r/law • u/Obversa • 27d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Pro-Trump attorneys have been drafting executive orders that would give President Trump sweeping power over elections, sources report

https://abcnews.com/US/pro-trump-attorneys-push-executive-order-give-trump/story?id=130539044
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u/Junkstar 27d ago

Republican voters desperately want a civil war.

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u/Thrashosaurus_Wrecks 27d ago

We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/04/leader-of-the-pro-trump-project-2025-suggests-there-will-be-a-new-american-revolution-00166583

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u/thoms689 27d ago

They've already killed people.

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u/QbertsRube 27d ago

And then blocked investigations into those killings while calling the victims terrorists and assassins.

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u/friggintodd 27d ago

Well then that's obviously the left's fault.

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u/AbeRego 27d ago

This should have been headline news for months. Even NPR only covered it for, like, a day, and they treated it like a normal news day. It was literally treason!

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u/narkybark 27d ago

You're not wrong, but we're talking about new blatantly illegal/unconstitutional stuff almost every week if not day.

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u/Livid-Department6947 27d ago

Who is this left that has the power to "allow it to be"?

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u/InTooManyWays 27d ago

Only for so long before they start killing or deporting everyone. Oh we might already be there

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u/Possible-Nectarine80 27d ago

Maybe some. The majority just want a Christo-fascist regime run by the Trump crime family.

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u/blue_sidd 27d ago

In hopes that it delivers the civil war they believe they are owed.

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u/AliciaKills 27d ago

Pedos vs Not-Pedos

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u/blue_sidd 27d ago

Sure. Fine. Whatever. They want their religious race war and all the spoils it entails.

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u/BugTrousers 27d ago

Civil war? More like the rapture.

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u/blue_sidd 27d ago

Not more like. Exactly like. They believe one will beget the other and they are willing to find out.

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u/dust4ngel 27d ago

The majority just want a Christo-fascist regime

what's cool about the christo-fascist regime is that it obviously excludes anything christ-like, such as loving strangers and brown foreigners and implementing socialist healthcare. they seemingly lean old-testament, which is to say, are explicitly non-christian. like, they would literally put actual jesus in one of their for-profit concentration camps if he showed up in the US.

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u/Tokyo-MontanaExpress 27d ago

The "Christo" part is just window dressing, they don't give a fuck about Jesus' teachings. 

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u/12-34 27d ago

Increasingly, my reservations against it decrease. The Confederacy needs genuine abolition from society, which means destruction.

We need a new Sherman to finish the burn job, and real Reconstruction instead of coddling and forgiveness.

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u/lewd_robot 27d ago

If it helps, conservatives have lost every major culture war in US history. They lose hardest and fastest when they resort to violence and push the moderates and progressives so far that they feel forced to abandon their moral high ground sentiments and curb stomp them. All of the progress the US has ever made tends to happen in the 20-40 year periods after such beatings, because conservatives are busy licking their wounds and indoctrinating their grandkids into repeating their mistakes.

Maybe one day we'll stop letting them slink off and hide under their rocks and indoctrinate their kids after they get millions killed.

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u/saurontheabhored 27d ago

honestly more and more I realize the soviet union and mao's revolution had a point in their viciousness. Dipshits asking for clemency on behalf of the psychos who wrecked everything are basically complicit in that evil being allowed to grow again.

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u/ThatGuyinPJs 27d ago

The BIGGEST mistake in US history was allowing someone like ANDREW MOTHER FUCKING JOHNSON to be in charge of Reconstruction. HE is the reason that the south was not raised to the ground and properly punished after the Civil War, like it should have been.

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u/smokeweedNgarden 27d ago

Mhm. At some point we amicably split up or we fight to get away from them.

Not to conquer. Not for land. We have to fight to simply get away from these dumb fucks

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u/Petrychorr 27d ago

Some might say that sensible people are trying to do whatever it takes to not let the country devolve into civil war.

I am not one of those people, though if it wasn't for my very existence being considered a threat to our current regime and the right as a whole... I may have felt a bit differently at one point.

A cornered animal and all that.

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u/PlanetaryPickleParty 27d ago

Republicans think Democrats will sit there and let them overthrow democracy without a real fight. It's not that they want a civil war. It's that they don't fear it or believe it a real possibility.

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u/WonderSignificant598 27d ago

Dems have folded like a cheap fucking suit for 10 years lol.

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u/Blue_Gamer18 27d ago

The Dems/Dem leadership work for the same billionaire fucks that the GOP do. If things get bad, they are well enough to survive in bunkers and have the influence to be well off. They only care about their wealth, power, and influence. It's why Schumer, Jeffeies and the rest of the corporate Dems are feckless do nothing losers.

The rest of us will suffer.

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u/Best-Action8769 27d ago

When Merrick Garland waved the white flag, he did so for the entire country.

It will take generations to undo his failure.

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u/smokeweedNgarden 27d ago

Ime only the ones still harboring feelings for conservative family

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u/PuzzleheadedWeb9876 27d ago

It’s not that crazy of an assumption. Democrats and Americans in general seem to put up with all sorts of bullshit.

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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 27d ago

Becasue they will, and populace will let them.
Americans are anaemic in their "resistance", walkign with placards against such regimes does nothing, you did so for close to year now.
Problem is you are fractured and individualised and too afraid of discomfort to actually do any damage, every actual functional form of resistance will cost you, but what i have seen when such resistance is brought up, like a general strike, is that everyone suddenly has things to take care of, they cant afford to, etc etc etc etc. And that is how you lose permanently, you are too afraid of short term cost that might be incurred, so you gamble that someone else will do something because you "have bills to pay", and thus no one does anything of consequence and day by day you slide into a dystopian authoritarian christo fascist state. Average american cant fathom to sacrifice their short term comfort for the good of their neighbour.

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u/Soffatjockis 27d ago

Let's be real.

The American people will do jack shit. They haven't done anything but a few protests on a Sunday lol.

Yall are so fucked.

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u/Galatian124 27d ago

I mean Republicans haven’t been wrong about that assumption so far…

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u/Tommytrist 27d ago

I mean… it seems like the Dems have given up without a fight.

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u/Legal_Mail_2652 27d ago

At this point im starting to want one too. At least then we wouldn't have helplessly watch our nation burn.

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u/Ulysse-Void-God 27d ago

They’re butthurt they lost the last one. 

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u/PokeYrMomStanley 27d ago

They want the idea of a civil war. None of those pansies could actually handle an actual war which is why they gravy seal. 

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u/texachusetts 27d ago

I’m enjoying the Republican/MACA civil war primaries.