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Constitution Day Rally >> Wed Sept 17th 4 - 6PM Defend our U.S. Constitution! Lincoln Park in Olean, NY Public · Anyone on or off Facebook * This is a peaceful demonstration. * #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #NoKings #standup #useyourvoice #protest #wny #events #standtogether #oleanny

Three minutes of today's protest in Waltham, Massachusetts, including music and chanting!

#indivisible #50501movement #WalthamMA #Massachusetts #NoKings #DefendTheConstitution

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🇬🇧 1629 – King Charles I
Dismissed Parliament. Ruled alone.
Ignored the courts.
⚔️ Civil war broke out.
🪓 He lost his head—literally. #RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution

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When a president ignores a court, it’s not “being strong.”
It’s how democracies die.
Here are 10 real times governments defied the courts—and what happened next.
🧵 #RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution

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Sign the petition.
Tell your reps this is a red line.
We are a nation of laws, not of kings.
https://resist.bot/petitions/PRKASP
#RuleOfLaw #NoKingsInAmerica #ChrisKrebs #DefendTheConstitution

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Make no mistake: this is a test.
If these orders are allowed to stand, future presidents—of any party—could do the same.
Silence lawyers. Punish critics. Strip away civil liberties with the stroke of a pen.
#DefendTheConstitution

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27 senior U.S. officials from both parties filed a brief opposing these actions.
They called them “unthinkable” and “ultra vires”—beyond the bounds of lawful authority.
The kind of thing they never imagined seeing in a democracy.
Case Info: https://www.justsecurity.org/110109/president-cannot-issue-attainder-bills/
#DefendTheConstitution

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In court, Trump’s lawyers argued the ban only applies to Congress—not the president.
This is radical and wrong. The executive can’t do what even Congress can’t do with his signature.
That would make the president a king. #DefendTheConstitution

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In fact, the only place in the Constitution where a power is banned twice is this one:

“No Bill of Attainder…shall be passed.” (Art. I, Sec. 9 & 10)
The Framers knew the danger of letting any branch bypass the courts to punish citizens. #DefendTheConstitution

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These executive orders revoke security clearances, terminate federal contracts, and ban access to government buildings—without trial or due process.
They name people. They punish them.
That’s the definition of a bill of attainder.
And the Constitution forbids it. #DefendTheConstitution

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Trump is issuing executive orders that punish political enemies—by name.
Lawyers. Law firms. Even Chris Krebs, the cybersecurity official who defended the 2020 election.
This is illegal. This is authoritarian. And it’s happening right now.
#DefendTheConstitution

Trump is issuing illegal executive orders to punish his enemies—targeting lawyers by name, canceling contracts, and banning access to government buildings.
This is unconstitutional. It’s a bill of attainder in all but name.
Tell Congress: Stop this abuse of power.
Sign the petition now: https://resist.bot/petitions/PRKASP
#DefendTheConstitution #NoKingsInAmerica #RuleOfLaw #USPol

#DefendTheConstitution #TrumpRegime #PunchNazis #1A #2A #Trump #MAGA #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #ElectionsHaveConsequences #Fascism #IToldYouSo #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfSpeech #FreeThinker

In 1773, Boston stood up to a tyrant who called himself king. Today, Boston did so again.

#Boston #HandsOff #DefendTheConstitution #massachusetts

`Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he [the President] shall take the following Oath... "I do solemnly swear that I will... preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."`

—US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text

#usa #protest #DefendTheConstitution

You know there's an issue with the president when a good protest sign is:

OBEY THE LAW

#usa #DefendTheConstitution

STAND UP! SAY NO! STAND STRONGER TOGETHER! SATURDAY - 05 APRIL - FIND STATE & LOCAL ACTIONS NOW! #DefendDemocracy #Fascism #DefendTheConstitution #justice #StrongerTogether #choosewisely #standup #health #safety #standtogether #FightBackTogether #StrongerTogether #CleanWater #integrity #survival

STAND UP! SAY NO! STAND STRONGER TOGETHER! SATURDAY - 05 APRIL - FIND STATE & LOCAL ACTIONS NOW! #DefendDemocracy #Fascism #DefendTheConstitution #justice #StrongerTogether #choosewisely #standup #health #safety #standtogether #FightBackTogether #StrongerTogether #CleanWater #integrity #survival

