference the Constitution.
He's untouchable.
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaI am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear. (Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1r1d0zt
@rberger@hachyderm.ioUnbelievable! Trump and his radical fascist treasonous minions are clearly doing everything possible to destroy the US Society and Economy.
They must be removed and face the consequences of their tearing up of the Constitution and destroying the lives of so many Americans.
#USPolitics
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-trump-immigrant-truckers-21958139.php
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialRest in Peace
US Constitution
Effective March 4, 1789
Terminated January 8, 2026
On January 8, 2026 trump declared himself dictator (but avoided using that word):
'In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.'
<…
@adulau@infosec.exchangeThe US withdrawing from many organisations including GFCE (Global Forum on Cyber Expertise) doesn’t look promising about their commitment to cybersecurity.
#us #cybersecurity
@servelan@newsie.socialWanting ICE to follow the Constitution is a bridge too far,
I guess...
Sen. Johnson hardens opposition to Dem DHS demands as shutdown looms
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/congress-ice-dhs-johnson-government-shutdown.html
@cdarwin@c.imIt doesn’t happen often,
but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents.
Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable when they violate the Constitution and the law.
https://www.propublica.…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic overhauled Claude's "Constitution" to enable the AI to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/21/anthropic-claude-ai-chatbot-n…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which had about 75K digital-only subscribers and 40K print subscribers, ends its print edition after 157 years (Kay Powell/Atlanta Magazine)
https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-cultu
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@annsev@troet.cafeWhy does the US military trust Darth #Trump? It owes nothing to him, but everything to the Constitution — that is what the military has sworn to uphold.
For Trump and his fellows, it's all about the thrill of a first-person shooter game.
Apart from the fact that an attack on Iran would be contrary to international law, it would also be illegal under American law because Congress was not …
@markhburton@mstdn.social"The attack on January 3 is not the first against Venezuela. In fact, the pressure campaign began in 2001 when the government of Hugo Chavez enacted a Hydrocarbons Law in accordance with the sovereignty provisions in the Bolivarian Constitution of 1999."
Trump’s regime change bid in Caracas follows 25 years of strangling #Venezuela | Morning Star
@adjb@social.lol👀 Browsing Chief barred from entering QC constitution meeting with Eagle Staff (https://www.aptnnews.ca/featured/chief-barred-from-entering-quebec-constitution-meeting-with-eagle-staff/).
@hex@kolektiva.socialI explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comStacey Abrams rules out 2026 bid for Georgia governor (Greg Bluestein/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/01/stacey-abrams-rules-out-2026-bid-for-georgia-governor/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p95#a260108p95
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialIf the Democratic Party takes Congress in 2026, the first thing they should do is end the Senate filibuster. It’s a rule that if it ever did serve a purpose, it now prevents any opportunity for Congress to challenge a POTUS that does not respect the rule of law. It’s not in the constitution.
#USpol #SenateFilibuster
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyClear message from the Trump regime to European clients* dependent on US tech companies: those will be brought under control.
*) like the Dutch tax authority preparing to outsource all of its VAT collection.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.comMy new year related hot take: The 250th birthday of the United States is 250 years after the ratification of the constitution (In 2038), not the declaration of independence.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s War on Iran
Violates International Law
& U.S. Constitution
-- War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/2/iran_reed_brody
@UP8@mastodon.social😅 New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
#usa
@steve@s.yelvington.comAny day now they'll claim all that "Congress shall make no law" stuff in the Constitution doesn't apply to Trump's
orders.
@jensilber@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115822463106796601
The U.S. Constitution is the only thing that has ever made sense to me. (And no, I am not an atheist or agnostic.)
@servelan@newsie.social"Watched 10 minutes. I found myself with tears streaming down my face.
Watching Trump take the oath to defend the Constitution, as he tears it down. The dissonance of Melania saying her husband would be a 'unifier,' and all the pomp and circumstance for someone so venal. So beneath the great office - and wishing we could turn the clock back.
Journalist gives brutal review of Melania movie: 'Not a single person in the theater' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/melania-2675108961/
@egallager@social.treehouse.systemsOK poll results are in; it looks like the narrowest option ("knowingly and maliciously lies") won, so that's what I've gone with:
https://github.com/cooljeanius/w_Constitution/commit/6000418f9ddf711c9e09633f0bf82b96910f9644
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineWasn't the 2nd Amendment – the right to bear arms – included in the U.S. Constitution to ensure that an armed citizenry could act as a safeguard against government tyranny?
