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In less than 100 days, and despite Republican control of all three branches of government, Donald Trump has careened through constitutional barriers at an astonishing pace ...

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More: The legal fig leaf Trump used to deport Kilmar brego Garca to a brutal Salvadoran prison is a law from 1798 called the Enemy Aliens Act, signed by President John Adams after being passed by a Congress controlled by a political party so old it no longer exists.

The Declaration of Independence was barely over 20 years old then. You'll remember that document from grade school, but you probably don't know that it accuses a British tyrant of misruling America in exactly the same way Trump is.

"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."

The document goes on to list King George's many crimes that happen to exactly match Trump's depredations. Among them:

"Depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury" " Garcia was deported without even a hearing by a judge, let alone a jury.
"Transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" " Garcia was deported to a foreign nation based on a mere accusation never proved in court.
"Abolishing the free System of English Laws" " Trump could only do those things by ignoring common law.
Trump is as guilty as the tyrant King George of "abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments."
They both are guilty of "declaring themselves invested with power to legislate."

But Trump is not just the kind of lawless autocrat who inspired the American Revolution, the values of which formed the basis of our Constitution. He has ignored the very first civil right that is older than the Roman Empire, nearly as old as the Pyramids, as old as the idea of law itself. And that is the right to have the government's case against you taken before a magistrate who must agree before your life is destroyed. That idea is in the code of Hammurabi from 2,000 years before the birth of Christ.

If Donald Trump can deport a man " in a case which the administration admitted was an "administrative error" " without the case against that man being heard in court, there is nothing to prevent him from using the same process to deport and imprison U.S. citizens without trial. Trump has even said that he is thinking about deporting American convicts to this same Salvadoran prison hellhole.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-04-17 09:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

The Founders warned us about the sort of people who support Trump as well.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-17 09:35 AM | Reply

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." " Benjamin Franklin

For Franklin, the seeds of despotism were sown when societal decay reached a point where people began to fear for their lives and property. In such scenarios, he noted, the demand for a strong, autocratic government becomes inevitable. He foresaw that a government born out of corruption would strip away the very freedoms it was intended to protect.

"if men were angels, no government would be necessary."
-James Madison

Welcome to the future that our founding fathers feared.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-17 12:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

He was an illegal immigrant and now he's gone

#4 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-04-17 06:41 PM | Reply

"He was an illegal immigrant and now he's gone"

Wish him into the cornfield, Trump!

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-17 06:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

He was an illegal immigrant and now he's gone

#4 | POSTED BY THEBULL

BULL is the man who thinks that karma only applies to people he does not like.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-17 06:46 PM | Reply

so they'd be okay with the invasion at the border ? NOT according to article 4

--so they'd be okay with one party running the potus off and replacing
him with a big donor back room SELECTION who didn't get a single primary vote
and who in previous election her own party didn't want her...I think not.

--and they'd be 0kay with the WH house colluding and forcing media to take their side
AND CENSORING THE OTHER.....SEE ZUCKERBERG COMMENTS....

Franklin would have written a dozen pamphlets condemning that.

--They'd be okay with scamming the voters om the mental deterioration of the potus
but demanding the 25th amendment be used 0n the guy who gets annual check ups.
get serious....of course they'd reject that//

--they'd be embarrassed that public school failures would call this country a
'democracy instead of what it is ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 4...."a republican from of government
these days known as a constitutional republic with democratic principles ..

---and they'd be ashamed every time someone says the democratic party..
THERE IS NOTHING DEMOCRATIC about the democrat party....see each proof above.

---

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-17 11:20 PM | Reply

www.huffpost.com

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-04-17 11:22 PM | Reply

Welcome to the future that our founding fathers feared.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy

hoax..

baloney

that was that guy who wandered around and had to have arrows on the floor t keep him from wandering.

and thank God we missed the illiterate drunk whose speeches are still being analyzed

to find out what she was babbling about

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-17 11:27 PM | Reply

your brain is a hoax.

#10 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-04-17 11:27 PM | Reply

oh yeah and........

what would the founders say if they knew dems spent over a BILLION dollars

on a campaign and they still went over budget because they paid --- like oprah and the

so called "country singer MILLIONS of dollars just to show up

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-17 11:30 PM | Reply

www.huffpost.com

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite

posts all these pathological liars you want.

It doesn't matter and I don't care....didn't even open it when it says huffpo

I will never...E.V.E.R. believe any member of the committee to elect democrats again

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-17 11:37 PM | Reply

your brain is a hoax.

#10 | Posted by Alexandrite

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

listening to carson reruns and seinfelds 2nd appearance.

doing his women and cotton ball routine.

I know jerry seinfeld.

jerry seinfeld is a friend of mine

you sir are no jerry seinfeld'

Y'all are lost little sheep who have lost their way

baaa baaaaa baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

-30-

#13 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-17 11:43 PM | Reply

"The Founders warned us about the sort of people who support Trump as well.
#2 | Posted by Zed"

The founders of Canada? Yeah, maybe. That is why they were too cowed to throw out the British monarchy. Don't go trying to spread your ------- Canuck values to Americans.

#14 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-18 03:05 AM | Reply

The Republican controlled Congress gear him and the Supreme Court is powerless to do anything about his actions other than meaningless condemnation.

Trump is a tinpot dictator.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-18 03:16 AM | Reply

The Republican controlled Congress fear him and the Supreme Court is powerless to do anything about his actions other than meaningless condemnation.

Trump is a tinpot dictator.

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-18 03:17 AM | Reply

ShrimptaClown - You can barely scrawl together a sentence. Pipe down, smooth brain.

#17 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-04-18 09:54 AM | Reply

And all the ----------- who cried that they need piles of guns to prevent the rise of tyranny are clapping like trained seals.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-18 12:17 PM | Reply

That is Ironic,isn't it?

All that talk about Tyranny and they LOVE THE TYRANT when he is perceived to be "one of them".

#19 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-04-18 12:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

---- off Russian stooge.

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-18 01:58 PM | Reply

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