Obviously I support pressuring the U.S. government to impeach Trump, both for the laws he's breaking and to stop the very real, and very violent fascist agenda he's conducting, but I don't think you can count on a Republican Party that has fully embraced Trump and the fascist American First movement, and is currently surrendering its own powers over things like tariffs to the President, to help anyone do that. They like most of the fascist shit he's doing, and they've seen what the MAGA base does to GOP officials who speak out against Downmarket Mussolini, at least in terms of their career prospects. Mostly then, I'm sharing this article to point out that Trump's strategy of ignoring the courts and daring someone to stop him extends far beyond an injunction to protect the right to even *have* optional diversity programs that, let's be honest, a lot of privileged white Americans really don't care about even though they should.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-impeachment

Trump Ignoring Court Orders Is New Grounds for Impeachment, Says Pro-Democracy Group

"As Free Speech for People detailed in a Wednesday statement, the new administration's recent "oversteps of the judiciary branch include: refusing to release $2 billion in foreign aid in defiance of multiple court orders; refusing to adhere to court orders that prohibit the Office of Management and Budget from implementing a freeze on all federal assistance; and refusing to adhere to a court order requiring U.S. Office of Personnel Management [acting Director] Charles Ezell to testify in person on March 13, 2025, in a lawsuit challenging Ezell and OPM's termination of thousands of employees."

Courtney Hostetler, legal director of the nonprofit, said that "the checks and balances of our three-branch government is a cornerstone of our democracy, created by our country's founders because they were rightfully afraid of how quickly, in the absence of a balanced system, our democracy might become a tyranny."

"Trump has usurped the powers of the legislature and now tramples on the authority of the judiciary," Hostetler continued. "In just one month, he has repeatedly ignored court rulings that have and must restrain his unlawful abuses of power. He, like all presidents, must abide by the rule of law—and because he has not, Congress must adhere to its own obligations to carry out an impeachment investigation."

I write a lot about what the shit Trump says actually means, or what he's *going* to do next, because as a student of Pig Empire history, political economy, and the rise of fascist movements, I know a lot of things about how Trump is operating that for-profit, corporate media seems reluctant to share with you; and I've been right far more often than wrong on this hellride so far. On this subject however, we're no longer talking about likely scenarios. We can acknowledge that Trump absolutely means to ignore any court orders designed to block his fascist agenda and considers himself above the law, because he is doing precisely that already, he's openly saying he can break the law if he wants to as President, and as I'll discuss in a minute when I have time to break out the links, SCOTUS has signaled that they agree with him.

This is it folks, a really-existing, overt fascist dictatorship is here under Downmarket Mussolini and you are watching this nazi bastard assemble his own version of the Nazi Enabling Act, piecemeal, and in real time. The vaunted American system of "checks and balances" in government isn't going to stop him, the courts aren't going to stop him, and I would bet you my whole ass the Republican Party isn't going to stop him either. If we don't want to suddenly wake up five years from now to piles of corpses so big they block out the sun, it's time to start deploying people power, fighting fascism in the streets, and shutting this shit down - or you'll soon be asking yourself why you didn't *do* anything about fascism, before the mass graves were dug.

#Trump #Fascism #USPol #Impeachment #GOP #Courts #ExecutiveOrder #PeoplePower #ResistEverywhere

Trump Ignoring Court Orders Is New Grounds for Impeachment, Says Pro-Democracy Group

"He, like all presidents, must abide by the rule of law—and because he has not, Congress must adhere to its own obligations to carry out an impeachment investigation."

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

Unfortunately, despite the mounting evidence that the rule of law isn't even remotely going to stop Trump and his fascist agenda, there will still be a lot of Very Serious PeopleTM who simply refuse to believe their "lyin' eyes." In my experience there is often something about the affluent American liberal mindset that seems to make it impossible for many of them to even engage with the idea that powerful people working together can, and will, ignore the rules for their own benefit if there's nobody capable of enforcing them. Coupled with the fact that they're often high on elitist propaganda about "the madness of crowds," they will state that it's too early to be thinking about rising up to oppose the fascist state, and come up with all sorts of complicated reasons why the rule of law and the Constitution will prevail, even as Trump openly ignores all legal challenges to his authority. Over the past few days alone I've been told that "nobody is above the law," "SCOTUS will stop Trump if he violates the Constitution," and "the president might be immune, but that doesn't mean Trump's flunkeys in government are," for example. While I have neither the time, nor the desire to go over every possible objection folks who're looking for an excuse not to act can come up with, I'm just going to leave a few links here to demonstrate why really-existing, observable reality strongly suggests their faith in the system's ability to hold is almost certainly misplaced.

