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Trump Might Test That Theory
The woman who has since been appointed to President Donald Trump’s newly created “election integrity” position within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had suggested that the president could declare a “national emergency” to give his government new authority to dictate election rules typically decided by state and local governments.
Heather Honey, formerly a Pennsylvania-based private investigator who came to prominence as a leading proponent of Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 loss to former President Joe Biden, said this authority would come from “an actual investigation” of the loss, which she has baselessly argued was marred by widespread fraud.
In the US, elections are administered by states, with the president having no legal authority over how they are carried out. But Honey suggested that the Trump administration has “some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” and that by using the investigation as a pretext, “we can take these other steps without Congress and we can mandate that states do things and so on.”
Seeming to recognize the extreme step she was proposing, Honey added: “I don’t know if that’s really feasible and if the people around the president would let him test that theory.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-emergency-hijack-2026-election
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Alex Krainer, comrade signyms propagandist.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Ronald Reagan wasn’t a free-trade purist
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It must suck crying this much every single day.
It must suck crying this much every single day.
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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.
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Quote:How do you stop Trump from murdering again and again? By murdering Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It must suck crying this much every single day.
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/10/26/the-peril-of-a-white-house
-that-flaunts-its-contempt-for-the-law/
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has the power to summarily kill people.
Since he returned to office nine months ago, President Trump has sought to expand executive power across numerous fronts. But his claim that he can lawfully order the military to summarily kill people accused of smuggling drugs on boats off the coast of South America stands apart.
A broad range of specialists in laws governing the use of lethal force have called Mr. Trump’s orders to the military patently illegal. They say the premeditated extrajudicial killings have been murders — regardless of whether the 43 people blown apart, burned alive or drowned in 10 strikes so far were indeed running drugs.
The administration insists that the killings are lawful, invoking legal terms like “self-defense” and “armed conflict.” But it has offered no legal argument explaining how to bridge the conceptual gap between drug trafficking and associated crimes, as serious as they are, and the kind of armed attack to which those terms can legitimately apply.
The irreversible gravity of killing, coupled with the lack of a substantive legal justification, is bringing into sharper view a structural weakness of law as a check on the American presidency.
It is becoming clearer than ever that the rule of law in the White House has depended chiefly on norms — on government lawyers willing to raise objections when merited and to resign in protest if ignored, and on presidents who want to appear law-abiding. This is especially true in an era when party loyalty has defanged the threat of impeachment by Congress, and after the Supreme Court granted presidents immunity from prosecution for crimes committed with official powers.
Every modern president has occasionally taken some aggressive policy step based on a stretched or disputed legal interpretation. But in the past, they and their aides made a point to develop substantive legal theories and to meet public and congressional expectations to explain why they thought their actions were lawful, even if not everyone agreed. Around 15 years ago, intense legal controversy surrounded President Barack Obama’s drone strikes targeting al-Qaida militants in ungoverned places where the United States did not have ground troops, like Yemen and tribal Pakistan. Those included the killing of a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was deemed an operational terrorist leader whose capture was infeasible.
Behind the scenes, Obama administration lawyers wrestled with the scope and limits of how the congressionally authorized armed conflict against al-Qaida could apply to such scenarios. They developed lengthy and detailed memos citing Supreme Court precedents and systematically worked through issues of domestic and international law.
The details of its legal rationale became known to Congress and the public not only through unauthorized disclosures and Freedom of Information Act lawsuits but also because the administration delivered speeches and produced a white paper summarizing its reasoning, which it gave to Congress.
Today, the Trump administration is mostly behaving with audacious transparency about its boat attacks. Trump has posted surveillance videos of the deadly strikes, talked with relish about how “it is violent and it is very — it’s amazi
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Originally posted by second:Quote:How do you stop Trump from murdering again and again? By murdering Trump.
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It must suck crying this much every single day.
You don't possess an instinct for self-preservation, do you?
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Quote:Trump is very eager to execute child rapists, which is why the Epstein files are being kept secret, because he would be killed for what he has done to children. Saying "Fake News" does not change Trump's history of rape, for your information and enlightenment.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:How do you stop Trump from murdering again and again? By murdering Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It must suck crying this much every single day.
You don't possess an instinct for self-preservation, do you?
Donald Trump Dreams of More Executions
The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.
By Elizabeth Bruenig | October 27, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/death-penalty-golden
-age-trump/684691/
Donald Trump has been forthright about his intention to bring about a death-penalty renaissance, and now his efforts are coming to fruition. This year has been a particularly lethal one for America’s death-row prisoners. Together, Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas have executed a total of 40 people in the past 10 months by injection, nitrogen hypoxia, and firing squad, surpassing 2024’s total of 25—a significant spike in an otherwise-downward long-term trend. Trump’s return to power—and the Republican Party’s resurgence more generally—is driving a heavy push for more death sentences and more executions. He has restored the federal death penalty following the prior administration’s moratorium, and Republican state legislatures have sought to expand the list of crimes punishable by death and to allow new execution methods.
