Seems like Trump's confusing “sanctuary cities” with the lawless and unaccountable world he lives in

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uLXTyFeOT5c

 

The Trump administration’s lawlessness cannot be ignored. Period.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/84taa_D99sQ

 

Democratic cities prepare for worst after Trump’s tirades against DC and LA

"President Trump constantly creates a narrative that cities like Seattle are liberal hellholes and we are lawless, and that is just not the fact," said Bruce Harrell, the mayor of Seattle. "We are the home of great communities and great businesses. So his view of our city is not aligned with reality. It's to distract the American people from his failures as a president."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/17/democratic-cities-trump-la-dc

 

"The Trump Administration Is Engaged in Unprecedented Lawlessness": Whitehouse at hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10kjNQmSRBQ

 

Jessica Yellin on Our Anxiety Producing News Cycle (Al Franken podcast)

A potentially catastrophic breach of security within The White House has set off alarm bells for both Republicans and Democrats in D.C. Independent journalist Jessica Yellin joins us to discuss SignalGate. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz are both under fire after The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group chat that contained top secret war plans (or was it just attack plans?). Will anyone get fired for this?

Plus, we talk about the Trump administration’s lawlessness when it comes to deportations. What happens when a President blatantly defies a court order?

And Jessica shares why she left mainstream news and the importance of independent, online journalism, like her platform – News Not Noise.

Subscribe to Jessica’s Substack: https://newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/

Follow Jessica on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicayellin
Interview: 

https://www.alfranken.com/listen/jessicayellin250330

Ranking Member Whitehouse Urges Colleagues to "Stop Trump's Lawbreaking and start the grid building

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feT4qRAjyJs

Republicans’ lawless leaders at odds with midterm law and order message

"The Republican party is quickly becoming a party of anarchy and lawlessness," said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. "This is supposed to be the party of conservative principles, of tradition, of respect for customs and rules that make society governable. 

"The idea that the law does not apply to Republicans is something that has now become part of the mainstream of the Republican party. We see it in terms of the approach to elections. We see it in terms of the treatment of immigrants. Some of the actions with regard to abortion may approach that level. The Republican party appears to consider the law and the constitution to be optional and to have lost legitimacy."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/03/republicans-law-order-midterm-election-investigations-scandals

Donald Trump’s lawlessness is a preview of what a second presidency would hold - The Washington Post - Opinion

"I have the right to do whatever I want as president," Trump famously said. Should he become president again, he will believe it only more fiercely, no matter what the law says. Where that belief will take him we cannot yet predict...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/07/trump-lawlessness/

January 6 rioters are running for Republican office as GOP pivots toward lawlessness

…Yet Americans are witnessing, in real time, the transformation of the GOP into an authoritarian party. A big driver of that transformation has been the consolidation of Donald Trump's election fraud "big lie" into Republican Party dogma — a process of collective corruption similar to the one Orwell describes…https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/january-6-rioters-are-running-republican-office-gop-pivots-toward-n1287782

Trump's acquittal in impeachment 'trial' is a glimpse of America's imploding empire

In a hyperpartisan era, Republicans cast Trump as a victim while Democrats lamented his ‘normalisation of lawlessness’ ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/05/trump-acquittal-impeachment-trial-america-imploding-empire

To protect Trump, Republicans are staging a display of lawlessness. It’s failing. - The Washington Post

The events we just witnessed in the House of Representatives will surely earn an honored place in the annals of congressional clownishness. Just as the House Intelligence Committee was preparing to hear testimony from another important witness in the impeachment inquiry, a couple dozen Republican members of Congress stormed into the room, phones in hand, and started live-tweeting their protest.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/23/protect-trump-republicans-are-staging-display-lawlessness-its-failing/

Trump deserves impeachment quite apart from the Mueller report - The Washington Post: Opinion

We've forgotten how lawless his entire presidency is.....
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/28/trump-deserves-impeachment-quite-apart-mueller-report/

As new questions on Trump’s corruption emerge, his lawless threats escalate - The Washington Post: Opinion

Trump may be forcing Democrats to choose between total confrontation and total capitulation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/26/fresh-questions-about-trumps-corruption-emerge-his-lawless-threats-escalate/

If Sanctuary Cities Are Lawless, Why Is It Trump Who Keeps Violating Immigration Law? -- Slate

As their repeated judicial trouncings indicate, the administration and its allies don't much care for the rules. ....
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/09/the_trump_administration_s_lawless_attacks_on_sanctuary_cities.html

Emails Reveal Customs and Border Protection’s Lawlessness During Trump’s First Travel Ban -- Slate

CBP officers who ignored court rulings, illegally detained travelers, and stonewalled congressmen were "just following orders." ...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/03/emails_reveal_customs_and_border_protection_lawlessness_during_the_first.html

Behind Trump joke to sheriff, an offer to defend ugly police lawlessness

Decoding Trump’s offer to ruin Texas lawmakers who want to stop cops stealing from the innocent....
https://thinkprogress.org/behind-trump-joke-to-sheriff-an-offer-to-defend-ugly-police-lawlessness-f59ad298df9f#.97db2tlqf

John Bolton and US Lawlessness - by Jon Basil Utley

The Bush administration's international lawlessness did not come from nowhere. Its intellectual foundations were laid long before 9/11 by neoconservative intellectuals such as United Nations Ambassador John Bolton. Now, with his Senate renomination hanging by a thread, he should be outed as a primary architect of the neocon nest at American Enterprise Institute. At the United Nations, he represents the neoconservatives who stand for everything that is hated about America – to paraphrase Winston Churchill, never have so few made so much disaster for so many....
http://www.antiwar.com/utley/?articleid=9754