It's always seemed to me, at my pretty far distance from the action, that one pillar of Trump's 'evil genius' is his ability to detect every single hairline crack in our legal and related systems and exploit them to evade paying any penalty for his illegal acts. And it makes me sick, not so much about the fact that there are such cracks (we are human after all and the law is a product of humans) but that if you have sufficient means that you can pay a team of lawyers to help you defeat a system meant to uphold justice via such exploitation. IMHO there appears to be some good reasons to prosecute some members of his legal team and potentially imprison or at the least disbar them. Am I alone in this opionion?
From a European perspective, I am astounded by everything that is happening in the Drumpf regime. A DOGE department that was not installed by Congress, an efficiency project contract awarded without a competitive process to an unaudited contractor, access to all government information for people who are merely private citizens, allegations of fraud and waste without any proper reporting or oversight, firings of people without cause by some random person who has no authority to do so, a president who violates the separation of powers on a daily basis, and a judiciary that continues to falter and contradict itself. In Europe, you would have arrested the DOGE henchmen the moment they entered a government building for unauthorized trespassing. It is completely unbelievable. It seems that the US government lacks any legal means of enforcing the law.
Like the postcard says, "Wishing you were here!" 🥴
You state everything correctly! We are not holding our president and certain of his appointees to the highest ethical standards or to the letter of the law, not to mention anything about moral standards. Apparently, he found the WEAK SPOT in our mighty constitutional model: the LACK OF CHARACTER in human beings who refuse to hold it dear and who refuse to carry out its intent. Character matters.
While I am not an attorney and have no idea how to fix this mess (no, “justice” is not blind; it is available to those who can pay for it), I am always so grateful when readers from other nations weigh in and let us know how horrified you are. Those of us who recognize what is happening seem to be growing in number, but this is still a frightening and isolating time. We appreciate the support of our friends from abroad.
You(Europeans) may be fortunate to not have a spineless, at best, treasonous, at obvious, misnamed "Republican" political party goose stepping to a foreign dictator's orders in support of an equally manipulated, unelected president who's attempting to destroy your government while simultaneously babysitting a 78 year old toddler. Now toss in a duplicitous, complicit, supreme court majority enabling the whole mess and you'll find your answer. But otherwise, thanks for the accurate assessment and reminder. Any room for a few of U.S. American refugees?
I'm horrified, Zelenski in the WH, talking to those stupids, why America has gone to deep in shit? That was hard to see and the minion in Chief (JD Vance) I almost vomit, we don't have a country anymore, there's nothing I can do, just talk to you all : SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE TO STOP THIS NONSENSE AND GET BACK AMERICA IF WE LOVE EACH OTHER AND AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT. Fu...........ck, we are losing everything with Trump and his minions and I know in my heart that we as a nation will stop this lunacy, maybe in 2026, but the cult around Trump is strong. I'm thinking in the next civil war, America to always wake trough the crises,England, Emancipation,WW1, WW2,COLD WAR, 9-11, we are fighters,it's in the blood of America, The Clown in Chief can't erase that.PLEASE, let's do what's right together.
You are not alone! The courts must protect their judgments. When a lawless executive controls all the ordinary agencies of law enforcement, the courts need to reach out and grab the low hanging fruit--the DOJ lawyers that appear before them on a regular basis. When they dissemble, or try to defend a client who is dissembling, put them in jail in general population for a couple of weeks. Demand twice daily reports to the court spelling out all the steps being taken by both attorneys and client to comply with the court's orders.
Unlike Trump's 2021 clown car of now temporarily* disbarred attorneys, these government attorneys are pressed into an impossible situation. While we've seen several DOJ lawyers resign recently on ethical grounds, not all are in a financial position to just quit. Put yourself in their shoes.
*Giuliani was permanently disbarred by both NY and DC governing boards.
