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  1. ⚖️ The Supreme Court refused to force a proof-of-citizenship measure onto Michigan’s November ballot after supporters failed to meet signature requirements. democracydocket.com/news-alert

    #VotingRights #RuleOfLaw

  2. ⚖️ The Supreme Court refused to force a proof-of-citizenship measure onto Michigan’s November ballot after supporters failed to meet signature requirements. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts...


     #VotingRights #RuleOfLaw

  3. 🔔 The court already spoke: Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it. Trump must listen. thepetitionsite.com/948/658/37

    #RuleOfLaw #StopTrump

  4. 🔔 The court already spoke: Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it. Trump must listen. thepetitionsite.com/948/658/37

    #RuleOfLaw #StopTrump

  5. 🔔 The court already spoke: Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it. Trump must listen. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372...

    #RuleOfLaw #StopTrump

  6. 🔔 The court already spoke: Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it. Trump must listen. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372...

    #RuleOfLaw #StopTrump

  7. 🔔 The court already spoke: Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it. Trump must listen. www.thepetitionsite.com/948/658/372...

    #RuleOfLaw #StopTrump

  8. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "The #ruleoflaw is important. It is a #value worth upholding even at a price. It is too late to address the Bush-era atrocities, but it is not too late to address Trump’s. He won’t do it, but we should insist that the next #administration does. Meanwhile, #state & #international #prosecutors should start now."

  9. The Curious Case of the Missing Shepherds by Lawson Akhigbe

    There is a peculiar habit that appears with remarkable frequency in American and British political commentary. Whenever an issue is said to concern black communities, a familiar chorus emerges from television studios, newspaper columns and social media platforms.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/11/the-

  10. The Curious Case of the Missing Shepherds by Lawson Akhigbe

    There is a peculiar habit that appears with remarkable frequency in American and British political commentary. Whenever an issue is said to concern black communities, a familiar chorus emerges from television studios, newspaper columns and social media platforms.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/11/the-

  11. The Curious Case of the Missing Shepherds by Lawson Akhigbe

    There is a peculiar habit that appears with remarkable frequency in American and British political commentary. Whenever an issue is said to concern black communities, a familiar chorus emerges from television studios, newspaper columns and social media platforms.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/11/the-

  12. The Curious Case of the Missing Shepherds by Lawson Akhigbe

    There is a peculiar habit that appears with remarkable frequency in American and British political commentary. Whenever an issue is said to concern black communities, a familiar chorus emerges from television studios, newspaper columns and social media platforms.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/11/the-

  13. The Curious Case of the Missing Shepherds by Lawson Akhigbe

    There is a peculiar habit that appears with remarkable frequency in American and British political commentary. Whenever an issue is said to concern black communities, a familiar chorus emerges from television studios, newspaper columns and social media platforms.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/11/the-

  14. The Simplest Way for the Supreme Court to Rule in the USPS Mail Ballots Case

    Two weeks ago, in Trump v. California, the Supreme Court held that a suit brought by several states to…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Democracy #Elections #Federalism #litigation #RuleofLaw #UnitedStates #Us #us-postal-service #USA
    newsbeep.com/724741/

  15. I was listening to a podcast about this last night; that the Iraq War, started without the UN Security Council's approval, was the start of our current cycle of aggressive wars. The Iraq War broke the international legal regime; it started 20 years ago.

