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At 1 a.m., the United States Supreme Court issued an emergency stay blocking the Trump regime from sending another group of Venezuelan migrants to concentration camps in El Salvador. It was a seven to two ruling Very rare for the Supreme Court to jump in at 1 a.m. and they sent a clear message to the Trump regime.
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We don't trust you, Donald. So we are making sure we make our position clear by blocking the flights. We should also talk about What's been going down with Abrego Garcia? One of the reasons also the Supreme Court doesn't trust the Trump regime anymore. I could give you a million other reasons, but this is just one of them.
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We should talk about Senator Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador, meeting with Abrego Garcia, how the authoritarian leader of El Salvador, Naid Bukele, tried to set this up with like margaritas to act like Abrego Garcia was treating well. I want to talk about everything that's going on there, everything that's going on.

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Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok host the top-rated Legal AF podcast, and tonight they debate how federal judges—up to the Supreme Court—are addressing a lawless presidency. Topics include: the Supreme Court’s surprising late-night stay blocking Trump from deporting more people to El Salvador; Judge Wilkinson’s scathing yet soaring criticism of the administration, even while approving a judge’s process that could lead to a Trump administration contempt finding; another appellate panel bending over backward to help Trump avoid a criminal contempt charge and prosecution; and why the Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments to consider whether judges have the power to issue nationwide injunctions—and whether the Constitution provides for birthright citizenship. All that and more at the intersection of law and politics.

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Roger Callaway's avatar

Meanwhile trimp administration is incompetent, insane and probably illegal. While the news was fixated on on again off again tariffs and insider trading, the real financial system contemplated collapse of dozens of banks 100 times worse than the 2008

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

No probably about it..... EVERYTHING they DO is ILLEGAL!!!

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Karma Infinity's avatar

The robe doesn’t make the reckoning—but sometimes, it begins there.

This shift isn’t loud. It’s not spectacle. It’s the quiet, procedural return to principle. A courtroom holding its breath. A judge drawing a line not in politics, but in precedent. And still—beneath the rulings, the filings, the forms—something more human pulses.

What does it mean to resist not with fury, but with fidelity? To stand not above, but within the law, and still dare to say: enough.

Maybe justice doesn’t roar. Maybe it rustles, rises, roots.

Who else is listening?

Still watching the ground shift, with you ♾️

What are you noticing?

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Jenny Mann's avatar

well written. thoughtful. made me read it slowly.

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Diana Hess's avatar

Seems to me we quit paying ElSalvador for housing them they would send them back

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

I'm afraid they will exterminate them, because they don't want to spend money to return them.

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Diana Hess's avatar

Trump’s regime is acting barbaric

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Colleen McGloughlin's avatar

Trump’s regime IS barbaric.

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Sheila Prosterman's avatar

so it just gets worse

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Ian Patton's avatar

7 to 2... haven't heard yet but I'm guessing the "2" are those Nazi turds Alito and Thomas.

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Dianne Pymble-Ward's avatar

No doubt!

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Tom Slabe's avatar

Thomas and Alito are horrible people first and phony judges. Let's never forget.

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james f  botta's avatar

AND WHO WILL ARRTEST HIM AND PUT HIM BEHIND BARS????😣🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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John Monro Edwards's avatar

No one—load and clear, boys and girls— stopping trump is LOCAL!!! What the hell. No don’t you dare explain it to me! I’ve read 3 times on substack that the only way to stop trump is local. My response- you are out of your minds. There is the American disappointment of the century. Shame on all of you.

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AAA M's avatar

SUPERMAN WILL

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John Monro Edwards's avatar

Loud and clear (sorry

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Alison's avatar

Just had a thought. If they did not include a clause in the contract, about having the right to recall these people from El Salvador, the right to return them for prosecution, or if proven innocent, then the lawyers should be charged with negligence; BUT if they have no way whatsoever of returning these people, but paid all that money to El Salvador, that means they SOLD them to El Salvador, which means they have committed PEOPLE TRAFFICKING! 💥

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Cynthia Eklund's avatar

Great point! If true, ACLU should press charges! Also, if America is paying el Salvador to house these men….., isn’t Congress in charge of the purse? How can Trump commit OUR money for this purpose? Surely Congress did not authorize this expenditure. Congress must do something about this!

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

Yes..... Congress SHOULD do something...... However, it's sadly worth remembering, that the MAGA GOP in Congress have ALL voluntarily had their backbones removed, and therefore DISHONOUR their Oaths EVERY SINGLE DAY, in deference to this LUNATIC TRUMP AND HIS FASCIST IDEOLOGIES! They are also sadly, in the MAJORITY in BOTH HOUSES!

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Alison's avatar

Could be a very clever way of money laundering, imo. Did the full amount of money stay with the President of El Salvador, or was some paid as a pay off, and the majority transferred to offshore accounts of a certain someone/family, 🤔 who knows, I have no idea, but maybe entirely possible, imo.