Here's a 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court of the United States ruling that so long as he's acting as the President, Trump is literally above the law - and then reserving the right for themselves to determine what the hell is and isn't an official act:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/supreme-court-gives-president-power-king & https://truthout.org/articles/the-supreme-court-has-made-it-official-us-presidents-are-now-monarchs/

Here's Trump pardoning a bunch of fascists who tried to storm the US capitol as part of an organized coup (or autogolpe if you prefer) to keep him in power after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, despite their convictions in court for those activities:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/jan-6-pardons & https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw4vjvlgxpo & https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/23/the-january-6-pardons-who-has-trump-ordered-to-be-released

Here's Trump pardoning coup plotters in and around his regime before he left office the first time:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/02/trump-pardoned-during-first-term/76705964007/

And here's Trump pardoning corrupt friends of his just for shits and giggles:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/latest-trump-pardon-shows-just-much-rules-changed-worse-rcna196233

Naturally, some folks will point out that federal pardons don't circumvent the rulings of state courts, but I think you have to be pretty naïve to suggest that there are a lot of people in state judiciaries eager to go toe to toe with a fascist Trump regime that's already got SCOTUS on its side, and their power to really impede the America First fascist agenda is quite limited in scope anyway. It's all fine and dandy to shout "no one is above the law," but in the really real world we have to acknowledge that it really doesn't matter if Trump is "wrong" when he says he's untouchable, if literally nobody wants to risk it, or is in a position to actually enforce those laws.

All of which is not to say we as a people have to meekly accept a fascist dictatorship because nobody in the American establishment will stop it; just that waiting around for the referee to make Trump start playing by the rules is an extremely shortsighted, objectively terrible idea. All governments, even those that don't make any pretense of being democratic, rule by the consent of the people - it's just a question of how hard you're willing to fight to force them to realize that.

Latest Trump pardon shows just how much the rules have changed (for the worse)

Donald Trump’s habit of handing out presidential pardons like party favors was a scandal in his first term. It’s worse now.

^{Steve Benen (MSNBC)}

In a story that's not really making many waves in the US media because transphobia, transmisogyny, and hating incarcerated people are all bipartisan establishment positions, the Trump administration is also transferring incarcerated trans women to men's prisons; despite the fact that it's both illegal, and multiple judges have issued restraining orders to prevent the regime from doing so:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/transgender-women-prison-trump

Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order

"Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred to men’s facilities under Donald Trump’s executive order, despite multiple court rulings blocking the president’s policy, according to civil rights lawyers and accounts from behind bars.

Trump’s day-one “gender ideology” order, one of several sweeping attacks on trans rights, said the attorney general “shall ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers” and that no federal funds go to gender-affirming treatment or procedures for people in custody.

The executive order was quickly challenged in court. In three lawsuits filed on behalf of trans women housed in women’s prisons, federal judges have ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) cannot withhold their medical treatment and was barred from moving them to men’s facilities. One judge said the plaintiffs had “straightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will follow."

Lawyers fighting Trump’s directive say the court rulings prevented the transfers of 17 trans women who are plaintiffs in the cases, but others not included in the litigation are now facing placements in men’s facilities."

In case you're missing the shell game going on here, the Trump administration is pretending that only the 17 specific trans women mentioned in the cases to block this cruel fuckery are covered, while simply going ahead to target other trans women who are not specifically mentioned in the court orders. Not only is this an abnormal, malicious violation of the spirit of the judge's orders, but it's also literally straight up illegal:

"Prisons are required under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (Prea), a longstanding federal law, to screen incarcerated people for sexual assault risk and consider LGBTQ+ status when making housing decisions. Legal experts say Trump’s blanket policy of housing trans women in men’s facilities clearly violates Prea."

