#trumpcoup2 — Public Fediverse posts

#Trump admin urges #SCOTUS to allow #ExecutiveOrder targeting #mail-in #voting before #midterms

The “emergency” appeal comes after an appeals #court upheld a ruling from a lower court blocking Trump’s order in nearly half the country ahead of November’s midterm #elections.

But the #DOJ [aka Trump’s personal attys] asked SCOTUS to allow his proposed changes to move ahead anyway.

#law #ElectionInterference #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #coup #TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/trump-mail-voting-appeal-executive-order-supreme-court-5482700c21f4945d6991dff24776b525

Like I said, not cool.

#FAA reducing #AirTraffic by 10% across 40 'high-volume' markets during government #shutdown

#Trump #OrchestratedShutdown #TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-airlines-faa-e39c423facec2b0dcc2544af48de0fa1?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-05-Breaking+News

Fuuuuuck

Benton of #8thCircuit to take senior status, giving #Trump first Federal Circuit Judgeship of 2nd term

U.S. Circuit Judge Duane Benton has announced that he will step down from active service on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, creating the first vacancy on the #StLouis, #Missouri court that Trump could fill.

#law #judiciary #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #TrumpCoup2
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/8th-circuits-benton-take-senior-status-giving-trump-first-vacancy-2025-10-27/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

But the #Trump admin has taken other aggressive steps to assert more sway over #elections.

#DOJ, for instance, is compiling the largest set of national #voter roll data it has ever collected, an effort to try to prove unsubstantiated claims that large numbers of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally, The Times previously reported.

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/trump-voter-registration-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

…The moves by #Trump to elevate #election deniers portends escalating #legal battles over how much #power his admin wields over balloting across the country.

Already this year, #courts have affirmed that the president has no legal authority over #elections, which have long been the domain of #state & #local governments. Judges have largely blocked an executive order that Trump issued in March requiring, among other changes, documentary proof of citizenship to vote.

#law #coup #TrumpCoup2

McCarthy’s appointment comes as nearly all of the #election experts at #CISA have been placed on administrative leave or reassigned this year amid a large-scale *downsizing* of the agency, which had played a leading role in deterring attacks on elections systems & combating #disinformation about voting.

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

Another activist, #MarciMcCarthy, who spread debunked claims about voting machines in Georgia when she was the chairwoman of the DeKalb County #Republican Party, was named in May to be the director of public affairs at the #Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, or #CISA, which is housed in #DHS.

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

…The idea of *reinvestigating* the 2020 election gained steam recently with the White House’s decision to hire #KurtOlsen, a lawyer who has been tasked with *examining* the 2020 vote & other #election matters, acc/to a White House official. The hiring of Olsen, who has worked closely for years with the pillow entrepreneur #MikeLindell to promote false stolen-election #ConspiracyTheories, was first reported by WSJ.

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/white-house-hires-stop-the-steal-lawyer-to-investigate-2020-election-claims-6395d322

“And therefore, we [would] have some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” Honey said in March, according to a recording reviewed by The New York Times from someone who joined the call, “and therefore, we can take these other steps without #Congress & we can mandate that states do things & so on.”

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

On a call with #FarRight activists in March, before her appointment to #DHS, Honey suggested that the new #Trump admin could declare a “national emergency” & justify dictating new rules to state & local governments. She said this could be based on an “actual investigation” of the 2020 election if it showed there had been a “manipulation” of the vote.

[There have been countless exhaustive investigations]

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #US

In the past few months, #Trump has elevated multiple proponents of his false fraud claims into high-level admin jobs. Now, as government insiders, these activists could wield their newfound power to discredit future results or rekindle old claims to argue for a federal intrusion into locally administered voting systems.

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

The ascent of Honey reflects how #Trump & his allies, despite a clear victory last year, remain consumed with the belief that the 2020 election was stolen — & how Trump is [ab]using the powers of the government to upend an electoral system that he falsely insists helped Joseph R. Biden Jr. take the White House.

#law #ElectionLaw #TrumpCoup2

The remark parroted a widespread view on the right that #CISA had sought to silence supporters of #Trump’s false fraud claims. Honey also repeatedly mentioned a false report often cited by #election conspiracists to support their claims that voting machines were rigged to favor Democrats, acc/to the people familiar with the call.

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

Heather Honey, a leader in that movement until her appointment in August as deputy assistant secretary for *election integrity*, complained that her department’s #cybersecurity experts tasked with combating #disinformation about #elections had “strayed from their mission.”

#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

Rather than offering assurances that the federal government’s #election protection programs would continue uninterrupted, the new official, #HeatherHoney, instead used portions of the meeting to echo rhetoric that has infused the #FarRight *election activist* movement that emerged since #Trump falsely claimed that his 2020 defeat was the result of widespread fraud, acc/to 5 people with knowledge of the call.

