Reporting Highlights
  • Court Fight: During internal meetings, a political appointee said Trump could not have a higher tolerance for legal risk.
  • Law-Breaking: Then the administration may have broken multiple laws in crippling USAID, according to experts.
  • “Constitutional Crisis”: Monday will be crucial to see if the Trump administration follows a court order blocking their efforts.
  • leisesprecher@feddit.org
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    They don’t care.

    This entire debate relies on the assumption that they have any respect for the law. Nobody, literally not a single person in that administration will be held accountable for breaking the law.

    They’ll try 200 different laws, orders, whatever. 180 of them will be declared illegal. And then what? Nothing. No punishment at all.

    And they’ll try again and again and again. Slowly eroding the entire government.

    • Loduz_247@lemmy.world
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      There should be an amendment that if you break the law and don’t reverse it or ignore it, an impeachment will automatically be initiated.

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        Unfortunately impeachment is also meaningless. I don’t see a circumstance where 67 senators would ever vote to convict.

        The only thing that might work is to be barred from public office and placing the secret service under congressional control to enforce it. But since presidents are untouchable kings now, 2/3rds of Congress and state legislatures are never going to give that up when they could be the king one day themselves.