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Yeah, it's discouraging seeing so many people welcome these abuses of power because they fell into the hysteria about illegals.
yawn
I don't think the meme applies.
In the context of the US, we have a constitution which supposedly limits the powers of the government. Thing needs to be interpreted though. How we do the interpretation is constantly being negotiated.
Setting a norm for an interpretation that says when using a third party, people have abdicated their fourth amendment protections weakens the cases where the fourth amendment used to be clear (I think we aren't far from US government arguing it has the right to review the data on your phone without a warrant).
Think about TSA: normalizing the suspension of rights in order to do something as basic as traveling because of 9/11 allows for people in government positions to argue for suspensions in similar but adjacent places (eg banking, using the internet).
Another case is the way congress likes to play games with their rules of order (no more filibuster, no need for a supermajority, etc). Once these things are removed, they'll be used by both parties. It's short sighted for whoever is in power to choose expedience over the protection afforded by such things. And things like a supermajority requirement on some votes can be a protection against tyranny...but it can also be dispensed with.
I believe that it is the case that some constraints on government power only hold as long as we keep them universally in place.
Liberia has the same Constitution as USA
Judicial activism has made the Constitution meaningless, words on paper and nothing else
Rule of law is a myth
As a great scholar once said, “It’s just a goddamn piece of paper.”
It's short sighted
plot twist, it works just like its supposed to hahahahhaha
Trump is a significant and dangerous escalation of presidential powers. Now, the next president will be able to use but Trump as an excuse to do their own sh*t
Could also be a return to normalcy. Politics isn't linear.
I hope so. but i wouldn't bet on it
we should impeach him a third time!
Didn't know about this.
This is my main concern. We are changing all kinds of expectations about how the state exercises its authority.