#checksandbalances — Public Fediverse posts
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#SCOTUS Expands Trump’s #ExecutivePower Over #Immigration
The court handed #Trump victories in his push to rescind #deportation & for hundreds of thousands of people & turn away #immigrants at the southern border.
#law #immigration #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #judiciary #legislation #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/supreme-court-temporary-protected-status.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s1A.fkE6.E-jXQRTpMCY6&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Our Passions, Ambition, Avarice, Love, Resentment &c possess so much metaphysical Subtilty and so much overpowering Eloquence, that they insinuate themselves into the Understanding and the Conscience and convert both to their Party. And I may be deceived as much as any of them, when I Say, that Power must never be trusted without a Check.
John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1816-02-02) to Thomas JeffersonMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/34664/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #checksandbalances #conscience #emotion #intellect #power #regulation #restraint #selfdeception #selfdelusion #trust #abuseofpower #powercorrupts #bestintentions #selftrust #selfawareness
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In interviews, several #FederalWorkers lamented the curtailing of #union activities — tying it to a broader erosion of #ChecksAndBalances in American #democracy — & predicted additional agreement cancellations would follow. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
The loss of union protections is “just another way to make life miserable for the employees who are left,” said a #FEMA staff member.#Trump #law #LaborLaw #contracts #CollectiveBargaining #FederalAgencies
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It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.
George Washington (1732-1799) American military leader, Founding Father, US President (1789-1797)
Essay (1796-09-18), “Farewell Address,” Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser, PhiladelphiaSourcing, notes: wist.info/washington-george/54…
#quote #quotes #quotation #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #despotism #dictatorship #government #power #powercorrupts #separationofpowers #tyranny
