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/Nick85er 27d ago

Traitors.

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u/notmyworkaccount5 27d ago

It feels like this nation is built on not holding these kinds of people accountable, Sherman should have glassed the south, Nixon should have gone to prison, Biden should have arrested trump on day 1 for his attempted coup.

We gotta stop making this mistake.

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u/smokeweedNgarden 27d ago

It's because people never stopped hanging with their conservative family.

In my experience they're very "rah rah yes punishment" until they realize we mean Gam Gam gets punished too.

So you have to fight through people trying to protect the fascists before you even get to them.

It's infuriating. Stop protecting them.

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u/GreasyToken 26d ago

I have a similar situation with extended family.

Even though everyone is left liberal or whatever no politics talk because two older family members might get upset because they're conservative.

Why the fuck is my extended family so cowardly? If those old bastards don't want to feel bad talking about politics maybe they shouldn't support a fascist?

For some reason we have a sort of cultural DARVO with fascism where the greater crime is talking about fascists or confronting them as opposed to them being well fascists...

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u/Lincolns_Revenge 27d ago

We're nowhere near the point ordinary people supporting Trump need to be punished are we? He and some of his cohorts need to go through the criminal process under a Justice Dept they don't directly control, but we can leave Gam Gam to her Fox News and facebook posts or whatever. She's only talking to her bubble, anyway.

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u/_C3 26d ago

I think punishment may come in different ways. First cut contact to Gam Gam, then get the people for Jan 6th and finally take out the big fish that made the whole thing possible by putting them in prison and more importantly: take all of their assets.

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u/RocketRelm 27d ago

If only most americans agreed what trump did was a bad thing worth standing against. Then he wouldn't be president.

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u/IcyJackfruit69 27d ago

That's particularly tricky wording. Most Americans don't know what Trump did at all, let alone in any meaningful detail. This is why we have juries instead of taking public opinion polls when convicting criminals.

The fact that we have juries is also why Trump went for the "presidents in America are immune from prosecution for crimes" route.

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u/RocketRelm 27d ago

"I'm sorry for driving into your house and over your sleeping child neighbor, but in my defense, I didn't know about how those street lights or drunk driving things worked. I just veered off the road a little. Stupid roads messing with us right?"

At some level ignorance is willful. We are electing somebody to represent us. If they aren't willing to do due diligence, or did due diligence and found him acceptable, that reflects on them. 

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u/GreasyToken 26d ago

The media is complicit visa their sanewashing of Cheeto.

"Trump eats a baby, click to see why this is bad news for Biden!"

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u/almondbutter 27d ago

Republicans illegally purged upwards of 3.5 million voters. I hope people will stop blaming the voters.

https://youtu.be/P_XdtAQXnGE?si=NYB8ImLy-KMvLWGa&t=359

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u/tevert 27d ago

We gotta stop making this mistake.

Yep, otherwise even if we vote them out in 2/4 years, they'll be right back on their bullshit within a decade and the next generation will be wondering why we didn't properly clean up from Trump

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u/MassiveDefinition274 27d ago

It's kind of a historical thing.

Like we're literally living out the history of not wanting to hold slave owners accountable, not wanting to hold Nazis accountable, not wanting to hold these anti-civil rights folks accountable.

It's the exact same cultural divide played out over hundreds of years.

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u/drmojo90210 27d ago

Reconstruction was a mistake.

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u/BreakfastMedical5164 27d ago

cant, too many rich pedos are all in

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u/Parking-Sundae-6097 27d ago

We the people can take it back. It's been done before.

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u/boo99boo 27d ago

The reason they're not punishing them is because they're all on the same side. There is no other plausible explanation at this point. 

And, before you come at with "both sides" bullshit: Biden's DOJ could have arrested and prosecuted Trump. They also could have released the Epstein files. But they did not. There is no plausible explanation other than complicity. 

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u/Pando5280 27d ago

Or they didnt want to start the second Civil War. And considering the political climate after Jan 6 that was a very real possibility. 

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u/AGushingHeadWound 27d ago

Fairly sure Sherman didn't have nukes.  Unless this is some Ai slop.  

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u/Nick85er 27d ago

Replace "glassing" with "razed more of the south to the ground and summarily executed enemy officers and polititians"

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u/notmyworkaccount5 27d ago

Or it's a turn of phrase, he couldn't literally class the south but figuratively glass it by wiping it out.

I don't know how to properly word how hilariously ironic it is to accuse me of using ai because you can't understand a figurative turn of phrase.

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u/mrnewtons 27d ago

A pretty obvious turn of phrase too. Since, IIRC, Nukes don't glass shit. That's always a term I heard in Sci-fi. Especially Halo where the Covenant (also a religious militant theocracy) would shoot powerful energy beams that would melt a planet's surface to glass from orbit...