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Alison's avatar

Sorry. I need to apologise - My logic is incorrect. The money only went to El Salvador, so it's not a sale, as technically there was only an exchange, people and money for services. However, the people if not legal residents in America have still been people trafficked (imo) due to the fact they were not all deported to their birth countries and were not given chance to leave the country, to a country of their choosing. They could have been assisted with application for assylum, in other countries, and allowed to stay in America until a safe place was secured for them to go. They were not allowed to return home, or collect anything, tell anyone. So by my logic, it was against their human rights and physical safety. Surely people trafficking doesn't just include the exchange of money, if not it could be modern day slavery, as they have supposedly been put in a hard labour facility, against their will.

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Carolea Hassard's avatar

Hah. The Fifth Circuit is so right leaning it can hardly stand up. Thanks for the laugh, Michael.

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Sheryl's avatar

You guys are so great for always having your stuff together

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Jean Royce Barstow's avatar

Support the ACLU!!!

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Edward Nielson's avatar

Is it possible for Abrego-Garcia's wife to file a defamation suit on his behalf against Trump and his toadies for the continuous spewing of smears and lies against him and would she be able to get an injunction to get them to STFU? They won't say in court what they are saying in interviews because they have no evidence, but their lies become accepted by far too many as "fact" by virtue (vice?) of the continuous flood of the lies going out to the public.

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Karla Lewis's avatar

I’m so fed up with the crap he is doing. My anxiety is out of control

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Dianne Pymble-Ward's avatar

My anxiety is out of control too and I’m a 20 hour flight south east of The USA. I think the entire world is on edge.

Love from Australia

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Dianne Pymble-Ward's avatar

Oops, south west!

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Farmers in deep-red state spell trouble for Trump, as he mocks the Constitution."

"Before this week, I didn’t think I could feel any deeper shame than I felt in February, watching Trump and Vance in the Oval Office attacking a real hero of democracy, Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Then, on Monday, Trump sat in the same chairs with President Bukele, brutal dictator of a notorious banana republic, and invited him to openly mock the United States Supreme Court.

Trump and Bukele tag-teamed their choreographed refusal to return Abrego Garcia to the US, which amounted to telling the Supreme Court ‘No,’ they will ‘not’ obey its unanimous order to remove Garcia from the El Salvador hell hole where Trump is paying Bukele to keep him." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/farmers-trump/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Colleen McGloughlin's avatar

He’ll “pay off” the farmers to keep them in the fold. And it won’t come cheaply.

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Lisa M.'s avatar

Watching this video and hearing about the fearless ACLU attorneys who are working tirelessly to stop these illegal deportations makes me so glad that I decided to become an ACLU Guardian of Liberty (monthly contributor) the day after Trump was re-elected. What an incredible organization!! I’m proud to be a member.

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Cardinal Air 24's avatar

Let’s be clear. Trump didn’t figure anything out. He’s too stupid for words. That is part of the problem - people think he’s coming with this shit! Not possible! Stephen Miller, is the orchestrator behind everything. Obviously, he doesn’t do it all, but he “facilitates “ it all.

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Carrie chick's avatar

We need to get the Russian agents out of the White House he's an illegal president they rigged the elections and he admitted it at least four times that I've seen you cannot have a Russian president in the US send me back to Putin

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Alison's avatar

I think the other World Leaders need to unite, and tell him that what he is doing is against people's human rights. Not all those people, were responsible for the two atrocities he keeps mentioning. You can't condemn everyone, because of the actions of some. American jails are full of people that committed the same crimes. Mr President, no rape is OK, no matter what the age of the man, woman or child is.

He seems to be looking at History. The British sending criminals to Australia, Nazi's sending Jews to death camps, and now an exclusion zone at the Mexican border, mimicking NK & ROK's DMZ. If he does not get the full amount of people back, the Court Of Human Rights needs to be petitioned, if that is the correct term. I don't condone criminal acts, but some of these do not warrant life without parole, hard labour, brutality, possible rape or death. Maybe even organ harvesting or drug testing. Goodness knows, what instructions he gave for the treatment of these men. Will they even get medical and dental treatment, sufficient food? They don't even get a blanket, or a pillow. It's barbaric.

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Jane B In NC🌼's avatar

SCOTUS needs to stop withdraw Trump’s immunity and hold this regime responsible. No immigrants or anyone should be allowed to fly to El Salvador prison. No more payments to them.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"RFK’s statements prove autistic people and their families everywhere should fear Trump and his allies.

"The idea that autism is some aberration that can be cured is typical of a movement that celebrates simplistic thinking and loathes human difference." (The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/20/autism-vaccines-robert-f-kennedy-jr-usa-donald-trump

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'"Okay, this isn't real': Dem lawmaker stunned by 'childish' Trump social media post."

"During an appearance on MSNBC, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) expressed surprise and dismay that someone in Donald Trump's White House posted a meme screenshot that made fun of Kilmer Abrego Garcia and his incarceration in El Salvador.

Speaking with host Katie Phang, Crockett was asked about the screenshot of a New York Times headline that has been altered to say Abrego Garcia is "never coming back," from the maximum security prison where he has been held.