#law #ElectionLaw #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #US

#Election officials from nearly all 50 states gathered on a call last month with #DHS’s point person on “election integrity,” eager to hear how the woman filling a newly created #Trump admin position might help safeguard the #vote ahead of next year’s #midterms.

But many of them left alarmed.

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

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#Trump Empowers #ElectionDeniers, Still Fixated on False 2020 Grievances

Trump has placed proponents of his #BigLie into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over #elections ahead of next year’s #midterms.

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/trump-election-deniers-voting-security.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Judge temporarily blocks the #Trump administration from firing #FederalWorkers during the government #shutdown

#law #labor #unions #MassLayoffs #TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-layoffs-trump-unions-b312b3ca77cbdbc72e778ece3b2cbffc?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-15-Breaking+News

Other #labor market indicators generated by the private sector have been downbeat. The payroll processor ADP estimated that nongovernmental employers shed 32,000 #jobs in September, while the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that companies’ announced hiring plans so far this year were at the lowest level since 2009.

#Trump #RussVought #OrchestratedShutdown #economy #recession #law #TrumpCoup2

The numbers are not likely to be released until the government reopens, but right now the forecast for #employment growth is muted. Economists polled by Bloomberg expected that employers added 53,000 #jobs last month, fewer than the 64,000 added on average over the 6 previous months, before revisions. The #FederalReserve Bank of Chicago estimated that the unemployment rate remained at 4.3%.

#Trump #RussVought #OrchestratedShutdown #economy #law #TrumpCoup2

The #BLS’ measurements of wage growth, unemployment & job creation guide investors allocating capital & monetary policymakers deciding whether the #economy needs a boost.

Without the #data, the outlook is foggy as hazards abound, so businesses could be even less willing to make decisions about the future.

#Trump #RussVought #OrchestratedShutdown #law #TrumpCoup2

The feds also claimed the South Shore neighborhood was “a location known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates,” but #DHS gave NO EVIDENCE to support the assertion, & authorities did not confirm that any of the people arrested were members of the Venezuelan gang.

#Trump #law #US #immigration #MilitaryState #democracy #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #coup #TrumpCoup2

#Armed federal agents in #military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, #women & #children from their apartments, some of them #naked, residents & witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the 5-story building, & #UScitizens were among those detained for hours.

#Trump #law #US #immigration #MilitaryState #democracy #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #coup #TrumpCoup2

Massive #immigration raid on #Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

#DHS said federal agents with #CBP, the #FBI & the #ATF arrested 37 people in the raid.

#Trump #law #US #MilitaryState #democracy #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #coup #TrumpCoup2
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated

#JBPritzker warned of broader threats posed by #Trump’s actions, stating, “You cannot call this anything except an attack on the #Constitution of the #UnitedStates.”

#law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #democracy #CivilRights #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #coup #TrumpCoup2

The complexities of #CollectiveBargaining agreements & #CivilService protections, not to mention the real-life impact of eliminating people who provide #benefits to the #public, have stalled past efforts to shrink the government. #Trump has shown no inclination to slow down.

#coup #TrumpCoup2 #GovernmentShutdown #shutdown

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Trump’s Grand Plan for a #GovernmentShutdown
The #Trump admin might use a #shutdown to finish the job #DOGE started.
The congressional impasse over spending may now supercharge Trump’s efforts to slash the #CivilService—just as the bulk of those being paid not to work lose their job when the fiscal year ends. Should the #government shut down tomorrow, it could lead to the dramatic winnowing of its size conservatives have sought for decades.
#coup #TrumpCoup2
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/trumps-grand-plan-for-a-government-shutdown/684401/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxa8Wel-H610sgU3WuFQDpkk

#Trump’s troop order came a day after he said on social media that he was directing the Dept of #Defense to “provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged #Portland.” Trump claimed the decision was necessary to protect US #ICE facilities. #Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said Trump’s description was a false narrative meant to spur conflict.

#law #US #military #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #Gestapo #coup #TrumpCoup2

The latest examples of creeping #federal #LawEnforcement & #military presence in #US #cities occurred as #Memphis prepares for the arrival of additional federal authorities, including #immigration & #DEA agents, that #Republican #Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says he expects will happen this week.

#Trump #law #US #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #Gestapo #coup #TrumpCoup2

#Armed #FederalAgents patrolled #Chicago’s downtown streets on Sunday & #Trump called up 200 #NationalGuard troops for deployment in #Portland, #Oregon, a move strongly opposed by the governor that immediately prompted a lawsuit saying Trump overstepped his authority.

#law #US #military #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #Gestapo #coup #TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/portland-chicago-memphis-federal-crackdowns-trump-7a45dcf0e7e2bd7debb38603e5b4f660