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Showing posts with label rule of law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rule of law. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Legal veterans lead fightback against Trump’s ‘full-out assault on democracy’
Advocacy groups expand legal challenges and condemn president’s ‘self-serving attempts to take over midterms’…
Thursday, May 14, 2026
10,000 rulings: The courts’ overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s ICE policies - POLITICO
“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency,” U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, a Clinton appointee based in Texas, wrote in a three-page ruling ordering the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos. “And the rule of law be damned.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/10k-rulings-ice-mandatory-detention-trump-analysis-00914195
Friday, April 24, 2026
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
US lower court judges are challenging Trump’s ‘war on the rule of law’, experts say
…Ty Cobb, a former federal prosecutor who was special White House counsel for a year in the first Trump administration, sees widespread legal repercussions from the administration’s battles against judges.
“For the first time since 1826, the government no longer gets the benefit of the doubt about the honesty of their representations,” before the lower courts, Cobb said. “The longstanding ‘presumption of regularity’ has been forfeited because of the overwhelming number of lies which have increasingly infected administration claims.”
Looking ahead, Cobb noted: “Trump’s continuing attacks on the judiciary, over the clearly stated objection of the chief justice, is just fascism at work. He is purposely denigrating the branch of government that must apply the Constitution to his corruption and overreach in order to accumulate more power for himself.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/trump-lower-court-judges-challenges
Monday, December 15, 2025
Canada Just Beat the U.S. — Microsoft’s $7.5B Bet Proves Carney Changed the game
Political stability, quality education, and adherence to rule of law matter.
Sunday, August 24, 2025
The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America
Prominent jurists have held Roberts responsible for emboldening Trump's drive towards an authoritarian presidency. J Michael Luttig, who served on a federal appeals court for 15 years, put the criticism starkly.
"The chief justice is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America," Luttig told the Guardian.
In Luttig's view, the court under Roberts is "acquiescing in and accommodating the president's lawlessness. And it is doing so without briefing, without argument, without deliberation – and without even a single word of explanation of its decisions."…
"The supreme court was never intended to function like this. Never before has it entertained such challenges from the president, and never before has it decided them so flippantly."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Joe Walsh says he's becoming a Democrat
"…The stakes are simply too high to NOT become a Democrat," Walsh wrote in his Substack post, before outlining his reasoning.
"Let's start with the obvious—a tyrant sits in the White House. The very thing our Founders feared most is here. Throw in the fact that one of our two major political parties is a real and direct threat to democracy and the rule of law. These are unprecedented, dangerous times in America. I know it. You know it. There are even Republicans who know it," he continued…
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5330476-joe-walsh-says-hes-becoming-a-democrat/
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Christian Nationalism Today — Free online presentation
In this discussion, Katherine Stewart and Rachel Laser offer a rare look inside the machinery of the movement that brought the current administration to power. They will explore its successes -- but also highlight its weaknesses. Along the way, they will reveal a disturbing truth: religious nationalism is a deeply anti-democratic movement that rejects the ideals of religious pluralism, equality, and the rule of law.
https://www.habermaninstitute.org/events-20242025/2025/5/28/christian-nationalism-today
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Opinion | Courts should use civil contempt against the Trump administration - The Washington Post
The centuries-old civil contempt authority gives the judiciary ample power to uphold the rule of law…
Friday, May 2, 2025
Democrats rally at US Capitol to decry ‘failure’ of Trump’s first 100 days
"A hundred days into this presidency, we've gone from three years of solid growth in our economy to the steepest decline that we've seen since the pandemic. That's the truth," said the Delaware senator Lisa Blunt Rochester. "Groceries are up, retirement savings are down, that's the truth. Outbreaks of measles and the avian flu, that's the truth."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/trump-100-days-democrats
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
Major corporate law firms join legal battle over Trump policies | Reuters
They are again representing or working alongside liberal advocacy groups and other challengers, adding legal firepower to lawsuits targeting Trump's expansive new crackdown on illegal immigration and transgender rights, and the administration's firing of officials and crippling of federal spending on health research and foreign aid...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Outrage after JD Vance claims judges are not allowed to check executive power | Trump administration | The Guardian
…In fact, article III of the US constitution confers a power known as judicial review, which gives federal judges the authority to rule on cases involving the president, as well as other branches of government.
Vance's comments drew widespread criticism.
Daniel Goldman, a Democratic representative from New York, responded on X: "It's called the 'rule of law'. Our constitution created three co-equal branches of government to provide checks and balances on each other ('separation of powers')….
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/jd-vance-judges-trump
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Mock Trial: Should Trump’s Conviction Stand? (John Donvan; Open to Debate podcast)
Donald Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree under New York law. Trump has the right to appeal and announced the day after the conviction that he would.
Now there is also a Supreme Court ruling that says presidential immunity is permitted for official acts committed in office. Legal scholars are questioning whether his conviction could be overturned and what could come next.
Those defending the New York court conviction argue that no individual, regardless of their office, is above the law, and keeping Trump accountable is crucial for upholding the rule of law. Its overturning would set a dangerous precedent undermining the judicial system’s integrity.
Those arguing for the defendant argue the laws under which Trump was convicted were misinterpreted or misapplied, possibly extending beyond their intended scope and his actions, since they were during his tenure, and some may have been within remit of his official duties.
Now, we take this question to a mock trial: Should Trump’s Conviction Stand?
Now, we take this question to a mock trial: Should Trump’s Conviction Stand?
Interview:
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Opinion | Donald Trump Doesn’t Have the Support of Corporate America - The New York Times
As such, it was hardly surprising that just as when Mr. Trump faced a chilly reaction from hundreds of top executives when he spoke at my Yale Chief Executive summit in 2005, he appeared to face a similarly frigid reception when he spoke to the Business Roundtable this month, with no noticeable applause at any point during his "remarkably meandering" remarks, according to CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, and with Mr. Trump assuming a subdued, if not hostile, posture. Chief executives are not protectionist, isolationist or xenophobic, and they believe in investing where there is the rule of law, not the law of rulers...
Friday, June 14, 2024
Hunter Biden’s conviction: Takeaways for politics and the rule of law - Vox
Prosecutors showed Joe Biden's son isn't above the law. But there's a complication to this story...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Claims of rigged system by convict ex-president and allies ‘threaten rule of law’
Ex-prosecutors and historians warn that Republicans' parroting of ex-president's wild allegations of political bias could erode trust and lead to violence…
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