After Phang had her producers show the post, Crockett pounced on the post on the official White House account.

"One of my colleagues actually put this post up in a group chat and I was like, 'Okay, this isn't real, right?'" she told the host. "Because it was just a picture, and then she was like, 'No, it's absolutely real,' and I was like, 'who are we and where are we living? And who is running this country?'"

"Because the level of childishness that we saw in this post, but also just the level of cruelty and the level of admission that we've seen, right?" she added, "Like Katie, you and I both know that ultimately, this is not the last that we have seen of this post. This post will most likely show up in some court filing when they are trying to determine whether or not this court has –– or I'm sorry –– this administration has intentionally decided that it wanted to ignore a court order."

She then added, "This will most likely show up in a contempt hearing, so I don't know why, I don't know who's advising or I don't know if they really do care." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/jasmine-crockett-trump-2671806992/

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Arthur Anderson's avatar

Trump feds are purposely hiding uniforms and hiding their faces while detaining people so lawyers can’t find or protect their clients. Nor can videos identify the faces of perpetrators of these illegal actions.

Then Trump feds are using a shell game moving detainees between states/jurisdictions to cherry pick judges and/or prevent or hide the detainees from their lawyers and due process legal protections.

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Awilda Rivera's avatar

I hop they don’t cave like the all the other law firms who are afraid to stand up for justice.

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Shelora.fitzgerald@gmail.com's avatar

Who is going to petition SCOTUS to reverse the immunity ruling?

Trump saying “Thank you” to Justice Roberts after his State of the Union speech tells you everything you need to know about this. Judge Lutig

would be on board for that.

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Merri Ann Gonzalez's avatar

ACLU must have had a crystal ball to have gone in so many directions all at once almost. WOW very impressive.

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Steve's avatar

If SCOTUS rules against birthright citizenship, then is everyone in America deportable?

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Trump, Vance, Musk, Trump's Cabinet, GOPs, J6s, are the ones who should be incarcerated in El Salvador.

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Wendy Buxton's avatar

I don’t understand if it takes 3/4 of the states to affirm amending the constitution, why is SCOTUS able to just carve something out of it?

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Bombay Troubadour's avatar

Trump’s Whitehouse Easter message posted on his Truth Social platform was one for the ages.

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Shiryl Dean's avatar

Can we keep the word "presidency" as far away as possible from the name trump, please? I'm liking the term "regime" a lot. It's much more fitting. trump Regime. I like the sound of that.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Hello, John Roberts. America’s D-Day is Coming. Whatcha Gonna Do?"

"From Kilmar Abrego Garcia to birthright citizenship and more, the moment of truth is arriving for the chief justice. Trump, or the republic?" (New Republic)

https://newrepublic.com/post/194144/john-roberts-trump-cases-abrego-garcia-birthright-citizenship?link_id=4&can_id=56bdad496d5a1d659d2f23c00c81d0e3&source=email-republican-stuns-with-bombshell-trump-confession&email_referrer=email_2704115&email_subject=top-obama-official-goes-nuclear-on-trump&&

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Felicia Smith's avatar

Agree! Let’s get this over with. I want to see who they really are, no more hiding.

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maxgal's avatar

So the SCOTUS MAGA-majority is finally realizing that the monster they created must be destroyed. Better very very very late than never.

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SLMontgo's avatar

Judge Xinis's name is Greek and according to another video reporter (I now forget whom, but it may have been Glenn Kirschner), says it's pronounced "tSee-nees." Yet another strong, courageous judge saying NO to Trump et al.

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Tootie's avatar

I want to know why the Hell’s Angels

The New Order

White Boy Society

Aryan Nations Sadistic Souls MC

Traditionalist Youth Network

White Devil Social Club

Samanta Roy Institute of Science and Technology

are not being considered as domestic terrorist organizations

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/

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Kathy Emerson's avatar

How can we support these judges? How can they know millions are with them?

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Cardinal Air 24's avatar

Protector marches!

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

I am extremely tempted to send each and every Republican and Supreme Court justice a copy of the Constitution. Then tell them that because of their actions it feels like they have no idea what is in the Constitution.

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Steve Knight's avatar

You need graphics to help cut through all the clutter! The BS is now 80 days deep and getting deeper every day!

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Michael B's avatar

What if they move these prisoners to LA and FL then send them from there?

The order is too narrow.

The Trump administration ignores and defies court and SCOTUS orders with no real consequences and no remedies. For practical purposes the courts no longer exist.

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Katherine's avatar

I hope the US Supreme Court follows the US Constitution and rules accordingly.

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Mad Woman's avatar

Very informative, thanks guys!

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Stephanie Scott's avatar

Thank you! I Love your explanations and law school classes!

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Jan Morrow's avatar

Do we even know if all these folks are really all from Venezuela?

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Nancy Taylor's avatar

I wish I could shake the hand of Judge Wilkinson!!!!

