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Now watch him try to fire all federal judges too. 🙄
“All federal judges not appointed by me are fired.”
It would not surprise me if one of his flying monkeys in the House submitted articles of impeachment for the judge.
Good, but Trump is gonna do it anyway and fire whoever doesnt comply. The SCOTUS has guaranteed he can do whatever he wants with impunity, and the only remedy is impeachment.
This will be a good test if we have a new king or not
How many more tests do you fucking need? The water is boiling! Get out of the pot already!
(I realize the premise of the test that this adage is based on was flawed.)
Interesting idea here. Give the president so much rope to hang himself with that all but the brownest of the brown-nosers find his actions reprehensible. And thus impeachment becomes a valuable tool again.
SCOTUS playing 4D chess? Not so much, they’re probably right up there with the lot of them, but one can dream.
Impeachment only works if Congress isn’t filled with cowards. It was a good design when parties weren’t a thing and every senator was first and foremost representing their state’s interests (and actually spent most of their days in their state), but with a party duopoly that’s perpetually hovering around 50/50, you’ll just never get enough people to convict.
How many people do you think qualify as the brownest of brown nosers? I’m pretty sure that’s 100% of republican senators and congressmen and Trump appointed judges.
Yea? But they say that they talk so much shit about him behind closed doors!
I lost my faith that republicans would do the right thing in 2020. He should have been impeached and had his right to run for office taken away. They blocked it because they knew standing up against Trump would mean the end of their career (see Liz Cheney).
They blocked it because they knew standing up against Trump would mean the end of their career (see Liz Cheney).
Well, that or because a dictator is genuinely what they want.
Either way
Without even reading them, I know what the responses to this will be, so let me just say: I legitimately like your optimism!
I’ll go ahead and sharpen the national razor.
You don’t free yourself of an entrenched tyrant by impeachment. No dictator has ever been removed peacefully.
The full scope of the administration’s review was spelled out in a 51-page spreadsheet sent to federal agencies and viewed by The Associated Press. Each line was a different government initiative, from pool safety to tribal workforce development to special education.
Officials were directed to answer a series of yes or no questions for every item on the list, including “does this program promote gender ideology?” or “does this program promote or support in any way abortion?” Responses are due by Feb. 7.
This is where my heart sank. This article is so long but this blip and the conclusion points to what is really going down.
Here we go again
So has anyone been able to log back into the Payment Management Services portal Medicaid and HeadStart providers need yet? (archived)
Telling the Trump administration to stop doing stuff to undermine federal funding now seems like closing the barn door after the horses have already been taken out and put on a trailer that’s currently speeding towards the glue factory.
So how does this work in practicality when the administration holds the funds back?
The Trump/Elon administration will file a poop emoji response and request expedited review from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will rubber stamp it 6-3 with Thomas filing a concurring opinion that’s a poop emoji.
Don’t you mean the court will respond with 💩 ✅ meaning they side with Trump?
We’ll be in the era of emoji rulings.
Ha. I think that was in the further reading section of the Wikipedia article. You’re not wrong. I was just providing a this is what happened historically…
The order from U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan came minutes before the funding freeze was scheduled to go into effect. The administrative stay, prompted by a lawsuit brought by nonprofit groups, lasts until Monday afternoon and applies only to existing programs.
We got a week.
Don’t we only have a week if the Administration actually obeys the temporary stay?
If I still had my federal academic grant, my University would get paid a lump sum up front at the beginning of February covering their disbursement of my paycheck for the next four months. Most federal grants in my field operate on this lump sum model, and most people earning grant money have that money pass through their institution before it gets to them.
These grants pay for researchers, TAs, student loans, and so many of the little bits and pieces that go into making a university run under the hood.
Extrapolation:
This one week stay, in this particular critical week, will determine whether some universities relying on grants paid out on the February cycle can afford their spring semester this year. If it’s honored, then there are several months to prepare. If not… well this is probably the big lump-sum bill that Trump probably is trying to avoid paying. His MAGA cronies probably think that shutting down the university system is funny.
If you know anyone at university in the US, make sure they have a backup plan if this semester blows up.
See Worcester v. Georgia essentially two states attempted to secede and the federal government stepped in (after first defying the court) to save the union. Does not bode well for the union at this point in history.
Justice Department attorney Daniel Schwei argued that the freeze shouldn’t be put on hold because the plaintiffs hadn’t specified anyone who would immediately lose funding if it does go into effect.
I’m imagining the plaintiffs countered by motioning vaguely at the entire country.
Also fuck this guy. “It doesn’t count unless you specifically identify all the people we’d be victimizing,” is straight up bully logic.
Isn’t this common? You need standing to sue, someone has to be harmed first. Its not all the people, but at least one.
Fuck the republican traitor filth.
