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Summary

The American Bar Association (ABA) condemned Trump’s administration for disregarding the rule of law, urging courts and attorneys to push back.

ABA President William R. Bay criticized Trump’s rapid executive orders and restructuring of government agencies, including USAID’s dismantling.

He reminded the administration of the three coequal branches of government and praised a federal judge for blocking Trump’s executive order against birthright citizenship, emphasizing that the 14th Amendment guarantees this right.

Amid multiple lawsuits and government turmoil, Bay called on elected officials to defend legal norms, stating, “These are not partisan or political issues… We must stand up for the values we hold dear.”

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

And why should he? He is doing a coup, so current laws will soon be ex-laws anyway, and won't apply to him.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Shitcan a whole mess of dirty lawyers then, association in charge of professional lawyerin' licensing, ffs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

This is my shocked face :O

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

What do they say about SCOTUS?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Uh yeah? Last summer the highest court in the land essentially ruled that he doesn't have to so long as he's the president. Only Congress has the authority to stop him now through impeachment and conviction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Every single one of those ecg-swasti-scribbles on an executive order will be pushed back as the presidential power authorized by the highest court prior to the election.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lawyers really believing in "the law" like Trump is a black teenager that they can encage and torture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe if we keep telling him that he's breaking the law he'll feel bad and stop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

It's worked so far.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Aaaand this is why he freed a bunch of gun toting fascist supporters

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

No shit Sherlock! Where have they been the last nine years, auditioning for "Idioacracy" II?
It's like we have evolved into to two species. One with intelligence, and the other with shit for brains.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In addition, the ABA announced that the cow goes "moo" and fire is hot.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In other news ABBA announced that you are the "dancing queen"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

They mostly ask if my mother knows that I'm out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I would like to state for the record that I am no such thing.

In fact, I'm much closer in ability to the Dancin' Fool Frank Zappa wrote about 😁

(Also, I may be sweet at times, but I'm not young, being almost two and a half times 17 😁)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

hes finished

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

And he won't care. He is in the middle of a coup, why should he care for the soon to be former law?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The American Journal of Obviousness (AJO) says this is correct.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

When has he ever? His whole selling point is a scofflaw

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"You wanna put that in a memo and label it shit I already know?"

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A man who's above the law isn't following the law??

Daaaaaaaang.

...

...

...so, uh... I noticed he's still not in jail. Did y'all have a backup plan?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.

Hey, just what you see, pal.

The Luigi 9mm.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

checks Dem playbook Nope, seems it's still rousing speeches to the press, fundraising emails, and fuckall else. Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Don't forget clever names for bills that will die in committee.

Time for a new opposition party, ffs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

fuckall else

Or, the only thing they can do; which is nothing.

Remember: America didn't want them. America looked at a choice between "felon" and "prosecutor" and cop voters chose the felon. Military people voted for the person who shirked his responsibility and denigrated them at every turn. Farmers who could read Project 2025 voted for the person who was going to run them bankrupt so his big-farm friends can buy up the land.

... and Shill Stein told the rest to essentially throw their vote.

The democrats can't do anything but try - TRY - to preserve the records that aren't yet purged. They're not going to stop what's happening, and we're going to see an exodus of people who can leave the country. Infrastructure, water, power, communications, all these sectors have no oversight, and no guarantee of stability. America will fall apart; eating poisonous food, drinking poisonous water, power plant workers choking to death alone in a hospital basement hallway.

America has no working FEMA, but it has worsening floods, fires, hurricanes and tornadoes. And it chose the guy whose response to a hurricane involved a sharpie, Thiel's couch-jumping altar boy, a rich man-child and the entire cast of goodfellas to take care of America and all the faith and money and blood and sweat on which its built.

Get to higher ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Democrat leadership are powerless and it's all the voters' fault

Please fuck off with that weak apologia bullshit.

I know this place is pretty much the Neoliberal Excuses HQ, but there MUST be a limit to the willfully obtuse fawning and victim blaming, even at @politics! 🤦

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Ooooo, fundraising, that'll help

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Man, who gave him permission to do whatever he wanted while in office with legal impunity?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You cannot tell him to behave, you have to force him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, glad we had that confirmed by the experts. We clearly wouldn't have been able to tell otherwise. /s

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What else did you expect a convicted felon to do?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Now now, don't be besmirching the good felons by lumping them in with the Mango Mussolini..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Rot in prison.

Failing that... fire up the Luigi signal?

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