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Mitch Jackson's avatar

We’re at a pivotal moment, and each of us can make a difference. I’m confident Americans will rise to the occasion and make their voices heard.

Please watch, share, and help spread the word. Thank you!

Dawn Szacik's avatar

Everything Trump does is an illegal act against the constitution

Kira's avatar

It is way past the time that the US Supreme Court needs to seriously consider an immediate termination of THEIR action of "granting" immunity to the current US President for his actions while in his current position.

When will they finally come out into the daylight, and hopefully see how their "Immunity" decision might be wreaking havoc on the US Constitution as well as on the US voters. Maybe.... just maybe....they'll see how much damage and impact their "immunity" ruling is - and continues to -- negatively impact our country and its people.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Kira, as much as the immunity decision bothers me, I'm more concerned with the current Republican majority in Congress not doing their job. They have the ability, with oversight power, the purse, and separation of powers, to really shut all this nonsense down, but obviously they're not. Things will change after the midterms. We all need to stay focused, register, and vote.

CONNIE  BREMER-MURRAY's avatar

I want new laws and the teeth to support them!

Mitch Jackson's avatar

What's interesting, Connie, is that for the most part we already have the laws to put a stop to all the nonsense, misconduct, and illegal activity that's happening. It takes Congress and a Department of Justice, along with an FBI, to investigate and enforce those laws. That's the problem right now. Yes, there are some areas where we need to modify and even write new laws when it comes to, conflicts of interest, profiting off of an elected office and trading stocks while in Congress or in the Oval Office. I think we'll get there after the midterms.

Geri Cochran's avatar

Didn't SCOTUS just give him his ballroom and of course the bunker underneath.

Teri's avatar

,,,,and we're paying for most of it, which I think should be addressed. He's stolen way too much taxpayer money, while doing things to make our daily living more expensive.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Exactly. It's unbelievable to me this isn't a bigger story. He originally told all Americans that the East Wing wouldn't be touched. Then he said it wouldn't cost any of us a dime. Obviously, all of that was false. There need to be consequences.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Justice Roberts issued a temporary order allowing the construction above ground to continue, conditioned upon subsequent review. I did a deep dive in this piece, "The Ballroom Is Illegal, the East Wing Is Rubble, and Congress Refuses to Fix It. Here's What Happens Next." https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/the-ballroom-is-illegal-the-east?r=2fe7t3&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Betsy Groth's avatar

The Roberts Court is a lost cause. 6/9 completely corrupt and anti American

Mitch Jackson's avatar

I too have major concerns about SCOTUS and even suggested these term limits and appointment process to help fix the problem. See "Nine People. Decades of Power. One Fix for the Supreme Court Most Americans Already Want" https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/nine-people-decades-of-power-one?r=2fe7t3&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Betsy Groth's avatar

There is no time for that, Mitch. Not gonna happen

Mitch Jackson's avatar

The article was written as a suggestion. I'd like to see it happen, but what's interesting is this concept was actually brought up this week with a bill being proposed to Congress. The first step is conversation, and then action, along with momentum, starts to follow. I'll never give up on trying to improve the process and improve the system and make things better for everyone.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

It sure feels that way, doesn't it, Dawn? The good news is we're winning more cases, substantially more cases, than losing. After November, we'll start to right the wrongs and get things straightened out. It's not going to be easy, but we will get it done.

Teri's avatar

Our not so supreme court has given him immunity so he'll see no consequences for breaking the law and/or ignoring (destroying) our constitution. And he's getting away with way more than that!

Mitch Jackson's avatar

It's so true, Teri, that the immunity decision is empowering him to do the things that we're watching. At the same time, the MAGA Republican majority in Congress is completely failing to do its job as an equal branch of the government. For me, that's even a bigger problem.

The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

Economic Disengagement

From Professor Paul Krugman

“So how can we make a Trump implosion more likely? The public can help by doing what Target’s customers and Disney’s audience did — make it clear that they will stop paying money to institutions that lend aid and comfort to the authoritarian project.”