He’s treated USAID like all of the business associates he screwed over after they completed work and he decided not to pay. If the Supreme Court doesn’t demand they restart this funding and advise the president to disband it the appropriate way, through congress then the Supreme Court is truly compromised and we can have zero faith in law in this country ever again.
I think I knew that. And I was more or less just venting, as I see far too much impotent handwringing in comments across the board. I wring my hands, too, and cry into my pillow, and gnash my teeth. Then I make plans on how to kick butt, and act on them. Maybe it's a tiny kick in a big butt, but it's what I've got. Sorry if I offended, Steve. Sometimes I err on the side of action.
I'm definitely DOING, but sometimes I do fall prey to venting a bit. No crying here.
Get your signs ready with the causes dearest to your heart on them and keep them handy. Let's try and limit the messages to productive comments, and not waste the valuable blank messaging space with name-calling and pejorative words. We need to be taken seriously. This is your moment to make a sincere difference. The 50501s can come on short notice.
And I'm pushing for an effort to gather in silence and in peace (no reason to arrest anyone), for just the NOON HOUR dressed in BLACK (for mourning) or RED (for fury) or WHITE (for peace), on his 100TH DAY in office, and it would be very powerful if it could happen ON THE WASHINGTON MALL, for one of the greatest photo ops of all time (or protest from wherever you are), for a MASSIVE UNITED VOICE which optics the White House, the Congress and the Supreme Court cannot miss, but we each have much we can do before then. Stay safe. Stay informed. Be vigilant, and pass on the message: 100.
Keep the faith. We CAN effect change. We WILL prevail.
Yes, they can be. In fact, DOJ has an office of professional responsibility that investigates claims of improper conduct by Department employees. (Who knows what the office is doing now.) Not every jurisdiction is going to have an internal office like DOJ. The bar disciplinary authorities in the respective states would have jurisdiction over state and local government attorneys. Those authorities will also have jurisdiction over federal government attorneys though a state bar authority may defer to any internal investigation by the professional responsibility people at DOJ.
These govt lawyers are not volunteering to represent their corrupt client like Giuliani, Eastman, Chesebro, Ellis, etc. It's their unenviable job right now. If they were in a financial position to resign, as others recently have, they probably would.
Trump has a habit of filing frivolous motions, ill-written and overtly political briefs and these emergency petitions — is there to be no punishment for what is obviously unlawful AND unethical?
SCOTUS should have simply declined to receive the case and upheld the lower court’s ruling. But, no, SCOTUS cows to Trump. Which indicates we are already in a Constitutional crisis.
Thank you for your insight Mr Litman. I’m supposing Trump’ll just punt everything he can to SCOTUS on an emergency basis, the equivalent of the rich kid on the playground yelling, “I’m gonna tell my dad on you!” It’s not like crying wolf because crying wolf at some point ceases to work. Sadly, SCOTUS is in his pocket. Roberts & the conservative justices aren’t concerned with their power & legacy. I can hear them in my head, “We have job security, paychecks, & unethical perks no one can check. Law & justice without fear or favor? Who cares!” So what, they think, if history eventually figures out the truth? They’ll be dead.
When are the lower court judges going to band together and protest the actions of the Supreme Court? Their rulings are being overturned for one reason only: to kowtow to Trump and perhaps to line their pockets with payoff money. Federal judges need to put pressure on the Supremes to stop this capitulation to Trump.
Did you, people heard about JDVance talk about Catholics? I will leave it like that, what the fuck? Those people have Zero decency,NONE, NADA, our country is lost with people like Him and all the ass kissing in Congress and the Senate. Something have to be done,not in 2026, now,if we don't act now, forget America as we know it for more than 250 years.
By contributing monthly to some of the democratic groups that have filed (and will continue to file) lawsuits against this administration, I know I'm doing my patriotic duty. And it feels good.
