Tuesday, March 05, 2019

courts

Trump will likely pad courts all the way down to Ashland with judges that can shut down legal challenges to legislation that could do things like remove the separation of church and state, outlaw any form of abortion or birth control, allow employers to lower wages, deny overtime and remove accommodations for protected classes of people, remove restrictions on predatory behavior by all manner of capitalist venture, give increased military authority to law enforcement, institute conscripted military service, remove regulations governing the behavior of for-profit prisons, private "security firms" and hate groups, remove term limits for elected offices, increase the power concentration in the executive branch (war, torture, persecution of political dissidents), defund public education and all other public safety nets, remove educational standards, require religious affiliation, criminalize criticizing elected officials or government organizations...pulling out of innumerable international agreements that stabilize whatever peace exists in the world today, ignoring the Geneva Convention, etc etc etc. This is potentially very very bad.

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