From Professor Erica Chenoweth:

“The third thing that successful movements do is they innovate new tactics. This is very important because movements that tend to over-rely on a single technique like protests, like demonstrating every Friday, something that becomes very routinized, end up succumbing much more quickly first of all to protester fatigue, but the second thing is they often subject their participants to a higher risk of repression or communal violence from opponents.

So movements that are capable of having the capacity to shift to methods of dispersion, like stay-at-homes or strikes or forms of economic noncooperation, tend to be much more effective because they have the capability of maneuver when the state begins to ramp up violence against them.”

Please: Resist. Stop cooperating. Stop spending. Stop the fascist takeover.

Thank you for restacking, and sharing, to help Spread the Word!

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Economic disengagement can be a powerful tool, but I'm not convinced the average American voter appreciates the danger we're all exposed to such that it reaches a level where they'll cancel their Disney subscription or stop shopping on Amazon, as a means of protest. Don't get me wrong. I completely understand where you're coming from, but I just think too many Americans are placing convenience over accountability.

The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

The longer it goes on, the more entrenched it becomes, and the more difficult to undo.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

That's true, and that's why this year's midterms are so damn important.

The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

The Midterms Will Not Solve the Problem

Those in the Resistance need to be thinking beyond the midterms.

Most Americans disapprove of His Royal Heinous, but they are looking for an easy solution. One that will not require even a small sacrifice on their part, or any disruption to their life.

They are putting too much faith in what the midterms will do. The midterms may have a beneficial psychologic effect but in reality the outcome will have little or no practical effect, unless the Dems can get a 2/3 majority in the house and senate, which they won’t. They will not be able to undo anything His Royal Heinous has done, or pass new legislation, because of his veto power.

There will be investigations if the Dems take the House, but to what end. There will be no cooperation and HRH will pardon all perpetrators, and they know it.

They will impeach HRH, but we’ve seen that movie twice before. Convicted in the senate and removed from office? We can only hope, but hope is not a strategy.

He will continue to rule by “National Emergency“ and Executive Orders and almost surely the Supreme Court will allow it.

The greatest danger in all this is that it will appear that something beneficial is happening. The majority of people will believe the system is working. After about a year they will realize that nothing is changing. Then they will think, Oh well, he’ll be gone after the election next year.

Or will he? It took the Hungarians 16 years to get rid of Orban, and the Project 2025 people will certainly not make the same mistakes that Orban did.

The solution is mass non-cooperation and economic warfare.

For details, visit my profile page.

Please: Resist. Stop cooperating. Stop spending. Stop the fascist takeover.

Thank you for restacking, and sharing, to help Spread the Word!

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Actually, the midterms will significantly change everything. A new majority in Congress begins a healing process and makes Trump a lame duck president. I shared all the details in several recent posts, including this one. https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/the-midterms-change-everything-heres?r=2fe7t3&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

We will have to disagree on the PRACTICAL benefit of the midterms. The old rules do not apply. Now, there are no rules. Only what His Royal Heinous decrees.

The Peaceful Solution-Plan B's avatar

They absolutely are, and they need to be educated about where this fascist takeover is going and the necessity to stop it peacefully as soon as possible.

Abandoned Afghan Ally's avatar

I agree with you. When executive power becomes too strong and Congress stays silent, ordinary people are the ones who suffer. The Constitution is not only a document for politicians; it is supposed to protect everyone. I also believe citizens have a responsibility to speak up, vote, and demand accountability. We cannot expect democracy to protect itself if people stay silent while the government goes too far

Mitch Jackson's avatar

We have to stand tall and be loud. That's the answer to this problem. Registering and voting are the next two steps to getting things fixed.

Hilda Salazar's avatar

The president is responsive. He will pass the blame like always. These men were shot for no reason.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

The key is to remove what he and his enablers are saying and doing. It doesn't happen from being mad or writing posts like this. It happens from registering and voting. Once we have a new majority in Congress, we can use oversight and the power of the purse to rein in and even stop a lot of the misguided conduct we're watching almost on a daily basis. The key is to take the levers out of his hands and put it into the hands of the American people.