The safeguard doesn't seem to work.
At all.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThis article is absolute insanity. The only way I can describe it is being from a Rabidly anti-Canadian American.
And in an overall tone of disrespect for the rule of law, autonomy, democracy, or progressive thought.
"In a strategy of the retrenchment, the dismemberment of Canada becomes a wise decision. Rather than allowing it to continue down a path of anti-American antagonism, the United States could support the Alberta and Quebec separatist movements. A successful secession by Alberta alone would cripple the federal fisc, and drive separatism in other regions due to the resultant decline in their equalization payments which comprises such a substantial part of their provincial budgets. In the end, British Columbia and a unified Maritime province would be admitted to the Union as Democratic states while Alberta and Saskatchewan would be admitted as Republican states; ensuring continued balance in the US Senate.
The rump of Canada, left with only one or two provinces, would finally be able to revise its constitution with ease. Under US pressure, the rump could become a freely associated state similar to Palau, with a new constitution reordering society along American lines. In time, perhaps it too could be annexed.”
#Canada #USA #CanPoli #CdnPoli #51stState #Separatism #Alberta #Quebec
https://defenseanalyses.org/work/our-canadian-problem/
(edit: sorry, wrong link previously)
@cdarwin@c.imAbortion will stay legal in Wyoming
after the state’s supreme court struck down two near-total abortion bans on Tuesday,
ruling that the laws violate the constitution of the profoundly conservative state.
In a 4-1 decision, the justices decided that the two bans
– which include the nation’s first exclusive ban on abortion pills
– violated a 2012 state constitutional amendment.
That amendment affirmed competent adults’ right to make their own healthcare de…
@usul@piaille.fr12 k Signature c'est bien, mais c'est loin d'être assez. Aller, on se mobilise pour que nos politiques et donc nos journalistes partent de la plateforme X
https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/i-2610
@paulwermer@sfba.socialIs the #GOP Congress OK with the Adminstration's refusal to comply with the #SCOTUS ruling?
Something about oaths of office and defend the constitution exists, doesn't it?
#SpeakerJohnson d…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialIs the #GOP Congress OK with the Adminstration's refusal to comply with the #SCOTUS ruling?
Something about oaths of office and defend the constitution exists, doesn't it?
#SpeakerJohnson d…
@servelan@newsie.socialStopped by ICE? Here’s what the Constitution says about your rights - Poynter
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2026/stopped-by-ice-heres-what-the-constitution-says-about-your-rights/
@kctipton@mas.toWhy Local and State Police Rarely Investigate Federal Agents — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaTrump is apparently taking over LA, using "WILDFIRE DISASTERS" as the means! 💀
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-state-and-local-failures-to-rebuild-los-ang…
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… @… Sorry, but I don't buy the difference in the President's ability to fire members of the Fed, FTC, SEC, or NLRB. If you want to point to a specific difference in the statutes or Constitution, I'll rea…
@chiraag@mastodon.online @CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaA fascist paramilitary abducting too many people is not an excuse for unlawful detentions, ignoring court orders, violations of the constitution, inhumane treatment, excessive force, and invasion.
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1qwcwhs
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I don't like videos that tell …
@rberger@hachyderm.ioWe will hunt down ICE members and their command chain, arrest them, lock them up and throw away the key. They are all treasonous insurrectionists shredding the Constitution. They will pay. https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115973241364827209
@cdarwin@c.imThe Constitution inarguably applies to federal immigration agents
—but the Supreme Court has taken away the hope of ever holding them to that standard.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/ice-scotus-impunity/685298/
@kurtsh@mastodon.social @servelan@newsie.socialWar in Iran: 'The US Constitution's inability to limit the president's war powers is a danger to world order'
https://archive.ph/i5kT9
@memeorandum@universeodon.comYou don't need to be a liberal to oppose Trump's ICE (Eric Levitz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/476263/trump-ice-minnesota-constitution-renee-good
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p99#a260123p99
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialThis is
a) a violation of our US laws (and Constitution) regarding war-like acts.
b) going to further inflame and fuel the belief among Muslims that the US is pursuing a new christian-religious crusade. The long term damage this will cause to the US is immense.
In other words, el cheato is violating US law and putting US interests (and citizens) in considerable danger.
