#checksandbalances — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #checksandbalances, aggregated by home.social.
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About the recent visit of King Charles to the United States: "On his last state visit, Charles was in the shade of Diana’s radiance. On this one, he radiated an élan of his own — a class act, shining next to the boorish Trump":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/opinion/king-charles-america-visit-trump.html
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I see the #ChecksAndBalances of the #USian system are continuing to function as per the purpose of the system.
A #President is an elected #Emperor. Time to grow up, put away your childish things; the sad, obvious King Thirst, and get a proper Westminster-derived parliament.
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I see the #ChecksAndBalances of the #USian system are continuing to function as per the purpose of the system.
A #President is an elected #Emperor. Time to grow up, put away your childish things; the sad, obvious King Thirst, and get a proper Westminster-derived parliament.
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I see the #ChecksAndBalances of the #USian system are continuing to function as per the purpose of the system.
A #President is an elected #Emperor. Time to grow up, put away your childish things; the sad, obvious King Thirst, and get a proper Westminster-derived parliament.
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I see the #ChecksAndBalances of the #USian system are continuing to function as per the purpose of the system.
A #President is an elected #Emperor. Time to grow up, put away your childish things; the sad, obvious King Thirst, and get a proper Westminster-derived parliament.
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I see the #ChecksAndBalances of the #USian system are continuing to function as per the purpose of the system.
A #President is an elected #Emperor. Time to grow up, put away your childish things; the sad, obvious King Thirst, and get a proper Westminster-derived parliament.
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The freakin' King of #England has to school #Felon47 & The #GOP on the concept of #ChecksAndBalances. 😞
https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/king-charles-schools-trump-on-democracy-in-speech-to-congress-about-checks-and-balances-2498157123575 -
https://www.europesays.com/people/36129/ Lex Orbán: Hungary Plans Retroactive Term Limits for Prime Minister #ChecksAndBalances #ConstitutionalSupermajority #DoubleStandard #Fidesz #Hungary #HungaryNews #InstitutionalOverhaul #LexCEU #mandate #PersonalizedLegislation #PeterMagyar #PresidentOfTheRepublic #PrimeMinister #programme #retrospective #TiszaParty #ViktorOrbán
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Europe’s Online Age Verification App Is Here
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/europes-online-age-verification-app-is-here/
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Check out my new video and post for #ResistAndHeal:
Webinar with Timothy Snyder: April 30, 2026 (7 min)
https://resistandheal.substack.com/p/webinar-with-timothy-snyder-aprilAlso on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBH6QmSzTT4#democracy #Indivisible #indivisibleCLT #protest #webinar #Constitution #ChecksAndBalances
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The move frees a trial judge to act on the #Trump admin’s pending request to dismiss Bannon’s conviction & indictment “in the interests of justice” [rewriting history].
The dismissal would be largely symbolic. #SteveBannon served a 4-month prison term after a #jury #convicted him of #contempt of #Congress in 2022. A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the conviction.
#SCOTUS #law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
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The move frees a trial judge to act on the #Trump admin’s pending request to dismiss Bannon’s conviction & indictment “in the interests of justice” [rewriting history].
The dismissal would be largely symbolic. #SteveBannon served a 4-month prison term after a #jury #convicted him of #contempt of #Congress in 2022. A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the conviction.
#SCOTUS #law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
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The move frees a trial judge to act on the #Trump admin’s pending request to dismiss Bannon’s conviction & indictment “in the interests of justice” [rewriting history].
The dismissal would be largely symbolic. #SteveBannon served a 4-month prison term after a #jury #convicted him of #contempt of #Congress in 2022. A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the conviction.
#SCOTUS #law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
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The move frees a trial judge to act on the #Trump admin’s pending request to dismiss Bannon’s conviction & indictment “in the interests of justice” [rewriting history].
The dismissal would be largely symbolic. #SteveBannon served a 4-month prison term after a #jury #convicted him of #contempt of #Congress in 2022. A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the conviction.
#SCOTUS #law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
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The move frees a trial judge to act on the #Trump admin’s pending request to dismiss Bannon’s conviction & indictment “in the interests of justice” [rewriting history].