As Cory Booker's filibuster passes the 21st hour, it arrives at the top left of the front page of apnews.com
https://apnews.com/article/cory-booker-new-jersey-senator-speech-ab573bb7c3c76fa107cacac7136d3823

#DefendTheConstitution #CoryBooker

We need more lawyers, more heroes for that matter, like Marc Elias.
#HeroesforDemocracy
#DefendtheConstitution
#DontBeaKarp

Beware the Ides of March

They tighten their grip, they silence the crowd,
They profit from war, they stand tall and proud.
But history whispers, the tyrants will fall—
For the people are many, and they are but small.

No empire stands when the people arise,
No lies hold power when we open our eyes.
The Ides is a warning, a reckoning near—
We stand up now, or we bow down in fear.

Resist. Expose. Reclaim.
#IdesOfMarch #Resist #PowerToThePeople #StandUp #RuleofLaw #DefendTheConstitution

@solownh @GottaLaff On grounds of his deeply disordered mind & his extreme criminal & destructive potential Trump should even be allowed to run for any public office.
Sociopathic enemies of the constitutional order cannot be entrusted with the duties & responsibilities of public office they would only abuse to inflict harm!

Btw, it's not the first time that wannabe-Caligula Trump publicly alludes to his dream of being protected against the laws & accountability by presidential office for life.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DisqualifyTrump #NationalSecurityThreat #PublicDanger

@Callalily @omegaman That rhetorically violent Trump-post should be added to the records on his acts of incitement of violence & anti-constitutional acts.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #DisqualifyTrump #NationalSecurityThreat #IncitementToViolence #IncitementToRiot #IncitementToInsurrection #IncitementOfThePublic #Insurrection #Overthrow #Rebellion #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfDemocracy

@StephenRamirez "Nervous breakdowns"? You kidding me????

From Jan 20, 2017 to Jan 20, 2021 the United States had its first very own Caligula in Oval Office.

Do everything legal to make a sh*tty sequel impossible!

#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DisqualifyTrump #NationalSecurityThreat #EnemyOfLaw #DefraudingAmerica #LootingAmerica #SellingOutAmerica #ServingPutin #AidingAndAbetting #Treason

@wendinoakland We may remember, that Trump is a defendant in four lawsuits so far, charged with 91 counts so far.
He is the incorporation of what the Founders understood by unacceptable extreme misdemeanor, unworthy to hold any government or other public office & disqualifyingly refusing to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #TakeCareClause #DisqualifyTrump #NationalSecurityThreat #EnemiesOfTheLaw #CareerCriminals #CareerFraudsters #Espionage #Treason

@kegill Allowing an aggressive enemy of the constitutional order of the United States to run for presidential office must be another feature of American exceptionalism, I guess.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #JailTrump #EnemyOfTheConstitution #NationalSecurityThreat #Insurrection #Overthrow #Rebellion #Terrorism #PreventiveDetention #NDAA2012

@georgetakei Who are the "GOP's" obstructive acts serving?

Putin.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #NationalSecurityThreat #Insurrection #Rebellion #ObstructionOfNationalDefense #ObstructionOfGovernment #WeakeningAmerica #ServingPutin #ServingRussia

@RollingStone The party, that refuses to accept majority rule demands to be disqualified from holding public office.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #Insurrection #Rebellion #14thAmendmentSection2 #14thAmendmentSection3 #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #AbortionRights #WomensRights #CivilRights #HumanRights

@LaureM @RollingStone Today's "Republicans" are effectively obstructing everything the Republican Party's co-founder Abraham Lincoln ever stood for, while being lucky Lincoln ignored & even vetoed efforts of Radical Republicans to impose even tougher sanctions on ex-Confederates.

Today's "GOP" is in no way GOP.
They're Lincoln's then-adversaries.
They. Are. The. Party. Of. Rebellion. And. Obstruction!

