#dualstate — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dualstate, aggregated by home.social.
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#Democracy Forward, a legal nonprofit that helped represent the #immigration groups & #unions behind the lawsuit, celebrated the ruling.
“This ruling reaffirms a basic principle: The federal government cannot shut down lawful immigration pathways or discriminate against people based on where they come from,” said Skye Perryman, the group’s president. “These unlawful policies caused enormous harm to families, workers, asylum seekers & communities across the country.”
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#Democracy Forward, a legal nonprofit that helped represent the #immigration groups & #unions behind the lawsuit, celebrated the ruling.
“This ruling reaffirms a basic principle: The federal government cannot shut down lawful immigration pathways or discriminate against people based on where they come from,” said Skye Perryman, the group’s president. “These unlawful policies caused enormous harm to families, workers, asylum seekers & communities across the country.”
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“Over 6 months later, many of those individuals remain without work, without legal status, & without any meaningful ability to plan for their futures,” Judge McConnell wrote.
He wrote that the various holds violated the #immigration laws governing the responsibilities of #USCIS, & that the agency had routinely applied the #law unequally under the policies.
#Trump #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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“Over 6 months later, many of those individuals remain without work, without legal status, & without any meaningful ability to plan for their futures,” Judge McConnell wrote.
He wrote that the various holds violated the #immigration laws governing the responsibilities of #USCIS, & that the agency had routinely applied the #law unequally under the policies.
#Trump #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The policies were announced in November shortly after the admin said an Afghan national shot 2 National Guard members in DC. The man, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, has pleaded not guilty.
The freeze resulted in many immigrants inside the #US waiting indefinitely for decisions on their applications, disrupting their ability to legally work & leaving them to question whether they could remain in the country.
#Trump #law #immigration #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The policies were announced in November shortly after the admin said an Afghan national shot 2 National Guard members in DC. The man, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, has pleaded not guilty.
The freeze resulted in many immigrants inside the #US waiting indefinitely for decisions on their applications, disrupting their ability to legally work & leaving them to question whether they could remain in the country.
#Trump #law #immigration #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The policies, enacted by #US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], included a global hold on #asylum applications filed with the agency. It also paused decisions on immigration applications filed by people from the 39 countries subject to #Trump’s #TravelBan, halting their ability to obtain #GreenCards, US citizenship & other benefits.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The policies, enacted by #US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], included a global hold on #asylum applications filed with the agency. It also paused decisions on immigration applications filed by people from the 39 countries subject to #Trump’s #TravelBan, halting their ability to obtain #GreenCards, US citizenship & other benefits.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The policies, enacted by #US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], included a global hold on #asylum applications filed with the agency. It also paused decisions on immigration applications filed by people from the 39 countries subject to #Trump’s #TravelBan, halting their ability to obtain #GreenCards, US citizenship & other benefits.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The policies, enacted by #US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], included a global hold on #asylum applications filed with the agency. It also paused decisions on immigration applications filed by people from the 39 countries subject to #Trump’s #TravelBan, halting their ability to obtain #GreenCards, US citizenship & other benefits.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The policies, enacted by #US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], included a global hold on #asylum applications filed with the agency. It also paused decisions on immigration applications filed by people from the 39 countries subject to #Trump’s #TravelBan, halting their ability to obtain #GreenCards, US citizenship & other benefits.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a slate of #immigration policies enacted by the #Trump admin, writing that it had left #immigrants living in the #US in “indeterminate legal limbo” because of “anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making.”
#law #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a slate of #immigration policies enacted by the #Trump admin, writing that it had left #immigrants living in the #US in “indeterminate legal limbo” because of “anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making.”
#law #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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#Judge Says #Trump Officials Must Restart #Asylum & #Immigration Processing
The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/asylum-immigration-ruling.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Judge Says #Trump Officials Must Restart #Asylum & #Immigration Processing
The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/asylum-immigration-ruling.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The NYT Editorial Board gained access to …50 hours of #ICE body camera footage from a single night in #Nashville.…
The footage reveals a pattern of overt #RacialProfiling that’s been approved by an unusual source: the Supreme Court. …Last year #SCOTUS gave ICE a green light to stop people based on their appearance or accent. This video shows the alarming results.
