thread on actual for real governmental attacks on constitutional liberties
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nsacpi
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i guess you're not familiar with supreme court jurisprudence on school vaccines or even more recent rulings on "experimental mRNA vaccines"
hopefully the inflammation caused by those vaccines to your ovaries has subsided
just in case you need a starting point for your "research": ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, in Jacobson v Massachusetts, the US Supreme Court upheld the Cambridge, Mass, Board of Health’s authority to require vaccination against smallpox during a smallpox epidemic.
btw I have some good news: there is another thread on these boards for discussion of fake assertions that our freedoms are under attack...this one is for the actual for real thang
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nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Universities refuse to fully dismantle their DEI programs? The Trump administration withdraws billions of dollars in federal funding, and cancels visas for their foreign students. Law firms won’t donate their services to causes that President Donald Trump favors? Trump cancels their lawyers’ security clearances and refuses to deal with their clients. Journalists still call the Gulf of Mexico “the Gulf of Mexico”? Trump pulls their credentials for press briefings. The state of Maine allows some transgender athletes to compete on some girls’ and women’s sports teams? Trump threatens to cut off federal funding for its public schools.
Different targets, but one common tool: leverage. Trump uses federal funds and other government benefits to pressure individuals and institutions into exercising their constitutional rights as he prefers. This is extortionate. And therefore unconstitutional.
If Trump can use threats over tariffs to pressure nations into opening their markets or strengthening their currencies or ordering more U.S. arms, why can’t he do the same with American institutions?
Because foreign nations have no constitutional rights, but American universities, lawyers, journalists and states do — rights protected by the First, Fifth, Sixth and Tenth Amendments. Trump’s efforts to leverage government benefits against them violate those rights by penalizing their exercise.
Different targets, but one common tool: leverage. Trump uses federal funds and other government benefits to pressure individuals and institutions into exercising their constitutional rights as he prefers. This is extortionate. And therefore unconstitutional.
If Trump can use threats over tariffs to pressure nations into opening their markets or strengthening their currencies or ordering more U.S. arms, why can’t he do the same with American institutions?
Because foreign nations have no constitutional rights, but American universities, lawyers, journalists and states do — rights protected by the First, Fifth, Sixth and Tenth Amendments. Trump’s efforts to leverage government benefits against them violate those rights by penalizing their exercise.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
The acting director of ICE appeared in a video in which he said that “politicians need to stop putting my people in danger” by “stirring up outrage about what ICE does”: “I’m not asking them to stop. I’m demanding that they stop”
First amendment anybody?
First amendment anybody?
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
President Donald Trump slammed anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles, whom he described as "animals," for carrying flags of other countries and burning the American flag amid their efforts to protest federal deportation actions.
Trump also floated the potential of imposing criminal penalties, specifically a one-year jail sentence, for burning the American flag, during comments at Fort Bragg Tuesday afternoon commemorating the United States Army's 250th anniversary.
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Trump also floated the potential of imposing criminal penalties, specifically a one-year jail sentence, for burning the American flag, during comments at Fort Bragg Tuesday afternoon commemorating the United States Army's 250th anniversary.
Trump vows consequences for 'animals' burning American flags in LA, slams those waving other countries' flags
Trump criticizes anti-ICE protesters in L.A. for carrying foreign flags and burning the American flag, suggesting jail time during comments from Fort Bragg commemorating the Army's 250th anniversary.
sturg33
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We spent 4 years raising the alarm of the tyranny from Washington DC to nothing but crickets.
When it came time to vote, you voted for that tyranny once again. Sturg33 did not