This is a hard story to read, because it demonstrates a pattern of pointless, wonton cruelty towards trans women by Trump's Bureau of Prisons; in addition to moving trans women to men only facilities that put them in very real danger, the BOP has also issued *orders* for guards to deadname prisoners and use incorrect pronouns, change their gender markers on official forms, deny requests for gender appropriate clothing, and to allow male guards to pat down trans women prisoners. Furthermore because this administration (and some would say, American society) hates trans women more than they like ice cream, nobody is making any effort here to prevent abuses that would seemingly go even beyond Trump's fascist executive order. There are already reports of male guards "groping" trans women prisoners, prison officials seizing the bras and underwear of trans women prisoners like they were contraband, threats to force detransition incarcerated trans women by denying their hormone therapy, and even one report of a woman who had gender-affirming surgeries before her incarceration, being moved to a men's prison. As one lawyer noted, this "is essentially sanctioning sexual assault in some instances."

Of course, given that trans people represent a microscopic minority inside the U.S. population, and 17 trans women are being protected by temporary restraining orders, only a small number of trans women are subject to what I'd describe as a form of psychological torture and the constant threat of violence; perhaps that's why the US political and media establishment in the "opposition" doesn't care, rather than their well established indifference towards trans lives, if not outright transphobia. I would however argue that the fact that the Trump administration is plowing ahead to target such a small number of trans women demonstrates that this isn't about safety or the rule of law; the cruelty is indeed the point, and a Trump regime that cares little about malnourished children, seniors living check to check on social security, or American workers, is clearly prepared to move heaven and earth to make existence so intolerable for trans women that they simply stop existing.

#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #TransRights #BureauOfPrisons #Cruelty #SexualAssault #transmisogyny #USPol #PreaAct

Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order

Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’

^{Sam Levin (The Guardian)}

In what is undoubtedly yet another "unprecedented" shock to Very Serious PeopleTM insisting the courts will stop the fascist Trump regime, the government just shipped over 250 prisoners to El Salvador (a country not known for its boundless respect for human rights) despite a judge's order forbidding that:

US deports hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members despite court order

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yv1gnzyvo

"Trump announced on Saturday that he had signed a proclamation declaring that the Tren de Aragua gang was "conducting irregular warfare" against the US and he would deport its members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

That evening, US District Judge James Boasberg in Washington DC ordered a 14-day halt to deportations covered by Trump's proclamation, pending further legal arguments.

After lawyers told him that planes with deportees had already taken off, Judge Boasberg gave a verbal order for the flights to turn back, US media reported, although that directive did not form part of his written ruling.

The written notice appeared in the case docket at 19:25 EDT on Saturday (00:25 GMT on Sunday), the Reuters news agency reports, although it is unclear when the flights carrying the alleged gang members departed from the US.

A senior official in the Trump administration said their legal advisors had determined that the judge's order was invalid because the two planes were over international waters at the time, according to Axios, a political news outlet.

"They were already outside of US airspace," a senior administration official told Axios. "We believe the order is not applicable."

Look, it's not lost on me that most American observers are going to struggle to summon up any sympathy for alleged gang members; although I would like to remind you that given all the other false accusations the Trump regime has made against a variety of people we know are innocent of "supporting terrorism" or "threatening women by existing," you shouldn't be inclined to take Trump and his minions' word for it when they tell you someone is a "gang member" either. What's important here is that the Trump regime is once again openly flouting court orders that impede their fascist agenda regardless of the laws involved; this time by crassly pretending that they think a judge's order not to ship prisoners to El Salvador is no longer valid because the planes shipping them had left American airspace, as if the law were some kinda game of nazi Simon Says. Maybe you *don't* give a shit about alleged gang members, but if the Trumpenreich can ignore court orders and send these folks to a black hole in El Salvador anyway, they can ignore court orders preventing them from shipping me, you, or anyone you know to a torture box as well.

US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order

Hundreds of alleged criminals have been deported from the US to El Salvador, hours after a federal judge said not to do so.

^{Brandon Drenon (BBC News)}

I mean once you've violated dozens of court orders, what's one more? The Trump regime and Customs and Border Patrol just deported an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brown Univeristy despite A) her having a valid visa, and B) a judge's direct order not to do so without telling him 48 hours in advance:

https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025/03/brown-professor-doctor-deported-despite-federal-judges-orders

Brown professor, doctor deported despite federal judge’s orders

"After being held by customs officials at Boston Logan International Airport Thursday, Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh has been deported and is now in Lebanon, according to her relative Yara Chehab and court filings reviewed by The Herald.

The deportation took place despite a Friday order from U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin requiring 48 hours’ notice of Alawieh’s removal from Massachusetts.

