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20 years ago, #POTUS was the leader of the free world.
Today, @POTUS is leading the nationalization of a free country.
A history🧵on how we got here..
Today, @POTUS is leading the nationalization of a free country.
A history🧵on how we got here..
It didn't start with #September11. Federal interventionism and expansionism began much earlier.
We dove into global conflicts in 1898, when we took Cuba, PR, Guam, and Philippines from the Spanish in a short war that began suspiciously.
We dove into global conflicts in 1898, when we took Cuba, PR, Guam, and Philippines from the Spanish in a short war that began suspiciously.
Two hawkish POTUS later, #WoodrowWilson (a passive academic) established the #FederalReserve and income tax in 1913 (FTC in 1914), entered WWI and created a propaganda office in 1917, raised taxes in 1918, and formed what became the @UN in 1920.
Federal powers greatly expanded.
Federal powers greatly expanded.
#Gaslighting alert:
You may come across bot-amplified activists pitching the idea that #Republicans have been packing the Courts for years, and therefore, hypocritically object to Democratic Party machinations to inflict #courtpacking on America if Kamala Harris and her running mate are elected.
So, is it true, have "Republicans been packing" the Courts for decades?
Well, let's start by agreeing that this, or any, conversation is pointless unless we share a common language. If you think so, then ...
Well, let's start by agreeing that this, or any, conversation is pointless unless we share a common language. If you think so, then ...
#Dan, you're nearly old enough to remember actual #courtpacking, the #FDR proposal to add justices to the court, increasing the total number of justices on a formula related to justices turning 70.
For those who prefer to learn facts of what actually was proposed as #courtpacking, just @Google, @Bing, or @DuckDuckGo the term.
Here's a hint: #Dan is caught in another lie of his own manufacture.
Here's a hint: #Dan is caught in another lie of his own manufacture.
1. #CourtPacking: On Feb 5, 1937, #FDR announced his #courtpacking plan to deal with a conservative Supreme Court that was acting as a super-legislature to overturn the desperately needed recovery acts that were attempting to save America from total economic collapse.
2. Congress' attempts to fix the economy were repeatedly stymied by the imposition of a judicial activist theory of "substantive due process" that created a right of contract that trumped all Constitutionally granted legislative power. By 1937, FDR had finally had
3. enough and announced his #courtpacking plan that would increase the number of #SCOTUS justices to as many as 15. The reaction was similar to what we are seeing from the Conservatives who this time seek to turn the US into an extremist white supremacist Christian theocracy.
Re: #CourtPacking: many have become so inured to the idea that #SCOTUS has been and should be apolitical that we miss the forest for the trees. While we debate whether SCOTUS is political (it is) members have used the apolitical posture to increase the Court's authority/power. 1/
Consider Chief Justice Roberts' repeated insistence that the justices are umpires in conjunction with the enormous amount of power he amassed as the "swing" vote in the last term. 2/
With some notable exceptions (thx @StrictScrutiny_), Roberts was praised as an "institutionalist" for those votes by court watchers. The idea that the Court was behaving "apolitically" seemed to translate into an increase in public faith in #SCOTUS 3/
1. I'm going to repeat some earlier posts of mine.
The case Trump filed in NY to stop the NYC grand jury was clearly filed in a panic. I don't think they knew about the grand jury until two subpoenas were issued for Trump org and Masars. Case number is a 2018 number so the
The case Trump filed in NY to stop the NYC grand jury was clearly filed in a panic. I don't think they knew about the grand jury until two subpoenas were issued for Trump org and Masars. Case number is a 2018 number so the
2. grand jury has been investigating Trump for at least eight months & started before Barr was confirmed so Mueller could have given them everything under 6(e). The NYC prosecutors had to know Trump would try to stop them so they kept it secret. But they could get Deutchebank's
3. Trump tax returns in secret. I presume they want the one Masars has because it's the one the IRS got. I'm a long time fraud hunting Bankruptcy attorney and I'm betting the returns won't match and will prove Trumps committed bank fraud in addition to false business records.