#Trump #law #immigration #CivilRights #DualState #fascism #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/opinion/ice-racial-profiling-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e1A.NwEC.8f_XuYouSqNH&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The NYT Editorial Board gained access to …50 hours of #ICE body camera footage from a single night in #Nashville.…
The footage reveals a pattern of overt #RacialProfiling that’s been approved by an unusual source: the Supreme Court. …Last year #SCOTUS gave ICE a green light to stop people based on their appearance or accent. This video shows the alarming results.
#Trump #law #immigration #CivilRights #DualState #fascism #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/opinion/ice-racial-profiling-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e1A.NwEC.8f_XuYouSqNH&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Regardless of your opinion on illegal #immigration, it’s a good idea to help these #kids become as proficient in #English as possible. Particularly if you support #Trump’s executive order designating English “the official language of the United States.”🙄
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Regardless of your opinion on illegal #immigration, it’s a good idea to help these #kids become as proficient in #English as possible. Particularly if you support #Trump’s executive order designating English “the official language of the United States.”🙄
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As of 2021, #students identified as English learners [#ELLs] made up 10.6% of the total K-12 population, & they are considered “the fastest growing population of students in K-12 schools.” As you might expect, a lot of these kids are #children of #immigrants, both legal & illegal, & speak a language other than #English at home.
#Trump #law #immigration #education #ESL #racism #WhiteSupremacy #DualState
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As of 2021, #students identified as English learners [#ELLs] made up 10.6% of the total K-12 population, & they are considered “the fastest growing population of students in K-12 schools.” As you might expect, a lot of these kids are #children of #immigrants, both legal & illegal, & speak a language other than #English at home.
#Trump #law #immigration #education #ESL #racism #WhiteSupremacy #DualState
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One year ago, the #Trump admin gutted the #Education Department’s Office of #EnglishLanguage Acquisition, which is supposed to help about 5 million students in #PublicSchools “attain English proficiency & achieve academic success.”
By “gutted,” I mean cut 14 of the 15 staff positions in that office. Now the department has given #Congress official notice that it plans to dissolve the office entirely.
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One year ago, the #Trump admin gutted the #Education Department’s Office of #EnglishLanguage Acquisition, which is supposed to help about 5 million students in #PublicSchools “attain English proficiency & achieve academic success.”
By “gutted,” I mean cut 14 of the 15 staff positions in that office. Now the department has given #Congress official notice that it plans to dissolve the office entirely.
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This makes no sense. They claim they want #immigrants to assimilate to whatever their idea of #US #culture is & yet…
#Trump steps up a campaign against #teaching #English to immigrant kids
The administration plans to dissolve the office that supports English instruction.#law #immigration #education #ESL #racism #WhiteSupremacy #DualState
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This makes no sense. They claim they want #immigrants to assimilate to whatever their idea of #US #culture is & yet…
#Trump steps up a campaign against #teaching #English to immigrant kids
The administration plans to dissolve the office that supports English instruction.#law #immigration #education #ESL #racism #WhiteSupremacy #DualState
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#Boasberg has said the #Trump admin may have acted in #BadFaith by trying to rush Venezuelan immigrants out of the country in defiance of his order. He said he gave the admin “ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions” but concluded that “none of their responses has been satisfactory.”
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #AbuseOfPower #judiciary #JudgeShopping
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#Boasberg has said the #Trump admin may have acted in #BadFaith by trying to rush Venezuelan immigrants out of the country in defiance of his order. He said he gave the admin “ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions” but concluded that “none of their responses has been satisfactory.”
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #AbuseOfPower #judiciary #JudgeShopping
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#Boasberg has said the #Trump admin may have acted in #BadFaith by trying to rush Venezuelan immigrants out of the country in defiance of his order. He said he gave the admin “ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions” but concluded that “none of their responses has been satisfactory.”
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #AbuseOfPower #judiciary #JudgeShopping
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#Boasberg has said the #Trump admin may have acted in #BadFaith by trying to rush Venezuelan immigrants out of the country in defiance of his order. He said he gave the admin “ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions” but concluded that “none of their responses has been satisfactory.”
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #AbuseOfPower #judiciary #JudgeShopping
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#Boasberg has said the #Trump admin may have acted in #BadFaith by trying to rush Venezuelan immigrants out of the country in defiance of his order. He said he gave the admin “ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions” but concluded that “none of their responses has been satisfactory.”
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #AbuseOfPower #judiciary #JudgeShopping
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The deal is part of a broader #Trump admin campaign to coax countries to accept immigrants who cannot be legally deported from the #US to their home countries because they would likely face persecution. It is also the clearest example to date of the diplomatic horse-trading the US uses to engineer such agreements.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary
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The deal is part of a broader #Trump admin campaign to coax countries to accept immigrants who cannot be legally deported from the #US to their home countries because they would likely face persecution. It is also the clearest example to date of the diplomatic horse-trading the US uses to engineer such agreements.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary
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The deal is part of a broader #Trump admin campaign to coax countries to accept immigrants who cannot be legally deported from the #US to their home countries because they would likely face persecution. It is also the clearest example to date of the diplomatic horse-trading the US uses to engineer such agreements.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary
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The deal is part of a broader #Trump admin campaign to coax countries to accept immigrants who cannot be legally deported from the #US to their home countries because they would likely face persecution. It is also the clearest example to date of the diplomatic horse-trading the US uses to engineer such agreements.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary
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The deal is part of a broader #Trump admin campaign to coax countries to accept immigrants who cannot be legally deported from the #US to their home countries because they would likely face persecution. It is also the clearest example to date of the diplomatic horse-trading the US uses to engineer such agreements.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary
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The #Trump admin this winter secured a secret deal with the government of #Cameroon to deport hundreds of immigrants after remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against #protesters there ‘ withholding $30 million from a local #UN office, acc/to officials & US government documents.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary
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The #Trump admin this winter secured a secret deal with the government of #Cameroon to deport hundreds of immigrants after remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against #protesters there ‘ withholding $30 million from a local #UN office, acc/to officials & US government documents.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary
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The #Trump admin this winter secured a secret deal with the government of #Cameroon to deport hundreds of immigrants after remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against #protesters there ‘ withholding $30 million from a local #UN office, acc/to officials & US government documents.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary
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The #Trump admin this winter secured a secret deal with the government of #Cameroon to deport hundreds of immigrants after remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against #protesters there ‘ withholding $30 million from a local #UN office, acc/to officials & US government documents.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary
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The #Trump admin this winter secured a secret deal with the government of #Cameroon to deport hundreds of immigrants after remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against #protesters there ‘ withholding $30 million from a local #UN office, acc/to officials & US government documents.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary
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In Secret #Deportation Deal, US Leveraged Favors & Funds
In #Cameroon, the #Trump admin found a partner it could pressure into accepting covertly deported migrants.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/world/africa/in-secret-deportation-deal-us-leveraged-favors-and-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WlA.9f1u.08JDzNwmeWqy&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
In Secret #Deportation Deal, US Leveraged Favors & Funds
In #Cameroon, the #Trump admin found a partner it could pressure into accepting covertly deported migrants.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/world/africa/in-secret-deportation-deal-us-leveraged-favors-and-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WlA.9f1u.08JDzNwmeWqy&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
In Secret #Deportation Deal, US Leveraged Favors & Funds
In #Cameroon, the #Trump admin found a partner it could pressure into accepting covertly deported migrants.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/world/africa/in-secret-deportation-deal-us-leveraged-favors-and-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WlA.9f1u.08JDzNwmeWqy&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
In Secret #Deportation Deal, US Leveraged Favors & Funds
In #Cameroon, the #Trump admin found a partner it could pressure into accepting covertly deported migrants.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/world/africa/in-secret-deportation-deal-us-leveraged-favors-and-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WlA.9f1u.08JDzNwmeWqy&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
In Secret #Deportation Deal, US Leveraged Favors & Funds
In #Cameroon, the #Trump admin found a partner it could pressure into accepting covertly deported migrants.
#law #immigration #rendition #MafiaState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/world/africa/in-secret-deportation-deal-us-leveraged-favors-and-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WlA.9f1u.08JDzNwmeWqy&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
"Life under authoritarianism is actually, for the most part, weirdly normal. It’s often even, well, boring. The average person can go about their day as usual. You take your kids to school, you head to the office, and yes, you even host dinner parties. You live in the realm that Fraenkel referred to as “the normative state,” and from within that realm, it’s easy to think that if you just keep your head down and avoid making waves, you’ll be perfectly fine, thank you very much.
