#dualstate — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dualstate, aggregated by home.social.
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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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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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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 -
An excellent article from Vox on how to talk to your oblivious friends and neighbors about the horrors unfolding around us. ( gift link from @kottke )
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
Lawlessness dressed up as law." The ‘dual state’ framework explains how a dictator can exercise power while life appears mostly ordinary.
The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.
In a dual state, the high “court’s role is in creating affordances within the law that operate as off switches for the law…
This is precisely why the dual state is so dangerous: It allows the would-be autocrat to consolidate power under the cloak of democracy and norms. "
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/dual-state-supreme-court/The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dual_State
#DualState #lawlessness #authoritarianism #LawGuardrails #normalcy #EmergencyPowers #NationalInterest #legitimisation #exemption #constitution #state #governance #VibeShift #democracy -
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
Lawlessness dressed up as law." The ‘dual state’ framework explains how a dictator can exercise power while life appears mostly ordinary.
The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.
In a dual state, the high “court’s role is in creating affordances within the law that operate as off switches for the law…
This is precisely why the dual state is so dangerous: It allows the would-be autocrat to consolidate power under the cloak of democracy and norms. "
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/dual-state-supreme-court/The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dual_State
#DualState #lawlessness #authoritarianism #LawGuardrails #normalcy #EmergencyPowers #NationalInterest #legitimisation #exemption #constitution #state #governance #VibeShift #democracy -
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
Lawlessness dressed up as law." The ‘dual state’ framework explains how a dictator can exercise power while life appears mostly ordinary.
The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.
In a dual state, the high “court’s role is in creating affordances within the law that operate as off switches for the law…
This is precisely why the dual state is so dangerous: It allows the would-be autocrat to consolidate power under the cloak of democracy and norms. "
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/dual-state-supreme-court/The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dual_State
#DualState #lawlessness #authoritarianism #LawGuardrails #normalcy #EmergencyPowers #NationalInterest #legitimisation #exemption #constitution #state #governance #VibeShift #democracy -
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
Lawlessness dressed up as law." The ‘dual state’ framework explains how a dictator can exercise power while life appears mostly ordinary.
The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.
In a dual state, the high “court’s role is in creating affordances within the law that operate as off switches for the law…
This is precisely why the dual state is so dangerous: It allows the would-be autocrat to consolidate power under the cloak of democracy and norms. "
>>
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/dual-state-supreme-court/The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dual_State
#DualState #lawlessness #authoritarianism #LawGuardrails #normalcy #EmergencyPowers #NationalInterest #legitimisation #exemption #constitution #state #governance #VibeShift #democracy -
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
Lawlessness dressed up as law." The ‘dual state’ framework explains how a dictator can exercise power while life appears mostly ordinary.
The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.
In a dual state, the high “court’s role is in creating affordances within the law that operate as off switches for the law…
This is precisely why the dual state is so dangerous: It allows the would-be autocrat to consolidate power under the cloak of democracy and norms. "
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/dual-state-supreme-court/The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dual_State
#DualState #lawlessness #authoritarianism #LawGuardrails #normalcy #EmergencyPowers #NationalInterest #legitimisation #exemption #constitution #state #governance #VibeShift #democracy -
"Life in the early months of Trump’s second presidency hews to this framework in important respects. How else to explain that most people enjoy a sense of normalcy while, for example, foreign students like Rümeysa Öztürk and green card holders like Mahmoud Khalil can be detained for their speech. Americans and immigrants alike can be terrorized by ICE, the federal government’s unleashed immigration force, if they speak Spanish, look nonwhite, or happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The administration is sinking Venezuelan vessels and executing the civilians on board without any legal authorization—killings that look like war crimes or murder. The government demanded that Disney fire comedian Jimmy Kimmel as if the First Amendment didn’t exist. But at the same time, the Trump administration’s law-breaking in its war on immigrants, its crusade against dissent, its takeover of the machinery of the federal government, its unrestrained use of the military, have not cannibalized the broader legal system or society—at least not yet.
While these actions augur the onset of a dual state, the Trump administration hasn’t gotten us to this point alone. The Supreme Court, with its Republican-appointed 6-3 majority, has been a crucial facilitator. When the court blesses the administration’s disregard for the law while maintaining the appearance that the law still rules, it is enabling a dual state. When Jackson made explicit reference to Fraenkel, she was sounding an alarm on the court’s role in the shift toward a dual state. As Evan Bernick, a constitutional law professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law, puts it: “The reality is that the court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.”"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/dual-state-supreme-court/
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Check out this exchange between Senator #JeffMerkley (D-OR) & #FBI Director #KashPatel over whether #DuePocess applies to people targeted by the #AlienEnemiesAct.
#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump
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Check out this exchange between Senator #JeffMerkley (D-OR) & #FBI Director #KashPatel over whether #DuePocess applies to people targeted by the #AlienEnemiesAct.
#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump
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Check out this exchange between Senator #JeffMerkley (D-OR) & #FBI Director #KashPatel over whether #DuePocess applies to people targeted by the #AlienEnemiesAct.
#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump
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Check out this exchange between Senator #JeffMerkley (D-OR) & #FBI Director #KashPatel over whether #DuePocess applies to people targeted by the #AlienEnemiesAct.
#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump
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Check out this exchange between Senator #JeffMerkley (D-OR) & #FBI Director #KashPatel over whether #DuePocess applies to people targeted by the #AlienEnemiesAct.
#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump
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1:09:38 #Hitler '33/#Trump '25: The 1st 100 Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJIf0i0KkXw
The claim is made that the US overcame the #dualState of #authoritarianism for #PoC and #democracy for white people is wrong and will be so as long as #slavery remains as punishment in the #Constitution and prisoners are denied to participate in #elections and even worse, in some states are denied even after the release.
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NEW: Judge Sessions appears to have converted tomorrow's scheduled bail hearing for #RümeysaÖztürk into a status conference while the court awaits #Öztürk's transfer to Vermont.
#law #Constitution #immigration #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #DueProcess #CivilRights #DualState #StateSponsoredAbduction #Trump #MarcoRubio #AbuseOfPower