Originally published at: GOP Judge Darkly Warns Of Last Chance To Avoid Tyranny
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. A Lament For Our Time If you had told me in 2005 that 20 years hence federal appeals court Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III would be writing a paean to our lost liberties and freedoms…
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I like the original article title better.
The Trump Administration Is Not Just Erasing History, They’re Rewriting the Future and Attacking Democracy | Opinion
Imagine walking into your local library to check out a book and finding the shelves stripped bare. Imagine taking your child to a museum, only to find all programs have been cancelled and the doors are locked. Imagine living in a rural community where there is no high school and the only accessible education is provided by a local museum that is now closed, or your only access to the internet is a library that’s now shuttered by political decree. Imagine trying to teach a classroom about civil rights, women’s contributions to science, or the Holocaust—only to be told those stories are “divisive” and banned.
This is no longer hypothetical. It’s the path we’re on right now.
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The felonious Nazi fuck should self-crucify so that he can resurrect and prove to everyone he is the 2nd coming of jeebus.
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John Roberts stands as one of many mistakes by W. Overlooking Wilkinson for Roberts makes it more so. Time for men of courage, not cowardice and partisan hawks.
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Zero are doing this.
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Separately, this application to the DC Cir. was filed in the J.G.G. case following Judge Boasberg’s probable cause order:
Microsoft Word - JGG - CADC Contempt Stay Motion 4-17 756 FINAL
Explanation of why in the case’s procedural context, DOJ cannot be held in contempt. Also includes broadside against Judge Boasberg - As with the doomed motion in Abrego Garcia, it includes another application for writ of mandamus. Reading.
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to summon the best that is within us while there is still time.
To be clear, the problem isn’t us us.
The problem is the Republican Party us. Most Americans do not want this administration.
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“We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos.“
It’s certainly naive to believe that any Trump appointee is “good” in any sense of the word. Those folks don’t give a rat’s ass about the rule of law.
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You need to read down. It shows the picture Van Hollen shared, and explains what Bukele’s aide did so they could share the doctored pics.
vs. this
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Photoshopped much?
ETA. Ah, they just put them there half-way through the meeting and started shooting.
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Why is the not yet confirmed, probably never confirmed, USA for D.C. sending a demanding letter to a doctor in Chicago’s north suburbs?
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And most are too young to recall this call to action:
There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious — makes you so sick at heart — that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.
Mario Savio December 1964
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GOP Judge Darkly Warns Of Last Chance To Avoid Tyranny
“I’ve been working and voting my whole career for this, but now that it’s here…golly, gee, I never thought this would happen.”
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The aide actually brought them to the table, then sat down. Once he’s there, pics were snapped.
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