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Margaret's avatar

Man that night ruling the other evening was absolutely awesome! I think it came early Friday morning on the east coast…it was pretty late evening Thursday where I live. It was the correct ruling. When you start denying one class of people their constitutional rights…it’s a stepping stone to the rest of us losing ours. In Florida the other day a 20 year old AMERICAN citizen (as in he was born here)was held for 48 hours despite showing people his birth certificate. He has a Spanish name therefore he’s guilty by association. And even someone like Stephen Miller needs to be careful how he frames “America is for American citizens and her citizens only” (I know I flubbed his line but you get the gist). Stephen’s grandparents or great grandparents immigrated post WW1…he’s not exactly lily white American.

Most importantly he’s forgotten an important part of what it means to be American. We are a country of immigrants. Unless you are Native American you are an immigrant or the descendant of one.

We have no state religion. Our Founding Fathers did this deliberately. Most came from some kind of forced upon them religion. They wanted people to be free to find their own religion that fit their person. Or no religion.

We also have no state language. In CA our voting materials come in more languages than I have fingers and toes. You simply call or when you register you indicate your language of choice.

Instead of demonizing others for their heritage…let’s try embracing our differences. You might find you have more in common than you ever thought possible.

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Jose Negron's avatar

The supreme might have been an hour late since the government said they won’t send anyone to ElSavador on Friday till 12:00am Saturday but the Supreme courts order came in at 1:00 am. It my understanding hope lm wrong🙏😳🤨

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Timothy Huggins's avatar

Thank you Meidas. It is good to hear that some of the Justices have taken their pledge to the Contitution serious. Not sure how the 2 decending Justices live with themselves.

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Somber Thoughts About the US Economy

While many contributors in MSM(mainstream media) and Substack authors may trivialize this comment there is a word to wise Don’t shuss away comments about the global economy You do so at your own financial peril To painfully watch the daily Orange Cheeto’s destruction of the federal government it distracts us from a much graver issue at hand The US economy and its relevance in the world as its reserve currency is coming to an end with an ensuing debt crisis Failure to heed the flashing warning lights will lead to devastating consequences to investor’s portfolios globally

To see the reasoning behind such ominous warning lights see https://bit.ly/3Gk6Uhq As the boy scout motto says ”Be Prepared”

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Kent Howard's avatar

Everybody down to the pilots need to be held in contempt if this is violated!

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Harold Neth's avatar

Tje judges can issue orders. What is lacking is enforcement in the face of defiance.

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Arthur Anderson's avatar

Do “originalists” on SCOTUS think that the congress of 1798 passed the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 with the intention of sending immigrants to El Salvador? Asking for a friend.🤷‍♂️

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joanzeleny's avatar

Thank you so much for discussing this important matter...I understand we all get a bit giddy with the associate insanity of the Trump administration...regime.best wishes and continued progress in helping us be informed.

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Diana Hess's avatar

Pam Bondi needs to read Judge Wilkinsons statement and take it to heart!

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Bondi is heartless.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

'"Supreme Court has an inkling': Ex-prosecutor says top justices know Trump's big plan."

"The Supreme Court is clued in to Donald Trump's plan to undercut their power, an ex-prosecutor said on Saturday.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance over the weekend posted an essay explaining the various deportation cases in which Trump's administration is involved. As part of that explainer, Vance sounded the alarm about what she sees as Trump's agenda." Trump is trying to break the government. To control all its levers, he needs a complicit judiciary to go along with a complacent Congress," she wrote on Substack. She then added, "The Supreme Court seems to have an inkling of the fix they’ve put themselves in, with Trump trying to accumulate power at the courts’ expense." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supreme-court-big-plan/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Linda Chiles's avatar

Fabulous session...most edifying! Why is the birth issue given any court time whatsoever. Why didn't the court simply say "this isn't worth my time?" I just can't understand why this birth citizenship issue got any kind of status to be even talked about. It should be laughed out of court!

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Rubio FINALLY Admits Trump LIED About Ending Wars", on YouTube. (Tennessee Brando)

https://youtu.be/GbX2Ic6NlJw?si=rm40elw1DwfGwPM9

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Walli Kay Osborn's avatar

If 75% of the men in the Salvadorian prison have not committed crimes, the why isn't the Supreme Court insisting they ALL come back for due process??? Please, this keeps me up at night. I worry about ALL of them. Why?

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Penelope Butterfield's avatar

Thanks for the in-depth coverage of the current situation re: disappearing of immigrants. We need all hands on deck to battle this insanity and constitutional crisis.

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Cardinal Air 24's avatar

AKA protest marches

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Cardinal Air 24's avatar

Thank you guys!

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John Cranford's avatar

I thank you for your knowledge, Popok.