Barbara L's avatar

Joe and Mr. Jackson, thank you for another insightful, thoughtful, and honest conversation. We citizens need to hear the message on a regular basis from a variety of individuals to help keep up our morale and support our endeavors to keep fighting to get our country back on track. I have been calling MAGA a cult for months. BTW, I'm having a new tee shirt printed with the message "I'm an insane socialist communist Democrat and proud of it."

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Thanks, Barbara. And your t-shirt is amazing!

Carol Jackson's avatar

My understanding is that Trump justified these attacks by asserting that fentanyl kills Americans, so attacking these boats was justified. However, it's my understanding that fentanyl comes from China, not Venezuela. So even though cocaine, which can be lethal, may comes from Venezuela, isn’t the false assertion of the justification a huge problem? By the way, I understand that we don't even know whether these boats have cocaine or anything illicit, but we have very strong reasons to doubt they have fentanyl.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

The inaccurate and false facts and assertions are a huge problem for many Americans. Hopefully that translates into registrations and votes in the midterms. Because here's the deal: it doesn't matter how upset we are. It's how many of us vote.

Carol Jackson's avatar

As the mother of someone who's active duty military (& not an officer), I have a perhaps odd notion that while civilians rely on the military to protect us, we have an obligation to protect them: protect them from bad leaders, from being put in positions where they are breaking international or even moral laws, protect them useless wars that we can guess are unwinnable from the outset, etc. We civilians have failed them in that respect again & again.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Thank you, Carol. You're right. You have a very unique perspective. Failures may have taken place, but the battle's not over. The fight continues, and we're going to get this fixed. Have faith. We got this.

Irenedk's avatar

I am a Boomer. God bless the young progressives coming up. I am old. I do not want a cadre of broken, addled, fossilized septugenarians or octogenarians that have theirs telling me what I I need or want. They are petrified relics that belong at home! THEY ALLOWED AND PERPETRATED the ongoing theft of the American Public, lied and perseverated about why, fomented unrest and the worst racism I have seen in my lifetime, and GAVE CONTROL TO CORPORATIONS!! Get them out! All of them - on BOTH SIDES. I am tired. Young people count. The media and social platforms are not telling the truth unless the source can be verified, and television news is skewed one way. Everytime I hear loud, fast, and breatless speech, I hear Donald Trump. That is my measure of truth telling these days. Gods help the USA.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

I'm with you. I believe Gen Y and Gen Z will save America and even made the argument in my March 2025 post, "Rising Up: How Gen Y and Gen Z Will Save America" https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/rising-up-how-gen-y-and-gen-z-will?r=2fe7t3&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

John Deaux's avatar

73 days till midterms! The sweet smell of impeachments, is in the air!

WJB Motown's avatar

Not sure if the smell of stinking, dripping..oozing Depends diapers is a sweet smell.....

At this point.....we will take it.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Exactly. We'll take it any way we can get it. But it all starts with our votes in November.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Add to that sweet smell the scent and impact of fairness, equity, ethics, policies, rules, and procedures for all states and not just red states. I'm with you, and I can't wait.

Dawn Szacik's avatar

Like your post too, it's so true, we have to start boycotting these super rich that are funding trump's orders and stupid shit he does

Mitch Jackson's avatar

I think the easiest way to boycott the super rich is to register and vote. By that, I mean it puts people in power who will enact laws that help all Americans and not just the billionaires. We can do this, and we've got the numbers, and I am looking forward to the November midterms and the new Congress in 2027. Good things will happen.

Carole Langston's avatar

This Regime has succeeded at one thing, about one third of this country is stooopid.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Thank goodness the other two-thirds hear the music, are reading the words, are watching the shit show, and are ready to vote.

Mark Jones's avatar

If the courts are enforcing constitutional boundaries, how is it that they have not even approached the breaking of the eighth amendment which forbids “cruel and unusual punishment” which is happening throughout our country in ICE detention?! Where is the court on this issue!?

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Mark, that's a great question that a lot of people have. Here's the deal. The Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment mainly covers criminal punishment after conviction, and ICE detention is treated as civil, so it usually does not apply.

Barbara Craig's avatar

I don't like a felon in the White House. He has had more than his share of due process and has pursued indictive prosecution of cutizens and immigrants.

They should be targeting known criminals and not shopping for undesirable people by skin tone or accents. Racial profiling should be illegal, but the Supreme Court has let us down many times.

