From The Atlantic:
The End of Rule of Law in America
The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.By J. Michael Luttig
The president of the United States appears to have long ago forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War not merely to secure their independence from the British monarchy but to establish a government of laws, not of men, so that they and future generations of Americans would never again be subject to the whims of a tyrannical king. As Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense in 1776, “For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
Donald Trump seems also not to understand John Adams’s fundamental observation about the new nation that came into the world that same year. Just last month, an interviewer from Time magazine asked the president in the Oval Office, “Mr. President, you were showing us the new paintings you have behind us. You put all these new portraits. One of them includes John Adams. John Adams said we’re a government ruled by laws, not by men. Do you agree with that?” To which the president replied: “John Adams said that? Where was the painting?”
Read the rest at the link above.
I have said repeatedly.
The Founding Fathers, however flawed, saw Trump coming over 200 years ago.
They put in place mechanisms for dealing with a Trump.
What they could have never conceptualized though..
was an entire political party willing to throw away their oaths to the Constitution.
The entire abdication from the rule of law by a political party.
THAT is what they never saw coming.
Because, we are here, right now, in this position, because the REPUBLICAN PARTY – those ELECTED OFFICIALS – refused to live up to their oath to the Constitution.
Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) posted at 2:12 PM on Fri, May 30, 2025:
HHS has acknowledged they messed up the citations with the MAHA Report, using studies that don’t exist to support its conclusions.
They’ve added new citations…that make more mistakes and don’t support the report’s conclusions.
https://t.co/MLWmQFgrOt
(https://x.com/MEPFuller/status/1928529861645111387?t=ytrqcD5oHp-vw0AEnP17JQ&s=03)
Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) posted at 8:00 PM on Fri, May 30, 2025:
Alabama GOP lawmakers said they won’t draw a new congressional map before 2030 to avoid federal oversight. A court ruled their 2023 map violated the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against Black voters.
https://t.co/Q3tdVbLku4
(https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1928617422665240874?t=jwgwy4gRSulsYPOw3QCFgA&s=03)
Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) posted at 1:02 PM on Fri, May 30, 2025:
Plantir, owned by Peter Thiel, is collecting sensitive personal and financial data on American citizens to create detailed profiles for the government.
Thiel once wrote “freedom and democracy may not be compatible,” and “capitalism and authoritarianism” are.
Do you get it yet? https://t.co/zvJnlAqzzn
(https://x.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1928512315760009469?t=qGuHWJEos1LCncBqxddHGg&s=03)
Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) posted at 11:16 PM on Thu, May 29, 2025:
Trump is going to create a vigilante force, an American brownshirts, using many of the violent criminals he is pardoning.
(https://x.com/NormOrnstein/status/1928304600592904388?t=w–NfVBeXr4CE4I97eN0hw&s=03)
Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) posted at 5:05 PM on Fri, May 30, 2025:
Trump and Marco Rubio fire the historians advisory committee that has been in place since Civil War era to give an account of America’s foreign relations that is unbiased and complete. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
(https://x.com/NormOrnstein/status/1928573475901346071?t=4gwCKaiYfAg4IuYiPo0o6g&s=03)
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