    #IraqWar #RuleOfLaw #UN

    theguardian.com/world/2003/mar

  16. The Cane, the Conference, and the Curious Case of Self-Sabotage by Lawson Akhigbe

    Behold the main character of British politics in 2026: a white, elderly gentleman, clearly leaning on a sturdy wooden cane for support, accredited badge swinging proudly from his neck at the Reform UK conference. Mouth open in mid-roar, eyes locked in righteous fury, he has somehow decided that the greatest threat to civilisation in that moment is a young woman holding a handbag. The crowd of fellow pensioners and patriots looks on with varying degrees of encouragement. Somewhere in the background, the usual sea of white hair and earnest lanyards nods along

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/05/the-

  17. The Safe Place for Bigotry and Crime by Lawson Akhigbe

    It has no postcode. It does not appear on Google Maps. There are no street signs pointing towards it. Yet, whenever one of its inhabitants is caught saying something outrageous or doing something politically or legally questionable, suddenly we are told that the offending words or conduct belonged there.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/05/the-

  18. “"America is no longer trusted," the economist warns. "Foreign governments can no longer count on us to obey the most basic rules, like the commandment that thou shalt not steal other people's gold. And even when Trump is gone, it will take many years of honest, responsible U.S. government to restore that lost trust."”

    #uspolitics #economy #ruleoflaw alternet.org/trump-gold-centra

  19. @OGJester

    (cont.)

    As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

    So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

    His full post: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l

    (bolding added)

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    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  20. @OGJester As musician Frank Wilhoit famously wrote:

    Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

    There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

    He continued:

    For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

    (bolding added)

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    #RuleOfLaw #laws #oligarchy #Epstein #EpsteinClass #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime

  21. The Moths to the Flame: Why Do Populist Movements Always Attract Such “Enterprising” Characters? By Lawson Akhigbe

    There is an eternal, almost Newtonian law of modern politics: wherever a politician loudly proclaims they are "standing up for the forgotten working man," you will inevitably find a discreet corner table in a private Mayfair club where someone is eagerly trying to launder foreign money.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/09/04/the-

  22. Paul Krugman explores whether the American word remains reliable today. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ing #GlobalTrust #USPolitics #RuleOfLaw #Economics Amid concerns over how policy decisions under President Trump eroded trust in international law, several nations have begun moving gold from U.S. vaults as a sign of declining faith in American stability. This shift highlights the tangible consequences of eroding diplomatic norms on global economic security. Read more to see why this transition is occurring. Paul Krugman provides an insightful analysis of these shifting dynamics.

  23. R to @EUCourtPress: 🎥 Watch our video to learn more about the rule of law 👉 youtu.be/sZ0P2sTlWrw?si=HvE7hQ #Justice #RuleOfLaw #JudicialIndependence

    🎥 Watch our video to learn more about the rule of law 👉 piped.video/sZ0P2sTlWrw?si=HvE7…

    #Justice #RuleOfLaw #JudicialIndependence

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    Upholding the rule of law in the EU

    Respect for the rule of law is a fundamental part of modern democra...
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  24. theguardian.com/world/2026/jul. It ill-behoves #Orban & his #Fidesz #supporters to talk about #tyranny & threats to the #ruleoflaw, as they were perfectly happy to flout the #law & impose #dictatorship when THEY were in charge! Péter #Magyar & #Tisza are only wanting #Hungary to be given the opportunity to have a new Presidential #election, & Hungarians to have a new #President. That is #democracy, not tyranny.

  25. "Právo je pro lidi nesrozumintelné. Ombudsman kritizuje stát za chaos" -- "často vytváří situace, v nichž se občan v právním systému ztrácí. Dávno tak podle něj už nemůže platit, že neznalost zákonů neomlouvá." -- "diskriminace starých lidí je nejčastějším způsobem diskriminace u nás" -- "největší úspěch v roli ombudsmana, je to posílení role veřejného ochránce práv jako lidskoprávní instituce. 'Podařilo se mi snad přispět k pochopení, že lidská a občanské práva jsou skutečně pro všechny, a nikoliv jen pro ty, kteří se jich hlasitě domáhají. Snad přispět i k tomu, že rozdělování občanů na menšiny k ničemu dobrému nepovede a že potřebujeme nejen rozmanitost" -- " úřad veřejného ochránce práv dokáže účinně korigovat chyby státní správy. „V 97 procentech případů, ve kterých jsme upozornili úřady na jejich chybné jednání, tak svá nesprávná rozhodnutí napravily." -- "největší neúspěch naopak označil nedostatečnou součinnost některých institucí. Zejména tam, kde byla zjištění úřadu politicky či institucionálně nepohodlná"

