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IrishBubbaLiberal

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3. "Despotism"

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:03 PM

Mar 2025

This part….Wow.

Without due process, you have what we see today: a leader using a wartime statute in peacetime to declare certain people to be dangerous gang members without providing any evidence, then imprisoning them without charges and finally denying the authority of the courts and defying a court order requiring the leader to obey the laws as written. It is no exaggeration to say that this is the road to despotism.

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Don't know much about history? I'm here for you, Elon Musk. - Milabnak WaPo (skip if you suffer from hypertension) [View all] question everything Mar 2025 OP

And yet I still see Comenntators and Podcasters celebrating judicial decisions Otto_Harper Mar 2025 #1

Great article. Thanks. Good to see WaPo publishing this. Silent Type Mar 2025 #2

"Despotism" IrishBubbaLiberal Mar 2025 #3

We were well down that road when Bush started this, and we're now at the "final exit for Democracy" but we'll probably LT Barclay Mar 2025 #6

Aren't these the same guys obsessed with procedural question for the FISA court. CincyDem Mar 2025 #4

I think this article is excellent! FormerOstrich Mar 2025 #5