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Popok's 👌was funny 😁

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "🚨 Trump BLOWS IT ALL UP, as GOP HIDES", on YouTube. (Mea Culpa/Meidas Touch/Michael Cohen)

https://www.youtube.com/live/aaLdlvZ4q2A?si=3ILgloPATMi0w_tE

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump GIVES UP in most HUMILIATING WAY Possible", on YouTube. (AF Legal/Meidas Touch)

https://youtu.be/nJ8buuEbnus?si=0KwBB2AFwQ13xAUY

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump ATTACKS Harvard, As Our Country Spirals", on YouTube. (Tennessee Brando)

https://youtu.be/m1gzn4IWSoI?si=AMZIZWDrsn6su915

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

'"Hey, John Roberts?' Chief Justice alerted as White House liaison insults his intelligence."

"A key White House official is insulting Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr., and the nation's top jurist should know, a legal expert said on Saturday.

It all started with the Supreme Court over the weekend temporarily halted the Trump administration's deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members under an 18th-century law.That led one MAGA influencer to write on X, "As usual, Alito and Thomas are the only two Justices you can count on to uphold the integrity of our republic. Replacing them is going to be one of the most important issues of our time." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/john-roberts-white-house-liaison/

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

'"It’s Political Science 101': Republicans put an 'expiration date' on Trump economic pain."

"Republican insiders throughout the country are giving Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt that the economic pain Americans are experiencing due to his trade war, will be short-lived and won't cripple them at the ballot box in the 2026 midterm election.

But they have their limits.

According to a report from Politico's Liz Crampton, GOP lawmakers and campaign consultants are standing firm behind the president and his on-again, off-again tariff proposals for the moment but are acknowledging things could go south quickly if lower prices and jobs don't return.

As Crampton wrote, "Some Republicans are putting an expiration date on how long they’ll tolerate the economic fallout from Donald Trump’s trade war," adding, "Interviews with nearly three dozen Republican leaders and operatives in seven battlegrounds — from party chairs to strategists to state lawmakers — reveal a growing acknowledgment that economic shocks could hamper the party’s prospects in the midterms." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2671810927/

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"'Could get ugly': Fox reporter spills 'breaking' news on Trump 'risking financial crisis'."

"A veteran Donald Trump reporter says the president is willing to risk financial crisis in order to enact his biggest agenda items.

FOX Biz senior correspondent Charles Gasparino, who reports on Trump often and earned the ire of MAGA when he recently reported that conservatives were wrong to suggest Trump outsmarted the world with tariffs, took to social media to issue a breaking alert." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-risking-financial-crisis-breaking/

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

'"Get a grip': Conservative ignites fury on all sides over 'dissolve Supreme Court' comment."

"A conservative talk show host drew fire from all sides after suggesting Donald Trump and his administration should simply "ignore the Supreme Court" and potentially even "dissolve" it.

Jesse Kelly, who in 2021 openly speculated that Republicans may soon get tired of "following the rules" and "pick a fascist" to lead the party, has also been criticized for his prior social media comments.

On Saturday, he turned his attention toward the nation's top court, after it temporarily halted the Trump administration's deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members under an 18th-century law." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/dissolve-supreme-court-jesse-kelly/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

'"Problem for Trump people'. GOP insider flags big issue for President's legal case."

"Donald Trump's White House keeps pumping out information seeking to discredit a wrongly deported man, and that's exactly the conversation they want to be having, a GOP strategist said Saturday.

Speaking on MSNBC's PoliticsNation this weekend, Republican strategist Susan del Percio, who has a history of working with Republican candidates and in Rudy Giuliani's administration, was asked about the case involving a Maryland man, Kilmar Ábrego García, who was purportedly sent to El Salvador in error." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/problem-for-trump-people-kilmar/

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Revealed: Far-right pressuring Johnson to join Trump in new attack."

"Dismantling the federal government won’t be complete without upending the judicial branch — or so many conservatives argue, which is why rank-and-file Republicans are pressuring party leaders to fall in line and join White House efforts to purge the nation’s judiciary.

Before Congress left town for its two-week Easter recess, Speaker Mike Johnson tried to placate his right flank by ushering a bill restricting national injunctions through the House. Party leaders have also promised hearings.

None of that’s good enough for many rank-and-file Republicans, especially because President Donald Trump and his agency-gutting sidekick Elon Musk have tossed their support behind fringe-right proposals to impeach federal judges.

“There’s gotta be accountability,” Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) told Raw Story. “If we can't impeach them, we should defund them.”

The two-term Congressman is one of five Republicans who’ve authored seven separate articles of impeachment targeting six judges. All in the first three months of this new Congress." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/johnson-judges/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Sheryl's avatar

Trump has been paying that idiot to keep him in that hell hole.

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Selma Bynoe's avatar

U all r doing totally excellent job thank u

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BAMFORD's avatar

But who will enforce this ruling? What process is in place to ensure that the Trump Regime changes course?

