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Don't give the Administration all the credit, Congress deserves some credit, also, for enabling this imperial Presidency and abdicating its role as a check on the Presidency just because of the (R) after his name.
The Courts have bent over backwards, also, to find minor jurisdictional reasons to delay having to put out any firm rulings against the Administration.
The US has been flagrantly and unabashedly rolling back civil rights reforms and imposing fascist dragnets since the fucking Nixon Administration. That it's taken the rest of the world this long to notice is more a sign of our deteriorating economic position than anything specific to the Trump administration.
Nobody was putting the US on a watchlist when we started snatching people and shoving them into Gitmo, over twenty years ago. Nobody seemed to care when we laid siege to the Ecuadorian Embassy in an attempt to illegally extradite Julian Assange or when we handed Israel a fresh batch of ordinance to assassinate Al-Jazeera journalists and Gaza City ambulance drivers. Hell, you can open the whole big ole Black Book of American War Crimes - from paying Contras to rape Nuns in Nicaragua to carpet bombing wedding parties in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen to propping up military juntas across The Philippines and Indonesia to hunt labor organizers for sport.
Like, fuck this country. But fuck all those NATO and NAFTA shills that went along with our decades of atrocity.
Can you imagine what it's going to be like teaching law in the next decade? I'm not jealous
Conservatives are on record threatening to take away law school funding if they don't start teaching their made up theories like constitutionalism and originalism. The problem is there is no legal premise or theory behind them because they just made it all up.
"Do what the President says. Class dismissed."
No, it will be easy. The law will be whatever President Donald Trump Jr. and Chief Justice Eric Trump say it is. Easy peasy!
I sometimes tutor government, and I’ve had some crazy moments where just reading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution out loud seems like it’s almost dangerous.
Thomas Jefferson was brilliant, even he was a slaver and child rapist.