The tariffs case pending before the Supreme Court is one of those rare cases where, even as a federal litigator, I hope the Republican majority does the wrong thing.
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Sabrina Haake is a 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. Her columns are published in Alternet, Chicago Tribune, MSN, Out South Florida, Raw Story, Salon, Smart News and Windy City Times. Her Substack, The Haake Take, is free.
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump disavowed familiarity with Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s plan for autocratic takeover of the U.S. That disavowal proved as truthful as his promise not to disturb the East Wing of the White House.
Trump has ordered more deadly bombings of small fishing boats, killing everyone onboard, this time off the coast of Colombia. More strikes were announced on Oct. 24, killing six more people and bringing the number of fatalities among people Trump calls “narco-terrorists” to 43.
Last month, Trump signed an Executive Order formally designating “antifa” a domestic terrorist organization. Vowing to unleash the full might of unrestrained federal firepower against its members, organizers and funders, Trump declared, “Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.”
Last weekend, Trump ordered another summary execution of people on a fishing boat off the Venezuelan coast.
Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News bobblehead with documented alcohol problems, summoned the military’s top 800 generals, admirals and flag officers to Quantico, Virginia this week to degrade them with a message that could have been delivered via Zoom.
Now that the whole world knows Trump can’t take a joke, Kimmel should deadpan deliver a few pages of Trump’s vanity suit against the NYT as Guillermo hides his face.
A president who calls his opponents “scum” and “the enemy within,” who ordered the murder of 11 people in a boat headed for Trinidad then posted snuf photos of the hit, and has repeatedly encouraged political violence in his name, is trying to catapult Charlie Kirk’s murder into an expansion of his own powers.
Don’t despair as authoritarianism marches around us. A shift may come soon, as the realization spreads that blue states contribute the lion’s share of resources funding Trump’s mad theater of destruction.
During an absurdly obsequious, 3.5 hour televised “cabinet meeting,” Donald Trump said he can “do whatever he wants as president,” and suggested that Americans might support him becoming a dictator.
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