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Lost in the noise of the past two weeks, not many people noticed that Trump took some unprecedented steps to nullify the one branch of Government he doesn't completely control - the judiciary.

Firstly, he fired any Justice Department prosecutors who participated in investigations against him, and removed the security clearances of any former intelligence officials who have criticised him publicly, including former President Biden.

He signed an executive order removing the security clearances and banning from federal buildings for any lawyer that was found to have assisted in impeachment investigations against him. Even those acting pro-bono.
He signed an executive order banning not-for profit workers from a federal loan forgiveness scheme if they were deemed to have engaged in "improper" activities. This would likely include any not-for profits that challenge his policies in court.

He then signed an executive order requiring any plaintiff wishing to challenge the legality of Trump's actions in court to provide, up front, a bond covering the totality of the Government's legal costs, to be forfeited in full if the case fails.

These are all clearly designed to deter anyone from using the courts to restrain him, and they will work.
Almost no one will have the money available to provide the necessary bond to even get their day in court, and even if they did... how many lawyers would want to take that job?

It should be noted that this is exactly how Putin took control of Russia. Make resistance too costly. Intimidate the public into apathy.

Trump has been President for 47 days.

Quote from: Blkfyre on Mar 09, 2025, 12:26 PMHe then signed an executive order requiring any plaintiff wishing to challenge the legality of Trump's actions in court to provide, up front, a bond covering the totality of the Government's legal costs, to be forfeited in full if the case fails.

Requiring the Department of Justice to demand monetary bonds to deter what the administration calls "frivolous litigation" and to recoup costs if the government ultimately prevails on appeal.

• Federal court rules allow for such requests to be made to judges.  Trump seeking to interfere with the judicial branch.
• The 1st  Amendment protects the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.  These required bonds are a barrier to exercising that right.
• Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is designed to ensure that legal filings are made responsibly and in good faith.
   - The document is not submitted for improper purposes, such as harassment or unnecessary delay.
   - The legal claims are warranted by existing law or a nonfrivolous argument for changing the law.
   - The factual contentions have evidence or are likely to have evidentiary support after investigation.
   - The denials of factual contentions are based on evidence or reasonable belief.
   - If Rule 11 is violated, the court can impose sanctions that could include fines or orders to pay the opposing party's legal fees.
  

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https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8

In a message shared on X Sunday evening, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration "will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported."

The Department of Homeland Security can initiate deportation proceedings against green card holders for a broad range of alleged criminal activity, including supporting a terror group. But the detention of a legal permanent resident who has not been charged with a crime marked an extraordinary move with an uncertain legal foundation, according to immigration experts.

"This has the appearance of a retaliatory action against someone who expressed an opinion the Trump administration didn't like," said Camille Mackler, founder of Immigrant ARC, a coalition of legal service providers in New York.

As ICE agents arrived at Khalil's Manhattan residence Saturday night, they also threatened to arrest Khalil's wife, an American citizen who is eight months pregnant, Greer said.

But yeah, they are ONLY going after illegals, and your 1st Amendment rights are intact...

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https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8

In a message shared on X Sunday evening, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration "will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported."

The Department of Homeland Security can initiate deportation proceedings against green card holders for a broad range of alleged criminal activity, including supporting a terror group. But the detention of a legal permanent resident who has not been charged with a crime marked an extraordinary move with an uncertain legal foundation, according to immigration experts.

"This has the appearance of a retaliatory action against someone who expressed an opinion the Trump administration didn't like," said Camille Mackler, founder of Immigrant ARC, a coalition of legal service providers in New York.

As ICE agents arrived at Khalil's Manhattan residence Saturday night, they also threatened to arrest Khalil's wife, an American citizen who is eight months pregnant, Greer said.

But yeah, they are ONLY going after illegals, and your 1st Amendment rights are intact...

If they are deporting those here on visa or green card and supporting Hamas then they should be deported immediately! Foreigners visiting or going to school here should have no freedom of speech to spout off their political views!

Quote from: Hobby on Mar 10, 2025, 10:59 AM...Foreigners visiting or going to school here should have no freedom of speech to spout off their political views!

The First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech to everyone within the U.S., including foreign citizens.

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The university's allegations against Khalil focused on his involvement in the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group. He faced sanctions for potentially helping to organize an "unauthorized marching event" in which participants glorified Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack and playing a "substantial role" in the circulation of social media posts criticizing Zionism, among other acts of alleged discrimination.

Khalil served as a negotiator for students as they bargained with university officials over an end to the tent encampment erected on campus last spring.
These tent encampments should have never been allowed. This should have been immediately taken down by the authorities. These encampments were strategically planned and well financed. Who was behind this?

Khalil's arrest was directly connected to Khalil's role in the protests, alleging he "led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization."
Protesting the universities investment activites that support Israel's bombing in one thing. Prasing support for Hamas is another thing.

What happened was way beyond peaceful protest. I could generously call it "civil disobedience." A key part of engaging in civil disobedience for your cause is to accept the consequences of your disobedience. That is what gives your cause credibility.

Quote from: HighStepper on Mar 10, 2025, 01:44 PMThe First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech to everyone within the U.S., including foreign citizens.

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The university's allegations against Khalil focused on his involvement in the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group. He faced sanctions for potentially helping to organize an "unauthorized marching event" in which participants glorified Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack and playing a "substantial role" in the circulation of social media posts criticizing Zionism, among other acts of alleged discrimination.

