L4sBot@lemmy.worldB to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoTrump Judge Effectively Names Himself President | Terry A. Doughty says he gets to decide who the FBI, DHS, HHS, and the Justice Department can talk to.prospect.orgexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkTrump Judge Effectively Names Himself President | Terry A. Doughty says he gets to decide who the FBI, DHS, HHS, and the Justice Department can talk to.prospect.orgL4sBot@lemmy.worldB to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
Terry A. Doughty says he gets to decide who the FBI, DHS, HHS, and the Justice Department can talk to.
minus-squareRGB3x3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe republicans are going to fight it in the most unethical and illegal ways possible and they’re probably going to get away with it. Until the democrats act with some spines, we’re going to keep barrelling toward the destruction of democracy.
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago The republicans are going to fight it in the most unethical and illegal ways possible They’ve already been doing that for a long time. There’s a limit to how far that’ll get you.
minus-squarePostmodernPythia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoThe fact that institutional guardrails have slowed this so far does not indicate that there’s a limit to how far this can go.
The republicans are going to fight it in the most unethical and illegal ways possible and they’re probably going to get away with it. Until the democrats act with some spines, we’re going to keep barrelling toward the destruction of democracy.
They’ve already been doing that for a long time. There’s a limit to how far that’ll get you.
The fact that institutional guardrails have slowed this so far does not indicate that there’s a limit to how far this can go.