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Ilona  Schweiger Swarovski's avatar

Trumps law firm has been smashing down the judges in DC has investigated by insider against them all is picking the details in Trump’s Criminal Trial 34 counts in 2022/23 plea him guilty for corruption…

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Scott Ball's avatar

Him and his minions are going to do everything they can to keep these judges from exercising their Democratic right of a check on the mad man in the driver's seat

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Margheritta J Tessitore's avatar

Why don't they round up Trump's regime and stick them on the next plane out el Salvador and and since they want to get rid of criminals let them all get on the plane and let them go to the concentration camp that they're sending so many others to without their due process I see how long it takes before they start yelling about their rights while they are trampling all over everybody else's rights

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Margheritta J Tessitore's avatar

Is Satan walk the earth they would call him Donald Trump his team is totally incompetent their security risks and they're doing things illegally now I understand that they want to pass a law that the judicial system does not have the right to count the man the executive branch what kind of nonsense is that smart no not at all the stock market is crashing in places going up unemployment is going up thanks to Trump well this is all thanks to Trump come to think of it and now Medicare and Medicaid are going to cut and that will destroy thing helps you for a good portion of our country the fact that he is on again off again with his tariffs and don't you think it's really amazing that he wrote to his billionaire friend and to this is a good time to buy stock and then two days later he decided to give it a 90 day pause gee I wonder how corrupt that is very you put a Fallon in the White House you don't expect to get law and order you expect to get criminal content for this country and her laws and her Constitution and our way of life when you're done this country will be in ruins we will have no friends no allies and our enemies will be licking their cops looking to tear the rest of us apart whatever Donald Trump hasn't already destroyed we need to save our country which means he has to get out along with his entire regime

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Radha Bose's avatar

This was very educational! Thank you!

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Steve's avatar

I think it would be best if not every stupid shit Mr Trumps regime does we keep score and go at them

Once a week or 2 them go at am Trump bullshit they can recover from but if it’s a whole bunch of things at the same time, it’ll be harder. Don’t share your game plan as Pete does.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Canadian MP Just EXPOSED Trump Better Than Most Americans", on YouTube. (Tennessee Brando)

https://youtu.be/TA-_CPDimPU?si=E6kSshGZQSxj-cxb

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump And Vance Become Great Again With Cheetos; Tariffs Hit 245% On China - Ai memes", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/l6xmz9gGsHQ?si=U3vsFM8WFY8Np2XV

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Make McDonald's Great Again ( Donald Trump ) U.S Tariffs - Ai Memes", on YouTube

https://youtube.com/shorts/x2vH_pnDCUo?si=np64IBDt6IeIFDTL

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump demands Putin sign ceasefire #PuppetRegime #UkraineWar #Trump #Putin", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wTQFvomTcuo?si=9wZHWBOnuB8rUrp0

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Pope Francis slams Trump and JD Vance immediately before his death", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/k7H1zncbRWE?si=vyjY6qevIF9MgUB5

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Tariffs Hit 245% On China; America Comes Great Again Ai Memes", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/LDbbQDtym48?si=tIm5iigx53h2771h

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump And Vance Getting Ready For Cheetos U.S Tariffs Rise To 245% Ai Memes", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/mmNbN23tg-w?si=kqnO29WJaEbZFv3N

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Stayin Alive - President Edition #trump #funny #putin #kimjongun", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/TAbBStvzR_g?si=wc2_cUV2WXSHzmoN

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "China Strikes Back At Trump Tariff Hike, But This Time With Ai Memes", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/EPACWudI7kU?si=3UEsV_rthhnelYia

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "America is Made in China 🇨🇳 #madeinchina #america #usa", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wDIOo2RFzWc?si=6oBUG0ZPQOBqkqaQ

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "🔥INCREDIBLE: Nashville neighbors form a HUMAN CHAIN, to stop ICE from deporting a father and son!", on YouTube. (Occupy Democrats)

https://youtube.com/shorts/7MCxxnCHvFg?si=Wa0Lilgk4cNwk3hq

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Trump is a relentless bully, but he can be stopped by standing up to him, and not caving in to him. There is strength in numbers. COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Former National Security Advisor Breaks Silence on Trump Pentagon Scandal."

"Jake Sullivan joins MeidasTouch to break down the catastrophic national security failures of the Trump regime." (MeidasTouch Network and Ben Meiselas,

Apr 21, 2025)

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/former-national-security-advisor?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3078900&post_id=161834324&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Brian Tyler Cohen makes the case to FIGHT BACK", on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/shorts/tgljK9nOSjU?si=LEzWgkC1FTyDLEwN

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Maga Rep HUMILIATES HERSELF In Public", on YouTube. (Tennessee Brando)

https://youtu.be/_XM5AFEbDhc?si=2ImAcP6ws23OhicN

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Rep. Crockett: Garcia “a lot less criminal than the person that's sitting in the White House”, on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen)

https://youtube.com/shorts/DN2kD9jQJQs?si=BZCqNZSjC1arinRH

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Meidas Health: Why Trump's WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk."

"Dr. Vin Gupta sits down with Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove of the World Health Organization to expose the dangerous consequences of Trump’s war on global health." (MeidasTouch Network,

Apr 21, 2025)

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/meidas-health-why-trumps-who-exit?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3078900&post_id=161400939&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Once Burned, Twice Shy."

"The Supreme Court’s order looks even more extraordinary two days later.

I gave my initial thoughts about the very important Supreme Court order, blocking the deportation of a group of migrants in Texas, in conversation with Jen Rubin and Steve Vladeck Saturday morning, only a few hours after the order was issued.

Two days later, I think they hold up pretty well." (Harry Litman, April 21, 2025)

https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/once-burned-twice-shy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3375056&post_id=161809848&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Trump uses faith to push fascism."

"While the world celebrates Easter, Trump took the holiday as an opportunity to insult his opposition. I look at Trump's Easter message, as well as J.D. Vance's disastrous meeting with Pope Francis." (Steve Schmidt, April 21, 2025)

https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/trump-uses-faith-to-push-fascism?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=836444&post_id=161813986&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump BACKSTABBED by His MOST LOYAL Supreme Court Justice", on YouTube. (AF Legal/Meidas Touch)

https://youtu.be/vR3QojdegtI?si=kMmvhey2itKDSyH0

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump SMACKED DOWN in BLISTERING Appeal DENIAL", on YouTube. (AF Legal/Meidas Touch)

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZeUiHXswcQ4?si=bsYCGzITJijhXeEU

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

'"The guy with all those bankruptcies': Trump's Easter Day swipe at 'businessmen' backfires." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-businessmen-bankruptcies-observers/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

'"Bad at business': Trump lashes out at 'businessmen' critics in 'unhinged' Easter comments."

"Donald Trump on Easter lectured "businessmen who criticize" his policies.

The President of the United States took to his own social media network -- called Truth Social -- on Easter Sunday, first writing, "HAPPY EASTER. WE WILL, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES."

Minutes later, Trump had a new message for his critics.

He said, "THE BUSINESSMEN WHO CRITICIZE TARIFFS ARE BAD AT BUSINESS, BUT REALLY BAD AT POLITICS."

"THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND OR REALIZE THAT I AM THE GREATEST FRIEND THAT AMERICAN CAPITALISM HAS EVER HAD!" Trump then added.

Independent journalist Aaron Rupar Sunday called the holiday message "unhinged." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bad-at-business-easter/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

'"Big downsizing': GOP plans to snatch health coverage from 'millions of low-income' people." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/big-downsizing-obamacare-mike-johnson/

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"The Republican Party finally meets its reckoning".

"We’ve spent years watching Donald Trump attack our democratic institutions, inflame divisions, and corrupt the public discourse.

But focusing solely on Trump misses the larger, more disturbing reality: Trump isn’t acting alone. He’s a dangerous pathogen that found the perfect host in today’s Republican Party, an organism already compromised and eager to be infected.

The evidence of this dangerous symbiosis is alarming and immediate. Just days ago, America crossed a threshold that should chill every citizen who still believes in the rule of law.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a young man living peacefully in Maryland with no criminal record, was ripped from his home and deported to El Salvador — not by rogue agents, not by mistake, but in deliberate defiance of multiple federal court orders.

A judge had explicitly ordered that Garcia not be deported. The U.S. Supreme Court had intervened. And still, the Trump-controlled Department of Justice — under Attorney General Pam Bondi — refused to comply." (Raw Story)

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/the-republican-party-finally-meets-its-reckoning/?u=7b9efb3185bef2bd309f85021fcf366956aa9a477375b276f5af3843618fd1f1

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

TO SCOTUS: Please stop the insanity....rescind Trump's immunity, and follow the Constitution and rule of law.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Newsom rips Trump: "The Founding Fathers did not live and die for this moment", on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen)

https://youtube.com/shorts/yXqEd2HVuXY?si=0QyJ1h2CzXJ0e12Y

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "FURIOUS Canada SHAMES Trump IN PUBLIC", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)

https://youtu.be/7XTtouEidYc?si=O2CClPfi_Gey9NNM

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump CRUMBLES from AWFUL NEWS…PANIC POSTS!", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)

https://youtu.be/YWtBCWCMOdE?si=rOUtqhlTMYK8Zq72

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Olivia Parrish's avatar

Please weigh in on the No Rogues Act. This is truly horrifying, and how did the House pass it so quickly and so easily? Thank you

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Nancy Adams's avatar

Thank you so much for walking us through this shit show of a government we currently have. I am also learning so much about law and the mapping out of the District Judges.

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Monte Hickmon's avatar

Thank you both for the work you're both doing and the excellent break down and annalise of these court cases, Elbows Up, We the People Resist

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Cat Lady USA's avatar

Can the Supreme Court cancel his Immunity?

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

My question is, as is probably many peoples' question.... if he thumbs his nose up at the Courts, and especally the Supreme Court..... WHO is going to ENFORCE their ruling??? If the Supreme Court makes a directive that the Trump Regime is to be prosecuted for CONTEMPT..... WHO is going to actually prosecute THAT???? If that prosecution actually DOES happen, with a Special Prosecutor, or whatever.... who will ENFORCE that ruling????

