The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s request to allow him to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to protect ICE agents, a significant and rare loss for the administration on the conservative court’s emergency docket.
This seems to be the way the Trump presidency is showing the weaknesses of American style democracy in a nutshell, isn’t it? The president can defacto rule as king faster than the courts can reprimand and order an end to the breaches of law and even when they do, there seems to be no recourse or punishment for violating the court.
The conservative right has taken in the task of dismantling the government but instead of hiring a big piece of machinery … they just handed a sledge hammer to a moron. Everyone will laugh at the idea and not think anything will come of it. But give the moron a year to just hammer away at walls, structure, beams, posts, wiring and eventually he’ll begin to cause significant damage and start to threaten the whole structure.
These loopholes were fostered, not neglected into existence. He’s showing the weaknesses in the american federal government in the same way that I show my toaster’s inability to keep food cold.
Ridiculous actions should be put on hold to ensure they are not violating people’s rights instead of letting rights get violated until SCOTUS gets around to it. It doesn’t matter that the first court rulings do it in the right order, the problem is that when it goes to appeals they default to letting rights be violated. I don’t know if this is recent or not, but the opportunity to abuse the system has always been there.
I think, in part, the speed at which things can be done now, sweeping, systemic, horrible things, is simply much much faster than when these systems were created.
It does still seem backwards but maybe they make more sense when you don’t have instantaneous digital global communications.
All the checks and balances have the loophole that there’s effectively nobody available to enforce them that the executive branch can’t (and hasn’t) already undermined.
The only remaining check and balance that has any possible credibility is the people, the people who threw the tea into Boston harbor, the people for whom the 1st and 2nd amendments exist, the people who conducted a million man march in defense of civil rights. Those people. And those people all seem to be stuck in some combination of: completely asleep at the wheel; too disorganized and busy fighting against each other over petty ideological distinctions; too busy trying to keep their heads down and scrape out a living while hoping this all goes away or somehow won’t affect them; or jumping onboard the bandwagon themselves and cheering all this stuff along.
And it’s the same in the private sector; corporations that are rich enough just violate the law, and are almost never held to account. If they are, the fines are usually much less than half of the ill gains, so they just mark them as a cost of doing (illegal) business.
They’ve been in Chicago for months but great job finally eventually getting around to this, supreme court. The terror has already been infected.
This seems to be the way the Trump presidency is showing the weaknesses of American style democracy in a nutshell, isn’t it? The president can defacto rule as king faster than the courts can reprimand and order an end to the breaches of law and even when they do, there seems to be no recourse or punishment for violating the court.
It’s a demolition job by an unskilled idiot.
The conservative right has taken in the task of dismantling the government but instead of hiring a big piece of machinery … they just handed a sledge hammer to a moron. Everyone will laugh at the idea and not think anything will come of it. But give the moron a year to just hammer away at walls, structure, beams, posts, wiring and eventually he’ll begin to cause significant damage and start to threaten the whole structure.
These loopholes were fostered, not neglected into existence. He’s showing the weaknesses in the american federal government in the same way that I show my toaster’s inability to keep food cold.
The system is backwards.
Ridiculous actions should be put on hold to ensure they are not violating people’s rights instead of letting rights get violated until SCOTUS gets around to it. It doesn’t matter that the first court rulings do it in the right order, the problem is that when it goes to appeals they default to letting rights be violated. I don’t know if this is recent or not, but the opportunity to abuse the system has always been there.
I think, in part, the speed at which things can be done now, sweeping, systemic, horrible things, is simply much much faster than when these systems were created.
It does still seem backwards but maybe they make more sense when you don’t have instantaneous digital global communications.
All the checks and balances have the loophole that there’s effectively nobody available to enforce them that the executive branch can’t (and hasn’t) already undermined.
The only remaining check and balance that has any possible credibility is the people, the people who threw the tea into Boston harbor, the people for whom the 1st and 2nd amendments exist, the people who conducted a million man march in defense of civil rights. Those people. And those people all seem to be stuck in some combination of: completely asleep at the wheel; too disorganized and busy fighting against each other over petty ideological distinctions; too busy trying to keep their heads down and scrape out a living while hoping this all goes away or somehow won’t affect them; or jumping onboard the bandwagon themselves and cheering all this stuff along.
Bonkers.
And it’s the same in the private sector; corporations that are rich enough just violate the law, and are almost never held to account. If they are, the fines are usually much less than half of the ill gains, so they just mark them as a cost of doing (illegal) business.