#checksandbalances — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #checksandbalances, aggregated by home.social.
-
www.tumblr.com/climatejusti... #FactsMatter #EvidenceMatters #AccountabilityMatters #IndependentScrutiny #ChecksAndBalances #ConstitutionalDemocracy #PoliticalAccountability #GoodGovernance #EqualApplicationOfTheLaw #DefendingDemocracy
Post by @climatejustice1 · 5 l... -
trumpsauthoritarianassault.blogspot.com/2026/06/no-l... #DemocraticResilience #InstitutionalIntegrity #FactsMatter #EvidenceMatters #AccountabilityMatters #IndependentScrutiny #ChecksAndBalances #ConstitutionalDemocracy
No Leader Above the Law: Build... -
chatgpt.com/s/t_6a35526e... #FactsMatter #EvidenceMatters #AccountabilityMatters #IndependentScrutiny #ChecksAndBalances #ConstitutionalDemocracy #PoliticalAccountability #GoodGovernance #EqualApplicationOfTheLaw #DefendingDemocracy
Check out this chat -
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
-
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 -
CW: USPol, Trump
Oh, and I didn't even get to the checks & balances part of the discussion.
Very briefly: the legislative branch is completely uninterested in fulfilling their duties. The hardcore MAGAs in Congress are cheering the administration on, heavy Team Fascism vibes there. The more traditional conservatives there and in the Senate are content to sit back and let it happen. The Democratic opposition are largely too timid to stand up and say anything, much less do anything to stop it. The funding crises, the impoundments - these are *right* in their wheelhouse, and ... crickets.
The judicial branch... some of it is trying to continue to run the Sane Constitutional Republic program and hold the administration to account, but it's mostly lower-court judges. At the top, the rot is pretty severe. The Supreme Court has whiffed on *many* cases, going back several years, indicating that the conservative majority is largely happy to produce ad hoc and post hoc justifications, completely against precedent and even black-letter law, to enable this administration to do exactly what it wants, the law and the Constitution be damned.
#legislative #LegislativeBranch #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #judicial #SupremeCourt #USSupremeCourt #immunity #precedent #StareDecesis
3/2 (oops...)