But Fraenkel’s book is called The Dual State for a reason. This first state, the business-as-usual one, actually exists to lull you into a sense of complacency such that you don’t realize that another state is also operating in parallel with it. That second state, which Fraenkel calls “the prerogative state,” only becomes visible to you when you do something that the powers that be don’t like. Then suddenly you’re in a realm where the rule of law does not exist, where citizens can be killed with impunity, where you — even you, who thought you were invulnerable — can become a target.
The dark genius of this setup is that most people don’t realize that the prerogative state is active until it’s too late. They only wake up when the knock comes on their very own door — or when the door is forcefully broken down.
“The Dual State lives by veiling its true nature,” Fraenkel wrote.
That’s why it’s not surprising to me that your friends have been politically inactive. If they think of themselves as “not the target” — if they’re citizens, if they’re white, if they don’t speak with the “wrong” accent or express the “wrong” political views in public — it’s extremely easy for them to think everything is mostly normal, because the whole political apparatus is designed to make them think exactly that."
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/476702/minnesota-minneapolis-ice-ethics-how-to-help
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"Life under authoritarianism is actually, for the most part, weirdly normal. It’s often even, well, boring. The average person can go about their day as usual. You take your kids to school, you head to the office, and yes, you even host dinner parties. You live in the realm that Fraenkel referred to as “the normative state,” and from within that realm, it’s easy to think that if you just keep your head down and avoid making waves, you’ll be perfectly fine, thank you very much.
But Fraenkel’s book is called The Dual State for a reason. This first state, the business-as-usual one, actually exists to lull you into a sense of complacency such that you don’t realize that another state is also operating in parallel with it. That second state, which Fraenkel calls “the prerogative state,” only becomes visible to you when you do something that the powers that be don’t like. Then suddenly you’re in a realm where the rule of law does not exist, where citizens can be killed with impunity, where you — even you, who thought you were invulnerable — can become a target.
The dark genius of this setup is that most people don’t realize that the prerogative state is active until it’s too late. They only wake up when the knock comes on their very own door — or when the door is forcefully broken down.
“The Dual State lives by veiling its true nature,” Fraenkel wrote.
That’s why it’s not surprising to me that your friends have been politically inactive. If they think of themselves as “not the target” — if they’re citizens, if they’re white, if they don’t speak with the “wrong” accent or express the “wrong” political views in public — it’s extremely easy for them to think everything is mostly normal, because the whole political apparatus is designed to make them think exactly that."
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/476702/minnesota-minneapolis-ice-ethics-how-to-help
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Yes the NYTimes is shit now and the op-ed is ironically lukewarm and passive, but it plucked out a good summary of the “dual state.” By David French, quoting Aziz Huq, referencing Ernst Fraenkel.
Original piece by Huq: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/?gift=3qx5DAUwXOU-zo0uuMqXXXBdr-lY__ZS3Hup3wCAyzA
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Yes the NYTimes is shit now and the op-ed is ironically lukewarm and passive, but it plucked out a good summary of the “dual state.” By David French, quoting Aziz Huq, referencing Ernst Fraenkel.
Original piece by Huq: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/?gift=3qx5DAUwXOU-zo0uuMqXXXBdr-lY__ZS3Hup3wCAyzA
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Australia's new national environmental standards
"Former ACCC chair condemns proposed exemption allowing minister to approve projects that don’t comply with law. Samuel, who led a 2020 review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, also argued a loophole that effectively exempts native forest logging from the laws “shouldn’t be there”.
“Logging operations should be subject to the same rules as mining, agriculture, urban development and so on." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/graeme-samuel-calls-for-labor-to-ditch-national-interest-workaround-for-environment-lawsThe Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act)
The problem of ministerial discretion and “national interest” exemptions. >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115528660854362227Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law. >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115528971744822369#EPBCAct #biodiversity #NationalInterest #law #exemption #MinisterialDiscretion #FastTrackApprovals #VestedInterest #ParliamentaryScrutiny #EnvironmentalLaw #conservation #regulation #governance #democracy #NSWLogging #landclearing #DualState #lawlessness #authoritarianism #LawGuardrails #normalcy #EmergencyPowers #NationalInterest #legitimisation #exemption #constitution #state #governance #LoggingImpacts