@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
@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.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.…
@steve@s.yelvington.comWhy is it that violating the Constitution is just business as usual, but following it is "creating a constitutional crisis?"
@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
@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 …
@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/).
@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…
@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/
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialOur patent system, like our copyright system, has become a monster in which the "monopoly" period granted to patent (and cop;yright) holders far, far exceeds what is granted by our US Constitution.
The Constitution requires that patents and copyrights (but not trademarks) be for "limited times". That is not defined, but it must be interpreted in the context of the Contitution's goal to "promote scientific and artistic progress".
The following ra…
@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…
@annsev@troet.cafeThe war that Darth #Trump is waging against #Iran is unconstitutional; it is a violation of international law and a war crime.
If the military—which is sworn to uphold the Constitution, not the president—carries out the announced massive military strikes against “Iranian civilization,” then the entire militar…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@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
@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.
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@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…
@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
@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.
@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
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialTrump's already violated the 1st, 5th & 14th amendments of the #Constitution (look it up) & faced ZERO repercussions... so who's to stop him from violating the 22nd amendment?
☑️ #Trump Supports Third Term As Reward In Controversial Post | HuffPost Latest News
@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.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialMisleading headline, again.
Here's the original headline:
"Trump orders DHS to pay all employees despite shutdown"
Here's what it ought to say:
"Congress allows Trump to cut off its balls, again, by giving away its Constitutional power over spending our money"
The R-party has pretty much given up on our US Constitution and has become merely a new court of Versailles dedicated to nothing more than kissing King Donald's ample bottom…
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@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.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/
@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
@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…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caFrance is on its 5th Republic.
Perhaps it is time for serious citizens of the United States of America to start thinking about the successes and failures of the USA’s first republic and start working on a constitution and system of government for the 2nd American Republic.
It could be argued that this is a natural cycle for all democracies. France went back and forth from Republic to Empirical Fascist half a dozen times in 200 years before landing on its fifth iteration in 1958.
Many other countries (Spain, Germany, Austria) have had similar progressions.
#usa #theAmericanFascist #democracy #republic
@servelan@newsie.socialHungary’s Tisza plans to amend constitution to block Orbšn comeback
https://tvpworld.com/92467859/hungarys-tisza-seeks-to-block-orbn-comeback-with-pm-term-limits
@cdarwin@c.imAt first, sexual harassment lawyer Megan Thomas just wanted to put up a modest ad above a garbage can in the back of a New York airport terminal to advertise her law firm's services.
It read:
“When HR called it harmless flirting … we called it exhibit A."
But when the airport authority rejected the ad copy and asked her to tone it down, she filed a lawsuit claiming her free speech rights under the U.S. constitution had been violated
A judge agreed,
and …
@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.
@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
@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…
@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…
@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.
@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/
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaAttorney Details Misconduct and violations of the constitution at Minneapolis Concentration camps (Minnesota - 1/31/26)
Source:
#politics
@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
@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/
@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
@cdarwin@c.imBy invoking his faith in wartime, Hegseth breaks with history
The defense secretary is upending decades-old norms,
and current and former leaders say his proselytizing violates the Constitution
and undermines troop cohesion.
A senior Army civilian who has worked in the Pentagon for decades said people who work there are afraid to talk to one another or their superiors about concerns over Hegseth’s actions.
The Army civilian, who spoke on the condition of anony…
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[2/2]:
- The Geometry of Harmful Intent: Training-Free Anomaly Detection via Angular Deviation in LLM Resi...
Isaac Llorente-Saguer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27412 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116323180390164201
- LongCat-Next: Lexicalizing Modalities as Discrete Tokens
Meituan LongCat Team, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27538 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116323299668026852
- Emergent Social Intelligence Risks in Generative Multi-Agent Systems
Huang, Jiang, Wang, Zhuang, Luo, Ma, Xu, Chen, Moniz, Lin, Chen, Chawla, Dziri, Sun, Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27771 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMA_bot/116322908437739020
- KVSculpt: KV Cache Compression as Distillation
Bo Jiang, Sian Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27819 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116323241993833314
- Q-Bridge: Code Translation for Quantum Machine Learning via LLMs
Runjia Zeng, Priyabrata Senapati, Ruixiang Tang, Dongfang Liu, Qiang Guan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27836 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116323164660887506
- EffiSkill: Agent Skill Based Automated Code Efficiency Optimization
Zimu Wang, Yuling Shi, Mengfan Li, Zijun Liu, Jie M. Zhang, Chengcheng Wan, Xiaodong Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27850 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/116322989347928729
- Efficient Inference of Large Vision Language Models
Surendra Pathak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27960 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116323256085918152
- CDH-Bench: A Commonsense-Driven Hallucination Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Fidelity in Vision-...
Kesheng Chen, Yamin Hu, Qi Zhou, Zhenqian Zhu, Wenjian Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27982 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116323319000206060
- MOSS-VoiceGenerator: Create Realistic Voices with Natural Language Descriptions
Huang, Fan, Jiang, Jiang, Tu, Zhu, Zhang, Zhao, Yang, Fei, Li, Yang, Cheng, Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28086 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/116322971980743316
- Does Claude's Constitution Have a Culture?