"US carries out strikes on Nigeria targeting Islamic State militants, Trump says"
<…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgI donated to ACLU today https://www.aclu.org/
"For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in thi…
@egallager@social.treehouse.systemsConversation on BlueSky convinced me to add the following clause to Article I, to clarify that the addition I'm considering making to Article II wouldn't be exclusive:
https://github.com/cooljeanius/w_Constitution/commit/b9c017249cb547ac4e5b3f5bf123ac18ba72fbe5
@pre@boing.worldAsimov wrote his laws of robotics as a dramic device to show how difficult it is to write laws of robotics. How they always will contradict each other.
His laws are there to illustrate a problem, not as a genuine attempt at the solution. His laws are deliberately wrong.
#ai #anthropic
@cdarwin@c.imWhat is the ultimate authority of a king?
It’s to decide whether people live or die, based on his personal preference,
and allowing no challenge to his whims.
That’s the power that Donald Trump holds right now.
The Trump regime’s war against Iran is illegal under U.S. law.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution gives Congress
– not the president
– the power to declare war.
The War Powers Act allows the president to send the milit…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online“The United States of America came within a few minutes of dying at the Battle of Gettysburg.
In fact, America came within seconds of being destroyed.
During those decisive moments a unit of the United States Army saved the republic.
The saviors of the Union were from Minnesota.”
https://stev…
@buercher@tooting.chTrump just declared war. Is he allowed to do so? SCOTUS may have to decide.
The Declare War Clause is a central element of Congress’s war powers and its meaning is among those most heavily debated. The Supreme Court has observed that only Congress has the power to declare war but the implications of this exclusive assignment are not well-settled.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C11-2-1/ALDE_00000110/
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaAttorney Details Misconduct and violations of the constitution at Minneapolis Concentration camps (Minnesota - 1/31/26)
Source:
#politics
@cdarwin@c.imJUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's attempt to strip security clearance from #whistleblower lawyer
#Mark #Zaid.
Judge Amir Ali (Biden) says the move may violate Constitution's ban on bills of attainder.
@usul@piaille.frOn a atteint 10% des 100k signature pour que nos politiques bougent de X, continuons de signer : https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/2610
@servelan@newsie.social"“Put simply, our Constitution does not allow the President to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures.”
In major rebuke, federal judge blocks key parts of Trump’s anti-voting order - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-permanently-blocks-core-parts-trump-elections-executive-order/
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialSo, now ICE says that it can enter homes without a warrant.
The article below says "The change is almost certain to meet legal challenges and stiff criticism"
Gee, I would also expect "The change is almost certain to meet the barrel of a gun".
I fully anticipate that this is going to introduce ICE agents to the sensation of buckshot - or a bullet - at short range.
So yet another section of our Constitution dies at the hands of trump and his minions…
@cdarwin@c.imAfter Missouri residents voted to repeal their state’s near-total abortion ban
and enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution,
Conservative advocates quickly got to work.
In a lawsuit filed the day after the 2024 election,
abortion providers challenged not only the constitutionality of the state’s ban,
⚠️but also a slew of other restrictions that, they said,
made their jobs so arduous as to be impossible.
More than a year later, they are…
@cdarwin@c.im12 ordinary LA jurors say “No!” to ICE goons and federal prosecutors.
At least part of the constitution still lives and does its job:
the Sixth Amendment's right to a jury trial to decide criminal charges.
Jury acquits L.A. man who towed immigration agent’s car during TikTok influencer’s arrest
-- Susan E Seager
@rberger@hachyderm.io"So it’s not enough to equate Trump’s legions to the Gestapo or the Klan. (I’ve done both.) He also is the 21st-century version of Attila or Genghis Khan, heading a horde that is defined by an exterminationist loathing of cities and all that they stand for and promote. Their diversity, their toleration, their culture, their solidarity across racial and other lines—all are threats to the horde’s and its ruler’s autocratic monoculture. On the streets, the horde’s loathing manifests as indifference (at least) to the loss of city dwellers’ lives.
As it is the 21st century, and as we have an 18th-century Constitution, Trump’s impulse for city sacking Š la Attila is constrained by laws and customs, but he’s plainly determined to find ways around as many of those constraints as he possibly can. Correspondingly, a good share of the fear he’s engendered all across America has an ancient pedigree: It’s the fear of the barbarians at the gates."
#USPolitics
https://prospect.org/2026/01/15/attila-genghis-khan-trump/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPresident Trump Will Get a Third Term Even Without Defying the Constitution (John F. Harris/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/20/donald-trump-legacy-history-00736032
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p18#a260120p18
@servelan@newsie.socialFirst Amendment lawyers say Minneapolis ICE observers are protected by Constitution • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2026/01/29/repub/ice-observers/
@cdarwin@c.imRepublicans cheer Trump's
un-American activities shredding the US Constitution
Article I, Section 8 War powers
1st Amendment: Protects freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
4th Amendment: Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures; requires warrants based on probable cause.