As opposed to majority rule as in 1861, when their arch-enemy Lincoln was elected.
By majority rule.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #AmericaWon #PresidentBiden #AmericaMoves #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether

The question voters need to ask themselves before wasting their votes:

What are the virtues & ethics the guy, who begs to get my vote to make him represent me, my family & friends in United States Congress really has?

Will s/he serve me & most Americans or will s/he just be another lobbyist for an over-wealthy, self-centered splinter group unrepresentative of the nation's community?

https://newrepublic.com/article/176848/joe-manchin-wants-one-thing-its-disgusting
#DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #EthicsInGovernment #Integrity #Honesty #Incorruptibility #Fairness #CleanCongress #Corruption #NationalSecurity #Dereliction #JoeManchin #Sinema #BuildBackBetter #VotingRights #EnvironmentalProtection #FreeFromFossilFuels

@skykiss Reminder, that in April and December 1869, Congress passed Reconstruction bills mandating that Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia ratify the Fifteenth Amendment as a precondition to regaining congressional representation; all four states did so.

If they decide to continue to act against the stipulations of the Fifteenth Amendment, there should be impressive consequences concerning the congressional representation of those still-rebellious states.

The Fifteenth Amendment demands:

"Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #15thAmendment #VotingRights #CivilRights #HumanRights #GOP #ConspiracyAgainstRights #OrganizedCrime #RICO #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #ElectoralFraud #VoterSuppression #BallotSuppression #Mississippi

@flexghost Refusing to play by the rules & accept the choice of the majority of voters, "GOP" is naturally disqualifying itself from being part of any electoral process.

#DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #RuleOfThePeople #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #BanTheGOP #Insurrection

@fluxed Haha, Minnesota's Supreme Court threw the ball back into the field of state "Republicans", whose responsibility it is to either put insurrection-inciter on states' ballots & nominate him to run for presidential office — or not!

Try to choose wisely, "GOP". Don't be Trump's slaves forever!

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #Jan6 #Insurrection #Overthrow #Terrorism #OrganizedCrime #CriminalNetwork

@DemocracyMattersALot The "Republican" proposal to slash IRS funding alone constitutes a corrupt act & underlying bribery by the "GOP's" richest donors, to the disadvantage of low- & medium-income Americans.
Connecting that proposal with the alternative to stop aid to Israel is an act of illoyalty & corruption in favor of America's richest tax evaders, which can hardly be outperformed.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Corruption #DefraudingAmerica #LootingAmerica

Abraham Lincoln, Republican: “The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible, so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left.”

Mike Johnson, "Republican": You're wrong! America's not a democracy!

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/27/mike-johnson-christian-nationalist-ideas-qa-00123882
#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #MikeJohnson #Insurrection #Rebellion #Overthrow #Confedereds #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfDemocracy

@AlliFlowers @MJmusicinears With their phony baseless clown show in infantile retaliation for Trump's impeachment double-Burger today's confederate "Republicans" are putting all their contempt for the dignity of United States Congress on display.

Besides simple math telling that their infamous abuse of congressional power will be going to crash-land in the Senate, where they're also lacking a two-thirds majority.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #Insurrection #Rebellion #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfDemocracy #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #DisqualifyALLRebels

@marcelias Replacements should have to undergo security clearance procedures & tests scrutinizing loyalty & adherence to the U.S. Constitution.

And neutralization of/accountability of terrorists attacking election officials verbally or physically, to disrupt the electoral process as fair & free as it should be.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #ElectionOfficials #ProtectElections #BanTheGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfTheLaw

@paul_ipv6 @flexghost It were Republicans, who abolished slavery — until Lincoln's party was enslaved by Robert E.Lee's soulmates, who regrettably escaped just & due accountability.
So far...

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #BanTheGOP #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #DefendDemocracy #RINOs #Confedereds #Slaveholders #Racists #Rebels #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #Insurrection #Rebellion #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #DefendAmerica #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether

@panamared27401 MAGA overthrow of U.S.government, being announced & promised.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #ArrestTrump #Insurrection #RepeatOffender #PublicDanger #NationalSecurityThreat #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #ConspiracyAgainstTheUS #ConspiracyAgainstRights #CriminalNetwork #OrganizedCrime #RICO #ProsecuteALLRebels #DisqualifyALLRebels

@realTuckFrumper Mike Johnson no longer has his Confederacy (has been defeated), but is still on his own crusade against the Fourteenth (Reconstruction) Amendment, which Louisiana & the other ex-Confederate states had to ratify to regain representation in Congress.
SCOTUS's 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (use of contraceptives) was based on the Fourteenth Amendment.

