This is how authoritarian takeover goes to
Where in the world can you see a worrying rapid dismantling of civil liberties and rights? Just over a week ago, the United States ended up On that listtogether with countries such as Serbia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, the development has shone further.
The other day, for example, hundreds of people from the United States were deported directly to a prison in El Salvador. The Trump administration claims that they are gang criminals and « terrorists », but there was no judicial review and relatives of several of them suspected denies everyone thread couplings.
Maybe that’s right As the administration says, maybe not. It was to get away from such uncertainty as the one called Habeas Corpus Codified in England in Magna Carta as early as 1215: No one should be able to be locked in or otherwise punished without having their case tried in court. This is one of the rule of law’s most central principles. Obviously, it no longer applies in the United States.
Habeas Corpus is one of the rule of law’s most central principles. Obviously, it no longer applies in the United States.
But it gets worse. An American judge stated that deportation must be interrupted and the aircraft return to the United States. That decision ignored the administration in, and On TV explained Donald Trump’s border manager Tom Homan: « We don’t quit. I don’t care what the judges say ».
Or as Donald Trump himself wrote on social media in February: « Whoever saves his country does not violate the law. » He Requires now that the judge who tried to stop the deportation is faced with national law.
Other people With a valid residence permit has been expelled without legal support. A Lebanese professor and transplant physician was deported despite a court decision on the contrary. A Palestinian student activist, who both had a residence permit and is married to an American, sits imprisoned Waiting to be expelled. He is not suspected of any crime, but the only reason is that he was active in the demonstrations against the war in Gaza.
Trump has also used presidential power to Give on Individual law firms that have represented his political opponents or were involved in legal processes against himself. This is a way to ensure that people Trump dislikes do not receive the constitutionally protected right to legal assistance, which a judge also established.
Trump has also used presidential power to go on individual law firms that have represented his political opponents.
The other day invalidated Trump the preventive pardon that Joe Biden gave to the members of the Congress Committee that investigated the storming of capitol. This is because the bid used an « autop », an electronic signature. There is no legal basis for this, but one must assume that in the next stage he intends to let the Ministry of Justice initiate legal processes against the politicians in the committee. Exactly what the bid was trying to prevent.
At the same time as it The US rule of law is installed down, autocratization is underway throughout the country. One can point to the abolition of free research and Trump’s speech about that prohibit critical mediabut also on the ongoing rewrite of history.
The Ministry of Defense has cleared in its digital archives and removed texts on decisive efforts from American urinals, including a tribute to IRA Hayes from the Pima Tammen which was one of those who traveled the American flag on the Japanese island Iwo Jima in 1945. Away were also taken Charles Rogersthe highest -ranked black military that received the US’s finest honorary committee. The text about his heroic efforts during the Vietnam War disappeared and in the link they instead wrote « dei medal », as a contemptuous accusation that he only received the award due to quotation.
In Trump’s world, prominent people are always white men, and all signs of the opposite must be erased.
On the site for Arlington – the cemetery where the United States buries many of its fallen soldiers and who are seen as one of the nation’s most sacred places – has one has Hidden away Information about, among other things, female and black veterans and removed their graves from guided tours.
In Trump’s world, prominent people are always white men, and all signs of the opposite must be erased.
This is how authoritarian takeover goes to.
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