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Pototan

(3,000 posts)
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 11:11 PM Mar 2025

The US has already become Authoritarian

Trump putting law firms and lawyers "under review" by the AG for taking "frivolous" lawsuits (which are not frivolous at all) against him and his administration puts all the firms and the lawyers of those firms at risk.

Whether or not a lawsuit is "frivolous" is not the prevue of the President, the AG or even the Dept. of Justice. It is strictly up to judges and the sanctions are up to him or her.

And certainly, cases that have ended up being adjudicated in favor of the firms and lawyers in question would render them far from "frivolous". Other cases, even if lost or overturned on appeal are not "frivolous" by virtue of the fact that multiple sitting judges allowed them to move to adjudication.

These actions are those of a totalitarian state. It amounts to removing the "people's advocates" instead of the judges.

This is scary and far more important to Americans' lives than the price of eggs.

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The US has already become Authoritarian (Original Post) Pototan Mar 2025 OP
Decades ago, yeah. It is now stopping the pretense of being otherwise. RockRaven Mar 2025 #1
Kick!! 58Sunliner Mar 2025 #2
Rules by Fiat... BurnDoubt Mar 2025 #3

BurnDoubt

(1,486 posts)
3. Rules by Fiat...
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 01:35 AM
Mar 2025

And by virtue of that has neutered the checks and balances built into the Constitution by firing everyone but his loyalists. Back "when America Was Great" parents talked of wanting their kids to grow up an be President, because we believed our leaders should be exemplary in their character and deportment, at least in public. As much as my dismay at the assault on the institutions and trajectory of our situation, I am astonished at the traction this has exerted on so large a portion of our population.
Does Edolph realize that lack of empathy is one way you qualify to be sociopathic, and also the reason you don't bed-down with a Boa Constricter? Surely he must realize that this is one reason he has attracted unwelcome attention, and also the reason he doesn't care.
Government isn't Business... Business isn't Government... Religion is Neither... And They Aren't Geniuses... Bullshit is Bullshit.
THAT is All.

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