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Trump attacks Justice System and Wants It to be like Hitler’s Germany
Trump’s Plan To Use & Abuse Our Legal System
Donald Trump is punishing law firms that have represented what he identifies as his political enemies by stripping their security clearances and access to government buildings, delivering severe legal revenge against people he believes are threatening his agenda.
Trump claims, which is yet another one of his many lies, they were very, very dishonest. He said he could go point after point after point. And it was so bad for our country. And we have a lot of law firms we’re going after.
Trump targeted a prominent law firm, which adversaries fear is intended to cast a chilling effect that threatens representation for groups and individuals who are challenging the administration’s agenda in court. Last month, Trump signed a similar measure attacking the firm Covington & Burling, which provided pro bono aid to special counsel Jack Smith in his personal capacity as he handled federal criminal investigations into the president’s alleged election interference and unlawful retention of classified documents.
Trump continued the attack of law firms and went further by blocking lawyers with the firm Perkins Coie from federal buildings entirely and barring federal agencies and contractors from working with it. His obvious beef with Perkins Coie dates back to a federal investigation into connections between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian agents to determine whether aides and officials had conspired to influence the outcome of that election. The firm represented Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee and worked with a research firm that produced the now-discredited dossier that alleged contacts between Trump and Russia.
Trump’s targeting of lawyers follows his administration’s threats to members of the judiciary, with Elon Musk and Republican members of Congress repeatedly threatening to impeach or punish judges who issue decisions that brush against their agenda, which judges across the country and ideological spectrum are condemning as unconstitutional, discriminatory and illegal.
After a string of legal blows against his orders and policy maneuvers, Trump issued an executive order this week that calls on agency and department heads to press for monetary “security” payments from plaintiffs if an injunction against the administration is issued.
That would mean plaintiffs – which have included civil rights groups, pregnant immigrants, trans teenagers and aid workers — would be required to pay the government’s legal fees, upfront, if a judge issues an injunction. IN other words you don’t have any rights or protection under the law. If a law firm is defending a political client, against Trump they could be taken down and be charged as well.
The American Bar Association has warned against the “escalating governmental efforts to interfere with fair and impartial courts, the right to counsel and due process, and the freedoms of speech and association in our country.”
“We reject the notion that the government can punish lawyers who represent certain clients or punish judges who rule certain ways,” American Bar Association president Wiliam R. Bay said in a statement this week. “We cannot accept government actions that seek to tip the scales of justice in this manner.
Nazi Germany had this same type of legal system, we know Trump takes many of his decisions out of the Nazi playbook, and is now implementing them.
Legal experts interviewed by Reuters said the manner in which Trump targeted the firms could run afoul of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of speech and Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process - a requirement for the government to use a fair legal process.
What part of Trumps actions does not reek of a tyrant, his destruction of the judicial system is for his benefit only. What is it going to take too get people to figure out that Trump is destroying our nation.
The people will judge the court harshly if it does not stand its ground and defend the republic. Asked if the president should be able to ignore the Supreme Court’s rulings, 83 percent of American adults said no.
It’s time to stop this criminal and traitor.
Tammy
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