Capital punishment is central to Trump’s authoritarian approach to criminal justice. His pro–death penalty views emerged decades before he ascended to the presidency. In 1989, he bought full-page advertisements in The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, and New York Newsday calling for the alleged perpetrators of a gang rape in Central Park to be sentenced to death. In the text of his ad, Trump blasted Ed Koch, the New York City mayor at the time, for being soft on crime, both spiritually and practically. “Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts,” Trump wrote. “I do not think so. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.” He repeated the ad’s headline—“BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY AND BRING BACK OUR POLICE!”—by way of conclusion above a now-familiar signature. The five men accused of the Central Park gang rape were later exonerated.
When Trump arrived at the White House, federal executions had not been carried out in more than 17 years—a hiatus Trump promptly dispensed with, presiding over 13 executions in the last several months of his first term. Joe Biden, clearly troubled by those events, issued commutations to 37 of 40 people on federal death row during his last weeks in office, which prevented Trump from picking up where he left off when he returned to the White House. Trump responded furiously online: “As soon as I am inaugurated,” he swore on Truth Social, “I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters. We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!” He did just that. On January 20, Trump signed an executive order intended to reinvigorate the death penalty both federally and at the state level, instructing his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to pursue federal death sentences when possible, and to encourage and assist states in carrying out executions.
On cue, several states set about realizing Trump’s dreams, Florida chief among them. Under the di
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Reagan knew Trump and warned the Nation about him.
"We should beware of the demagogues who are willing to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag." - Ronald Reagan
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-demagogues-trade-war/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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ICE’s Hiring Surge Is Already a Disaster
It's cutting standards and racing to hire exactly the wrong people, precisely as predicted.
By Garrett Graff | October 27, 2025
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-hiring-surge-is-already-a-disa
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It turns out, if you’re hiring for a pariah agency using nakedly fascist and racist messaging and recruiting for a job where you get to be jeered by your neighbors, America’s best, brightest, and most fit don’t apply.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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What’s driving Trump’s military campaign against Venezuela? Marco Rubio, who is motivated by a desire to oust the government of Venezuela, which would weaken the allied government of Cuba. Rubio is a Cuban refugee who wants revenge.
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/10/27/rubios-ideological-project
-whats-driving-trumps-military-campaign-against-venezuela/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts
Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for damages linked to climate change.
By Dana Drugmand | October 26, 2025
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26102025/trump-republicans-big-oil-
climate-liability/
As efforts continue to hold some of the world’s largest fossil fuel corporations liable for destructive and deadly climate impacts, backlash from the politically powerful oil and gas industry and its allies in government is on the rise, bolstered by the Trump administration’s allegiance to fossil fuels.
From lobbying Congress for liability protection to suing states over their climate liability laws and lawsuits, attempts to shield Big Oil from potential liability and to shut down climate accountability initiatives are advancing on multiple fronts.
“The effort has escalated dramatically in the past six or seven months,” said Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, an organization that advocates for holding fossil fuel companies accountable for selling products they knew were dangerously warming the planet.
Pushback to liability initiatives from fossil fuel interests is not new. But the political landscape has shifted dramatically this year as the second Trump administration works to reward loyalists and campaign donors, including fossil fuel interests.
The oil and gas industry spent $445 million during the last election cycle to influence President Donald Trump and Congress, including $96 million on Trump’s re-election campaign, according to the progressive advocacy group Climate Power.
“What has changed is that there is a new administration,” said Lisa Graves, founder and executive director of True North Research, a national investigative watchdog group. And the Trump administration, she said, “is continuing to defend the fossil fuel industry and assail anyone who dares try to hold them accountable.”
Over the past eight years, communities across the country have filed tobacco-style lawsuits targeting ExxonMobil and major players in the fossil fuel industry, seeking to recover damages for localized climate impacts or to force companies to cease greenwashing and other misleading behavior.
More than 30 of these lawsuits brought by municipal, tribal and state governments are working their way through the courts, and several are now closer than ever to reaching trial.
At the same time, some states are enacting or considering so-called climate superfund legislation that would hold large fossil fuel companies strictly liable for climate damages and require them to help pay for a portion of climate change costs incurred by state governments. Vermont and New York both passed climate superfund laws last year, and similar legislation is pending in a handful of other states.
In response to these budding accountability efforts, the fossil fuel industry, the Trump administration, Republicans in Congress and GOP attorneys general are mounting what Wiles describes as a “massive orchestrated campaign” to try to stop climate liability laws and lawsuits in their tracks, and to push for legal immunity akin to what gun manufacturers received two decades ago. Trump’s Department of Justice has even filed highly unusual, if not unprecedented, lawsuits against Vermont and New York seeking to overturn their climate superfund statutes.
“It’s just this superbly choreographed effort on the part of the oil industry and its allies to get gun-industry-style legal immunity for all the damage that they’ve caused,” Wiles told Inside Climate News.
Oil Industry Is Lobbying Congress for a Liability Shield
Among the climate liability lawsuits inching closer to trial: a consumer protection case brought by Massachusetts against ExxonMobil, and suits seeking damages filed by Honolulu, Hawaii, and Boulder, Colorado.
As reported by The Wall Stre
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