Five or six years ago, I was in federal court on an evidence motion. I don’t remember the issue, the claim, or whether I was for or against the motion. What I do remember like it happened today is the exchange I had with the judge.
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Sabrina Haake is a columnist and 25 year litigator specializing in 1st and 14th Amendment defense. Her Substack, The Haake Take, has no paywall.
For hundreds of years, a myth has persisted about the first time tall ships landed in the Americas. Native people, so the story goes, did not fear the looming ships at first because they couldn’t register what they were.
In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court disparaged Trump’s claim that presidents can do whatever they want, by ordering the administration to disburse $2 billion in USAID grants in compliance with the rulings of US District Judge Amir Ali.
These are the times that try men’s souls… Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. ~ Thomas Paine, American Crisis, 1776
What America’s barely-elected president is trying to do to Ukraine and the world order is a disgrace, and I want you to know that most Americans are horrified. Even as Trump/Musk/Putin conspire to force their naked oligarchy on the world, most of us have grandparents who remember how fascism works, and we don’t like strongmen.
Within less than a month in office, the Trump administration exceeded its article II powers, diminished the role of Congress, and challenged the authority of the judiciary. Waving away his campaign pledge to lower the cost of groceries, Trump focused instead on maximal cruelty and political retribution dispersed with a wrecking ball.
Donald Trump’s unhinged proposal to take Gaza, “relocate” more than a million starving people to an unspecified locale, and turn their bombed homes into a resort for the wealthy didn’t go over well.
After repeatedly claiming that he has “nothing to do with Project 2025,” Donald Trump has signed warp speed executive orders to effectuate Project 2025.
Declaring himself anointed by God, Donald Trump said during his inaugural speech that God saved him from an assassination attempt to make America great again. Fusing God into MAGA and his own personage, through his words and post-inaugural deeds, Trump has made his monarchical intentions clear.
The US Department of Defense is the largest government agency in the country.
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