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

That equates to, at least, 11 million protesters nationwide of a regular basis... Make this YOUR priority! PARTICIPATE in these protests EVERY SINGLE TIME and help this grass-roots, people-powered project GROW EXPONENTIALLY!

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

Trump has been doing, what Steve Bannon ADVISED him to do back in 2016... and THAT'S DESPICABLE! Flood the zone with SHIT, so they can't keep up, they're always on the defence, and therefore, SOME of it will STICK! It HAS TO STOP! It's time this FASCIST REGIME was put into DEFENCE instead of OFFENSE!

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

If the Supreme Court votes in FAVOUR of the Trump Regime by a majority in direct and purposeful CONTRAVENTION of the Constitution, then all of those Justices in the MAJORITY should be IMPEACHED for TREASON!!! The Constitution was established for a reason, and has been followed, along with the Rule of Law for the past, almost 250 years, and 5 MAGA Justices DO NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY to REFUSE TO ABIDE BY IT!!!

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

In order to INITIATE CHANGE...... one must follow the 3.5% Rule! (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world) PARTICIPATE in EVERY SINGLE nationwide protest (they're happening REGULARLY) and help that grass-roots, people-powered project grow in size and numbers! Make your voices HEARD! Don't just go to one, and give up.... keep going..... keep taking 3 o4 different people with you every time...... these protests will gain momentum, and that's VITAL!!!

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

OF COURSE they have control over who they bring back! The Trump Regime is PAYING Bukele to IMPRISON these people, who have been sent away WITHOUT DUE PROCESS! The Trump Regime is the 'client', so therefore, THEY have control! They are lying through their ASSES yet AGAIN! DON'T FALL FOR IT, PEOPLES! It has NOTHING TO DO WITH whether these people are criminals or not.... it is PURE RACISM AT IT'S CORE! They have not given these people due process, BECAUSE it will be proven (I believe) in a Court of Law, that these people are actually NOT the Criminals that Trump, Stephen Miller & Cohorts SAY they are!!!

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"With Nationwide Actions on Saturday, Anti-Trump Protests Show No Sign of Slowing Down."

"Events on Saturday included marches as well as direct community-oriented actions, including neighborhood cleanups and food drives." (Common Dreams)

https://www.commondreams.org/news/50501-movement-protest?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=b5ce8d47cb-Top+News%3A+Fri.+4%2F18%2F25+w%2F+fundraiser_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-5cab4589e1-600492151

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SLMontgo's avatar

My question: how does America become great "again" when the obvious tactic here is to shrink America small enough to drown it in a bathtub?

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Felicia Smith's avatar

I’m grateful to have this labyrinthine process explained so that we can understand how all this went down. The ending pitch for people who have personal-injury grievances is kind of off-putting. I love MTN, so I hate to mention this.

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J Fox's avatar

Can you imagine how a conversation would sound between John Sauer (sp?) and Robert Kennedy, jr.? One huge broken plate glass!!!🤭

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Sunny Apocalypse's avatar

Here I have a script, some cool graphics snd ever governors contact page right in this here substack post.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "🚨 Fed up Obama official goes NUCLEAR on Trump", on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen)

https://youtu.be/4RgVEFQ8ykE?si=aaSs6L1IYUwsjBqu

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Newsom slams Trump for destroying trust in America", on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen)

https://youtube.com/shorts/sBRIzA0RPm0?si=OZJMz9tmiMof0Zsi

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DevineMissM's avatar

Second-level contempt?

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peter's avatar

Boo

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John Dukes, III's avatar

Continue? SCOTUS is the entire reason for this ass… along with people who love rapey, 34x felony convicted, old White men, like pigs love slop.

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Jean Conley's avatar

Bingo, John!

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Buffy Aakaash's avatar

The first horrible decision SCOTUS made was Citizen's United in 2010, which allowed people like Musk (and there are many other little fascist rich people who have taken advantage of the ruling as well) to basically buy our supposed "representatives." And then, 14 years later, they give the president, purchased by the wealthy and Project 2025 supporters, full immunity from any action he takes as president. Ludicrous! Both of these completely fascistic decisions have played a large part in getting us to this horrible place in history.

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

and it all started with Reagan... waaaay back then.....

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Buffy Aakaash's avatar

Yes. Privatize everything. De-prioritize education, so that when these SCOTUS decisions are made most of the population doesn't blink an eye.

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Sheila Prosterman's avatar

spam more spam!!!

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

Will you GO AWAY for FUCK'S sake! YOU are not wanted here!!! GRRRR

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SueLyons's avatar

You seem confused.

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

They're not confused, they're GRIFTING....GRRRRR .... scammers!!!

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Yvonne Hughes's avatar

I wouldn't hold your breath.... most of those Justices has SHOWN who THEY are! GRRRR...

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We should talk about Senator Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador, meeting with Abrego Garcia, how the authoritarian leader of El Salvador, Naid Bukele, tried to set this up with like margaritas to act like Abrego Garcia was treating well. I want to talk about everything that's going on there, everything that's going on.