It was great to see all of the legal "losses" listed in one place & while that helps, it is like slogging thru quicksand.
Qasim: One question for you: Do you think that at any point in the administration, the Unsupreme Court will overturn their foolish ruling of complete immunity?
The due process of law issue, now being given rapid and constitutionally strategically important consideration in the courts, is a fundamental issue for each and all of us. It can improve our understanding of our self-governance aims and tools, and it can improve our effectiveness in bringing clarity and effectiveness to the distinction needed to be made between:
rule of law by means of which we govern and protect our selves, equally, inclusively, and with adherence to mutual responsibilities under law, and;
rule of law unconstitutionally exercised for lessening effective self-governance and/or for effectually de-legitimizing individuals or groups, thus stripping them of rule of law protections.
The latter is what we are witnessing and must stand up to and stop, and the only effective means, durable and justice for all, is rule of law that recognizes tools, e.g., due process of law, as:
belonging to every one in America, to be within the voluntary conscious agency of every one, to be within the scope of legal action of groups [currently identified as a 'class' of plaintiffs], and;
to be a matter of universal application, not special circumstance requirements or tools.
It is also clear that when any American goes to court to ask for protection by law to use due process that THAT be a foundation for the court to consider and make effective injunction - we have, as a community governing ourselves, to be alert and with capacity to freeze abusive government in any action that illegally ignores rule of law responsibilities and protections and/or prospectively suggests to any reasonable person, including a judge, that the government action will lead to harms that are unconstitutional, or not legal, or that exposes a person or unnamed-person or -persons to abusive action as well.
[I am pointing here to the importance to us, all Americans, of the use of designation of class and/or to the use of injunction, in the cases at hand, universal injunction].
The defining of measured and broad coverage and effectiveness of coverage must now be in our good faith hands as citizens to flesh out and explicitly make comprehensive, robust and inclusive for this essential tool, due process of law, and to explicitly and clearly put it in perspective with other essential democratic rule of law tools, e.g., equal protection.
We must remember that the manner in which many many people find themselves in residence within the jurisdiction the US law and Constitution is an issue, but the critical constitutional issue is impartial and equal treatment and responsibility under law. We can only govern ourselves if we consciously say that governing ourselves is what we are doing and what our government is an effective tool for us to do that by.
A note: putting this question and issue into the hands of judges and legal professionals is necessary but, by itself insufficient and dangerous. The circumstances and the particulars must be significantly broadened so that the issue of due process of law is effectively understandable and use-able by everyone. This is going to be constitutionally strategic for all Americans in order to protect self and others in the face of the current, Trump-lead efforts to bring autocratic and fascist assumptions and practices into governance and into civil society institutions and resources that de-legitimize [as well as allow unlawful harm to] some American, some Americans, any Americans based on political or ideological whim or ire.
The point here is that clarification of the potential of due process by law within the scope of protections to migrants and in relation to immigration status of individuals or of groups needs to be put into perspective of the broader and essential effective use of due process of law any day by any American. WE are the people who can effectively set the tone and build value into and effective attributes of this tool, as I say in context of all the necessary rule of law resources, so that due process is as available and potent part of responsible exercise of law and effective protection under law as is humanly possible.
Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts. " ]
We as citizens offered a more credible and constitutionally defensible selection of alternative holdings while the SCOTUS prepared this one. At this time, we can make very constitutionally defensible and effectively democratic alternative narratives on due process under law. WE need to provide the answer, for we live with it and by it; the SCOTUS has not been demonstrating that, by its own deliberations, it understands that rule of law is by for and of the people. Without our explicit public guidance, the SCOTUS can loose sight of the self-governing people as it pursues, instead, some rationalization of legal theory that may lack both historical basis and justification in self-governance within the understanding and effective structure of the Constitution and our federal system.