Harry I’d like the opportunity to speak to you and others about a citizens plan to stop the madness in a peaceful way that is a potential game changer to meet this moment. I am a nobody in politics. I am however a creative! My name is toni Childs, I am an Emmy winner and three time Grammy nominated recording artist. I have a vetted out of the box idea that is grassroots citizens driven I would like to talk to you, top constitutional attorneys for review of a citizens implemented petition state wide. So much work has already done. I am reaching out to the top former republicans like Liz Chaney, Adam Kissinger, the Bulwark, in addition to Midus Touch, Brian Tyler Coen, and other attorneys on sub stack. I am reaching out to top democrats like Bernie, AOC, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom. I would like the opportunity to share what I am proposing, and have your input and support to help blow this up once launched. I do not wish to go into detail in this public forum presently because we need to get our ducks in order. I hope you respond to this I am not a cracked pot or about waste your time or mine! The House is on fire and American people are experiencing Domestic Violence on a national level! I see a powerful path way! Thank you for your kind consideration of my request!
It is such a shame that rulings, stays, etc. by Roberts' Supreme Court are presumed to be political and that their political leanings are supportive of MAGA. There was a time when the US Supreme Court really did its best to be unbiased. They weren't always perfect, but the global perception was that they tried. Now the majority appears to be taking their marching orders from FOX commentators.
It's always seemed to me, at my pretty far distance from the action, that one pillar of Trump's 'evil genius' is his ability to detect every single hairline crack in our legal and related systems and exploit them to evade paying any penalty for his illegal acts. And it makes me sick, not so much about the fact that there are such cracks (we are human after all and the law is a product of humans) but that if you have sufficient means that you can pay a team of lawyers to help you defeat a system meant to uphold justice via such exploitation. IMHO there appears to be some good reasons to prosecute some members of his legal team and potentially imprison or at the least disbar them. Am I alone in this opionion?
From a European perspective, I am astounded by everything that is happening in the Drumpf regime. A DOGE department that was not installed by Congress, an efficiency project contract awarded without a competitive process to an unaudited contractor, access to all government information for people who are merely private citizens, allegations of fraud and waste without any proper reporting or oversight, firings of people without cause by some random person who has no authority to do so, a president who violates the separation of powers on a daily basis, and a judiciary that continues to falter and contradict itself. In Europe, you would have arrested the DOGE henchmen the moment they entered a government building for unauthorized trespassing. It is completely unbelievable. It seems that the US government lacks any legal means of enforcing the law.
Like the postcard says, "Wishing you were here!" 🥴
You state everything correctly! We are not holding our president and certain of his appointees to the highest ethical standards or to the letter of the law, not to mention anything about moral standards. Apparently, he found the WEAK SPOT in our mighty constitutional model: the LACK OF CHARACTER in human beings who refuse to hold it dear and who refuse to carry out its intent. Character matters.
Be well! Keep a thought for us please.
Christy
While I am not an attorney and have no idea how to fix this mess (no, “justice” is not blind; it is available to those who can pay for it), I am always so grateful when readers from other nations weigh in and let us know how horrified you are. Those of us who recognize what is happening seem to be growing in number, but this is still a frightening and isolating time. We appreciate the support of our friends from abroad.
You(Europeans) may be fortunate to not have a spineless, at best, treasonous, at obvious, misnamed "Republican" political party goose stepping to a foreign dictator's orders in support of an equally manipulated, unelected president who's attempting to destroy your government while simultaneously babysitting a 78 year old toddler. Now toss in a duplicitous, complicit, supreme court majority enabling the whole mess and you'll find your answer. But otherwise, thanks for the accurate assessment and reminder. Any room for a few of U.S. American refugees?
Thank you very much for enlightening me.
He's been doing that all of his life. Learned it from his criminal scumbag father.
