Republican Hypocrisy category archive

When an executive unilaterally imposes taxes without consent of the legislature, is that not a text-book case of taxation without representation?

At the Des Moines Register, veteran attorney and long-time civil servant Dean Lerner argues that America’s system of checks and balances is broken and offers a theory as to who broke it.

Methinks he makes a strong argument. Read it and see what you think.

In the midst of a longer piece regarding a U. S. District Attorney who was lawfully appointed, but whom the Trump maladministration fired 56 minutes after he was sworn in, Above the Law’s Joe Patrice reveals what may be behind said firing:

Trump wants to install prosecutors illegally and indefinitely without Senate approval.

Follow the link for context.

Above the Law reports on a federal judge’s ruling that Donald Trump can’t have his cake and eat it too. A snippet:

. . . he’s (Trump’s–ed.) found himself scrambling for an aide to explain what a “petard” is after a federal judge in Miami hoisted him by it.

Follow the link for context.

Via the Las Vegas Sun, Jackie Calmes finds herself dismayed at the failure of the Supreme Supremacist Court to stand up to the man who would be king. A snippet:

In the 1800s, the threat to the republic was slavery. These days the danger is a lawless, power-drunk president defiant in unprecedented ways toward the other, supposedly coequal branches of power, Congress and the judiciary. The court’s 2025-2026 term was a test, I said last fall, and one I feared the court would fail, given its predilection for presidential power — the once-fringe unitary executive theory — and thinly veiled Republican partisanship.

It did fail. And the justices’ stunning complicity with Trump in blurring the separation of powers and menacing democracy demands a response from Congress and voters.

Via the Tampa Bay Times, Scott Maxwell writes of Florida International University’s attempt to withhold diplomas from students who had the unmitigated gall to protest silently and peacefully againstthe Trump maladministration’s secretive police ICE. A snippet:

Once upon a time, college students were encouraged to be free-thinkers. That is, in fact, what Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida’s other GOP leaders claim to believe … when they’re renaming roads after Charlie Kirk anyway.

But what they really mean is that Florida students should think the way they do or else shut the hell up.

Aside:

When I was a college student (mumble) years ago, I participated in many peaceful, usually silent protests, mostly against the war in Viet Nam (and history has proven us right, but that’s another issue).

My college officials I suspect–heck, I know–did not approve, but they never threatened to punish us for exercising our Constitutional rights in those unTrumpled times.