If you understand the reading of the chosen picture at the start of this article - you witness a very public - F*&^ You .. basically revealing all that resides inside trump - f*&^ you and f*&^ the america that doesn't agree with me - I shall do as I please ... which in amongst all else - is continuing to tie up the legal system with the constant process of having to undo his constant barrage of fascist/racist/sexist/xenophobic/classist ISM's of his choosing ... that in and of itself is wasting time/ money/ resources that belongs to the people
As you observe, "Despite these setbacks, the Trump administration has signaled intentions to further test constitutional boundaries. Trump sycophants have floated potentially suspending habeas corpus to expedite deportations, a move that would fundamentally end America as a republic. Moreover, the grotesque budget reconciliation bill that House Republicans just passed is set to cut $500B from Medicare, $800B from Medicaid, and billions more from basic necessity programs. People will die as a result of these cruel policies. Therefore, we must not let up in our efforts to push back and prevent their passage. We must continue to challenge these injustices within our Constitutional rights in the streets, in the courts, and by winning the messaging battle."
Our focus and our public statements of opposition along with our honest representations of the Constitution, of law and of fact must continue and grow.
As you, Qasim, note for us, we as individuals would do well to provide all assistance possible to that assist us in legal advocacy for constitutional democracy, civil rights, and so on [ including, to name only five, ACLU, Democracy Forward, Legal Defense Fund, National Women's Law Center, Muslim Advocates ]. The work that such groups do is essential to our capacity to self-govern under the Constitution, laws, and civil institutions:
"The fundamental challenge will be whether the civil legal aid system can continue to focus
on establishing equal justice for all through the provision of a full range of legal services
including the right to counsel in cases requiring the assistance of a lawyer or will limit the
focus to expanding access to courts through self-help, hotlines, brief service, and technology.
In our view, legal aid programs are the essential component of any system in the United
States that seeks to provide legal representation, systemic advocacy, policy advocacy, brief
service, and legal advice to low-income persons and organizations. Unless there is a system of
robust civil legal aid programs, supplemented by effective pro bono programs and initiatives,
low-income individuals will not have equal access to courts, administrative agencies, and
other dispute resolution venues—and they will not achieve equal justice." [excerpt from page 60 of ''Securing Justice for All, A Brief History..." Alan Houseman & Linda E. Perle , Revised May 2018 ].
trump should tried for treason and crimes against humanity, with the proper "punishment". No due process, since he has already eliminated that. The problem is that there is NO ONE who will arrest him, etc., unless a Democrat will do a citizen's arrest. Then there is NO ONE who will prosecute him. He goes scot free!
This is a bit off note, but my friend who is diabetic and pays for his own insurance, is on Ozempic. Beware. It went from $300 to $2,765 at our local Walmart. It’s here. Oh, and the generics are no longer being produced. There’s more to the story, but let that sink in. So, Luigi saw the future.
The real aim of the right wing Republicans is to bring back feudalism, not the jousting and the chivalry, but the filthy conditions, disease, poverty, and ignorance, and crumbling infrastructure. Eventually even the rich people will suffer under this situation because there will be nobody who is educated and there will be no schools.
True. If working class folks don’t have any money, stores like Walmart will go out of business, as well as all those dollar stores. The tariffs are going to hurt them all, regardless. Most of their inventory comes from the places where The Fapweasel (Trump) has imposed high tariffs.
I sense that that they are taking everything away and killing the older population so then they will have complete control. There are positives, but more negatives and the Supreme Court sided with the soulless one by allowing him to remove two independent oversight people from two different agencies. I may have the specifics wrong, but they just made him a king. However, don’t he isn’t allowed to go after the Fed, that’s where the money is .
It’s straight out of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, “let the poor die and decrease the surplus population.” Of course, the Fapweasel (Trump) has never read the book or seen any of the movies and plays based on it.
The problem is that Donnie suffers loss after loss, but he doesn't care. He does what he wants anyway, and the courts do nothing to enforce their judgments.
And Schumer's plan is to send Donnie a very strong letter?
