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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

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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

#Trump doubling (tripling? quadrupling?…) down on #illiberal #authoritarian #StochasticTerrorism toward the #judiciary even going after conservative #SCOTUS Chief Justice #JohnRoberts (see pic).

#Boasberg #law #Constitution #ConstitutionalCrisis #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower

Doubling down on the #illiberal #StochasticTerrorism, #ElonMusk continues to broadcast #judicial impeachments all because they have ruled against him & #Trump.

BTWs it takes 67 senators to remove a judge w/ #impeachment, not 60, idiot.

#law #Constitution #ConstitutionalCrisis #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower

#BrandonGill's measure is co-sponsored by Reps. #EliCrane (R-#Arizona), #BuddyCarter (R-#Georgia), #MikeCollins (R-GA), #BarryMoore (R-#Alabama) & #AndrewClyde (R-GA).

#Republicans have also moved to #impeach federal judges Paul Engelmayer, John McConnell Jr., John Bates & Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali — all for ruling in some way against #Trump.

#law #Constitution #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #ConstitutionalCrisis