On April 14, El Salvador’s self-described “cool dictator” President Bukele appeared in a skit in the Oval Office with Donald Trump, where both men pretended they couldn’t undo their own actions in imprisoning Abrego Garcia.
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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.
To ensure that the United States will always be led by a coherent, functioning President, the 25th Amendment provides for the prompt, orderly, and democratic transfer of executive power in the event the president is incapacitated, physically or mentally.
While Fox News is bending itself into a pretzel trying to put lipstick on our dipshit president’s “Liberation Day” pig, it’s become obvious that Trump used ChatGPT to generate his simpleton’s “world tariff chart.”
This week served up the capper of Trump’s illegal conduct when we learned that Trump officials are coordinating their actions on Signal, an app with an auto delete feature, in violation of multiple federal laws requiring communications to be preserved and protected.
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.
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.
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