American Bar Association is bucking for the "Most obvious statement ever" award.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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There are quite a few nominees this year, and it's only February.
Of 2025.
At least they were willing to say it.
My exact reaction. Thanks for weighing in on it, very helpful contribution!
As a friend of mine says: "The American Bar Association is a very agree-to-disagree organization. If the ABA is warning about an imminent collapse of the rule of law, we are down to studs and wires."
Yeah everyone's poking fun and cracking jokes, but this is a very politically neutral organization coming out and saying "No seriously, the country is on the verge of total collapse." Yes, we all know that and yes, it's silly nobody else is saying it, that doesn't stop this from being a big huge warning sign.
A clown, a felon and a rapist walks into a bar^association^
A man who's above the law isn't following the law??
Daaaaaaaang.
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...so, uh... I noticed he's still not in jail. Did y'all have a backup plan?
checks Dem playbook Nope, seems it's still rousing speeches to the press, fundraising emails, and fuckall else. Good luck!
Ooooo, fundraising, that'll help
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Man, who gave him permission to do whatever he wanted while in office with legal impunity?
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In addition, the ABA announced that the cow goes "moo" and fire is hot.
In other news ABBA announced that you are the "dancing queen"
I would like to state for the record that I am no such thing.
In fact, I'm much closer in ability to the Dancin' Fool Frank Zappa wrote about 😁
(Also, I may be sweet at times, but I'm not young, being almost two and a half times 17 😁)
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He never has, why start now?
So do something about it?
The only ones who can do something about it are those with nothing to lose.
Good thing we all stand to lose everything if we do nothing.
…no shit
Maybe if we keep telling him that he's breaking the law he'll feel bad and stop
It's worked so far.
And he won't care. He is in the middle of a coup, why should he care for the soon to be former law?
What else did you expect a convicted felon to do?
Rot in prison.
Failing that... fire up the Luigi signal?
Now now, don't be besmirching the good felons by lumping them in with the Mango Mussolini..
No shit Sherlock! Where have they been the last nine years, auditioning for "Idioacracy" II?
It's like we have evolved into to two species. One with intelligence, and the other with shit for brains.
Uh yeah? Last summer the highest court in the land essentially ruled that he doesn't have to so long as he's the president. Only Congress has the authority to stop him now through impeachment and conviction.
Every single one of those ecg-swasti-scribbles on an executive order will be pushed back as the presidential power authorized by the highest court prior to the election.
Gasps
No shit.
This is my shocked face :O
Lawyers really believing in "the law" like Trump is a black teenager that they can encage and torture.
Yes he is. Official acts. Not a crime. SCOTUS said so.
There's a difference between "you can't jail him for this" and "this is now a law you have to enforce."
Of course if Congress and the Supremes roll over, then it can become the law.
Where there is no consequence, there is no law.
And why should he? He is doing a coup, so current laws will soon be ex-laws anyway, and won't apply to him.
Do we really need the bar to tell us that?
I'm sure he'll stop immediately, now that it's been pointed out.
Do we need it? Not pressingly, but it’s better than silently acquiescing.
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😲
Duh, and or hello.
Okay, go ahead and stop him then.
Maybe if you file the right motion he'll stop.
Or maybe you'll all end up sounding like sovereign citizens.
"No! These specific primates signed this parchment with these letters so it means you're not allowed! Violence doesn't make you right!!"
You cannot tell him to behave, you have to force him.
The American Journal of Obviousness (AJO) says this is correct.
What do they say about SCOTUS?
When has he ever? His whole selling point is a scofflaw
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