As someone who has voted for Schumer multiple times, I plan to send him a very strong letter, and I hope other New Yorkers will do so as well. It's time for him to step aside as the Senate Democratic leader. Interestingly, Rep. Jerry Nadler, an Upper West Side congressman for years, stepped aside in favor of Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Nadler seems to have gained a new ability to hear his constituents. The Democrats need fresh leadership, and I say that as an 82 year-old voter.
Please don't praise the D party that got us into this mess in the 1st place. Praise the many inviduals and institutions that are doing their job of resistance. The Ds have shown little to no resistance as our democracy erodes to totalitarian/fascist rule.
Schrödinger’s Border - chef’s kiss for that Qasim! psychologists / cult deprogrammers have spoken about the inverted dopamine cycle, where it is tied to cruelty rather than joy. Humanity needs a reset; please folks know that an important ‘hold the line’ is to include joy and appreciation daily. 🤎
I'm sad and shamed that the leaders of my party are so ineffective. Are they frozen with fear? They have the power to affect the history of our country, which colors the entire globe.
When facing the madly fascist attacks the deranged puppet of the 2025 crew is (mostly illegally) foisting on us all, Dems should be enraged and fighting like hell! And, SOME are!
Long from over!!! Not until the entire confederacy, Nazis, and gop are neutralized, destroyed and fully extinguished…..FULLY….no more resurrection 80 yrs from now….
Sorry, Rashid! I’m not buying your premature optimism!
TROs sound good! They are ONLY as good as their outcomes!!!!
What is the record on how many court orders are IGNORED?
What is the record on Trump’s appeals to his friendly Roberts Court?
I’m NOT BUYING YOUR OPTIMISM, Rashid , until we see “Contempt of Court” orders AND ARRESTS OF TRUMP’S CABINET SECRETARIES!
The Trump Regime not only IGNORES the Courts and the U.S. CONSTITUTION!
The Trump Regime threatens judges with violence!
The Roberts Court sits idly by as the US CONSTITUTION IS TORN TO SHREDS!
Their few words CANNOT cover their own guilt!
It was great to see all of the legal "losses" listed in one place & while that helps, it is like slogging thru quicksand.
Qasim: One question for you: Do you think that at any point in the administration, the Unsupreme Court will overturn their foolish ruling of complete immunity?
All hands, acting in good faith, are needed.
The due process of law issue, now being given rapid and constitutionally strategically important consideration in the courts, is a fundamental issue for each and all of us. It can improve our understanding of our self-governance aims and tools, and it can improve our effectiveness in bringing clarity and effectiveness to the distinction needed to be made between:
rule of law by means of which we govern and protect our selves, equally, inclusively, and with adherence to mutual responsibilities under law, and;
rule of law unconstitutionally exercised for lessening effective self-governance and/or for effectually de-legitimizing individuals or groups, thus stripping them of rule of law protections.
The latter is what we are witnessing and must stand up to and stop, and the only effective means, durable and justice for all, is rule of law that recognizes tools, e.g., due process of law, as:
belonging to every one in America, to be within the voluntary conscious agency of every one, to be within the scope of legal action of groups [currently identified as a 'class' of plaintiffs], and;
to be a matter of universal application, not special circumstance requirements or tools.
It is also clear that when any American goes to court to ask for protection by law to use due process that THAT be a foundation for the court to consider and make effective injunction - we have, as a community governing ourselves, to be alert and with capacity to freeze abusive government in any action that illegally ignores rule of law responsibilities and protections and/or prospectively suggests to any reasonable person, including a judge, that the government action will lead to harms that are unconstitutional, or not legal, or that exposes a person or unnamed-person or -persons to abusive action as well.
[I am pointing here to the importance to us, all Americans, of the use of designation of class and/or to the use of injunction, in the cases at hand, universal injunction].
The defining of measured and broad coverage and effectiveness of coverage must now be in our good faith hands as citizens to flesh out and explicitly make comprehensive, robust and inclusive for this essential tool, due process of law, and to explicitly and clearly put it in perspective with other essential democratic rule of law tools, e.g., equal protection.
We must remember that the manner in which many many people find themselves in residence within the jurisdiction the US law and Constitution is an issue, but the critical constitutional issue is impartial and equal treatment and responsibility under law. We can only govern ourselves if we consciously say that governing ourselves is what we are doing and what our government is an effective tool for us to do that by.
A note: putting this question and issue into the hands of judges and legal professionals is necessary but, by itself insufficient and dangerous. The circumstances and the particulars must be significantly broadened so that the issue of due process of law is effectively understandable and use-able by everyone. This is going to be constitutionally strategic for all Americans in order to protect self and others in the face of the current, Trump-lead efforts to bring autocratic and fascist assumptions and practices into governance and into civil society institutions and resources that de-legitimize [as well as allow unlawful harm to] some American, some Americans, any Americans based on political or ideological whim or ire.
The point here is that clarification of the potential of due process by law within the scope of protections to migrants and in relation to immigration status of individuals or of groups needs to be put into perspective of the broader and essential effective use of due process of law any day by any American. WE are the people who can effectively set the tone and build value into and effective attributes of this tool, as I say in context of all the necessary rule of law resources, so that due process is as available and potent part of responsible exercise of law and effective protection under law as is humanly possible.
Another note, a matter of credibility....
The current SCOTUS is the Court that delivered Trump v. US [ an evaluation of this case at https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/603/23-939/ gives us this annotation:
"Annotation
Primary Holding
Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts. " ]
We as citizens offered a more credible and constitutionally defensible selection of alternative holdings while the SCOTUS prepared this one. At this time, we can make very constitutionally defensible and effectively democratic alternative narratives on due process under law. WE need to provide the answer, for we live with it and by it; the SCOTUS has not been demonstrating that, by its own deliberations, it understands that rule of law is by for and of the people. Without our explicit public guidance, the SCOTUS can loose sight of the self-governing people as it pursues, instead, some rationalization of legal theory that may lack both historical basis and justification in self-governance within the understanding and effective structure of the Constitution and our federal system.
If you understand the reading of the chosen picture at the start of this article - you witness a very public - F*&^ You .. basically revealing all that resides inside trump - f*&^ you and f*&^ the america that doesn't agree with me - I shall do as I please ... which in amongst all else - is continuing to tie up the legal system with the constant process of having to undo his constant barrage of fascist/racist/sexist/xenophobic/classist ISM's of his choosing ... that in and of itself is wasting time/ money/ resources that belongs to the people
Thank you for this reporting, Qasim.
As you observe, "Despite these setbacks, the Trump administration has signaled intentions to further test constitutional boundaries. Trump sycophants have floated potentially suspending habeas corpus to expedite deportations, a move that would fundamentally end America as a republic. Moreover, the grotesque budget reconciliation bill that House Republicans just passed is set to cut $500B from Medicare, $800B from Medicaid, and billions more from basic necessity programs. People will die as a result of these cruel policies. Therefore, we must not let up in our efforts to push back and prevent their passage. We must continue to challenge these injustices within our Constitutional rights in the streets, in the courts, and by winning the messaging battle."
Our focus and our public statements of opposition along with our honest representations of the Constitution, of law and of fact must continue and grow.
As you, Qasim, note for us, we as individuals would do well to provide all assistance possible to that assist us in legal advocacy for constitutional democracy, civil rights, and so on [ including, to name only five, ACLU, Democracy Forward, Legal Defense Fund, National Women's Law Center, Muslim Advocates ]. The work that such groups do is essential to our capacity to self-govern under the Constitution, laws, and civil institutions:
"The fundamental challenge will be whether the civil legal aid system can continue to focus
on establishing equal justice for all through the provision of a full range of legal services
including the right to counsel in cases requiring the assistance of a lawyer or will limit the
focus to expanding access to courts through self-help, hotlines, brief service, and technology.
In our view, legal aid programs are the essential component of any system in the United
States that seeks to provide legal representation, systemic advocacy, policy advocacy, brief
service, and legal advice to low-income persons and organizations. Unless there is a system of
robust civil legal aid programs, supplemented by effective pro bono programs and initiatives,
low-income individuals will not have equal access to courts, administrative agencies, and
other dispute resolution venues—and they will not achieve equal justice." [excerpt from page 60 of ''Securing Justice for All, A Brief History..." Alan Houseman & Linda E. Perle , Revised May 2018 ].
Thank you, Bob, and yes well said. We absolutely need all hands on deck.
trump should tried for treason and crimes against humanity, with the proper "punishment". No due process, since he has already eliminated that. The problem is that there is NO ONE who will arrest him, etc., unless a Democrat will do a citizen's arrest. Then there is NO ONE who will prosecute him. He goes scot free!
This is a bit off note, but my friend who is diabetic and pays for his own insurance, is on Ozempic. Beware. It went from $300 to $2,765 at our local Walmart. It’s here. Oh, and the generics are no longer being produced. There’s more to the story, but let that sink in. So, Luigi saw the future.
The real aim of the right wing Republicans is to bring back feudalism, not the jousting and the chivalry, but the filthy conditions, disease, poverty, and ignorance, and crumbling infrastructure. Eventually even the rich people will suffer under this situation because there will be nobody who is educated and there will be no schools.
Also would like to add, no one will be able to buy their stuff. They don’t realize we really will become less than a developed country.
True. If working class folks don’t have any money, stores like Walmart will go out of business, as well as all those dollar stores. The tariffs are going to hurt them all, regardless. Most of their inventory comes from the places where The Fapweasel (Trump) has imposed high tariffs.
I sense that that they are taking everything away and killing the older population so then they will have complete control. There are positives, but more negatives and the Supreme Court sided with the soulless one by allowing him to remove two independent oversight people from two different agencies. I may have the specifics wrong, but they just made him a king. However, don’t he isn’t allowed to go after the Fed, that’s where the money is .
It’s straight out of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, “let the poor die and decrease the surplus population.” Of course, the Fapweasel (Trump) has never read the book or seen any of the movies and plays based on it.
Thank you for breaking this down so clearly.
This lifts my spirits this morning! May the courts continue to block Trump and his heinous plans.
The problem is that Donnie suffers loss after loss, but he doesn't care. He does what he wants anyway, and the courts do nothing to enforce their judgments.
And Schumer's plan is to send Donnie a very strong letter?
As someone who has voted for Schumer multiple times, I plan to send him a very strong letter, and I hope other New Yorkers will do so as well. It's time for him to step aside as the Senate Democratic leader. Interestingly, Rep. Jerry Nadler, an Upper West Side congressman for years, stepped aside in favor of Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Nadler seems to have gained a new ability to hear his constituents. The Democrats need fresh leadership, and I say that as an 82 year-old voter.
Please don't praise the D party that got us into this mess in the 1st place. Praise the many inviduals and institutions that are doing their job of resistance. The Ds have shown little to no resistance as our democracy erodes to totalitarian/fascist rule.
The Dems are war hawk corpratists.
Where did I praise them?
Schrödinger’s Border - chef’s kiss for that Qasim! psychologists / cult deprogrammers have spoken about the inverted dopamine cycle, where it is tied to cruelty rather than joy. Humanity needs a reset; please folks know that an important ‘hold the line’ is to include joy and appreciation daily. 🤎
I'm sad and shamed that the leaders of my party are so ineffective. Are they frozen with fear? They have the power to affect the history of our country, which colors the entire globe.
When facing the madly fascist attacks the deranged puppet of the 2025 crew is (mostly illegally) foisting on us all, Dems should be enraged and fighting like hell! And, SOME are!
Truly. Like, we know what works. Do it! Why are you sitting on your hands!
Long from over!!! Not until the entire confederacy, Nazis, and gop are neutralized, destroyed and fully extinguished…..FULLY….no more resurrection 80 yrs from now….
Wish the country had properly done that the first time smh
Excellent summary
Thank you!