By Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Restoring the rule of law and Constitutional government on immigration—something wrecked by Trump’s rule-by-decree with federal agents—is vastly more important than expelling illegal immigrants.
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Didn't know about this.
This is my main concern. We are changing all kinds of expectations about how the state exercises its authority.
Yeah, it's discouraging seeing so many people welcome these abuses of power because they fell into the hysteria about illegals.
Whatever tools we give the state will be turned against us. Just a matter of when.
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
Trump is a significant and dangerous escalation of presidential powers. Now, the next president will be able to use
but Trumpas an excuse to do their own sh*tCould 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!
Trump honestly had a pretty simple job but he had to go and botch it.
The entire political right was given the easiest layup I've ever seen and couldn't help but alienate most of the country.
I would be really mad if I wasn't already super blackpilled about everything
He's never worked a real job in his life. Per his own multiple biographies, including those by Bill O'Rielly, he's had every job and opportunity handed to him from his father's work. Why would we expect him to actually work at something now?
I mean, he'd actually be a better president if he'd work less at it.
(Though, to be honest, it's probably more his cabinet members and political allies that are being over zealous, and he just doesn't care enough to rein them in. So, yeah, guess he should work at it more.)
actually it's not a simple job when paid agitators are interfering and threatening and doxing law enforcement