    Česká Justice, ceska-justice.cz/2026/02/ombud

    #právnístát #ruleoflaw #ombudsman #contempt #opovržení #neférovost #unfairness #kafkaesque #kafkovský #czech #česko #czechia #czechrepublic

  26. When the Clouds Begin to Part: Reading the Signs of Democracy’s Renewal – January 13, 2026 – A DWD Editorial

    Silhouetted Americans standing together as storm clouds part and sunlight rays form signposts over the U.S. Capitol dome.

    The clouds may not be gone yet — but the signposts are visible.

    When the Clouds Begin to Part: Reading the Signs of Democracy’s Renewal

    Opinion • DrWeb’s Domain

    For many Americans — and for millions around the world who have watched the United States as a democratic north star — the period since January 2025 has felt like standing inside a gathering storm. Institutions strained. Norms bent and some broken. Constitutional guardrails tested. Who truly expected the Supreme Court of the United States to roll over for Trump as it has? That is not right-wing. That is simply crazy. The noise has been relentless, the rhetoric exhausting, and the stakes unmistakably historic.

    Yet history teaches something equally important: democratic collapse does not arrive all at once — and neither does democratic recovery.

    Recovery begins with signs. Subtle at first. Then unmistakable.

    If one listens closely beneath the thunder of daily crisis, it becomes clear: the clouds may be parting.

    The First Signs: Institutions Remember Who They Are

    One of the earliest and most hopeful indicators of democratic renewal is institutional memory reasserting itself.

    Courts have continued to issue rulings that quietly but firmly reinforce constitutional boundaries. Career civil servants have refused unlawful directives. Inspectors General, auditors, election officials, and local administrators — the so-called “invisible infrastructure” of democracy — have held their posts. Many have done so under extraordinary pressure.

    Democracy does not survive because of speeches. It survives because ordinary people inside extraordinary systems decide, again and again, to do their jobs.

    That is happening.

    Public Resistance Has Shifted from Outrage to Organization

    Another critical sign: the public response has matured.

    In 2017–2021, resistance was loud, emotional, and often reactive. In 2025–2026, it has become something more durable: structured, patient, legally grounded, and strategically national.

    Voter registration is surging. Grassroots legal funds are multiplying. Journalists are collaborating across outlets and borders. State governments are coordinating constitutional defenses. Universities, bar associations, unions, faith groups, and veterans’ organizations are issuing joint statements rooted not in ideology but in constitutional principle.

    This is what civic adulthood looks like.

    Authoritarian Power Always Overreaches — and the Overreach Is Now Visible

    History is unambiguous on this point: authoritarian atttempts collapse under the weight of their own ambition.

    The more power attempts to centralize, the more resistance it creates — not just among citizens, but within the machinery of the state itself. Fractures are now visible inside political coalitions that once appeared unified. Economic confidence wavers when rule of law is threatened. International alliances grow cautious. Investors, courts, businesses, universities, and professional associations begin to hedge against instability.

    Power that depends on fear is always fragile.

    The World Is No Longer Standing on the Sidelines

    Another hopeful signal: the global democratic community is no longer silent.

    Foreign courts, human-rights bodies, election monitors, international media, and allied governments are actively documenting events inside the United States. This matters. It constrains excess. It preserves record. It establishes future accountability.

    Democracy is no longer merely an American inheritance. It is now a shared global responsibility.

    What Comes Next: The Great Recovery of Democracy, 2026

    If the past year was about resistance, the coming year will be about reconstruction.

    The Great Recovery of Democracy will not arrive through one election alone. It will unfold through a sequence:

    • Legal clarification of constitutional limits
    • Electoral realignment driven by turnout
    • Institutional reforms reinforcing checks and balances
    • A generational renewal of civic participation
    • A recommitment to shared factual reality

    This is how democracies heal — not by erasing conflict, but by re-anchoring legitimacy.

