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Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Which begs the question… Are trump and Miller guilty of Insurrection? Of treason? They are clearly violating and destroying our Constitution, and government at the behest of the Heritage Foundation and Christofascist terrorists. Why wouldn’t treason, conspiracy, and insurrection apply to them?

It is all part of their efforts to paint themselves as crime fighters. Classic strongman technique to win support from the middle class. Everything is a performance for the orange dummy.

If the constitution means anything, and I guess I'm personally questioning the Governor's belief in it, because his state storm troopers are using violence to silence free speech right now. bsky.app/profile/aste...

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Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov the actions of your storm troopers seems to belie your statements that "they'll have to come thru you" rhetoric

republicans have been playing the long game, and no doubt have more evil schemes up their sleeves..the ice raids are, at least in part, designed to terrorize blue states, democrats or any antifascist protesters. we know bullies who wear masks are weak.

Large, public, violent confrontations with the police/authorities are exactly what this administration wants to see happen. Trump wants any excuse to declare martial law. If you're inclined toward violence, seek help/counselling. Don't use Trump as an excuse, a pretense, to act on your pathology.

Let’s face it, the pedophile has no clue what’s going on. They’re trying to push all this through so it’s blamed on him cause he has immunity. They’re setting up jd, who does not have immunity. The autopen is moving fast. 25th now! 8647 now!

It deeply disturbs me to contemplate that Republicans are actually terrorists, driven by an unwavering determination to destroy the America they professed to cherish over the past five decades.

They are and have been since Nixon. If we are ever going to have something resembling normalcy in this counrty again, the Republican party must be *destroyed*, utterly, and liberals need to get a lot less squeamish about that idea. As long as they are allowed to exist at all, they will try it again.

Like most aspects of life, we can only hope to manage them. However, thanks to the Trump administration and the Supreme Court, we now understand that there are no excuses for a democratic president to not utilize all the available power.

Release the Epstein list. Release the Epstein list. Release the Epstein list, you hubristic thugs. The public can be extraordinarily powerful when it pushes back. Frog attire welcomed.

Their anonymity is crucial to their extrajudicial conduct. None of them possess immunity from prosecution. None of them seemingly have been apprised of their exposure to legal consequences or they’d watch their behavior. Governors are gonna need to begin prosecutions-show trials-to chasten them.

💯 According to the literature, State seccession is all but impossible. But just recently I saw a suggestion by a governor (and I can't remember which one), but she suggested something like financial seccession. That is, a state refusing to pay any federal taxes. That has both merit and teeth IMO.

That info is readily available online. I've looked it up in the past & there's been numerous articles written about that. For example, Texas (of all places) has been threatening off & on for years to secede. I say, let them & good riddance.

When the Constitution was made, the states entered into a contract. If the Constitution is made invalid, such as establishing a dictatorship, then the contract is null and void. The states can secede. Who is going to stop them? The rump US will have a 37 trillion debt which it can’t pay.

You're talking to the wrong person. I didn't make the rules or establish these laws. They were written more than 100 years ago in the wake of the Civil War. (The first one that is, given that we appear to be in the middle of the second one).

I just watched some military choppers fly over my head and I'm thinking, "wow are they going to bomb Venezuela, shoot Mexicans, are they going to kill US citizens?" I've lost all fucking hope over the USA and I'll never ever trust our military in a domestic way again.

The Melonhead had his best chance for invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 on 6 January 2021 while his misguided cultists were doing the insurrection, terrifying Congresscritters . . . but I guess less Machiavellian heads than mine prevailed

If sane Americans actively protest the kidnapping of our neighbors by Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan and these other MAGA freaks, it's insurrection. When they stormed the U.S. Capitol to overturn the 2020 election, it was peaceful protest. They can fuck right off.

This article was not exactly very comforting. The upshot is the Act is extremely vague and in bad need of reform. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res... EXPLAINER The Insurrection Act Explained Joseph Nunn Last Updated: June 10, 2025 Published: April 21, 2022

brennancenter.orgThe Insurrection Act ExplainedThe law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.

We know that it cannot be enacted under current circumstances; however, it will take the courts to decide on it. If the courts decide that it's an illegal invocation, who will enforce the decision? The despot is lawless & unfettered in his actions. He's protected by his SCOTUS Cartel of Six.

No one deserves a peace prize that uses the military against its own citizens. No one deserves a peace prize that uses the weight of its government to falsely accuse their political rivals. No one deserves a peace prize that blows up boats just because they can.

I got up and it took me 15 minutes to remind me why I hate tne Nazi and everything he stands for. Didn't take long. Invading Chicago to threaten a very peaceful city and state. If the Supreme Court comes to their senses surely they won't support the nazi over the founding principals.

Laws are great, but they don't enforce themselves. Judges rulings are great, but they don't enforce their rulings. At some point Congress must act, but they get paid regardless of being in session or not. Governing is hard. Complaining is easy. Maybe they will stay out for a year.

I don’t think much of John Roberts. Robert’s flub of Obama’s name at the 1st swearing in. Robert’s was an ass. There’s little doubt he’s racist. He certainly agrees with&maybe works for Heritage, but should the tide turn, I want him asked how a SC justice abandons the U S constitution for Trump?

Why are they so obsessed with martial law anyway is my question. Power blah blah, surveillance capitalism blah blah, We've been haunted by this weird specter of martial law for nearly a decade now, what comes next? Getting to Mars requires a democratic society. So ..what's next?

BREAKING NEWS! Trump confirms that he & his entire administration are fascists by declaring Antifa his enemy. Antifa is short for Anti-Fascist, those who oppose racist & fascist groups. Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

brennancenter.orgTrump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize OppositionPurporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

The cowardly media should already be on this. What Trump/Vance and their gaggle of fascists say publicly is very different than what DOJ says in court. Publicly troops are needed to fight crime. In court, knowing crime cannot justify troop deployment, DOJ says they’re needed to protect the feds.

The authority/viability of US constitution is questionable today due to Robert’s SC giving almost full immunity to Yrump, ignoring precedent while making sh$t rulings favorable to Trump+2025. The constitution is an impotent doc when it appears justices favor authoritarianism +not democracy.

The Trump regime will tell the Supreme Court they have classified intelligence about Antifa cells in these states… SCOTUS will believe them & let ‘em do whatever they want. SCOTUS is corrupt. They’ll rewrite the Constitution soon, won’t they?!

Infuriating that there are so few Pritzkers out there right now. Every Governor and every Mayor in every blue (read sane) state and city in the United States should be speaking out this agressively.