White House considering suspending habeas corpus, Stephen Miller says
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/09/habeas-corpus-white-house

Ford government has introduced a bill that would allow #CivilForfeiture in #Ontario. https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-44/session-1/bill-10#BK10

Civil Forfeiture allows the police to steal your property and force you to prove that you didn't commit a crime. It is an affront to #DueProcess of law.

#Canada: #BC Premier’s comments on judicial matters threatens rule of law | Law Society of BC https://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/news-and-engagement/news/bc-premier%E2%80%99s-comments-on-judicial-matters-threatens-rule-of-law/ #RuleOfLaw #JudicialIndependence

#Canada: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada wrote to the #Premier of #Ontario, Doug Ford, today to express concern about his recent public comments in response to a court decision with which he disagreed. "These remarks risk undermining the independence of the judiciary—a cornerstone of a democratic society governed by the rule of law," LRWC wrote. | See the full LRWC letter at: https://www.lrwc.org/ontario-canada-independent-judiciary/ #RuleOfLaw #JudicialIndependence #law #lawfedi

Judge Rules that Detained Tufts Student Must Be Released: Andrew Weissmann explains: "There's a presumption of innocence, and you don't put people in jail unless there's a good reason that's proved by a certain level of proof"

#TheContrarian #law #ruleoflaw #trump #SupremeCourt #RumeysaOzturk #kidnapping
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/judge-rules-that-detained-tufts-student

Jennifer Rubin: Undaunted officials smack down bullies: #Wisconsin governor punctures autocrats’ aura of omnipotence; similar support for the rule of law was delivered by bipartisan #judges

#TheContrarian #TonyEvers #trump #authoritarianism #immigration #ICE #law #ruleoflaw #HannahCDugan
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/undaunted-officials-smack-down-bullies

Sweden urges Turkey to release journalist https://www.byteseu.com/994137/ #AKParty #Democracy #Erdoğan #HumanRights #JoakimMedin #justice #LAW #MariaMalmerStenergard #oppression #RuleOfLaw #Sweden #SwedishNewspaperDagensETC #Turkey

Bosnia’s Secession Crisis Can Be an Opportunity for Progress https://www.byteseu.com/993138/ #accountability #Bosnia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #BosniaHerzegovina #Croatia #DaytonPeaceAgreement #Diplomacy #EuropeanUnion #Herzegovina #LawEnforcement #Nationalism #NorthAtlanticTreatyOrganization(NATO) #RuleOfLaw #Serbia #WesternBalkans

“Seventeen states are suing President Trump’s administration for withholding billions of dollars in funding for the build-out of electric vehicle chargers”

More of this please!

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-07/states-sue-over-trump-blocking-billions-of-dollars-for-electric-vehicle-charging

https://www.europesays.com/2058246/ 29 women killed by men, 14 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in April: report #akp #democracy #erdogan #HumanRights #IstanbulConvention #Justice #law #oppression #RuleOfLaw #ŞabanYaztırmak #SerdarHarmancı #SevilayYaztırmak #TheWeWillStopFemicidePlatform #Turkey #TurkeyWomensRights #turkiye #ZelihaÇinibulak

This week, North Carolina votes counted. Voter suppression didn’t work. The federal court decision is solid & unlikely to be reversed on appeal. The League brought this case to stand up for voters unfairly targeted after following the rules. We celebrate #Democracy #RuleOfLaw

Interview: Democratic Governor Tony Evers on the administration's threat to arrest Wisconsin officials over defying its mass deportation agenda.

What we’re seeing is "an absolute degradation of the rule of law," says fmr DoJ officer Lisa Graves.

There's a broader attack on "governors who dare to speak up,"

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/5/tom_homan_wisconsin_constitution

#ruleoflaw #trump #usconstitution #uspol #wisconsin #intimidation .

"Critics of the Trump administration have called this state of affairs a constitutional crisis. I have come to think of it more like a constitutional collapse: long vacant, the vestiges of the US’s democracy are crumbling to the ground, falling like an empty tent. We don’t yet know what, exactly, will be erected in its place."

"We are witnessing slow constitutional collapse in the US"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2025/apr/30/we-are-witnessing-slow-constitutional-collapse-in-the-us

An insightful essay by Andrew Marantz in the #NewYorker: “Is It Happening Here?”

How far has the US traveled to #authoritarianism and is it getting too late to pull out of this decline? Add to this some comparisons with Hungary’s history of democratic backsliding and how it feels to live in that #Orban-ized #autocracy.

#democracy #fascism #ruleoflaw #deportations #corruption #tyranny

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/05/is-the-us-becoming-an-autocracy

The reich-wing administration has criticized #Germany's decision to ban #afd the far-right party, after a deep review of their activities.

According to columnist Heather Cox Richardson, Germany's Foreign Office responded thusly:

This is #democracy. The decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our #Constitution & the #ruleoflaw. It is independent #courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that #rightwing #extremism needs to be stopped.

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Our Founders believed in freedom of #speech, but were alert to the threat of #populism. Some of their attempts to mitigate that threat through representation government worked out reasonably well — separation of powers, the House of Representatives — while others — the Senate, the Electoral College — developed largely as sops to smaller states or slave states, have not.

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Jennifer Rubin: Putting tRump’s threats in writing doesn’t make them #law: A judge demolishes Trump’s assault on law firms

#TheContrarian #BerylHowell #PerkinsCoieLLP #Harvard #trump #executiveorder #ruleoflaw #university #education
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/putting-trumps-threats-in-writing

Jennifer Rubin at The Contrarian explains how Judge Beryl Howell (DC Circuit) threw the book at the Trump regime in her summary judgment overturning the EO against the law firm Perkins Coie.

Rubin also chides the media for failing to point out consistently that EO’s are NOT laws and that most of Trump’s weird pronouncements will turn out to be just so much hot air.

#EO #RuleofLaw #lawfirms #lawfare #PerkinsCoie #BerylHowell #Contrarian #JenniferRubin

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/putting-trumps-threats-in-writing

Interview: Democratic Governor Tony Evers on the administration's threat to arrest Wisconsin officials over defying its mass deportation agenda.

What we’re seeing is "an absolute degradation of the rule of law," says fmr DoJ officer Lisa Graves.

There's a broader attack on "governors who dare to speak up,"

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/5/tom_homan_wisconsin_constitution

#ruleoflaw #trump #usconstitution #uspol #wisconsin #intimidation .