Legal filings claim she was in possession of a valid H-1B visa that she recently received from the U.S. consulate in Beirut, The Herald previously reported."

A number of media outlets have been adamant about noting that Alawieh, a transplant surgeon who studied in the United States, hasn't been accused of a crime and doesn't have a criminal record, but really I think that's very much besides the point. As far as the Trump regime is concerned, being a brown person in the United States, even legally, is in and of itself a threat to public safety, or national security. It isn't, and has never been about "the law." Which, when coupled with the fact that the imperial presidency puts Trump in charge of pretty much every department that could hold him to account, is probably why he doesn't give a damn about the law or the judges who adjudicate it.

Brown University professor, doctor deported to Lebanon despite federal judge’s orders

Serving the Brown community since 1891

^{Cate Latimer (The Brown Daily Herald)}

So uh, what stage of "it's not a Constitutional Crisis yet" is it when the ruling fascist party threatens to impeach the judge who ordered them not to deport planeloads of people to a prison in El Salvador, even though they straight up ignored that order?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/alien-enemies-act

GOP Congressman Wants to Impeach Judge Behind 'Alien Enemies' Order Trump Defied

"In a post on X—the social media platform owned by Trump's billionaire adviser Elon Musk—Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) shared the New York Post's coverage of the Saturday court order and said, "I'll be filing articles of impeachment against activist Judge James Boasberg this week."

Gill's post garnered support from multiple other Republicans in the House of Representatives as well as Musk, who has endorsed GOP lawmakers' previous efforts to impeach other federal judges who have ruled against his and Trump's agenda.

Boasberg on Saturday issued a nationwide temporary restraining order in response to legal groups challenging Trump's attempt to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for deportations. The judge, who was appointed to the district court in Washington, D.C. by former President Barack Obama, ordered any planes in the air to turn around.

However, "the Trump administration says it ignored a Saturday court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling didn't apply," Axios reported Sunday, citing two senior officials.

While leading legal groups argue that Trump's attempted use of the law—previously invoked to send thousands of people to internment camps during World War II—is illegal, a senior White House official told Axios: "This is headed to the Supreme Court. And we're going to win."

So, what do you think is more likely? That a judge with no army, no police force, and no branch of government at his disposal can *force* Downmarket Mussolini to obey his orders, or, that a fascist party full of bootlicking sycophant nazis that is currently in control of the entire government, gets enough votes to impeach a judge for doing his job?

I know which one *I* think is more likely, but what I can't figure it out is why you "the law will prevail" folks seem to be getting the wrong answer despite all the evidence around you?

GOP Congressman Wants to Impeach Judge Behind 'Alien Enemies' Order Trump Defied

"The U.S. continues its racist slide toward authoritarian practices," Amnesty International USA said of the administration ignoring the court decision.

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

As part of my work, I've been watching a fair bit of mainstream cable news recently; your condolences are appreciated in advance. While not all the coverage of the Trump regime's willful violation of judge's orders and the law in general has been horrible, there is a strong tendency to cast what is happening here as a hypothetical future result in a far too credulous way given the available evidence. This isn't even really about whether or not Downmarket Mussolini will get away with ignoring the laws and courts yet either; we're talking about grown adults in our media openly asking if the Trump regime seriously intends to do so, or this is all some grand strategy bluff.

This position is of course preposterous to the point that pretending it's plausible Trump isn't trying to create a "constitutional crisis" and allow his administration to act regardless of courts or the law, borders on open collaboration with a fascist regime. If that position sounds extreme to you, check out this article collecting some of the things official representatives of the Trump administration have said about the regime's already-enacted scheme to ship hundreds of alleged gang members to a slave labor prison in El Salvador despite having presented no evidence the Venezuelan men are gang members, and using a war powers act that's well over 200 years old, despite the fact that we're not at war with Venezuela:

https://truthout.org/articles/bondi-says-trump-will-defy-judge-continue-deportations/

"Bondi Says Trump Will Defy Judge, Continue Deportations"

"In a court filing, the ACLU and Democracy Forward accused the administration of a “blatant violation” of the restraining order, as senior Trump administration officials openly dismissed the order. Vice President J.D. Vance bragged about the forced transfers on X, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio retweeted a post by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele that mocked the judge’s decision, saying, “Oopsie… Too late,” alongside a laughing emoji."

