The reposted article asserts that when judges act beyond their constitutional limits by blocking executive actions “without legitimate constitutional grounds, they not only overstep their role but may also commit acts tantamount to treason and sedition.”
Impossible in America? It was impossible in Germany, until it wasn’t.
It continues, arguing that “activist judges” undermine judicial neutrality by assuming roles outside of interpreting the law.
“The U.S. legal system provides mechanisms to address such overreach, particularly under statutes concerning sedition and treason,” the article states.
Federal law defines sedition as conspiring to overthrow or delay the execution of U.S. law through force, while treason involves “levying war against [the United States], or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere.”
The punishment for treason can include death or at least five years in prison.
It is not clear whether that includes Trump/MAGA’s violent attempts to overturn an election or “only” judges who rule against him.
At a recent hearing, James Boasberg questioned the timing of the deportations, stating, “What’s concerning to me is why was this proclamation essentially signed in the dark on Friday or Friday night or early Saturday morning and then people were rushed onto planes.
It seems to me the only reason to do that is if you know it’s a problem and you want to get them out of the country.”
Following President Donald Trump’s call for Boasberg’s impeachment, Chief Justice John Roberts issued an unusual public rebuke. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said.
“The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
“Normal” is not a word that describes the Trumpian form of government,
This clash is one of several in which Donald Trump has faced judicial resistance. The president’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, restrict transgender military service, and terminate tens of thousands of probationary federal workers have been challenged or blocked in court.
Most recently, a federal appeals court on Friday, March 21, declined to pause a lower court order requiring the administration to reinstate 25,000 laid-off employees from 18 federal agencies, a significant blow to Trump’s ongoing attempts to reshape the federal workforce.
The above article was not our first warning about Trump as the alter ego of Hitler. See also:
Now again, Trump warns us not to forget history and ignore the threat to democracy that Trumpism (aka fascism) poses.
The people of Germany denied the curse of an extreme right wing that knows no limits to cruelty, hatred, bigotry, and lawlessness. They paid a stiff price for their denials.
So far, immigrants, judges, the media, Muslims, Mexicans, law firms, schools, politicians, current and former allies, and democratic elections have felt the wrath of Trumpist hatred. Who will be next? You?
Even previously ardent Trumpers are not safe. Any deviation from Trump’s line (which changes at his whim, frequently and unexpectedly) will be punished harshly.
Boxcars filled with innocents are not out of the question for a mad king.
Donald Trump’s straw boss, Elon Musk, is proud of the number of people he has fired from the government. This noble feat was accomplished without the time-consuming burden of evaluating the qualifications of those he tossed out.
His actions required no brains or skill, two qualities not needed or wanted in the Trump administration. Seemingly, the salary savings alone are justification enough and damned be the repercussions.
For those who have managed companies without experiencing six bankruptcies or multiple fines and penalties, it is clear that losing valuable employees is detrimental to any organization.
Of course, Trump had a different experience: “Fail, fail, fail, then ask Daddy to bail me out.”
Sadly, there is no bailing out for the people damaged by Trump’s and Musk’s ignorance.
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT from the March 24 Sun Sentinel Let’s scrap science. What’s the worst that could happen?
By Logan Suits
In 1800, about 50% of all children born didn’t see their fifth birthday. Over 200 years of science and advancement later, that number is less than 1%. Science saves lives — which is why the attempts to cut it are so appalling.
Today, researchers are working hard in thousands of laboratories across the country. They’re working for you — so that next time you go to the doctor, your doctor will be able to help you.
Whether it’s new treatments for emerging infectious diseases or innovative ways to treat things that have ailed humans since the dawn of time — like cancer and heart disease — these researchers are working on finding answers to diseases that claim thousands of lives. Diseases that you might have one day.
Their work is in danger. Recent funding cuts have made labs across the country worried. The National Institutes of Health, which funds the majority of laboratories in universities, has recently made drastic changes to funding that will make it impossible for some labs to function.
Worse, scientists have been reporting that meetings to review their funding applications have been canceled, leaving their funding in limbo.
What would happen if we stopped this progress?
First, we’d stop going forward. We’ve made huge strides in important issues that we should keep making. Since 1990, recent medical advancements saved an estimated 200,000 children in the U.S. alone. There’s still more work to be done, though — child mortality remains higher in the U.S. than in other highly developed countries.
We need to keep moving forward.
Second, and perhaps worse, we’d start going backward. New strains of bacteria that are resistant to every drug we use to treat them (so-called “superbugs”) are becoming more and more prevalent.
Some scientists are worried that you could get a paper cut, the wound could get infected with resistant bacteria, and there’d be nothing a hospital could do to cure it.
We could be moving toward a world where a healthy adult could die from a scratch — just as it was before penicillin. Scientists estimate that by 2050, 39 million people will die from antibiotic resistant infection.
In this world that requires new medical solutions to difficult challenges, the United States could choose to be a leader. Becoming a leader in this is not the costly investment some believe. For every dollar invested in medical research, there is $1.24 saved in health care cost, and over two dollars of economic activity created.