I'm horrified, Zelenski in the WH, talking to those stupids, why America has gone to deep in shit? That was hard to see and the minion in Chief (JD Vance) I almost vomit, we don't have a country anymore, there's nothing I can do, just talk to you all : SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE TO STOP THIS NONSENSE AND GET BACK AMERICA IF WE LOVE EACH OTHER AND AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT. Fu...........ck, we are losing everything with Trump and his minions and I know in my heart that we as a nation will stop this lunacy, maybe in 2026, but the cult around Trump is strong. I'm thinking in the next civil war, America to always wake trough the crises,England, Emancipation,WW1, WW2,COLD WAR, 9-11, we are fighters,it's in the blood of America, The Clown in Chief can't erase that.PLEASE, let's do what's right together.
You are not alone! The courts must protect their judgments. When a lawless executive controls all the ordinary agencies of law enforcement, the courts need to reach out and grab the low hanging fruit--the DOJ lawyers that appear before them on a regular basis. When they dissemble, or try to defend a client who is dissembling, put them in jail in general population for a couple of weeks. Demand twice daily reports to the court spelling out all the steps being taken by both attorneys and client to comply with the court's orders.
I like your humble opinion.
Unlike Trump's 2021 clown car of now temporarily* disbarred attorneys, these government attorneys are pressed into an impossible situation. While we've seen several DOJ lawyers resign recently on ethical grounds, not all are in a financial position to just quit. Put yourself in their shoes.
*Giuliani was permanently disbarred by both NY and DC governing boards.
Bove and Martin can start the parade. With Bondi not far behind.
He’s treated USAID like all of the business associates he screwed over after they completed work and he decided not to pay. If the Supreme Court doesn’t demand they restart this funding and advise the president to disband it the appropriate way, through congress then the Supreme Court is truly compromised and we can have zero faith in law in this country ever again.
I already consider us to be a captured nation. We're all hostages to this piece of crap and his piece of crap buddies.
In other words, the lawless Trump administration, has no intentions of complying with the rule of law, I’m shocked!
Don't be shocked. Do something about it.
It’s sarcasm,
No one is shocked!
I think I knew that. And I was more or less just venting, as I see far too much impotent handwringing in comments across the board. I wring my hands, too, and cry into my pillow, and gnash my teeth. Then I make plans on how to kick butt, and act on them. Maybe it's a tiny kick in a big butt, but it's what I've got. Sorry if I offended, Steve. Sometimes I err on the side of action.
Just don't assume that others aren't doing the same. We cry, then we get up and do what we can.
I'm definitely DOING, but sometimes I do fall prey to venting a bit. No crying here.
Get your signs ready with the causes dearest to your heart on them and keep them handy. Let's try and limit the messages to productive comments, and not waste the valuable blank messaging space with name-calling and pejorative words. We need to be taken seriously. This is your moment to make a sincere difference. The 50501s can come on short notice.
And I'm pushing for an effort to gather in silence and in peace (no reason to arrest anyone), for just the NOON HOUR dressed in BLACK (for mourning) or RED (for fury) or WHITE (for peace), on his 100TH DAY in office, and it would be very powerful if it could happen ON THE WASHINGTON MALL, for one of the greatest photo ops of all time (or protest from wherever you are), for a MASSIVE UNITED VOICE which optics the White House, the Congress and the Supreme Court cannot miss, but we each have much we can do before then. Stay safe. Stay informed. Be vigilant, and pass on the message: 100.
Keep the faith. We CAN effect change. We WILL prevail.
Be well!
Christy 🇺🇲❤️🕊
100
As a non lawyer, the one thing Trump has taught me is I’m learning so much about the law by reading and listening to lawyers.
Also highlighting things we've taken for granted for years, how much we help the rest of the world AND americans.
and the law, we've taken the law and our ability to enforce it for granted.
Can government lawyers be sanctioned or referred to the bar by the court for conduct of this sort?
Yes, they can be. In fact, DOJ has an office of professional responsibility that investigates claims of improper conduct by Department employees. (Who knows what the office is doing now.) Not every jurisdiction is going to have an internal office like DOJ. The bar disciplinary authorities in the respective states would have jurisdiction over state and local government attorneys. Those authorities will also have jurisdiction over federal government attorneys though a state bar authority may defer to any internal investigation by the professional responsibility people at DOJ.