The dismissal would be largely symbolic. #SteveBannon served a 4-month prison term after a #jury #convicted him of #contempt of #Congress in 2022. A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the conviction.
#SCOTUS #law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
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WTAF!?
#SteveBannon wins #SCOTUS order likely to lead to dismissal of his #criminal #conviction for refusing to #Congress.
“Prodded” [instructed] by the #Trump admin, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a #subpoena from the #House committee that investigated the #Jan6, 2021 #insurrection by Trump supporters.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-capitol-riot-bannon-trump-4a4cf324096fc1bfed204d42b54d191e -
WTAF!?
#SteveBannon wins #SCOTUS order likely to lead to dismissal of his #criminal #conviction for refusing to #Congress.
“Prodded” [instructed] by the #Trump admin, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a #subpoena from the #House committee that investigated the #Jan6, 2021 #insurrection by Trump supporters.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-capitol-riot-bannon-trump-4a4cf324096fc1bfed204d42b54d191e -
WTAF!?
#SteveBannon wins #SCOTUS order likely to lead to dismissal of his #criminal #conviction for refusing to #Congress.
“Prodded” [instructed] by the #Trump admin, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a #subpoena from the #House committee that investigated the #Jan6, 2021 #insurrection by Trump supporters.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-capitol-riot-bannon-trump-4a4cf324096fc1bfed204d42b54d191e -
WTAF!?
#SteveBannon wins #SCOTUS order likely to lead to dismissal of his #criminal #conviction for refusing to #Congress.
“Prodded” [instructed] by the #Trump admin, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a #subpoena from the #House committee that investigated the #Jan6, 2021 #insurrection by Trump supporters.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-capitol-riot-bannon-trump-4a4cf324096fc1bfed204d42b54d191e -
WTAF!?
#SteveBannon wins #SCOTUS order likely to lead to dismissal of his #criminal #conviction for refusing to #Congress.
“Prodded” [instructed] by the #Trump admin, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a #subpoena from the #House committee that investigated the #Jan6, 2021 #insurrection by Trump supporters.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-capitol-riot-bannon-trump-4a4cf324096fc1bfed204d42b54d191e -
https://www.europesays.com/people/9241/ John Roberts and the Demise of Democracy in the United States #ChecksAndBalances #DonaldTrump #JohnRoberts #JohnRobers #SeparationOfPowers #USConstitution #USSupremeCourt
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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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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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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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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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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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...selbst zersetzendes #Demokratieprojekt immer genannt haben.
Im Gegensatz zu den deutschen Verfassungsvätern auf Schloss #Herrenchiemsee sahen das #US-amerikanische Pendant eine von Mr. President ausgehende Diktatur nicht kommen. Das berühmte System der #ChecksAndBalances wurde binnen eines Jahres, v. a. auch durch die ebenfalls von der #FederalistSociety geplante Übernahme des Obersten #Gerichtshofs (#SCOTUS) der #USA,...
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#FederalAgencies will be in charge of setting up #JobProtections for their own employees that accuse them of wrongdoing, such as violating the #law or wasting money [who decides what is waste?]. That would be a change from the past, when an #independent office known as the Office of the Special Counsel [#OSC] handled #whistleblower disclosures from most civilian #FederalWorkers.
#Trump #law #labor #ScheduleF #Congress #ChecksAndBalances #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
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#Trump will have the power to select which government positions will lose their #JobProtections, according to the statement.
‼️The Trump admin is also changing how long-standing #legal #protections that prohibit #US #government agencies from retaliating against #whistleblowers will be enforced, according to the statement.
#law #labor #ScheduleF #democracy #Constitution #Congress #ChecksAndBalances #independence #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
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The overhaul, released by the Office of Personnel Management [#OPM], fulfills a campaign promise for #Trump to strip #JobProtections from #FederalWorkers that his team deems to be "influencing" #government policy. It is the biggest change to the rules governing the #CivilService in more than a century. Trump called the overhaul "#ScheduleF" during his first administration.
#law #democracy #Congress #ChecksAndBalances #independence #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
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#Trump tightens control over 50,000 #FederalWorkers
The Trump admin on Thursday finalized its overhaul of the #US government's #CivilService system, according to a #government statement, giving the #president the power to hire & fire an estimated 50,000 career #federal employees.
