During a Tuesday hearing at the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the DOJ urged a three-judge panel to issue an emergency stay of a lower court order and allow the Trump administration’s deployment of the California National Guard to continue in Los Angeles — going so far as to argue a president’s federalization of militia can’t be second-guessed by the courts, even if the chief executive mobilized forces from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., simultaneously.
quashing protests, will eventually leader to larger protests and then uprising, and maybe a rebellion eventually.
Arrogant shits, aren’t they?
well, what did the ninth circuit have to say in response?
Do you want a rebellion? Cause this how you get rebellions
Yes, they do, because it will distract from the US joining a war in Iran, and from all of trumps other crimes.
I thought the war in Iran was to distract from the protests? What are they going to do to distract from the rebellion then?
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It’s distraction upon distraction upon distraction while they steal the country.
It’s not even a plan. It’s notions of a plan.
It’s distractions all the way down
That’s fascism, folks.
Arm yourselves.
Also, maybe don’t do something dumb like vote 3rd party or abstain from voting next time around. Y’all were warned. Now it’s happening.
Oh right, blame the voters in a rigged election. Makes total sense.
Yup. Until they take responsibility for the impact of their ego stroking and try to do anything at all to help, we’re not going to let the people just shy of collaborators forget it.
They were too small a group to appeal to, now they’re solely to blame.
Which is it?
Actually, yeah. A lot of people voted third party and many more stayed home. I will blame them.
What can your party do to appeal to them next time?
Hint: it’s not “jettison marginalized groups” or “move to the right.” That got us here.
You mean saying “I would do nothing different from Joe Biden” wasn’t enough to sway voters to vote? Wow what else could she possibly have done?
Running on the endorsement of Dick Cheney and promising to appoint a republican to her cabinet, naturally.
Tastes like fascism.
The DOJ attorney emphasized that “sustained mob violence” in response to ICE raids is “no ordinary civil unrest,” claimed that it is ongoing, and asserted that such violence is “expressly aimed at preventing federal officers from enforcing federal law,” supporting Trump’s federalization of the Golden State’s National Guard.
That’s just a lie, isn’t it?
That’s standard Republican strategy. A lot of the cases that ended up in front of the Supreme Court are straight up manufactured. In the case of the lady who refused to create a website for a gay wedding, they contacted the guy who supposedly made the request and he’d never heard of it before. Republican operatives basically looked up a gay guy in San Francisco and used his details in the website’s contact form.
Despite all that, the courts happily took the case and ruled on a complete fiction. Same thing happened in the case of the coach that forced his football team to pray.
See also: “Weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq.
Literally fabricated “intelligence.”
Isn’t everything the fascist assholes say a lie?
Even if it were true, that does not amount to rebellion. Nobody is trying to overthrow the federal government.
Yet.
Well, it’s mostly true. I mean this isn’t normal civil unrest. This is the people being fed up with a government trying to use fear as a weapon against it’s own people. And the mob violence isn’t generally preventing federal officers from doing what they want, it is in response to it. There is some mob shouting preventing some federal officers ftom doing what they want.
But issue at hand is that the law is very vague about the quantity needed to trigger the allowance of using the national guard. By just reading it, ICE could send a single agent to arrest 5 people in a facility that has 500. If the people stop the arrests, then it meets the written requirements. It ludicrous though to interpret it that way of course. But since it was written so poorly, we are at the mercy of the courts.
This is dictatorship. It’s mild only because no one is fighting back. The moment someone tries the gloves will come off.
That is how they want everyone to feel so there isn’t much fight back. However, I think if there was, and the gloves came off, it may also split Republicans and even Trumpers.
Telling the court that the court has no say. Bold move Cotton….
I mean hes done it before with no consequences so we’ll see
So much to unpack there…
So the bestest president evah now caused a rebellion? Did that ever happen before to any president? Oh yeah, under trump 1 there was January the 6th, instigated and orchestrated by king Cheeto
And now there is another rebellion?
I mean, it’s demonstrations but seeing that distinction is hard for smooth brain idiots
Then telling judges that they can’t say no because else they can’t stop a rebellion? I mean, you STARTED it, if you want to stop it’s really easy: STOP BREAKING THE LAW!
And stop telling judges they can’t do their job
The keyword is rebellion…
But it is not really about current protests … it is to have all lights on green when there actually IS a rebellion cooking so the response can be swift and far beyond proportions.
“BECAUSE WE SAID SO!! OKAY?!”
That’s what authoritarianism is (leaving off the “OKAY?!”).
“Because once we have that power, we’ll use it on you if you speak out.”
yea, that’s how fascism works. “judges” are there to protect the state from the people, not the other way around
Sounds like Dictatorship to me
Rebellion is the American way, fight back
Rebellion is the American way
What are the real estate prices under rocks these days?
You remember how America became sovereign, right?
With help from the French. Who’s gonna come save you this time?
Martians maybe, considering I’m not from the US
You’re right. You are willing to rebel in order to keep your richest citizens from having to pay taxes. My mistake.
EDIT: Also, to preserve slavery. You’ll take up arms for that, too.
That’s some incredibly intense kneeling they’re doing right there. Who knew the DOJ was so good at kissing the floor?
