“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535
I am driven by my emotions.
"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."
"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".
https://www.europesays.com/uk/10612/ The time has come to punish Orbán, Germany’s next government says – POLITICO #Breaches #EU #EUCommission #Europe #France #FriedrichMerz #GermanElection2025 #Germany #HumanRights #hungary #Judiciary #Negotiations #OlafScholz #Poland #Policy #Regions/Cohesion #Rights #RuleOfLaw #RussiaSanctions #Sanctions #Security #ViktorOrbán
Trump’s Latest Executive Order Lays Bare His Authoritarian Ambitions
His directive to the Justice Department to investigate Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, whose only crimes were telling the truth, is a frontal assault on the rule of law.
If we fail to hold Trump accountable for turning the justice system into a tool of revenge, we are not just rewriting the rules—we’re erasing them.
#Democracy #RuleOfLaw #Corruption
https://newrepublic.com/article/193854/trump-justice-dept-executive-order-taylor-krebs-authoritarian
https://www.europesays.com/1985118/ Prominent Turkish academic ends political commentary, fearing imprisonment #AKParty #akp #democracy #erdogan #HumanRights #Justice #law #NurayMert #oppression #RuleOfLaw #Turkey #turkiye
Please sign the petition to free Jeanette Vizguerra!
https://secure.afsc.org/a/freejeanette
Fundraiser: 
https://tinyurl.com/JeanetteGFM25 #immigration #RuleOfLaw #YouMayBeNext
Too late to buy that #iphone #tariffs #electronics #economy #maga #trump #democracy #ruleoflaw #government #stocks #apple BTW Tim Apple sold over 100,000 shares of stock on April 1. He apparently does not read #truthSocial
Yes, he’s an idiot, and he couldn’t care less what the Constitution or other laws say, but brave his stench for a minute and listen to what he’s saying - he always projects. He want to have one day voting, controlled by him.
He’s going to sign an EO declaring federal authority to control elections.
Then he’ll suspend them alleging war time powers.
And declare himself President for life.
Listen.
"If the government can disappear anyone it wishes, dump him in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/opinion/trump-deportations-gulag-prison.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U4.gWud.Zsk_iY8AaxHY&smid=url-share
#Trump #ruleoflaw #deportations #humanrights #ICE #geopolitics @geopolitics
We told you he was coming for the elections.
“No, he can’t, elections are run by the states,” good friends and smart people said.
Their optimism looks increasingly like naïveté.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3lmdrajc7tq2b
"The Government's conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law." ~ Justice Sotomayor pg17
"The Court's legal conclusion is suspect." ~ Justice Sotomayor pg2
![Cite as: 604 U.S. ___ (2025) 1
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A931
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, ET AL. v. J. G. G., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE THE ORDERS ISSUED BY
THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
[April 7, 2025]](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/303/101/012/583/965/original/4130a9ce8a98e340.png "Cite as: 604 U.S. ___ (2025) 1
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A931
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, ET AL. v. J. G. G., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE THE ORDERS ISSUED BY
THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
[April 7, 2025]")
"A lawyer's spring break trip to the Dominican Republic with his family ended on a troubling note at Detroit Metro Airport on Sunday: He was detained by federal agents, questioned about his clients, and asked to give up his cellphone, he says.
But Dearborn attorney Amir Makled, who is representing a pro-Palestinian demonstrator who was arrested at the University of Michigan last year, stood his ground. He didn't give up his phone.
"I'm an American citizen. I'm not worried about being deported," Makled said he recalled thinking to himself in the airport interrogation room. "So, I tell them, 'I know you can take my phone. I'm not going to give you my phone, however ... 90% of my work is on my phone. You're not getting unfettered access to (it).' "
What followed was a 90-minute, back-and-forth verbal tussle between Makled and two federal agents, who, he said, ultimately released him without taking his phone, but looked at his contacts list instead. For the 38-year-old civil rights and criminal defense attorney, it was a daunting experience that he says highlights a troubling phenomenon that's occurring across the United States: Lawyers are getting targeted for handling issues the administration of President Donald Trump disagrees with."
The Venezuelan detainees may not be unilaterally removed by the Trump adminstration.
Removal should be challenged in Texas courts, not D.C. courts.
"... the critical point is that the Supreme Court said individuals must be given due process to challenge their removal under the Alien Enemies Act."
~ ACLU
"... detainees must receive notice [...] within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs."
"Challenges to removal under the AEA [...] must be brought in habeas."
"... today’s order and per curiam confirm that the detainees subject to removal orders under the AEA are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal."
"The only question is which court will resolve that challenge."
"The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia."
~ SCOTUS
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf
#ACLU #5A #DueProcess #SCOTUS #habeascorpus #RuleOfLaw #law @law
Nobody should be disappeared - that’s what it is - to a hard labor prison in a foreign country without due process.
That includes U.S. citizens, immigrants with or without legal documentation, tourists, every human.
This is mob street violence not caring who gets caught in the crosshairs.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-supreme-court-deportations-aliens-enemies-act/
#uspol #ruleoflaw #immigration #supremecourt
Why should people care about things that don't affect them? | @destiny
“Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court's three liberal justices in dissenting with the majority ruling.
In the dissent, they wrote that the administration's "conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law".
Trump called the ruling a "great day for justice in America".”
Unconscionable. The Roberts court has killed the #Constitution and #RuleOfLaw in the U.S. They shame the entire profession. I am aghast.
Supreme Court rules the Rule of Law is optional, and there are very exacting standards which must be met before it can be taken down off the mantel and, you know, actually applied.
The Rule of Law is the Rule by Power, nothing more and nothing less.
#ruleoflaw #IllegitimateSCOTUS
#anAppealToHeaven flag would be
appropriate right about now, especially if you are an immigrant, papers or not
Three senior partners at the law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters wrote an Op-Ed urging the legal profession to stand together against attacks by the Nazi Regime #uspol #uspolitics #ruleoflaw #law