Okay so that's Vice President JD Vance, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio; let's take a look at what other high-level, official representatives of the Trump administration have to say about the situation and the government's intentions:

US Attorney General Pam Bondi:

“These are foreign terrorists, that the president has identified them, and designated them as such, and we will continue to follow the Alien Enemies Act [AEA].”

“You know, this one federal judge again thinks he can control foreign policy for the entire country, and he cannot.”

WH Deputy Chief of Staff (and noted white supremacist) Steven Miller:

“It is without doubt the most unlawful order a judge has issued in our lifetimes.”

“A district court judge has no authority to direct the national security operations of the executive branch. The president has operated the absolute apex of his constitutional authority,” he continued."

WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt:

"“[F]ederal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President’s conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion.”

U.S. “border czar” Tom Homan:

“We’re not stopping.”

“I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the Left thinks. We’re coming.”

Folks, these' aren't fascist YouTubers or Fox News media hosts, these are officially designated representatives and officials in the actual Trump administration. They aren't saying these things as a matter of personal opinion, they are speaking on behalf of the Trump regime in an official capacity, even when they're appearing on Fox. It is blatantly irresponsible for corporate media muppets to pretend this fascist nonsense is all something Trump *might* try to do, just because nobody knows if these nazis are actually going to get away with it. He *is* trying it, the US government under Trump's official position is that the president has the power to ignore laws and courts that interfere with his self-identified mandate to "save America." We can debate whether or not he'll get away with it, but the regime has made its intentions clear and the American people deserve to know that. It's not good enough to report Trump's actions and discuss the potential motivations behind them, while treating what regime officials openly say as a separate story. These things are intimately related and they should be presented as such.

#Fascism #USPol #Trump #Courts #ConstitutionalCrisis #FoxNews #JDVance #MarcoRubio #Media #PamBondi #StevenMiller #KarolineLeavitt #TomHoman

Bondi Says Trump Will Defy Judge, Continue Deportations

“I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the Left thinks. We’re coming,” said “border czar” Tom Homan.

^{Zane McNeill (Truthout)}

This (24 minute) Majority Report clip features a kind of wide ranging discussion about the Trump regime's constitutional violations and denial of due process for the 200+ Venezuelan migrants the regime flew to a slave labor prison in El Salvador. It's kinda rambly, but I'm including it here primarily because the MR crew features two clips of an administration official, and a media outlet closely aligned with the Trump regime openly admitting to, or arguing for the government's intention to ignore due process rights on purpose.

First Trump's "Border Czar" Tom Homan gives a television interview where he responds to questions about how the regime determined the "deported" migrants were gang members with a garbled version of "just trust us bro," and then responds to a question about the lack of (legally required) due process for the deportations by snarling "Due process? What was Laken Riley’s due process?" and listing other victims of crimes by migrants. However you feel about those cases, this is Homan admitting the regime knows it is violating the constitution, and simply does not care.

Then in a clip featuring two Fox News hosts, one of them (Brian Kilmeade) a close friend of Donald Trump, who proceed to argue first that we should literally amend the US Constitution to remove any rights for migrants and asylum seekers, and then that we should eliminate due process for migrants because "it's not practical" given the vast number of people the Trump regime intends to deport (Kilmeade's math is a little fuzzy on this subject; first he says 8 million, and then he says "there's 22 million people here at minimum, illegal already, just in the last three administrations.") Exasperated, Kilmeade closes by saying "if we are going to give every [one of] these guys a day in court and a lawyer, we can't do it, they don't *deserve it*" (emphasis mine.)

Obviously Fox News isn't (directly) part of the Trump administration, but when the pro-regime news network is repeating the same arguments as regime spokesmen and officials, to justify the constitutional violations that fascist regime is already committing, the intention of that regime to ignore the laws and constitution becomes unarguably obvious.

Majority Report: Trump Border Ghoul Admits They Are Breaking The Law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OyYGuLD3cA

Perhaps consistent with an administration that knows it's breaking the law and violating the constitution under wholly false pretenses, the Trump regime has invoked the “state secrets” privilege to dodge a federal judge's demand for more information about Downmarket Mussolini's fascist clusterfuck operation to ship 250+ migrants it claims, without evidence, are members of a notorious Venezuelan gang, to slave labor prisons in El Salvador:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/trump-deportation-state-secret

Trump administration claims details of mass deportations are state secrets

"According to a court filing submitted by justice department officials on Monday evening, “no further information will be provided” to the federal court in Washington DC based on the state secrets privilege. The filing said the case deals with Trump’s complete and absolute authority to remove “designated terrorists participating in a state-sponsored invasion of, and predatory incursion into, the United States”.

