Terry A. Doughty says he gets to decide who the FBI, DHS, HHS, and the Justice Department can talk to.

  • chaogomu
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    361 year ago

    I think that it’s always important to note here, this isn’t just a Trump judge, this is a Federalist Society judge. Leonard Leo, the head of the Federalist Society, hand-picked every judge that Trump appointed.

    Some history on the cancer that is the Federalist Society. They were created in the 1980s after Robert Bork went mask off in his confirmation hearings and was rightly denied a supreme court seat for his blatantly fascist beliefs about the law.

    Side note, Bork was the guy who complied with Nixon’s order to fire the Watergate Special Council.

    So Bork gets voted down in the Senate and doesn’t get to be on the top court, Reagan then has to pick someone who can get through a confirmation hearing without admitting to being a full fascist.

    The conservatives of the time hated this. So they created a conservative legal movement designed to shit on the law while shifting everything firmly to the right.

    Almost every single Republican lawyer in any public office, be it a lawmaker or judge, is a member of the Federalist Society now. They have large chapters at every major law school, and have a coordinated effort to produce legal papers and theory crafting to justify their right-wing jackassery.

    They also file lawsuits in friendly jurisdictions under assumed causes to push for cases to get to the Supreme Court (which has 6 members) to change laws, all so that they can legislate from the bench.

    The three recent Supreme Court cases that turned out to all have been based on lies? That was Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society.

    • @AlecSadler
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      31 year ago

      Thanks for the info! I legit didn’t know.

      Also, fuck Leonard Leo.

  • @Hazzardis
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    261 year ago

    This why we all have to vote. Get a super majority, and add seats to the Supreme Court, hopefully end lifetime appointments while we’re at it.

    • ClassyDave
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      61 year ago

      It feels like the will of the majority of US citizens is getting lost. The supreme court should be following legal precedent and if an issue can’t be solved that way or would be better suited for a vote then, a popular vote should decide major issues facing us, the citizens.

      • @assassin_aragorn
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        71 year ago

        We’re at the precipice of an electoral landslide victory against Republicans if the trends from the midterms and special elections earlier this year hold. I’m hopeful about it and that’s what’s keeping me going.

        • @RGB3x3
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          91 year ago

          The republicans are going to fight it in the most unethical and illegal ways possible and they’re probably going to get away with it. Until the democrats act with some spines, we’re going to keep barrelling toward the destruction of democracy.

          • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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            21 year ago

            The republicans are going to fight it in the most unethical and illegal ways possible

            They’ve already been doing that for a long time. There’s a limit to how far that’ll get you.

            • @PostmodernPythia
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              The fact that institutional guardrails have slowed this so far does not indicate that there’s a limit to how far this can go.

            • themeatbridge
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              01 year ago

              So said every spineless centrist for the last 60 years.

  • Flying Squid
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    241 year ago

    So Elon Musk makes up a conspiracy theory and now we have judges believing it.

    We’re doomed, aren’t we?

    • dub
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      41 year ago

      We’ve been doomed. welcome to the party

  • @SquirtleHermit
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    171 year ago

    It’s kinda weird to see so plainly that the law is just a facade. Normally it’s treated more like an immutable object.

  • @Holyginz
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    21 year ago

    Can someone with more in depth understanding of the law with in here? This sounds shady and illegal as hell but I am far from being well read on law.