Lone Candle
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Simply calling what happened in Poland’s higher court a coup ignores that both sides for more than a decade have been disputing fundamental processes of the court, and that came to a head a few days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0wf7WbqLQY
Under Trump, the Department of Justice has been hiring lawyers with lower qualifications.
The Trump administration fired military officers for following lawful Biden orders. The military is required to follow lawful orders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4AvwsG-lPE&t=1257s
By making it extremely hard to gain standing, the Supreme Court has ruled that a president can blatantly act illegally and steal Congress’s power. The Court has deeply damaged a basic tenet of the Constitution by allowing a president to use governmental power in cases where he clearly has no such power. If the president wants to do something outside his core powers, he must have Congress authorize that power and spending. The Constitution is black and white on this, but most “Conservatives” on the Supreme Court don’t care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ixLz2CwbU
The Trump administration isn’t just acting illegally with domestic actions, but foreign policy actions. Assassinating criminals, even in foreign territory, is murder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfW6B66E3Qk
Former US Colonel Peter Mansoor says Trump thought Iran would surrender just from air attacks and didn’t have a plan for if they didn’t. He also said the war is unconstitutional, and that while a part of him is happy to see Iran get pain after killing hundreds of Americans in the Iraq war, most of him worries that Trump doesn’t have a plan and has opened a can of worms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbPfiSB-MN8
US military leaders are encouraging Christianity among their troops and justifying the war using Christian rhetoric and ideology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbhdEcOxfkw
The US military is awesome, but I’m skeptical it will achieve substantial war aims. Killing a lot of people and destroying a lot of equipment is a means to an end. It means very little if we don’t have a long-term major success. I’m skeptical the US and Israel will get there, but I hope they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxiMswJVBI4&t=2s
The modern presidents wield authority far beyond anything the founders envisioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCd0Wx4-ap4
The U.S. deadly strike on the potential drug boat appears to have been illegal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKF1e58j5XQ
“To place huge new tariffs on imports from China, President Donald Trump claimed that those transactions are “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States.
It’s a threat that the White House now says it can put off addressing for another 90 days.
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This is not just a rhetorical point but a question that’s central to the legality of the tariffs. In front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last month, the Trump administration’s lawyer told skeptical judges that the president’s tariff powers rested upon the existence of an “unusual threat” that the president was taking action to “deal with.”
The latest delay in the China tariffs, then, seems to directly undermine that claim. If Trump wants to use the threat of tariffs to negotiate a new trade deal with China, fine, but then that’s not an emergency—and, as a result, those tariffs cannot be implemented with the emergency powers the president is currently claiming.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/12/after-another-delay-trumps-china-tariffs-look-even-less-like-a-legitimate-emergency/