In response to the Trump administration’s invocation, the federal judge in the case said that if the administration would like to provide more information about the Alien Enemies Act operation, they should do so by 31 March.

Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act on 15 March to expel Venezuelan immigrants in the US. That day, 238 Venezuelans and 23 Salvadoran men were placed on planes and sent to El Salvador, where they were then quickly detained in a massive “terrorism” prison run by the Salvadoran government. For over a week, a federal judge has attempted to compel the Trump administration to release information about the operation."

This story can be difficult to get a handle on because we're ultimately talking about multiple instances of unlawfully activity by the government, and the contemptuous, often clearly false arguments the fascist Trump regime is deploying to avoid consequences for, or in this case even having to explain, those unlawful, often baldly unconstitutional activities. The first question, whether or not the regime can invoke an 18th-century wartime law to conduct "deportations" without due process (which would include a hearing before a judge, the presentation of evidence, and legal representation for the accused), has already been answered in the short term. US district judge James Boasberg blocked the regime's invocation of the act and ordered the government to turn any planes carrying migrants around immediately.

As you may have heard, the Trump regime did not obey the judge's order, and then proceeded to play a series of nazi word games to justify why they didn't have to, that were so devoid of respect for both the judge and the law, Boasberg may end up holding Trump officials in contempt of court. The judge then ordered the Trump administration to explain why the government's actions didn't represent an open violation of his court order. All of which brings us to today, where after threatening to impeach Boasberg, repeatedly arguing in the media that the regime either didn't, or had the right to, violate the US Constitution, and petulantly dragging their feet in an act of open defiance, the Pork Reich has announced that they don't intend to provide Boasberg with any more details about the operation because it would expose "state secrets" and harm America's national security.

Although the Trump regime's "throw buckets of bullshit at the wall and see what sticks" approach to defending its fascist activities makes it hard to pin down the administration's justification for invoking its "state secrets" privilege, we do have two major clues to work with. First the government's filing continues to push the fact-free idea that they are acting to oppose a state-sponsored (by Venezuela) invasion by gang members who are also terrorists, and thus imply everything they're doing is part of an actual war; which means their actions are not subject to judicial review due to the President's legally-established wartime authority to defend America. The number of things objectively wrong with, or false about this argument is literally too staggering to unpack here, but let's just be clear that this is absolute fascist fuckery and bullshit. Our second clue comes from the mouth of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio:

"The rapid expulsion of nearly 300 immigrants came about via a “nonpublic, sensitive, and high stakes negotiation”, secretary of state Marco Rubio said in a separate Monday declaration. The “sensitive” negotiation was likely with the Salvadoran government headed by President Nayib Bukele."

Of course the regime is legally within its rights to invoke its "state secrets" privilege, but that doesn't mean anyone with two braincells to rub together has to believe Trumpworld when it argues that it's fighting a war that doesn't exist, or that telling a court about its activities will damage US relations with El Salvador. These nazis are full of shit.

#Trump #Fascism #ElSalvador #Boasberg #Rubio #MigrantRights #Venezuela #AlienEnemiesAct #Courts

Trump administration claims details of mass deportations are state secrets

Justice department avoids providing US judge information on expulsions of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador

^{José Olivares (The Guardian)}

what @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes is pointing to is another one of the phenomenons of #fascism that people never reckon with:

THERE ARE NO FASCISTS WITHOUT GOD COMPLEXES

this is what has many people in disbelief about the #techbro coalition, especially Zuckerberg, who notoriously helped elect Obama.

but he has always been a sociopathic conman with baby-looks who charmed his way to god-like power by making real the all-watching, all-knowing “information awareness” state:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office

government agency established by the DARPA to achieve "Total Information Awareness"

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

Stupid is as stupid does.

Also, he's a bigot and a rapist.

His constant fraud doesn't even make his top ten crimes anymore.

The graffiti we should see everywhere - "Katie Johnson was 13!!"

https://toot.community/@had54/114065079098669226

had54 🚫MAGA

2025-02-25 14:49:41