Originally published at: Trump Allies Sue John Roberts To Give White House Control Of Court System - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Close allies of President Trump are asking a judge to give the White House control over much of the federal court system. In a little-noticed lawsuit filed last week, the America First Legal Foundation sued Chief Justice John Roberts and the head of the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts The case ostensibly proceeds as a…
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Sanction these trash lawyers. Let them sue, then let them lose. The constitution is clear and these suits are a waste of the courts time.
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"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.”
—Oscar Benevides, Peruvian Dictator
Giving trump and his minions control over the nation’s judiciary is the final step in his consolidation of power. Were that to happen, we could kiss our rights and liberties goodbye.
This MUST NOT be allowed to occur.
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Daniel Z. Epstein filed the FOIA request, and is listed as lead attorney on the lawsuit.
Just what this country needs - another POS Epstein.
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Fascism, We Hardly Knew Ye
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The Trump administration and the MAGA community will let our imaginations run wild in our attempts to figure out ways to make the life of the judiciary miserable, to the extent you push back against Trump.
The OTHER Austrian that this makes me think of is Sigmund Freud.
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They haven’t just jumped the shark. They’ve jumped the shark, the killer whale and the giant squid.
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The first step is to make the unthinkable, thinkable. That makes it a possibility and that implies an action.
This is not mere trolling.
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"Blake Emerson, a professor at UCLA Law, called the suit’s claims “outlandish…”
Well, many legal minds thought there’d be no way SCOTUS would give POTUS immunity, either.
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“Stephen Miller, the longtime Trump aide, founded the America First Legal Foundation in April 2021, describing it as the “long-awaited answer to the ACLU.”
The Hitler youth are back.
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federal judges have expressed concern that Trump could direct the U.S. Marshals Service… to withdraw protection.
This is arguably THE purpose of the 2nd Amendment. The people are empowered to protect judges, even through the use of arms against lawless marshals.
Just like our granddaddies and grandmamas did in the ole west.
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OMG, do we need a public reading of the Constitution so it sinks in to Trump’s sycophants that there are 3 equal branches of government?
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Miller himself has been a public driving force in the most aggressive and lawless elements
This sure reflects badly on his parents.
If I did stuff like him, it wouldn’t matter if I was king of the jungle, my mom would have my ass at home, grounded until I learned proper behavior.
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I guess we will see if Roberts shows any backbone or just acquiesces.
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Actually, I think that we need a Constitutional News Network To keep us all informed of violations, and the reason why three branches of government exist. And the reasons for each line in the Constitution. How the absence of these sorts of checks and balances has produced a bad result in other countries.
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John Roberts is in a position to see the results of his theories. If he does not agree that this is what should happen, he is in a position to put a stop to a lot of this nonsense.
At a minimum he can declare’ You can do what you want and the Courts do not have the armies to stop you without assistance from the Congress. What you cannot do is make me call your actions either legal or Constitutional when they are not’.
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They would argue that what the Constitution says isn’t what it means. They did that with the initial adjudication of the migrants’ trial where the SCOTUS said no, but the administration went with they said yes.
Up is down, remember?
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If these people didn’t have bad faith, they’d have no faith at all.
Also Stephen Miller is a complete waste of space.
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I believe his family has disavowed him.
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WTF??? These bottom feeders are screaming they are going to ‘teach’ children how to be patriots and they can’t even be bother to follow let alone READ the Constitution???
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