On Monday, just one day after the Republican Party staged a Horst Wessel-style memorial for Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating “antifa” a “domestic terrorist organization.”
The order claims that antifa is a “militarist, anarchist enterprise” that uses “illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide.”
Antifa, as even FBI Director Christopher Wray was forced to admit in a September 2020 congressional hearing, is not an organization but a broad current of opposition to fascism. “Antifa is an ideology, not an organization,” said Wray, who also testified that the bureau had no data showing any lethal violence committed by the organization.
Since antifa as a formal organization does not exist, Trump’s executive order amounts to a blanket authorization to brand political dissent and opposition to his fascist regime as “terrorism.”
Have you been conscious and actually aware of your surroundings over the last eight months?
Because there is a shitton of “protected” things that the current administration has been shattering with few to no consequences. Violation of due process rights, blatant kidnapping of naturalized citizens or permanent residents, military occupations of entire cities, deporting full American citizens, open corruption, de-platforming comedians, the works.
At this point, the constitution is two incidents away from being wholly irrelevant and not worth the paper it is written upon.
yes. I’ve personally read most of the Supreme Court decisions from 2025 in their entirety. I’ve consumed a truly unhealthy amount of news.
Yes, the Administration has pulled shady shit, especially their shell game with original jurisdiction and habeas petitions. The worst has been CECOT. Trump v. JGG and Trump v. AARP did smack down some of this, though DHS v. DVD was unconscionable in shirking the requirements for CAT hearings.
I’m aware of a few cases of naturalized citizens being stripped of citizenship, ostensibly due to mistakes or omissions in their applications. This has always been a thing, legally, but courts have held that it mistakes must have material significance. I’m not aware that they’ve deported anyone for typos.
Many more permanent residents have been detained, usually due to some prior conviction on their record. Again, this is legal, though terribly wrong. All permanent residents should be getting naturalized asap because the protections are much stronger.
Legal for DC, due to its special status as a Federal city. Forbidden in States without invitation by their Governors, except in cases of Rebellion, per the Posse Comitatus Act. Troops can be deployed to protect Federal buildings or workers, which was the excuse Trump used in LA. As a result, the Marines mostly stood around doing nothing, since they weren’t allowed to police. A judge found this unlawful and enjoined the order, and the troops were removed.
As for Memphis, the Governor of Tennessee invited Trump to deploy the National Guard, so it was legal.
As for Chicago, despite Trump’s cringe Apocalypse Now meme, he backed down because Pritzker opposed, so he would have violated Posse Comitatus.
A few children who were US citizens left the Country with their undocumented parents, when they were deported. Legally, they can’t deport the kids, but they can offer the parents a horrible choice: bring them with you, or put them in the foster system. If they weren’t offered a choice, this is an easy suit to win, but my understanding is that the parents decided to bring their kids with them.
ha, yep. Trump and his cronies are laughably corrupt. don’t get me started on the memecoin…
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so yes, the Constitution is in trouble. a couple months ago the Administration was skirting being held in contempt, in particular with deportations. but the judicial system is holding up surprisingly decently, with the exception of the absolutely disgraceful shadow docket orders SCOTUS has handed down.
but it’s not at a point yet where Trump can write EO that says “grr Antifa bad” and round up people who’ve committed no crimes.
So you have been completely asleep and unaware of current events!
Because that has been happening in spades over the last 8 months.
Like, gratuitously. Or didn’t you hear about that person who was forcibly deported to El Salvador simply for having an Autism awareness tattoo? No crime. No danger to society. A solid, upstanding immigrant deported as a “violent member of a gang” because of a tattoo.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Turns out that over 94% of current deportees would never have been forcibly deported under normal conditions, because they have either no criminal record in he first place, or no convictions. After all, you cannot deport on a suspicion of criminality.
94%. That’s one insane jump. Sure looks like “guilty until proven innocent” to me!
Dude, you need to wake up and smell the fascism. Because it seems to me you have zero clue of just how far things have gone. Hell, when even experts in fascism have been fleeing America, that shit is happening.