#law #democracy #Constitution #Congress #ChecksAndBalances #independence #ScheduleF #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-expand-his-control-over-federal-workers-2026-02-05/ -
A quotation from Abraham Lincoln
The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1848-02-15) to William H. HerndonMore about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/8182…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abrahamlincoln #abelincoln #America #checksandbalances #congress #Constitution #declarationofwar #founders #power #president #war #warpowers #warmaking #autocracy #king #monarch
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I have had this nagging question about why federal impeachment cases in the US are tried by the Senate, rather than the Supreme Court. I am reading pages 15 to 25 of this article from 1970, which not only clarify the rationale for the current process of impeachment, but may also explain why securing a conviction is so rare.
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol39/iss1/1/
#1787ConstitutionalConvention #checksAndBalances #commonLaw #impeachment #legalHistory #Philadelphia #SCOTUS #USConstitution #USSenate
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If you’ve read Machiavelli, especially “Discourses on Livy”, which is actually his major work (“The Prince” is not) you know his emphasis on Virtu of the people and elites as what holds Republics together. Machiavelli thought that Republics were the best form of government and that the greatest feat was to create or maintain a Republic: he was not a fan of autocratic government.
To summarize […]
https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-wisdom-of-machiavellian-virtu-why-america-is-losing-its-bill-of-rights-constitutional-virtues/ -
When legislative power is united with executive power in a single person or in a single body of the magistracy, there is no liberty, because one can fear that the same monarch or senate that makes tyrannical laws will execute them tyrannically.
Nor is there liberty if the power of judging is not separate from legislative power and from executive power. If it were joined to legislative power, the power over the life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary, for the judge would be the legislator. If it were joined to executive power, the judge could have the force of an oppressor.
All would be lost if the same man or the same body of principal men, either of nobles, or of the people, exercised these three powers: that of making the laws, that of executing public resolutions, and that of judging the crimes or the disputes of individuals.
[Lorsque, dans la même personne ou dans le même corps de magistrature, la puissance législative est réunie à la puissance exécutrice, il n’y a point de liberté ; parce qu’on peut craindre que le même monarque ou le même sénat ne fasse des loix tyranniques, pour les exécuter tyranniquement.
Il n’y a point encore de liberté, si la puissance de juger n’est pas séparée de la puissance législative, & de l’exécutrice. Si elle étoit jointe à la puissance législative, le pouvoir sur la vie & la liberté des citoyens seroit arbitraire; car le juge seroit législateur. Si elle étoit jointe à la puissance exécutrice, le juge pourroit avoir la force d’un oppresseur.
Tout seroit perdu, si le même homme, ou le même corps des principaux, ou des nobles, ou du peuple, exerçoient ces trois pouvoirs; celui de faire des loix, celui d’exécuter les résolutions publiques, & celui de juger les crimes ou les différends des particuliers.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 11, ch. 6 (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/80796/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #checksandbalances #executive #judiciary #laws #legislature #separationofpowers #tyranny
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Here's a valid addition to the +190,000-page US Code of Federal Regulations: a requirement for regulators to only enforce laws and amendments passed by Congress and in ways that minimally impinge on our natural rights. Regulate regulation. Until then, feel free to take the rules to court if and whenever they tread on *your* rights.
#ChecksAndBalances #CommonLaw #NaturalLaw #overregulation #regulation #SeparationOfPowers
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AP: The bill makes $1.6 billion in cuts to climate change-related spending. The bill also would save $40 million by repealing [DEI] offices [and] programs... The position of chief diversity officer would be cut, for example.
