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How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

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Re: How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

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Post by shermantanktop »

zip1234 wrote: post #98
declan_roberts wrote: post #54

Trump had allegedly fired people responsible for FOIA but at the same time we are finally seeing documents that the DOJ and FBI have been slow walking for almost 8 years or longer. Some examples, file metadata for Seth Rich's laptop, and obviously files related to the JFK assassination.

On top of that, violating public records laws by using signal chat for official communications with disappearing messages turned on.

Turns out you don’t need FOIA when the participants free the information by accident.

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Post by shadowgovt »

zamalek wrote: post #31
solomonb wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He can't run again.

You say that now. Every system designed to protect the constitution has been captured by him. America has 4 years to set things right, it had better make it count.

Supreme Court Judges have careers that outlive Presidents.

I think people consistently misinterpret the overturning of Roe (a calculated, focused effort that took decades and overturned specific judicial precedent that basically had created a right-to-privacy from whole cloth) with "Trump has SCOTUS in his pocket." He doesn't. The GOP got the two things they wanted from tilting the SCOTUS in their direction; there's no reason to believe this SCOTUS is about to start looking at the bare-face text of the Twenty Second Amendment and decide there aren't any words there.

The incentives just aren't there. Especially because it's pretty obvious that if they do ignore that text, it becomes pitchfork time and their necks are no less vulnerable than the President's.

(ETA: And that's ignoring that individual states are not obligated to put him on the ballot if he's inelligible to run for a third term, and by-and-large, Americans do not vote for names not on the ballot because they don't know their own civil rights).

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Post by sheepscreek »

Afforess wrote: post #32
sheepscreek wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regarding civic duty, I would start by “being civil with your fellow citizens”. The irony is not lost on me. Edit: To be clear, my comment is not aimed at you. I mean we’re missing the A in the ABCs of civic duty. It’s each person for themselves.

How was my response uncivil? Your reply is bad faith because it provides no evidence.

I didn’t intend to offend you, neither did I mean to say you were wrong. I apologize if my words came across that way.

My point was a play on the word “civil” and how the bare minimum duty of a citizen should be to love thy neighbour.

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Post by asveikau »

solomonb wrote: post #21
zamalek wrote: post #8

If Trump wins the next election, take that as the signal of the point of no return. It happened to Rome, it can happen to America.

He can't run again.

Putin was also term limited around 2012 iirc?

This is what these people do.

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Post by nine_zeros »

shadowgovt wrote: post #81
nine_zeros wrote: post #46

I find it remarkable that Americans are ok with rule by executive order instead of rule by congressional law. I also find it fascinating that no federal judge has held any Trump administration officers in contempt or imposed sanctions/bans on officers who are continuously hurting constitutional rights. I assume that Americans have been sleeping at the wheel, unaware of the threat of slide into fascism. But is the vot…

Americans allowed Congress to cede a lot of its power to the President after 9/11. That has been a slow-roll towards "rule by EO" since then. In addition, the processes Congress creates are somewhat sclerotic for several reasons; there's a relatively good book out recently by Ezra Klein titled "Abundance" on the details. Federal judges generally don't prior-constrain the Executive. Hypothetically, the flow of control…

> Americans are still, overall, quite personally comfortable. I don't anticipate actions at capitals until that comfort is en-masse threatened.

I suspect you are right. It will probably take a full recession, much like COVID, for people to slam brakes at the travesty.

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Post by ajross »

declan_roberts wrote: post #54

Trump had allegedly fired people responsible for FOIA but at the same time we are finally seeing documents that the DOJ and FBI have been slow walking for almost 8 years or longer. Some examples, file metadata for Seth Rich's laptop, and obviously files related to the JFK assassination.

Impeding the release of government info requested by the general public and selectively releasing only items of political value to you or your coalition sounds like exactly the kind of corruption FOIA was supposed to address.
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