Parham Pourdavood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28123 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116322911684465443
- MiroEval: Benchmarking Multimodal Deep Research Agents in Process and Outcome
Fangda Ye, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28407 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116323220038984883
- IsoQuant: Hardware-Aligned SO(4) Isoclinic Rotations for LLM KV Cache Compression
Zhongping Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28430 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116323286231537351
- Entropic Claim Resolution: Uncertainty-Driven Evidence Selection for RAG
Davide Di Gioia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28444 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116323220366355511
- Moving Beyond Review: Applying Language Models to Planning and Translation in Reflection
Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Richard Lee Davis, Tanja K\"aser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28596 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/116323161382060848
- ResAdapt: Adaptive Resolution for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning
Huanxuan Liao, Zhongtao Jiang, Yupu Hao, Yuqiao Tan, Shizhu He, Jun Zhao, Kun Xu, Kang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28610 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116323344559859277
- The Ultimate Tutorial for AI-driven Scale Development in Generative Psychometrics: Releasing AIGE...
Lara Russell-Lasalandra, Hudson Golino, Luis Eduardo Garrido, Alexander P. Christensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28643 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116323236095523987
- SOLE-R1: Video-Language Reasoning as the Sole Reward for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning
Philip Schroeder, Thomas Weng, Karl Schmeckpeper, Eric Rosen, Stephen Hart, Ondrej Biza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28730 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/116323253135037252
- ParaSpeechCLAP: A Dual-Encoder Speech-Text Model for Rich Stylistic Language-Audio Pretraining
Anuj Diwan, Eunsol Choi, David Harwath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28737 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116322903493463665
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@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euThe West Wing, 1x09, The Short List. It's a good one. Shockingly, about privacy--in 1999, looking 20 years ahead. Goose bumps.
It's also about a Supreme Court nomination balanced on the question 'Is privacy a natural law, or the justice shouldn't favour it, as it's not specifically protected by the Constitution?'
@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/
@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/
@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.socialUne #petition intéressante
Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement
https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116313733072432493
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees citizenship to any child born within the United States, with limited exceptions.
Revoking this right would require amending the U.S. Constitution,
or for…
@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…
@cdarwin@c.imOfficials from 23 Democratic states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Friday
seeking to block Trump's latest executive order that aims to restrict mail voting,
arguing the directive unconstitutionally attempts to interfere with states' administration of elections.
The lawsuit, led by California,
was filed with the U.S. district court in Massachusetts.
It asserts that neither the Constitution nor any federal law gives the president the power to…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJustice Department Notifies California and Maine of Investigations into Whether Housing Biological Men in Women's Prisons Violates Constitution (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-notifies-california-and-maine-investigations-whether-housing-biological
http://www.memeorandum.com/260326/p173#a260326p173
@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…
@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/
@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/
@cdarwin@c.imImmigration-enforcement officers have used tear gas on nonviolent protesters, broken into homes and cars, and killed people, including U.S. citizens.
ICE and Customs and Border Protection have been behaving like an out-of-control police force.
No wonder, then, that when lawyers and other advocates try to challenge these federal officials’ abuses of power—in court and on the streets—they tend to reach for the same legal tool used to combat police violence:
the Fourth Amend…
@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
@chiraag@mastodon.online @memeorandum@universeodon.comThings to know ... :yadot ot eerht sgniht ! gninrom wonk rof era ereH dooG (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/03/delta-suspends-major-travel-perk-for-members-of-congress/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p65#a260324p65
@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.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.socialFirst Amendment lawyers say Minneapolis ICE observers are protected by Constitution • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2026/01/29/repub/ice-observers/
@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.
@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
@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.
@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.
@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
@servelan@newsie.socialPete Hegseth ran right into 'classic' violation of Constitution with 'Orwellian' directive that had 'no legal effect,' judge rules | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-smacks-down-pete-hegseth-after-grilling-trump-admin-lawyer-in-court/
@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.
@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
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Constitution's Sweeping Pardon Power Is Its Achilles' Heel for Checking an Imperial President (Gabriel Schoenfeld/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-constitutions-sweeping-pardon
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p99#a260318p99
@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
@servelan@newsie.socialJudge’s brutal ruling against Trump DHS calls out 'flagrant violation' of Constitution - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-dhs-daca/
@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.
@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
@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.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
@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.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…
@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.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.imFolks — My name is Harry Dunn, and if you chip in $5 to help send me to Congress, I’ll subpoena Donald Trump when I get there.
Please forgive me for my bluntness, but I’m DISGUSTED with Donald Trump’s disregard for the Constitution.
The 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗬 𝗪𝗔𝗬 to fight back against Trump is to elect Democrats who aren’t afraid to call him out on his BS!
We 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 take back the House in the Midterm Elections so we can use the full weight of Congressional oversight to hold him accountable.…
@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…
