Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against New York Times, Penguin Random House
A judge has tossed President Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and Penguin Random House, and gave Trump's lawyers 28 days to refile.
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It is scary that the last line of defense against authoritarianism is the judicial system.
Yep, because the Tribunal of Six is the final (legal) court of appeal in the country.
The checks are fraudulent and the balances have been tampered with.
No the last line is the citizens but they seem content to sit back and watch their democracy collapse.
People aren't just sitting back though. The world literally just watched someone intentionally kill Charlie Kirk in a public setting, in front of thousands of people.
He wasn't defending democracy. He shot him because he wasn't fascist enough
That's speculation at best. The kid they apprehended hasn't confessed to anything.
Dont listen to the pundits. For anything. As someone recently suggested, pundits are just the court jesters keeping us divided.
I’ll take the win, regardless
The shooter shot him because he was spreading hate.
That was MAGA on MAGA gang violence
Again - speculation. Kid is only a suspect at the moment, hasn't confessed to anything, yet the court jesters pundits are going absolutely hogwild over "what ifs" and assumptions based on absolutely nothing.
literally just watched
What other way to watch is there?
Telepathically?
If it comes to the citizens, we're all gonna have a bad time.
There are some people doing some stuff. But definitely not at the scale nor intensity required.
Easy to say behind a keyboard. If you live in the US and know your communities, it's not as easy as you all make it seem.
Oh, it's hard? Sorry, I didn't realize defending your democracy would be inconvenient for you. Oh well, nothing you can do then.
"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order"
There's another line after that, but people don't like talking about it.
I get what you are saying and totally empathize with the sentiment given a modern context, but that is the purpose of judiciaries and why the US federal goverment structure was designed the way it was.
What's surprising is not that it's the last line of defense, it's that we've been pushed to the fucking brink.
USA fell off the brink last November. Everything going on now is the falling down bit while people hope someone else is stacking pillows at the bottom. But pillows got real expensive lately and a new Trump headline just dropped.
More scary that it's down to lawyers. Not the judges.
I've read good things about the lawyers at Democracy Forward https://democracyforward.org/
It's always been the judicial system. In Nazi Germany, the courts were incredibly close to blocking the concentration camps. If they had, we'd have had a very different history
Good thing conservatives haven't packed the courts. Oh wait.
Total concentration camp casualties were about 13 million. (about half of that jews, but we almost don't talk about the rest, Israel makes sure the focus is on jews). Mind bogglingingly horrible.
But total WWII casualties were something like 80 million.
Would history be different? Sure. Amongst other things, Zionists wouldn't be able to weaponize guilt.