Financial issues are always a concern, but failing to fund research means the government will pay more in health care cost and collect less in taxes.
Funding cuts to medical research aren’t just amoral for the lost lives; they also don’t make financial sense. With the broad funding cuts being considered, it’s important that we look back and see how things used to be, and how far medical science has taken us.
Research has been one of the best investments the United States has ever made, and we shouldn’t ever forget it.
Logan Suits is a Tampa native and a Ph.D. candidate studying antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus aureus.
Musk’s belief is that virtually all federal agencies are teeming with lazy, useless employees doing nothing but wasting taxpayer money. His “solution” is to randomly fire at least half the employees, regardless of their quality and accomplishments.
Thus, he was saved the effort of actually understanding what the agencies and their individual employees did. This approach, “if the horse is too slow, cut off two legs,” did nothing to improve efficiency. Quite the opposite, it guaranteed reduced efficiency.
What mayhave improved Twitter’s profits does not work with a federal agency that has no profit motive but rather a service motive. It has quite a different goal.
The idiocy of this juvenile approach is ignorantly:
Assuming random federal agencies must be inefficient, without any measure of “efficiency” for each agency. The measure will differ depending on the agency.
Assuming there is no difference between productive and non-productive people so, “Fire ’em all.”
Failing to install new systems that would improve efficiency, but rather, assuming that fewer employees will be more efficient.
Failing to set goals for the agency and the employees, so the efficiency can be measured.
Wrongly claiming that federal taxpayers will benefit from reduced federal spending. (In reality, federal taxpayers benefit when the government spends more- i.e., adds more growth dollars to the economy- than when the government spends less.
While they take billions from the federal government, Trump and Musk have caused irrecoverable damage to the economy, federal employees, and taxpayers.
Presumably, that was the plan all along, a plan to widen the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.
“It is absurd to say our country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer, and the other helps the people.”
This quote reflects his critique of the financial system, emphasizing that issuing currency directly benefits the public, while issuing bonds primarily enriches the wealthy.
A Monetarily Sovereign nation’s economic health relies on the central government’s running deficits- large deficits- to pump growth dollars into the private sector.
The U.S. government does not need to borrow and, indeed, does not borrow.
You gotta love it when the Trump administration brags about doing absolutely nothing, and the MAGAs buy into the idiocy.
It’s low comedy on a national scale.
Consider the chest beating that the price of eggs has come down to “only ” triple what it was when it was quadruple previous prices.
Ask any MAGA what Trump did to achieve this pitiful result, and you will receive the usual angry, but blank, stare.
Of course, he did nothing, but hey, does that really matter to the cult zombies?
I mention this because of an article from MSM.
As you read the article, remember that because the U.S. government is Monetarily Sovereign, it has the infinite ability to create dollars merely by pressing what Elon Musk, in his ignorance, terms, “Magic Money Computers.”
Yes, the guy in charge of unnecessarily saving moneyfor the government doesn’t realize that the federal government creates dollars by pressing computer keys.
All his economy-damaging efforts accomplish nothing but . . . well, damaging the economy.
In just one day, the government earned $5 billion, informs Financial Express, citing US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick stated that each card costs $5 million. Despite the high price, 1,000 of these cards were sold in a single day, generating $5 billion for the budget.
According to forecasts from the administration of US President Donald Trump, this initiative could bring in $5 trillion if 1 million cards are sold.
Congress could create $5 trillion or $500 trillion by a simple majority vote. The whole process would take as little energy as a 5-watt LED bulb uses in a second.
In total, 37 million people worldwide are considered potential buyers who can afford such an investment.
This program is known to be an alternative to the EB-5 investor visa, which the Trump administration plans to replace. The US government says the proceeds will be directed towards reducing the national debt, which has surpassed $36 trillion.
The US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, doesn’t understand (or doesn’t want youto understand) thatFederal income does not fund federal spending. Unlike monetarily non-sovereign state/local governments, the federal government creates new dollars, ad hoc, to pay all its bills.
As a reminder, at the end of last month, President Donald Trump proposed replacing the visa program for foreign investors with the so-called “golden card.”
At that time, the website of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) noted that the EB-5 investor visa program, managed by USCIS, was established by Congress in 1990 to “stimulate the US economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors.”
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick stated that the “EB-5 program was full of nonsense, make-believe, and fraud, and it was a way to get a green card that was low price.”
Speaking of “full of nonsense, make-believe, and fraud, and it was a way to get a green card that was low price,” Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister’s method was to “accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.”
Trump’s sale of green cards will import rich people, a dubious accomplishment, especially while he deports the workers who do the bidding of the rich.
It’s like an army composed solely of generals, lacking privates, corporals, and sergeants.
The sale of green cards will not lower your taxes and/or pay for anything. But fear not. Surely, all those rich new people will do the strenuous physical jobs that the deported aliens had been doing.
#Monetary Sovereignty - Mitchell 