    How We Will Know We Are Winning

    We the People are winning when:

    • The rule of law reasserts itself over political convenience
    • Elections regain their authority as final arbiters
    • Extremism begins to fracture from the inside
    • Public trust inches upward
    • Young Americans choose engagement over despair

    Most of all, we will know we are winning when fear no longer drives the national conversation.

    Looking Up Through the Clouds

    Looking Up Through the Clouds

    The clouds have not yet vanished. But the sky is changing. Keep watching the skies!

    And history shows: once democratic momentum returns, it moves with extraordinary force.

    After 250 years, the American experiment has learned its hardest lesson once again — and it is remembering its purpose.

    The road ahead is long.

    But the signposts are now visible.

    And they are pointing forward…

    With Hope, DrWeb

    Tags: Authoritarian Rule, democracy, DrWeb, DWD Editorial, Hope, Institutions, Road Ahead, Rule of Law, SCOTUS, Signposts, Trump, U.S. Constitution
    #AuthoritarianRule #democracy #DrWeb #DWDEditorial #Hope #Institutions #RoadAhead #RuleOfLaw #SCOTUS #Signposts #Trump #USConstitution
  27. RT @TheWJP
    The Global Rule of Law Recession is ACCELERATING. 🚨

    68% of countries measured in the WJP Rule of Law Index 2025 saw a decline in their scores this year—a sharp increase over last year.

    See how your country fares across all 8 factors (from Constraints on Gov Powers to Civil Justice).

    Explore the data NOW: worldjusticeproject.org/index

    Share the data. Use the data. Strengthen the rule of law.

    #WJPRuleofLawIndex2025 #RuleOfLaw #RuleofLawRecession #Governance #Policy #Justice #FreeSpeech #JudicialIndependence

  28. Career #lawyers were also uncomfortable defending Trump’s #ExecutiveOrders targeting #LawFirms, according to 2 former #DOJ lawyers & a 3rd person familiar with the matter.

    A longtime ally of #PamBondi who defended all 4 #LawFirm cases argued they were a lawful exercise of #PresidentialPower. #Judges ultimately struck down all 4 as violating the #Constitution. The #Trump admin has indicated it will appeal at least one case.

    #law #lawless #felon47 #judiciary #RuleOfLaw

  29. Critics have accused the #Trump admin of flouting the #law in its aggressive use of #ExecutivePower, including by retaliating against perceived enemies & dismantling agencies created by #Congress.

    The Trump admin has broadly defended its actions as within the legal bounds of #PresidentialPower & has won several early victories at #SCOTUS. A WH spox told Reuters that Trump's actions were legal, & declined to comment on the departures.

    #lawless #felon47 #judiciary #RuleOfLaw #constitution

  30. CW: Unarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content

    so tell your #barman to hold your #lager
    or better yet #BringHerWith if she’d rather
    scran your #ramen or your #carbonara
    get your #passport, your #mask and your #balaclava
    get all your #mates from your #AlmaMater
    all the #neighbours from #fête and #gala
    your #SoccerSquad and your #SparringPartners
    #tinkers, #tailors, #gig #serfs and #farmers
    #mandem, #ultras, #HRDepartments
    #joiners, #plumbers and #carny #barkers
    slip the yoke and behalve the harness
    tell #MisterTallyMan, “fuck #bananas
    before they go the whole #enchilada
    the #SocialContract ’s knackered: #embalmer
    when the king’s this bare-arse starkers
    reckon it’s time for a #reginata?
    that’s what they call an #intifada
    that’s what we call #satyagraha
    not for the sake of #virtue or #karma
    from #Omelas to disembark us
    #PointOfOrder ; the point of departure’s
    #kindness will always be smarter than harshness

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  31. CW: Unarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content