https://apnews.com/article/defense-bill-congress-trump-dd67d203accfb65b7604072ebb5da153
#pentagon
#military
#budget
#USpol
#DEI
#diversity
#racism
#ChecksAndBalances
#StateOfDemocracy
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Lees tip -> Column: Het gevaar van wegwuiven wat je niet zint | Caroline van der Plas noemt de Raad van State een “linkse kliek” die afgeschaft moet worden. Feiten tonen echter dat dit onafhankelijke orgaan wetten toetst en burgers beschermt tegen overheidsbesluiten. | #BBB #CarolinevanderPlas #checksandbalances #democratie #kritiekopinstituties #linksekliek #onafhankelijkheid #populisme #raadvanstate #rechtsstaat #stiksto
https://hbpmedia.nl/column-het-gevaar-van-wegwuiven-wat-je-niet-zint/
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"In tossing out (one of Trump's) lawsuits, U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen — an appointee of Donald Trump — lamented what he described as the White House’s months-long smear of the federal judiciary":
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/trump-judge-rebukes-white-house-smear-00525450
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A quotation from Wendell Berry
It is impossible to think that constitutional government can be suspended in a time of danger, in deference to the greater “efficiency” of centralized power, and then easily or quickly restored. Efficiency may be a political virtue, but only if strictly limited. Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.
Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2003-02-09), “A Citizen’s Response,” sec. 3, Citizenship Papers (2003)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/berry-wendell/17687/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #checksandbalances #Constitution #efficiency #government #inefficiency #power #separationofpowers #tyranny
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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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The #Senate on Friday rejected a #Democratic measure that would have forced #Trump to go to #Congress for approval of another #military strike against #Iran [he was supposed to for the first]. The resolution had little chance of succeeding in a #Republican-controlled & Trump lick-spittle Congress.
#Constitution #law #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #ExecutiveAuthority #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/trump-war-powers-iran-strike.html?smid=url-share -
There is Danger from all Men. The only Maxim of a free Government, ought to be to trust no Man living, with Power to endanger the public Liberty.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Diary (1772, Spring), “Notes for a Oration at Braintree”Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/6021/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #absolutepower #checksandbalances #corruption #freedom #government #humannature #liberty #politics #power #tyranny
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Schnell wie die ICE
Ich mache mir schon länger Gedanken darüber, wo die ICE ihren Staff hervorkramt. Immer mehr komme ich zum Schluss, dass diese Behörde von rechten Recken unterwandert ist, weil ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass diese Vollstrecker jetzt von heute auf morgen so geworden sind. Und das passt ja auch ins Bild. Unter Schwarz/Blau I (Schüssel/Haider) hat Innenminister Strasser die Gendarmerie und Polizei zusammengefasst. Vordergründig argumentiert man im Neoliberalismus mit Effizienz und Bürokratieabbau, aber Zwischen den Zeilen geht es auch um reaktionäres Streamlining. Checks & Balances (und nichts anderes war die Zweigleisigkeit der beiden Exekutiv-Organe, eine Erfahrung aus dem Bürgerkrieg in Österreich) werden ausgehebel, damit man möglichst "effizient" agieren kann. "Effizient" heißt auch immer "radikal". Schnell, so dass die Gesellschaft über die Folgen gar nicht lange überlegen und reflektieren kann und vor vollendete Tatsachen gestellt wird.
Seid achtsam. Die Saat wurde 2000 ausgestreut, jetzt holen sie die Ernte ein.
#fashism #ice #uspol #auchhier #innenpolitik #exekutive #checksandbalances #zivilgesellschaft
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Liberal Faith in Checks and Balances Betrays Deeper Investment in Law and Order
As other branches of government fail to check the Trump administration, the balance of power shifts toward oligarchs.
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Vote for CHECKS & BALANCES. Give Independents and Minor Parties a balance of power. We ALL have a Choice : Do we want the SAME? Or do we want REAL change?
Reduce the power of the major parties.
Make them LISTEN.#australia #government #australiansenate #independents #election #election2025 #SaveAustralia #checksandbalances #accountability #banking #vote #future #housing #housingcrisis #overreach #fyp #justice #PeoplePowerParty #onenation #takebackcontrol
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That’s in some tension with the result: that they were sent to a prison that is neither in the #US nor their country of origin with NO CHARGES & no clear #legal #authority justifying their continued, indefinite detention. The US govt is paying #ElSalvador to hold them.
#Trump #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
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That, at least, is what federal ofcls contend: while the #Trump admin invoked the #AlienEnemiesAct to dubiously justify sending 137 detainees to #ElSalvador, >100 others that day had received standard, *lawful* #deportation orders—often to Venezuela—from #immigration courts.
#law #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
