#coequalbranchesofgovernment — Public Fediverse posts
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While the resolution is largely symbolic 😞, & does not fully carry the force of #law 😞😞, it reflects the growing concerns from a number of #Republican lawmakers in both the #House & #Senate over both the #war & the “deal” #Trump struck with #Iran to end it. The House approved the resolution earlier this month.
#law #TrumpsWar #IranWar #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #ChecksAndBalances #US #Constitution #democracy
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The #Senate for the first time approved a #WarPowers resolution Tuesday seeking to block #US #military action against #Iran, as lawmakers warily watch #Trump’s “efforts” to “resolve” a conflict that the admin launched on its own & now needs #Congress to #fund.
It was the TENTH time the Senate has tried to stop the #war, & the outcome, on a vote of 50-48, was a stunning turnaround from past efforts.
#law #TrumpsWar #IranWar #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #US #Constitution
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🚨🚨🚨Holy hell! I never would have thought that they had it in them!🚨🚨🚨
#Senate for FIRST time approves a #WarPowers resolution in a rebuke to #Trump over #Iran conflict
#law #TrumpsWar #IranWar #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #ChecksAndBalances #US #Constitution #democracy
https://apnews.com/article/senate-iran-war-powers-resolution-trump-7462a9a561103f531d995aac91f9fc96 -
Many scholars of #democracy say that these moves are unprecedented in #US #history & that #Trump has pushed the #UnitedStates toward #authoritarianism.
Trump & his supporters counter that the #Constitution provides for precisely the type of muscular presidency he is exercising & that voters gave him a mandate to enact far-reaching changes to government. [nope & nope]
#law #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary #legislative #executive #tyranny #MadKing
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How #Trump has challenged a constitutional foundation
In his first year back in the White House, Trump has presided over a sweeping expansion of #executive #power while eroding democratic norms.
#law #democracy #Constitution #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary #legislative #Project2025 #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/g-s1-106562/trump-democracy-constitution-executive-power -
These dynamics share a root cause: the partisan polarization that has reshaped #US #politics over the past 4 decades. But the connection is deeper & more complex than that. Whereas polarization weakened #Congress, it emboldened #SCOTUS to dismantle laws &, in the process, undermine Congress’s ability to make laws at all, reinforcing Congress’s sclerosis.
#law #democracy #government #Constitution #Legislative #BalanceOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #ActivistCourt
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Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure & functioning of the #US #government. The first, which is quite well known, is #Congress’s decline. The second, perhaps somewhat less appreciated but no less significant, is #SCOTUS’ ascent—its expansion of its #power into areas previously thought to be off-limits.
#law #democracy #government #Constitution #Legislative #BalanceOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #ActivistCourt
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How the #SupremeCourt Broke #Congress
In the name of protecting the #BalanceOfPowers, #SCOTUS is radically refashioning that balance.
#law #democracy #government #Constitution #Legislative #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #ActivistCourt
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/supreme-court-congress-powers/685590/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxaxsPlZT_4ZDndgwi00NCRg -
Fuuuuuck
Benton of #8thCircuit to take senior status, giving #Trump first Federal Circuit Judgeship of 2nd term
U.S. Circuit Judge Duane Benton has announced that he will step down from active service on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, creating the first vacancy on the #StLouis, #Missouri court that Trump could fill.
#law #judiciary #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #TrumpCoup2
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/8th-circuits-benton-take-senior-status-giving-trump-first-vacancy-2025-10-27/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
#Democrats have watched with increasing alarm as the admin has ignored congressional spending directives, dispatched the #military to American #cities, ordered government #retribution against Trump’s perceived adversaries & mounted an aggressive #immigration roundup that has prompted fierce fights in the courts.
#Trump #law #democracy #Constitution #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #judiciary #legislative #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
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#Democrats in #Congress have been relentless about casting the #shutdown clash as a fight over helping Americans pay for #health #insurance.
But there is another, far deeper issue driving the impasse: their outrage about what is happening across the country under a president they regard as #lawless & #unchecked.
#Trump #law #democracy #Constitution #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #judiciary #legislative #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/politics/democrats-shutdown-trump-administration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
The moment was vintage #Trump —grabbing the attention & seeking to throw negotiators off their game—but it also underscored his regard for #Congress, a coequal branch of the government, & in particular his opponents across the political aisle.
#kakistocracy #law #Constitution #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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The room chuckled in response.
“It was the random-most thing in the world, because we’re sitting there, we’re having a serious conversation, & all of a sudden these 2 red hats appear,” Jeffries recalled later at the Capitol.
“It was all so unserious,” Jeffries said, describing a roving cameraman capturing the moment. “We were there for serious reasons that it wasn’t really a big part of, you know, the discussion. It was theatrics.”
#kakistocracy #law #Constitution #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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Halfway through #Trump’s inaugural WH meeting w/congressional leadership days before a government #shutdown, the red hats appeared on his desk.
“Trump 2028,” they said, situated across from the seated lawmakers, VP #JDVance & several untouched Diet Cokes.
#House #Democratic leader #HakeemJeffries leaned over to Vance, himself a potential 2028 contender, & quipped, “Hey, bro, you got a problem with this?”
#kakistocracy #law #Constitution #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-trump-jeffries-sombrero-hats-cb8281193a071b812020ba5dd1c3db78 -
#Trump's government dismantling on the line in #court hearing over #MassLayoffs
A coalition of #unions, #nonprofits & #municipalities will urge a federal judge Thurs to extend her temporary block on Trump's admin implementing mass layoffs at #FederalAgencies, in the broadest setback yet to his sweeping dismantling of the govt.
