Will the guardrails of US democracy hold?
1 week, 1 day ago

Will the guardrails of US democracy hold?

Live Mint  

America’s democratic institutions withstood, if only barely, Donald Trump’s first presidency, but will they do so again? During the 2024 election campaign, Trump promised mass deportations and detainment camps, reprisals against his political foes, a crackdown on “the enemy within," and a dramatic reduction of civil-service protections for federal workers. Many former top advisers publicly opposed Trump’s re-election, including Mark Esper, who served as secretary of defense, John Kelly, who was White House chief of staff, and H.R. One of Trump’s worst abuses was his “Muslim ban," an executive order barring entry to nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries. The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States this past summer casts further doubt on the justices’ willingness to serve as a meaningful check on a wayward executive.

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Opinion: Trump and our disappearing checks and balances
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Opinion: Trump and our disappearing checks and balances

LA Times  

If ever a U.S. president needed the checks and balances that the founders established, it’s law-breaking, oath-violating Donald Trump. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, House speaker in 2017 and 2018, broke with Trump in 2016 over the “grab ’em by the pussy” tape, but became accommodating enough once Trump was president. As Punchbowl News reported : “Now Trump gets …

Protecting Democracy From Trump Now In Hands Of Congressional GOP, Supreme Court
2 months ago

Protecting Democracy From Trump Now In Hands Of Congressional GOP, Supreme Court

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — With American voters deciding to return Donald Trump to the White House, the task of blocking his autocratic impulses is now left to two groups that, to date, have shown little interest in doing so: congressional Republicans and the Supreme Court. “Every Republican is going to be even more subservient to him,” …

Pro-Democracy Advocates and Experts Prepare for a Tense Post-Election Period in the 2024 Presidential Election
2 months, 1 week ago

Pro-Democracy Advocates and Experts Prepare for a Tense Post-Election Period in the 2024 Presidential Election

India Today  

The upcoming presidential election will be a stress test for the new guardrails and systems put in place to ensure the peaceful transfer of power in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. Voters are concerned about the post-election period and the potential for legal challenges, disinformation, and voter intimidation. The new Electoral Count Reform Act …

Supreme Court’s decision would free a reelected President Trump to ignore the law, experts warn
6 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court’s decision would free a reelected President Trump to ignore the law, experts warn

LA Times  

Then-President Trump speaks at a rally outside the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, before his followers stormed the Capitol as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s election win. It comes just as former President Trump — who once promised to be “dictator for one day” — prepares to accept the Republican nomination to return to the White House. Trump was …

Trump Immunity Ruling Invites Presidents to Commit Crimes
6 months, 1 week ago

Trump Immunity Ruling Invites Presidents to Commit Crimes

Bloomberg  

The Supreme Court, in perhaps its most consequential decision about the powers and parameters of the US presidency, ruled on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be tried in a criminal court for any “actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority” while serving in the White House. The most direct result of the ruling is that Trump, a twice-impeached convicted …

A respite: On the Trump case
10 months, 1 week ago

A respite: On the Trump case

The Hindu  

Former United States President Donald Trump appeared to receive a measure of legal succour from the country’s Supreme Court after it agreed to hear in mid-April the arguments for and against his right, as an erstwhile serving President, to immunity from federal criminal prosecution for allegedly subverting the 2020 presidential election. The court’s move adds considerably more time to the …

Judge rejects Trump’s claim of immunity in his federal 2020 election prosecution
1 year, 1 month ago

Judge rejects Trump’s claim of immunity in his federal 2020 election prosecution

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution in his election interference case in Washington, a federal judge ruled Friday, knocking down the Republican’s bid to derail the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In her ruling, Chutkan said the office of the president “does not confer a lifelong ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ pass.” “Former Presidents enjoy …

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