Masked, unidentified armed men are not healthy and just plain wrong. They can not be held accountable even when they are filmed killing people.

Of course you 2 know that taxpayers are footing the bill for his vindictive and ludicrous lawsuits. Then there is the war….

CONNIE  BREMER-MURRAY's avatar

Yes!!…and if the Democrats don’t pass a law that prohibits a felon to be president!!!

Mitch Jackson's avatar

A new Congressional majority will do all it can to create new laws like this, in addition to laws prohibiting self-dealing and hopefully stock trading by elected officials. Having said that, in my opinion, the real problem right now is the MAGA majority Republicans in Congress are not doing their job. They're the reason we're seeing and experiencing the problems that we have today. Full stop.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

You're not alone, Barbara. The good news is I think you'd be surprised if you knew how many state and federal lawsuits are pending across the United States on these issues. It's going to take time, but we'll get it fixed.

Joni Bosch's avatar

It doesn’t matter whether it’s legal or illegal or not. Trump simply refuses to comply. Where is the enforcement?

WJB Motown's avatar

Project 2025 makes sure that McTaco is able to do anything he wants.........Kamala tried so very hard to warn about the catastrophie that is now reality..........not enough people listened.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

As much as I'm concerned with Project 2025 and the people behind it, the bottom line is they don't run this country. The American voter does, and we are in a position to significantly neutralize and begin the repair process with this year's midterm elections. I think enough people are listening now. They're feeling the pain, and they're going to show their dissatisfaction at the polls.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Don't buy into the talking points. It does matter, and he's losing in court more than he's winning. It's not going as smoothly for him as he thought it would. He's losing his base. He's losing his momentum. He's losing whatever respect some people once gave him. You're going to see a massive change in power begin after this year's midterm elections.

Betty's avatar

I hope everyone sees this and knows how important it is to vote!!!🗳️

Mitch Jackson's avatar

I do too, Betty. Hopefully you and others are sharing this with your family and friends. Sharing on Substack works, too. We appreciate you, and we'll see you in the midterms.

Betty's avatar

We have to get that crazy man out of the White House!!!

Mitch Jackson's avatar

We will. It's going to happen. He's lost his support, he's lost his momentum, and this party is going to lose the midterms, which will change everything.

Dr. Tsuki's avatar

We need more attorneys balling up like Fang!

Mitch Jackson's avatar

Balling up every single damn day 👊👊👊

Mitch Jackson's avatar

So true, Dr. Tsuki. Katie Phang is so impressive. Hopefully, I'll have her on the show soon. Because it's already received 8K likes and 1900+ restacks, I have a feeling you will enjoy this post I wrote, "Katie Phan Filed the Lawsuit Every American Has Been Waiting For (Unless You’re Donald Trump or Todd Blanche)" https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/katie-phang-just-filed-the-lawsuit-bbb?r=2fe7t3&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Dr. Tsuki's avatar

Thank you for sharing. Her name is misspelled in the title. 🙃 Looking forward to more great content from badass lasers standing up for democracy and human rights.

Merry's avatar

“Joe Plenzler to explain how due process, civic action, and the rule of law can check executive overreach”

And as we well know, unfortunately, the rule of law can only check executive overreach IF congress is willing to actually ENFORCE the law, which they’ve failed to do.

So, at this point, the rule of law is rendered meaningless.

And particularly in the current “situation”, when SCOTUS essentially granted DJT sweeping “immunity”.

Mitch Jackson's avatar

This is simply a brief but shocking moment in time. Things will change after the midterms. He'll become a lame duck president. In fact, I think he'll resign before the end of 2027. See my post, "Donald Trump Will Resign in 2027. The First Domino Falls This November." https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/donald-trump-will-resign-in-2027?r=2fe7t3&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Merry's avatar

Thanks for sharing this with me. And that’s actually a great point I hadn’t considered, but it makes perfect sense. He can’t stand the thought of being impeached again.

At the same, though, he’s in the middle of his MAGNIFICENT BALLROOM project?

Is he willing to walk away from that and his other outrageous vanity projects in hopes of establishing him legacy?