    #systemic #LossOfTrust and marbles
    too far gone to term #debacle
    what price our #rules ? who are the #adults ?
    #SomethingSlouches up larval
    justified by underhand fools
    underlined by all the parcels
    the #UK flies like guns were power tools
    what’s inna box – “divulge, arseholes!”
    #pundits hardly #MissMarple
    with neither insight, wits nor jewels
    all of this was out in the open
    the #animus was right before you
    #FirehoseOfShite and sparkle
    keep that boy inna hole: rascal
    all you claiming glass is half-full
    why they always hate on #MeganMarkle?
    import upside down and garbled
    they terrorised and you but startled
    they amputated, your #metatarsal
    got abrased when your sparkly tiara fall
    #Germany a #goosestep from “ja, wohl”
    #Italy riding dirty; #JaRule
    #NullPoints #France #antifa #PasDeTout
    #PerfidiousIsle all #viddy and #yarble
    #varken inna trough – snouts snarfle
    #parsimony for us: #YAML
    #zionist ’s speech; they like the #Nazgul
    ours weak inna sauce too impartial
    full tunnel vision must be carpal
    bears no relation to our #truth at all – fuck all
    crash the #Starlink, sack the #Starbucks
    sow it in the barren field we growing our fucks
    I know what a fucking #carbine does
    to the heart of a child who is #NotLikeUs
    tell mama; it works like a charm my love
    no drama; it’s under the car my love
    bizarro; I know that I bar quite rough
    is it really worse than what the far right does?
    you #Can'tLieToUs, you #CantBuyTrust
    #MurderIsMurder and #halflife ’s worse
    and worse still is bombed and starved while #trucks
    full of food aren’t far behind and you’re tied up

    4/7

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    #FreePalestine
    #Madleen
    #AntiFascist
    #Genocide
    #UKpol
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    #Imperalism
    #Collapse
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    #Surveillance #State #SurveillanceState

  32. @marcelias Cleta Mitchell should already be an indicted co-conspirator under Georgian laws.

    "...
    “It’s absurd for Cleta Mitchell or others to suggest our path to victory is by making it harder for young people to vote,” said the ex-Republican congressman Charlie Dent. “Republicans should not fear how people vote. Good candidates with good messages should resonate with voters.”
    ..."

    theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m
    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #Georgia #FultonCounty #Raffensperger #Trump #CletaMitchell #Meadows #ConspiracyAgainstRights #OrganizedCrime #CriminalNetwork #VotingRights #CivilRights

  33. @Caspersaghost Any officer believing & acting like s/he were a member of a fictitious "master race" shall not be anywhere near any public office.
    Racists need to be removed from public office & be barred from holding such.

    #RuleOfLaw #DrainRacism #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #Freedom #Equality #Community UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether

  34. Honestly, if you ever had been fearing Trump's shysters' efforts to move the election-manipulation case away from Georgia into to perceived safe haven of Trump-appointed federal judges — Don't be!

    Moving Trump's case to federal courts ***will not*** eliminate the charges brought in Georgia, & Trump will never be able to pardon himself or be pardoned by a "Republican" co-conspirator in presidential office for what he set on foot & supported in Georgia!

    lawfaremedia.org/article/in-fu
    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #GAPol #FultonCounty #Trump #BigLie #ElectoralFraud #Coercion #Extortion #FindMeVotes #ElectoralFraud #ElectoralApartheid #Racism #VoterSuppression #Disenfranchisement #Raffensperger

  35. @marcelias 😎👍👍👍 Recommended reading about the lawlessness-enforcing weirdos, who are haunted by delusions of being more powerful than the President. 👇👇👇

    "The movement’s founder, William Potter Gale, argued the Constitution was divinely inspired to elevate White people above other racial groups, and some of his followers attacked government officials."

    themarshallproject.org/2022/10
    #RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DrainRacism #Insurrectionists #ConstitutionalSheriffs #Insurrection #RacistExtremists #KKKAct