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the capital building four years,, including’s who had assaulted police officers. Thee New York Department dropped charges against New York City Mayor Erica dams. The federally prosecutor in that case resigned, saying the move was an apparent quid quo fore for Adams cooperating with the the Trump administrations. s. The has asked for a list of FBI employees who investigated Trump and fired prosecutors who took part in thosenvestigations. Meanwhile, the corseted is a separate parade branch of government.
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has emerged as his greatest obstacle. Trumps executive orders on freezing federal spending covering a range ofprogrammes, including ding food assistance for tenderly, have have been blocked courts. us. Thump out in response. . Vice President Vance wrote on XXthat judges aren’t aren’t allowed to control the executives legitimate power term and the White House Press Secretary said judges were abusing their authority. Quickness flash to these liberal judges who are supporting their: 7 million.
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what the court says Nancy Erica Smith is an employment and civil rights lawyer. He joins us from the town of Mood,, Montclair, US state of New Jersey. comet to DW. we have this storm of executive orders from the which are struck down by the courts courts, House to protest loudly aand angrily. Is thisis really a constitutionals is? Caused checks and balances seem to be working at the moment. Oh it’s definitely a constitutional crisis. . sAnytimeyou have one arm of the government,, the executive.
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branch and president completely ignoring the Constitution’s pretty scary. Constitution, instance, says that all persons born in the United States are ccitizens,and aan executiveder from the president of the United States saying that’s not so is very scary and a lot of the action the prpresident—excuse me, me, but the Constitution say thing, ding, the president, it does doesn’t—isn’t the way the syworks? works? works?fuHopefully,, unfortunately, we.
have a Supreme Court that a lot of lawyers like me have very little confidence in. They’re the ones who made up the idea that Trump had immunity from violating the law, which is why we had a revolution in our country. don’t have kings in the United States so there’s very little confidence among lawyers in this Supreme Court. This Supreme Court is the most partisan we’ve probably ever had in history. The Republicans stopped Obama, although he had had a constitutional right to add a Justice to the out. This Supreme Court is the most partisan we’ve probably ever had in history. The Republicans stopped Obama, although he had had a constitutional right to add a Justice to the court during his last.
Now going on, early voting had already started and Trump lost, and those justices testified under oath that they would not overturn Roe v. Wade and then they did. Thomas, more than any other justice, has taken a lot of favors from very connected right-billionaires’. is wife actively works in favor of Trump. pewee get the point. You believe that the system, uh, is stacked against.
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So, the United States, you believe, is in a constitutional uh uh crisis so what happens if even the Supreme Court says no but the President says I’m going to do it anyway?? What happens, States?? What happens then is pretty scary because Trump has also violated many other laws and protections, like the Department of Justice is being decimated so the people who would keep going into lower courts to protect us, they’re being fired or they’re resigning because they won’t violate the law so when you fire
All the inspector generals who are created by Congress, the EEOC is an agency created by Congress to stop discrimination in the United States, the NLRB is an agency created by Congress to protect workers rights, and inspector generals are created by Congress to protect us from fraud and corruption, and the people appointed to those are confirmed by the Senate so the separation of powers in the United States Constitution is really important to be honored, and it’s not being honored, and if the Supreme Court doesn’t stop
that I don’t know what happens in the United States. I don’t see a great deal of leadership right now. There’s no process because I was led to believe that you go to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court says one thing, and the President says another. The next step I understood was an attempt at impeachment, yeah and the Republican Party is in total. They’re completely cowed by Trump. The Republican Party has violated what they said they would do in terms of the incredible.
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appointments to the cabinet the uh alcoholics rapists antivaxxers are in the cabinet now um so the Republicans cannot be relied on we would have to wait two years and have an overwhelming uh election of demur clear there are convicted rapists in the cabinet you you’re saying well well Trump is a convicted rapist um rap yes he was the judge ruled that what there’s a judge ruling that what Donald Trump did to agene Carol is constitutes rape there’s a judge ruling that okay so gaze into your crystal ball for us
Please speculate about the changes likely to have been forced upon the US justice system as a result of four years of a president emboldened by the people and by the Supreme Court, who has politicized the administration of the justice department. What do you see left in four years? I see he loves Organ Trump and his acolytes love Victor orb on and they’re really, they’re really pairing what he did to Hungary. You attack voting rights, you fire civil servants who implement the laws and serve the
People, not a person, intimidate the press, uh, Musk said. 60 Minutes executives, producers and journalists should have been in prison yesterday because he didn’t like what 60 Minutes said. Vance said the president doesn’t have to follow court orders, so I see you create division or attack migrants, which we see happening in this country. You use tones of misinformation and between Twitter now, Musk’s X, Fox News, and Newsman, there’s so much information being pumped into Americans that that’s what Oban
‘No kings on Presidents Day’: Protests against Trump and did and and and and you lie constantly so that nobody can believe anything anymore you don’t have you don’t trust anybody it’s not just that they want us to believe the lies it’s that they don’t want us to trust anything saying that migrants are taking benefits immigrants don’t take benefits they’re not they don’t get benefits saying that migrants are creating are committing so many crimes migrants commit far fewer crimes that’s quite a a dystopian View of the Future Let’s cross our fingers.
and hope that you’re wrong good talking to you thank you so much for joining us I hope so employment and civil rights lawyer Nancy Erica Smith Thank you.
