#Due

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2026-01-17

Trump’s threat against Minnesota this week is the latest example of how his administration has considered using arcane laws and legal arguments to enact his agenda.

In addition to the #InsurrectionAct, Trump officials have talked publicly about #suspending #due #process, a foundational constitutional principle.

Trump invoked the
#AlienEnemiesAct last year
to speed up deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members.

White House officials considered using it a second time to justify detaining people in Chicago, according to previously unreported Signal messages obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The 1798 wartime law,
designed to combat an invasion or predatory incursion,
has only been used three times prior to this administration.
-- The last time was during World War II.

Opponents have aggressively fought the administration in court over these maneuvers.

This week, both Minnesota and Illinois filed lawsuits challenging the legality of Trump’s immigration enforcement.

The Illinois Attorney General’s Office alleged federal agents acted as “occupiers” instead of law enforcement during operations in the state last fall.

In separate cases, federal judges issued temporary restraining orders in both #Portland and #Chicago #Illinois, stopping the administration from sending National Guard troops into those cities.

A judge ordered troops out of #California in December, saying it violated the law.

And another judge has limited the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport people.

In an interview with the New York Times, #Trump suggested the Insurrection Act could provide a work-around to legal rulings.

“Look, I’ve been stopped on some things,” he told the newspaper last week.

“Now, I will say, if I feel it’s important to invoke the Insurrection Act,
which I have the right to do,
that’s a different thing,
because then I have the right to do pretty much what I want to do.
But I haven’t done that.”

startribune.com/we-are-living-

Steven Saus [he/him]StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com
2026-01-14

Pritzker calls for ’due process’ after ICE shooting in Minneapolis

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker ❲D❳ called for due process in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an Immigration and Cust...


thehill.com/homenews/state-wat #due-process #ice #ice-shooting #national-security #state-watch

Osna.FMosnafm
2026-01-11

Education Disruption Sparks Debate Over Infrastructure and Digital Equity in SaarlandThe Saarland state government has abruptly cancelled in-person classes for... news.osna.fm/?p=30315 |

Osna.FMosnafm
2026-01-11

The North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state government has ordered the cancellation of in-person classes across all schools on Monday, citing a proactive weather war... news.osna.fm/?p=30294 |

Emmaemmalj
2026-01-08

Bloor-Yonge intersection closed due to falling ice

The intersection of Bloor and Yonge Streets has been closed due to falling ice from buildings. Toronto police closed Yonge from Bloor to Hayden Street in both directions shortly after 7 p.m. It was confirmed large chunks of ice are falling from two separate buildings. It’s unknown when the intersection will reopen. ,

sayopi.store/bloor-yonge-inter

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2026-01-01

Over the past two decades, the Roberts Court has pioneered and perfected the practice: #Sanewashing
—defined as “attempting to minimize or downplay a person or idea’s radicality to make it more palatable to the general public”
—It has become a prominent, if entirely underappreciated, feature of the Roberts Court.

Relying on judicial sanewashing, the Roberts Court has ERODED:
#due #process protections,
political #accountability,
and civil rights,
while simultaneously #consolidating #power for itself, corporations, gun owners, Christian conservatives, and state officials who owe their political influence to heavily gerrymandered districts.

All this has been accomplished while the Roberts Court has sought to present itself as a neutral, nonpartisan institution, free from corporate interests and policy preferences and guided solely by constitutional and democratic principles.

As the Roberts Court has transformed into a #conservative policymaking body, it has maintained that it is merely fulfilling its constitutional mandate.

The judicially sanewashed opinions of the Roberts Court haven’t been limited solely to sanewashing the law;
-- Often, they also involve extensive sanewashing of the facts too.
For example, in tandem with whitewashing the anti-racist purpose of the Reconstruction Amendments in Shelby County v. Holder,
the Roberts Court also recast former Confederate states subject to the #Voting #Rights #Act, or VRA, as aggrieved and mistreated, and in need of legal protection by the Court.

According to the sanewashed facts in Shelby County, the VRA was no longer necessary because racially discriminatory voting practices were “rare”
and the remaining sections of the statute would be sufficient to protect minority voting rights.
In the decade since the Court offered those tepid reassurances,
states formerly subject to the VRA’s preclearance requirements have passed an avalanche of discriminatory #voter #suppression laws
as the Roberts Court has simultaneously sought to further weaken the law.
🆘 The Court is now prepared to strike down the remaining vestiges of the statute it promised would remain in place to ensure voting rights remained protected.

Similarly, when sanewashing the First Amendment to recognize new speech rights by corporations to engage in unlimited political spending in #Citizens #United,
the Roberts Court tried to assure a skeptical public that dismantling decades of campaign finance regulations would strengthen the integrity of elections and allow voters to hold officials accountable.
🔥Fifteen years later, the ruling has unleashed a torrent of unregulated corporate spending in American politics,
enabling #superPACs to raise limitless funds from corporations
and undisclosed donors to exercise an outsized influence on election results.
⭐️Between 2010 and 2024, political spending by super PACs grew from $62.6 million to $4.1 billion.

Americans are so disgusted with #darkmoney in politics that an overwhelming majority supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.ERO

newrepublic.com/article/204788

Maxprevenmaxpreven
2025-12-30

Casi fin de año y aprovechando un rato libre para formación en el manejo de pacientes, con el maniqui de entrenamiento profesional de uso sanitario.

Osna.FMosnafm
2025-12-26

Germany's judiciary is sounding the alarm, accusing state governments of inadvertently facilitating organized crime through chronic underfunding and a myopic fo... news.osna.fm/?p=28521 |

2025-12-25
The blog "This Needs Fixin'" looks at systemic problems in our society and suggests ways to address them.

Here's a randomly-selected link to a vintage post from the archive, dated 2025/03/27:

Due Process: No, I Don't Trust you Bro

https://this.needsfixin.net/2025/03/27/due-process-no-i-dont-trust-you-bro

#Culture #Law #due #process
Osna.FMosnafm
2025-12-19

The anticipated reduction in Value Added Tax (VAT) for the German hospitality sector, slated to take effect on January 1st, 2026, is facing a stark reality chec... news.osna.fm/?p=27956 |

Emmaemmalj
2025-12-19

All Winnipeg schools closed due to blizzard

Pembina Trails School Division Supt. Shelley Amos said it's a 'rarity' to have every school in Winnipeg is close due to inclement weather. ,

sayopi.store/all-winnipeg-scho

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