These govt lawyers are not volunteering to represent their corrupt client like Giuliani, Eastman, Chesebro, Ellis, etc. It's their unenviable job right now. If they were in a financial position to resign, as others recently have, they probably would.
Our Psychological and Political Pandemic 'It's Even Worse than You Think' DR. BANDY X. LEE
🔸️Mental pathology in a president is a public matter.
🔸️Every other job that deals with life or death has a mental fitness evaluation as a requirement
🔸️When this is not available, the public needs to be educated about the risks as much as possible.
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this would all be so much worse without you, Harry. thanks
Trump has a habit of filing frivolous motions, ill-written and overtly political briefs and these emergency petitions — is there to be no punishment for what is obviously unlawful AND unethical?
SCOTUS should have simply declined to receive the case and upheld the lower court’s ruling. But, no, SCOTUS cows to Trump. Which indicates we are already in a Constitutional crisis.
Anyone government willing to declare an emergency in order to gain more power would gladly create a fake reason for declaring one in the first place.
Thank you for your insight Mr Litman. I’m supposing Trump’ll just punt everything he can to SCOTUS on an emergency basis, the equivalent of the rich kid on the playground yelling, “I’m gonna tell my dad on you!” It’s not like crying wolf because crying wolf at some point ceases to work. Sadly, SCOTUS is in his pocket. Roberts & the conservative justices aren’t concerned with their power & legacy. I can hear them in my head, “We have job security, paychecks, & unethical perks no one can check. Law & justice without fear or favor? Who cares!” So what, they think, if history eventually figures out the truth? They’ll be dead.
Cynical but believable.
When are the lower court judges going to band together and protest the actions of the Supreme Court? Their rulings are being overturned for one reason only: to kowtow to Trump and perhaps to line their pockets with payoff money. Federal judges need to put pressure on the Supremes to stop this capitulation to Trump.
I’m not sure they can even do that. With Trump as god, they sittith at the right hand, right under the greasy throne.
Did you, people heard about JDVance talk about Catholics? I will leave it like that, what the fuck? Those people have Zero decency,NONE, NADA, our country is lost with people like Him and all the ass kissing in Congress and the Senate. Something have to be done,not in 2026, now,if we don't act now, forget America as we know it for more than 250 years.
By contributing monthly to some of the democratic groups that have filed (and will continue to file) lawsuits against this administration, I know I'm doing my patriotic duty. And it feels good.
Succinct … well-founded … well-reasoned … no typos … I’m jealous.
Harry I’d like the opportunity to speak to you and others about a citizens plan to stop the madness in a peaceful way that is a potential game changer to meet this moment. I am a nobody in politics. I am however a creative! My name is toni Childs, I am an Emmy winner and three time Grammy nominated recording artist. I have a vetted out of the box idea that is grassroots citizens driven I would like to talk to you, top constitutional attorneys for review of a citizens implemented petition state wide. So much work has already done. I am reaching out to the top former republicans like Liz Chaney, Adam Kissinger, the Bulwark, in addition to Midus Touch, Brian Tyler Coen, and other attorneys on sub stack. I am reaching out to top democrats like Bernie, AOC, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom. I would like the opportunity to share what I am proposing, and have your input and support to help blow this up once launched. I do not wish to go into detail in this public forum presently because we need to get our ducks in order. I hope you respond to this I am not a cracked pot or about waste your time or mine! The House is on fire and American people are experiencing Domestic Violence on a national level! I see a powerful path way! Thank you for your kind consideration of my request!
It is such a shame that rulings, stays, etc. by Roberts' Supreme Court are presumed to be political and that their political leanings are supportive of MAGA. There was a time when the US Supreme Court really did its best to be unbiased. They weren't always perfect, but the global perception was that they tried. Now the majority appears to be taking their marching orders from FOX commentators.