10th Amendment: Powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people.
@cdarwin@c.imThe key to ⚠️holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accountable for constitutional violations -- may lie in a 1987 law review article by a young law professor named Akhil Reed Amar.
“I think it was a good idea then,” he said last week,
“and it’s only taken more than half a lifetime for people to actually read the thing.”
The article has, in truth, been quite influential. It has been cited, for instance, in seven Supreme Court opinions.
But it was also 96 pa…
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump admin's 'eerie' holiday posts 'may have violated the Constitution': analysis - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-christian-nationalists-2674831430/
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump is planning to use his attack on Iran to justify a power grab over voting in the 2026 midterms.
The fact that the attack violates the Constitution won’t stop him from trying.
It is our job to expose this plot and ensure that it does not succeed. https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says (Joanna Slater/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/15/protesters-trump-administration-free-speech-violations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p10#a260116p10
@cdarwin@c.imDemocratic leaders were outspoken during the massive US military buildup in the Middle East,
⭐️decrying his unwillingness to engage with Congress and lack of long-term strategy for Iran.
🔸They noted that it was Trump, during his first term, who shredded Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran.
Once the US and Israeli military struck on Saturday, the sharpest voices accused the president of riding roughshod over the constitution.
Senator Bernie
@cdarwin@c.im @buercher@tooting.chLe sénateur Ron Wyden revient sur la déclaration d’intention du 14 novembre 2025 abaissant les droits de douane de 39% Š 15%. Un accord intervenu dix jours après que des chefs d’entreprises suisses ont offert Š Trump une horloge Rolex et un lingot d’or personnalisé de 1 kg. L’acceptation de «ces cadeaux d’une valeur monétaire importante» représente «un conflit d’intérêts apparent et des violations possibles de la clause sur les émoluments de la Constitution américaine».
https://www.letemps.ch/monde/un-apparent-conflit-d-interets-l-horloge-rolex-et-le-lingot-d-or-offerts-a-donald-trump-dans-le-viseur-du-senat-americain
@cdarwin@c.imWith Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel.
Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him.
Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg,
was violating laws and the constitution,”
said Larry Jacobs,
director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the…
@cdarwin@c.imThis is Zach Dembo
– the Democrat and former DOJ prosecutor running to flip KY-06 from red to blue.
Attorney General Pam Bondi just testified under oath to Congress about Jeffrey Epstein
– and she made one thing crystal clear:
𝗦𝗵𝗲’𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝘀𝗵𝗲’𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 attorney -- Not accountable to the Constitution.
Not accountable to the rule of law. Accountable to 𝘩𝘪𝘮.
I saw this up close at the DOJ, and it’s why I resigned
@cdarwin@c.imThe Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing
public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional,
affirming that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.”
The 2022 measure was enacted by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature over Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto.
It was struck down the next year by a lower court.
The state’s high court ruled the “Constitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funnel…
@cdarwin@c.imAlan Dershowitz, a former lawyer for Trump, recently said in an interview that he and Trump have discussed the possibility of Trump running for a third term in office
— an action that would violate the U.S. Constitution.
“I said ‘it’s not clear if a president can become a third-term president and it’s not clear if it’s permissible,'”
Dershowitz recounted of his conversation with Trump.
Dershowitz, who was part of Trump’s legal team during his first impeachment tri…
@cdarwin@c.imA federal judge Thursday decried what he said were
“breathtaking” constitutional violations
by senior Trump administration officials
and called the president
an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to
“toe the line absolutely.”
In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief,
U.S. District Judge #William
@cdarwin@c.imU.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced dumb-ass legislation today
that would allow private entities to play at Pirates🏴☠️in the Caribbean
The "Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act"
authorizes felon-president Trump to commission American pirates,
under "letters of marque"
to seize property and persons on land or sea.
Representative Tim Bimbo Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states
that would require election officials to
🆘 remove any
🔸alleged 🔸
ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls.
The agreement
— called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU
— would❌ hand the federal government a major role in election administration,
a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution.…
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115901426247196926
Although the Insurrection Act appears to confer wide-ranging authority,
the Department of Justice has long taken the position that the law is
“limited . . . by the Constitution and by tradition.”
In a 19…
