Fight the Trump Administration’s Defiance of the Constitution and Courts — from 5calls.org
On April 14th, the Trump administration openly defied a unanimous order from the Supreme Court by refusing to bring back a person they knowingly sent to a torture prison in El Salvador by mistake.
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Since Day 1, the Trump administration has been consistently eroding the constitutional separation of powers and system of checks and balances. They have…
- Repeatedly stonewalled federal district judges in court proceedings, defied orders, and threatened to impeach them
- Attempted to revoke birthright citizenship
- Usurped Congress’s constitutional “power of the purse” to block mandated federal funding to essential programs
- Violated the First Amendment and due process rights of students and activists
- + many other items listed here…
From DSC:
Be more like Harvard.
Harvard sues the Trump administration in escalating confrontation — from washingtonpost.com by Susan Svrluga and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
Lawsuit argues that government actions, including freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding, violated the First Amendment and didn’t follow legal procedures.
Harvard University sued the Trump administration in federal court Monday, the latest move in the escalating feud between the nation’s wealthiest school and the White House.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts against multiple federal agencies, seeks to block the Trump administration from withholding federal funding “as leverage to gain control of academic decision making at Harvard.”
Alan M. Garber, the president of Harvard, said in a message to the university community Monday that the Trump administration’s actions are unlawful and beyond the government’s authority.
From DSC:
Trump has WAAAAY overstepped his jurisdiction and has crossed boundaries left and right. He has single-handedly wreaked havoc across the world — especially with the trade wars and by undermining the Federal Reserve. But he has also trampled on the rights of people living in America. Perhaps we need to write or revisit the job description of a President of the USA. But that’s not really going to help. He wouldn’t listen to it or read it anyway.