P.S.: Leonard Leo's protégé Johnson is either intellectually unable or unwilling to tell contraception from abortion.

https://www.concordlawschool.edu/blog/constitutional-law/contraception-and-the-14th-amendment/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #14thAmendment #AbortionRights #ContraceptionRights #Contraception #Freedom #DueProcessClause #EqualProtectionClause #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Overthrow #CleanSCOTUS #JudicialInsurrection #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Bribery #MoneyLaundering

@_L1vY_ @HopeVanDyne Right!

Confederate Republicans-In-Name-only can't ever win in a single election, if they didn't suppress masses of voters known to be casting their ballots wisely not for the anti-electorate party, "GOP".

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfTheConstitution

@PDFlynn Enemies of the Constitution don't belong into Congress or any other parliament.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #AttackingAmerica #DefraudingAmerica #LootingAmerica

@Free_Press Individuals, who are defendants in fraud trial(s) better shut the fuck up publicly fantasizing about "rigged elections", like Trump did in 2016 before the election, when polls (accurately) predicted he was gonna lose to Hillary — which didn't happen due to Putin's interference & habitual/traditional "Republican" voter suppression, gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, intimidation & other regularly practiced methods of fraudulently obstructing the electoral process.

#DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #Confedereds #ElectoralFraud #ElectoralApartheid #ThirteenthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #FifteenthAmendment #FreedomUnderGOPAttack

@marcelias The possible 2 percent majority serial "Republican" electoral fraudsters are stealing from Dems.

#DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #GOP #ElectoralFraud #ElectoralApartheid #BanTheGOP #FraudCrimes

Who does Mike Johnson think he is, stupidly assuming he were entitled to promote a Christian-nationalist/fascist- branded U.S. government, against the documented beliefs & doctrines of President John Adams, the Founders & the author of the Treaty of Tripoli Joel Barlow, not even mentioning the First Amendment to the U'S. Constitution?

Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli:
"Art. 11. ***As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion***... ...it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/03/mike-johnson-is-not-a-culture-warrior--hes-an-enemy-of-democracy/
#DefendTheUnion #DefendAmerica #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #ExpelMikeJohnson #EvangelicalConfederateRebellion #ConfederateRebellion #Insurrection #ProsecuteALLRebels #RuleOfLaw #JusticeMatters

@slcw Mike Johnson is not a Christian.

He's more of a crusader — including the ruthlessness, recklessness & mental brutality.

And he obviously totally misunderstood the actually pretty simple message of Jesus Christ "Love your neighbor like you love yourself."

How strong is Mike Johnson's hate & disgust of himself?

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-johnsons-home-state-newspaper-rips-his-jan-6-connection-1838311
#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendTheUnion #MikeJohnson #Confedereds #ProsecuteALLRebels #Jan6 #Insurrection #Overthrow #DisqualifyALLRebels

@marcelias "Republicans" brazenly want to sow public distrust towards the electoral system & process they themselves are rigging (per voter suppression & -intimidation, gerrymandering & disenfranchisement & other instruments of fraud).

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendTheUnion #VotingRights #CivilRights #HumanRights #BanTheGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #ElectoralFraud #Vigilantism #Terrorism

@chicagotribune 👍👍👍👍 Demagogues in power have never been productive for the common good.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #Demagogues #RuleOfLies #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice #Corruption #NationalSecurityThreat

@marcelias 😎🤔 Fourteenth Amendment Section 3.

Disqualify all of Trump's co-conspirators inciting & engaging in insurrection against the authority of the United States & the laws thereof, and giving aid & comfort thereto.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #18USCSection2383 #14thAmendmentSection3 #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #BanTheGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #2020Election #BigLie #SabotagingECVotes #Jan6 #Insurrection #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfTheConstitution