#Dissent

[typhlonectes]

[saywhat-politics]

Right-wingers attacked the Trump-appointed justice after she dissented against his use of the Alien Enemies Act — with some even targeting her kids.

Right-wing influencers are turning against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett after she voted against President Donald Trump’s use of the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants.

The conservative majority Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of the Trump administration on Monday, allowing it to enforce the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, but limited its authority to allow the accused “reasonable time” to go to court and challenge the case against them.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Mother of Voices, Vol.1-Issue 2, Dec. 1-14, '67

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[imaginarylands4000]

[democracyunderground]

PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY ie Trumps Immunity

[graspingbirdtail]

I keep hearing people wondering what they can do as individuals to try to stop Trump and the dictatorship he's so much wants to install. Here's the best way I can think of. Send some money to the ACLU. They're one of the few legal entities left that has our back.

[berniesrevolution]

DISSENT MAGAZINE

This February, Tom Homan—who led U.S. Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for two years during Donald Trump’s first term, helped design its family separation policy, and is now Trump’s “border czar”—told an audience at a National Sheriffs’ Association meeting that the Trump administration is working to loosen standards for holding migrants, which would allow sheriffs to detain people arrested by ICE. That’s important to the Trump administration because it needs local law enforcement collaboration if it’s going to fulfill the president’s promise to deport millions of people.

Law enforcement agencies have expanded their cooperation with ICE in at least twenty states, and more agreements are pending. Those local governments collaborating with ICE are in Florida and Texas, but they’re also in New York, Maryland, and Massachusetts. Jessica Pishko’s recent book, The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy, shows how Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade is simultaneously a dramatic, inhuman escalation and part of a long tradition of American sheriffs detaining people to uphold a cruel racial hierarchy.

The Highest Law in the Land traces the history of the American sheriff starting with Reconstruction and draws a straight line between that origin story and the current, radical, and yet no longer fringe “constitutional sheriff movement,” which promotes Christian nationalist ideology. Brutality is inherent to the sheriff’s office, Pishko writes, which makes it even more dangerous when American culture imbues sheriffs with authority and a gloss of heroism—and our local governments grant them new powers.

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[originalleftist]

I'm going to be blunt: If you are in the US, especially the US government, and ESPECIALLY serving in the armed forces, you need to be thinking now about how far you are prepared to "just follow orders", and whether your loyalty is to the United States and its Constitution, or to Donald Trump/whatever SCOTUS says the Constitution is today.

Hopefully it won't come to that, but be thinking about this now, and discussing it (quietly) with any loved ones you trust.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[Robert Scott Horton]

[saywhat-politics]

The U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision refused the Trump administration’s request to halt a federal judge’s order requiring the federal government to payout nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funds for work already completed. Justice Samuel Alito disagreed with the court’s majority, penning a scathing dissent in which he declared that the decision left him “stunned.”

“Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars?” Alito wrote. “The answer to that question should be an emphatic ‘No,’ but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned.”

Alito was joined in the dissent by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, all of whom believed that U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali exceeded his authority in ordering the administration to “immediately” make the foreign aid distributions.

Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Amy Coney Barrett (a Trump appointee) sided with the plaintiffs, a coalition of organizations who had entered into contracts or received grants from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department.

[thestarlightforge]

And so it begins.

[vintage-tigre]

[imaginarylands4000]

[captainxtra]

A reminder that House and Senate will be back in session this coming week, we need to look out for bad bills like HR 9495 in case they do go up for a vote.

Reminder on how to find your Senator in order to contact them:

If you have a GOP/MAGA Senator, read the advice given here:

Don’t spam them with messages!

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

#Repost @pal_legal

UNIVERSITIES, DEFEND YOUR STUDENTS against Trump’s anti-Palestinian agenda instead of obeying his fascist policies!

Palestine Legal Director Dima Khalidi argues in the @nationmag that universities’ complete surrender to Trump’s threats and ever-harsher crackdowns on the student movement “will not release them from the administration’s crosshairs. (Columbia has learned that lesson 400 million times over).”

Instead, their compliance has helped turn students into prime targets for fascist government repression.

We saw a key example of this with the illegal abduction and detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was on Trump’s radar and whom Columbia had already made an example of , putting him through ever-more draconian disciplinary processes long before he was abducted. Pro-Israel groups also publicly urged Trump officials to target him. Columbia knew Khalil was under threat; just a day before his abduction, Khalil himself had told the university that he feared that “ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home.”

 

In Dima’s op-ed, she lays out four fundamental shifts that universities must make to fight for the rights and freedoms of the students and faculty who make their campuses vibrant, diverse places to imagine and build a just and viable future.

 

Read more in the post above and at the link in bio.