Khalil served as a negotiator for students as they bargained with university officials over an end to the tent encampment erected on campus last spring.
These tent encampments should have never been allowed. This should have been immediately taken down by the authorities. These encampments were strategically planned and well financed. Who was behind this?

Khalil's arrest was directly connected to Khalil's role in the protests, alleging he "led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization."
Protesting the universities investment activites that support Israel's bombing in one thing. Prasing support for Hamas is another thing.

What happened was way beyond peaceful protest. I could generously call it "civil disobedience." A key part of engaging in civil disobedience for your cause is to accept the consequences of your disobedience. That is what gives your cause credibility.

There should be no negotiations with students period.  They came here to learn not disrupt or ctitize our government.  They can not vote here. If they are causing disruptions then they are deported...simple as that!

There needs to be a legal process.

Quote from: Hobby on Mar 10, 2025, 10:59 AMIf they are deporting those here on visa or green card and supporting Hamas then they should be deported immediately! Foreigners visiting or going to school here should have no freedom of speech to spout off their political views!

Doing stuff like this used as an ISIS recruiting tool. young people see their parents being treated this way.

ICE has been pulling people off roofs and hauling them off, only to let them go when they are found to be here legally. disrupting construction project just because the color of their skin.

https://time.com/7266334/us-human-rights-watchlist-civil-liberties/

"The move comes amid President Donald Trump's "assault on democratic norms and global cooperation," said CIVICUS—a global alliance and network of civil society groups, including Amnesty International, that advocates for greater citizen action in areas where civil liberties are limited—in a press release. The organization also cited the Administration's cut of more than 90% of its foreign aid contracts and its crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)—which Trump called "illegal and immoral discrimination programs"—through executive action.

"The Trump Administration seems hellbent on dismantling the system of checks and balances which are the pillars of a democratic society," said Mandeep Tiwana, Interim Co-Secretary General of CIVICUS, in a press release. "Restrictive Executive Orders, unjustifiable institutional cutbacks, and intimidation tactics through threatening pronouncements by senior officials in the Administration are creating an atmosphere to chill democratic dissent, a cherished American ideal."

Other countries on the watchlist include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan, and Serbia."

he's close

Quote from: Blkfyre on Mar 09, 2025, 12:01 PMhttps://www.nj.com/politics/2025/03/major-network-responds-defiantly-to-trumps-lawsuit-bring-it-on.html

""This lawsuit is an affront to the First Amendment and is without basis in law or fact. Plaintiffs President Donald J. Trump and Representative Ronny Jackson, public officials at the highest ranks of our government, seek to punish a news organization for constitutionally protected editorial judgments they do not like," the attorneys wrote."

Trump won't win the suit because he suffered no damages because he won the election.  Yes CBS edited the interview to fit the time available but also wanted Harris to sound better.  I voted for Harris she lost Trump won and is my president now. 

The budget passed by the house included giving away Congresses power to overturn Executive Orders. Making the President a King

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Eileen Workman is an author and essayist, who previously spent 16 years in the financial industry as First Vice President of Investments at a major Wall Street firm, until she had a spiritual awakening and left that field. She has worked with Trump, and now offers this about him:
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"I know a little something that so many do not appreciate about Donald Trump, but that those of us who worked with him in the financial services game have known for many decades—long before he ever made a run at national politics.

"His stated motives rarely reveal his true agenda. His showmanship and charisma bedazzles the uninformed, which is exactly how he likes it. He never signed a contract or met an agreement he wouldn't violate or wriggle out of if it suited his hidden agenda. He never met an investor whose purse he didn't consider his own in some strategic way. And he never met a human being he wouldn't screw in order to advance or satisfy himself.

"If you want to understand his beef with Panama, don't look at the canal to which he now points. Look at Trump enterprises and their fraught financial and criminal relationship with Panama, and look to the Russian oligarchs who bought condos in his Panama Tower. If you want to understand his fixation with Gaza, don't look at the Palestinian or Israeli people; look at the real estate value he now perceives that Gaza holds, and he'd like to unlock. If you want to understand his insane, obsessive beef with energy renewable windmills, don't look at the wind energy aspect; look at his beef with Scotland over his golf course and the nearby windmills that damaged his idea of its aesthetics.

"If you want to understand his irrational hatred of Obama, don't look at the policies of the Obama administration; look to the annual press corp dinner where Obama poked fun at him and bruised his ego. If you want to understand his demonization of Democrats, look not to Democratic social policy, but to the fact they didn't want him to run under color of their party. If you want to understand his hatred of "immigrants" don't look to the actual contributions and challenges related to immigration, but to his own germophobia and personal disgust for all things "dirty and brown."

"What he does SO masterfully, as many sociopaths do, is figure out how to align, however temporarily, his own personal agenda with the drives of those he can then USE to help him execute it.

"And the GOP fell right in line with that abusive strategy. The GOP now looks much like a battered wife who would love to quit Trump, but who also knows their financial security, personal comfort, and social status would collapse if they ran away. And they fear they won't get much sympathy or support from the people who tried to warn them not to marry the dude—a serial, liar, cheater, thief, sadist, and a generally Bad Person.

"Many of the GOP politicians today are busily masking their own abuse from the general public; at some point, however, as they watch their power continue to erode, their reputations get smashed, and themselves get blamed for the extensive abuse they now suffer, something's gonna give.

"I don't know what it is, but every bone in my body feels an energetic convergence heading toward a massive, MASSIVE explosion—coming soon."