Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against New York Times, Penguin Random House
Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against New York Times, Penguin Random House
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Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against New York Times, Penguin Random House
It is scary that the last line of defense against authoritarianism is the judicial system.
Yep, because the Tribunal of Six is the final (legal) court of appeal in the country.
The checks are fraudulent and the balances have been tampered with.
It's always been the judicial system. In Nazi Germany, the courts were incredibly close to blocking the concentration camps. If they had, we'd have had a very different history
Total concentration camp casualties were about 13 million. (about half of that jews, but we almost don't talk about the rest, Israel makes sure the focus is on jews). Mind bogglingingly horrible.
But total WWII casualties were something like 80 million.
Would history be different? Sure. Amongst other things, Zionists wouldn't be able to weaponize guilt.
Good thing conservatives haven't packed the courts. Oh wait.
No the last line is the citizens but they seem content to sit back and watch their democracy collapse.
Easy to say behind a keyboard. If you live in the US and know your communities, it's not as easy as you all make it seem.
"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order"
People aren't just sitting back though. The world literally just watched someone intentionally kill Charlie Kirk in a public setting, in front of thousands of people.
If it comes to the citizens, we're all gonna have a bad time.
There are some people doing some stuff. But definitely not at the scale nor intensity required.
There's another line after that, but people don't like talking about it.
More scary that it's down to lawyers. Not the judges.
I've read good things about the lawyers at Democracy Forward https://democracyforward.org/
I get what you are saying and totally empathize with the sentiment given a modern context, but that is the purpose of judiciaries and why the US federal goverment structure was designed the way it was.
What's surprising is not that it's the last line of defense, it's that we've been pushed to the fucking brink.
USA fell off the brink last November. Everything going on now is the falling down bit while people hope someone else is stacking pillows at the bottom. But pillows got real expensive lately and a new Trump headline just dropped.