#burnyour1040 no one pays/files taxes until Trump releases his.

In DC today a Capitol Police Officer was shrieking at a guy for crossing a small area of grass to get to his car rather than staying on the sidewalk. The guy just stopped and looked around, not understanding wtf he had done and the officer just continued to scream at him. A few seconds later my dog peed on the grass…

He didn’t do anything.. I don’t get it, why did they hurt him???

they were poking him and pushing him. Then someone from somewhere else just comes over and shoves him to the ground. What is wrong with those douchebags.

That is blatant abuse of power. Fuckers should be fired. I know the ACLU is a little busy but I hope this gets legal action.

It’s pretty disgusting really. Police have been taught to say “stop resisting” whenever they arrest someone in front of cameras, even if they aren’t resisting, because they want to use that as a way to charge them with resisting arrest. It’s a shitty tactic. The guy in the pink shirt handled it well by saying “I’m…

To expand upon what you accurately stated, the first time I saw this addressed today was with Howard Dean, former Vermont governor, when he was a guest on MSNBC this afternoon. The first thing out of his mouth was that it’s taken Donald Trump a little over a week to accomplish what took Richard Nixon 5 years to do and…

I wish these articles would note that in our legal system ***federal statutes trump executive orders*** and the Constitution trumps federal statutes. Rock beats scissors, etc. This is very important to understanding why there is a serious legal issue here. We’ve all seen the substantive analysis of the Immigration Act…

Me: He’s actually banning people based on religion, holy fuck!
Trumpers: It’s not based on religion, it’s only 7 countries full of terrorists. Remember 9/11?
Me: The guys that did 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan. No one from those countries are subject to the ban.
Trumpers: 9/11 was 15 years ago, what…

This is fucking chilling, since this is in the presence of dozens of news cameras and the police are still acting this way.

The mentality of people who want to become cops: because they get to bully people.

The sentiment floating around in the US is also present around the world. 45 can happen anywhere. As much as I hate to say it, I’d almost rather us close the fucking planet down for a day, and then decide to give a nice middle finger to every plucky government and cheap two-bit dick-tater that is looking at 45 and…

This is how a police state is established, by law enforcement agencies refusing to obey the law, and make no mistake, when an executive action is unlawful, particularly if there is a court order staying the executive order, then refusing to obey said court order is unlawful in itself.

Is this conservative? What does that word mean anymore?

Yes, it does. A court order for a stay supersedes the executive order. That is how we have checks and balances: by executive orders, or laws making their way through the court to determine if they are lawful and constitutional. 

The border patrol and ICE have raging hard ons for Trump. A lot of people in our government would love nothing more than to be part of a fascist police state.

Not the mention the police attacking non-violent protesters without provocation. (This was SeaTac where just a few hours earlier the Governor and Seattle Council members supported the protests.)

That the CBP refuse to obey a legal ruling and further claim that they only take orders from Donald Trump means that the safety of the passengers is at high risk. Does this not fall under the juridical definition of contempt?

I made a donation to the ACLU this morning. That was the first political donation I have ever made.

God, it is sad the Red Scare-era quotes are still so relevant, but: