Trump escalates his trade war to new heights, he wants to serve a third term, and a consequential Oval Office meeting with a far-right activist. Here’s what happened This Week in Democracy.
Common sense is that all these actions are dots in one overall picture that need to be connected.
The world will be in an economic crisis (excluding tariffs on Russia is a giveaway as to who will benefit). Traditional alliances are destroyed, uneducated citizens, people poorer and dying younger, no cybersecurity against Russia, peace and media muzzled, lousy healthcare, most educated scientists and leaders unemployed….
The courts are so far standing up to Trump's "torch democracy" project. We lawyers must make sure we do too. I am proud to be joining the amicus brief of solo practitioners and small firms in combating Trump's utter corruption in trying to prevent lawyers from representing people and causes he doesn't like. Thwarting the right to counsel is about as un-American and authoritarian as it gets.
Common sense is that all these actions are dots in one overall picture that need to be connected.
The world will be in an economic crisis (excluding tariffs on Russia is a giveaway as to who will benefit). Traditional alliances are destroyed, uneducated citizens, people poorer and dying younger, no cybersecurity against Russia, peace and media muzzled, lousy healthcare, most educated scientists and leaders unemployed….
It’s all one picture.
Make America Like Russia.
Ahhh, but the billionaires get more billions, and that’s all those sociopaths care about!
The Guardian has a story this morning about a British tourist who was picked up by ICE and sent to a detention facility. Her British family managed to get her released. This sends a clear message to foreigners: if you come to the US, you may end up in detention. Here is the link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre?utm_term=67f11b4c6b973f6518886110d16e3bc9&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
These assholes in ICE completely lose it. What is the reason to detain a person, has a flight money.
What is the reason to spending thousands of dollars of taxpayers money for no reason. Where is the efficiency department and the asshole Musk!
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This is a serious deterioration in our democracy
The courts are so far standing up to Trump's "torch democracy" project. We lawyers must make sure we do too. I am proud to be joining the amicus brief of solo practitioners and small firms in combating Trump's utter corruption in trying to prevent lawyers from representing people and causes he doesn't like. Thwarting the right to counsel is about as un-American and authoritarian as it gets.