#law #DOGE #Musk #Constitution #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/trumps-government-overhaul-line-court-hearing-over-mass-layoffs-2025-05-22/ -
From Reuters:
Appeals judges prod #Trump admin, #union over #CFPB wind-down
Federal appeals court judges in Washington wrestled Friday with the extent to which they could instruct the Trump admin to operate the government's consumer finance watchdog agency, which the White House this year has sought to decimate if not shut down entirely.
#law #RussVought #Constitution #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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“The DC Circuit should block the administration’s actions to shutter the agency & uphold #Congress’s plenary power over the existence & structure of federal agencies.”
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“If President #Trump wants to shut down the #CFPB, the #Constitution requires that he go to Congress & get it to give him the authority to do that. Notably, he has not done so.”
#law #RussVought #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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Following oral argument at the US Court of Appeals for DC this afternoon in National #Treasury Employees #Union v. #RussVought, a case in which the court is considering whether the #Trump admin’s efforts to unilaterally shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (#CFPB) are constitutional, Constitutional Accountability Center Equal Justice Works Fellow Anna Jessurun issued this:
#law #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #Congress
https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/cac-release-at-the-d-c-circuit-everyone-agrees-that-the-constitution-does-not-permit-the-president-to-unilaterally-shutter-the-cfpb/ -
Clement, a US solicitor general during the Republican admin of George W. Bush who has argued >100 cases before #SCOTUS, has clashed with the #Trump admin in other cases.
He is representing WilmerHale in its lawsuit challenging an #ExecutiveOrder Trump signed last month targeting the #US #LawFirm's business w/federal contractors & restricting its access to government officials and buildings.
#law #Constitution #ArticleIII #judiciary #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #HannahDugan
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New #Trump #ExecutiveOrder:
“Protecting American Communities From *Criminal Aliens*”
🙄🤬🖕§1 Federal #supremacy with respect to #immigration, #NationalSecurity, & #ForeignPolicy is axiomatic…[so much for #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment]
§2 Designation of “Sanctuary” Jurisdictions [#SanctuaryCities must obey see §1]
§3 Consequences for Sanctuary Jurisdiction Status
#law #immigration #ConstitutionalCrisis #SeparationOfPowers #Federalism #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-communities-from-criminal-aliens/ -
#US #intelligence contradicts #Trump’s justification for mass #deportations
[wait, what!?!?, but but but…are you saying that #felon47 LIED?????!!!!?!!?!?!?!!]
The determination is the most comprehensive assessment to date undercutting Trump’s rationale for deporting *suspected* *gang members* without #DueProcess.#law #immigration #UnitedStates #democracy #federalism #ChecksAndBalances #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #Tyranny
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During ordinary times, this accommodation would reflect an appropriate respect for the constitutional #SeparationOfPowers. In dealing with this Administration, with its maximalist conception of executive authority & its contemptuous attitude toward the #judiciary, the Justices are being played for fools.
#Trump #SCOTUS #law #Constitution #ConstitutionalCrisis #ChecksAndBalances #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #JudicialBranch #AbuseOfPower
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That, the govt argued, would intrude on the President’s sole power to conduct foreign relations. So the govt’s responsibility here is to, what, maybe issue #AbregoGarcia a Global Entry card to cut the #immigration line if he somehow turns up at a #US airport? This defiant position cannot stand—not if the rule of #law is to survive.
#SCOTUS #Trump #Constitution #ConstitutionalCrisis #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower
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If the #Trump admin doesn’t comply with the #law & provide the agreements made with the Salvadoran government, what will they do?
They can’t impeach with #Republicans controlling both chambers of #Congress.
Even if they then sue & win, Trump has shown he won’t abide by any court orders, not even orders from #SCOTUS.
There is no enforcing body willing or able to hold him accountable.
#immigration #ConstitutionalCrisis #democracy #federalism #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #Legislative #Judiciary
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NEW NOW
#DOJ says #Trump admin will NOT comply w/ Judge Xinis' order because the deadline is "impracticable."
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.59.0_1.pdf
#KilmarAbregoGarcia #law #Constitution #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #lawlessness #AbuseOfPower
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NOW
We have just passed the 11:30AM deadline, & #Trump’s #DOJ has not filed a response as ordered – per Kyle Cheney.
The hearing is still set for 1PM.
#KilmarAbregoGarcia #law #Constitution #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #lawlessness #AbuseOfPower
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Here we go
#Trump asked #SCOTUS on Friday to lift a temporary order blocking him from using a 1798 law to swiftly deport *alleged* #Venezuelan gang members as part of his 2-month-old admin's hardline approach to #immigration.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #CivilRights #DualState #ConstitutionalCrisis #AlienEnemiesAct #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower
https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-asks-us-supreme-court-intervene-deportations-fight-2025-03-28/ -
The #Trump admin invokes the #StateSecrets privilege, saying it will give Judge #Boasberg no more information about the #deportation flights to inform his decision about whether the govt defied his order.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.56.0.pdf
#law #Constitution #immigration #DueProcess #CivilRights #DualState #ConstitutionalCrisis #AlienEnemiesAct #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower #Trump
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Holy crap
In a new affidavit in #AEA by someone turned around in #ElSalvador, they swear the following:
"Within a couple of minutes of take off I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.55.1_2.pdf
#Trump #law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #ConstitutionalCrisis #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower
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Judge just said “#Nazis got better treatment under the #AEA”
They had hearing boards.
The people #Trump deported had no opportunity to apply for habeas. The planes started leaving 2 hours after Trump’s proclamation was signed.
#law #Constitution #immigration #DueProcess #CivilRights #DualState #ConstitutionalCrisis #AlienEnemiesAct #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower