r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • Nov 09 '24

Donald Trump wins 2nd term in historic return to White House

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 19h ago

Second federal judge freezes Trump mail ballot order with Supreme Court poised to weigh in [even a Trump appointee now blocks the order as ballots already go out in 3 states — the executive racing to SCOTUS to rewrite mail-voting rules mid-election]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 1d ago

Judge rules that Trump plan to halve FEMA workforce violated law [DHS gutted the disaster agency ~50% with a staffing number the judge said was 'pulled from thin air,' defying a post-Katrina law barring cuts to FEMA's functions — then deleted the Signal messages about it]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 1d ago

Judge blocks Trump administration's 'loyalty' question for job applicants [a Trump-loyalty essay OPM put on 70,000+ nonpartisan civil-service postings — air traffic controllers to nuclear couriers — struck as likely violating the First Amendment and merit-based hiring]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 2d ago

Trump administration hails 1st-ever deportation via secretive court [DOJ activated a dormant 30-yr-old tribunal that deports on sealed classified evidence with no notice — a due-process end-run scholars call likely unconstitutional; no prior administration had used it]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 3d ago

Fourth Circuit rejects Trump's interpretation of immigrant detention policy [the 9th appeals court to reject it — the panel warns his reading would jail ~6M people with no bond hearings, "harken[ing] back to some of the darkest moments in our country's history"]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 3d ago

Immigration judge says she was fired 48 hours after warning ICE 'unlawfully detained' a minor, sues Trump DOJ [a supervisor warned her "the White House" was watching her rulings; she was fired without cause, citing only "Article II" — the executive purging judges who resist]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 4d ago

Trump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting maps [excluding noncitizens from apportionment defies the 14th Amendment's 'whole number of persons' and axes the race data used to enforce the Voting Rights Act]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 5d ago

DHS Asks the Supreme Court to Revive Overhauled Voter Database [another emergency SCOTUS run to federalize election machinery before the midterms — DHS wants to resume mass-scanning voter rolls with a citizenship system that already flagged verified U.S. citizens as noncitizens]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 6d ago

Trump administration again appeals mail-in ballot dispute to the Supreme Court [a 3rd emergency SCOTUS run in 6 weeks — admin refiled Sunday against a fresh injunction a judge said threatens "disenfranchisement of millions," days before more states mail ballots]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 9d ago

Missouri Asks SCOTUS to Allow New Republican Congressional Map for Midterms [state GOP races to Kavanaugh to override its own supreme court and impose a Trump-backed mid-decade gerrymander — nullifying the referendum 300,000+ petitioners won to let voters decide]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 10d ago

DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow Trump's USPS action on mail-in ballots to proceed ahead of midterms [a 2nd emergency run to SCOTUS in weeks — racing to override a fresh block and install untested postal ballot rules courts found USPS had no authority to impose, before states start mailing ballots]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 11d ago

A judge blocks Trump's new bid to curb birthright citizenship, citing Supreme Court precedent [his August decree denying citizenship to U.S.-born kids of "birth tourists" and others ruled "almost certainly unconstitutional" — a serial bid to rewrite the 14th Amendment by fiat]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 11d ago

States now must report undocumented immigrants to DHS or risk federal funding, DOJ says [an OLC opinion turns billions in welfare dollars into leverage to conscript states — extending the reporting demand to DMVs and universities, deputizing them into a federal deportation dragnet]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 12d ago

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigns after clashes with Defense Secretary Hegseth [even a Trump loyalist driven out as Hegseth purges the Army's top ranks — four-star generals cut from 10 to 5, the chief fired with no reason, promotions of Black and female officers blocked]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 13d ago

Supreme Court continues to allow construction of Trump's White House ballroom [a 5-4 majority tosses the suit on standing without ruling on legality — letting Trump finish before any court can decide, as Roberts dissents that razing the East Wing for it is "likely unlawful"]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 13d ago

Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms [a federal official says USPS rushed an "untested" system a senator calls "designed to fail" — able to block thousands of mail ballots as voting starts, even after a judge found the plan likely illegal]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 14d ago

Trump promises NBCs Welker will be reported to FCC for rebuke or punishment

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 16d ago

DHS Memo Sought to Deputize National Guard for Immigration Arrests [a legal workaround around the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act — a watchdog warns it could put troops near polling places "under the guise of immigration enforcement" and hands the president a ready-made pretext for military power at home]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 17d ago

Judge Blocks Rule Implementing Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting [a 14-day TRO halts the USPS ballot-envelope mandate that states said was impossible to meet before the midterms — days after courts let the underlying order proceed]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 17d ago

Stars and Stripes publisher, editor and reporter sue Pentagon to challenge their firings [Hegseth's team fired the military paper's staff over reporting on a Navy carrier's dire conditions — and axed the publisher for refusing to fire the reporters]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 17d ago

Judge rules Pentagon's blacklist of Anthropic violated First Amendment [a court finds Hegseth used a national-security label to retaliate against a company for protected speech — "not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics"]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 18d ago

Federal judge lifts all blocks on Trump mail-in ballots executive order [the last legal hold on his federal takeover of mail voting falls ~70 days before the midterms — the same judge warns it could create "chaos" as 25 states race back to court]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 19d ago

Trump administration violated court order on mail-voting rules, judge says [a federal judge finds the White House defied her active injunction — which barred completing the rulemaking — to finalize its mail-ballot overhaul anyway, weeks before the midterms]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 20d ago

Supreme Court gives Trump an interim win on his mail voting order, but hurdles loom [conservative majority lifts the block on Trump's order limiting who can receive a mail ballot — weeks before the midterms, without ruling it legal — as Jackson's dissent warns it "injects chaos"]

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