Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last week
#NealKatyal, the lawyer who is arguing against the #Trump admin, said earlier Thursday, "The president is saying he on his own with his say so can impose these tariffs."

"And that is something no president in 200 years has ever thought. The tariff power goes all the way back to the Revolutionary War &… the protests in the Boston Tea Party & the like," #Katyal said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

#law#Constitution#SeparationOfPowers#Congress #tariffs
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

"And our #Constitution was very clear in saying…there's one branch that has the #power to tariff & it isn't the president & it isn't the #courts. It's the #Congress of the #UnitedStates," Katyal said.

The case, known as V.O.S. Selections v. Trump, centers on whether #Trump exceeded his #authority by invoking an emergency-powers #law to impose a slew of far-reaching tariff policies.

#law#SeparationOfPowers#NealKatyal #tariffs
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

“At no point will #Brazil negotiate as if it were a small country up against a big country,” #Lula said. “We know the economic power of the #UnitedStates, we recognize the military power of the United States, we recognize the technological size of the United States.”

“But that doesn’t make us afraid,” he added. “It makes us concerned.”

There is perhaps no world leader defying #Trump as strongly as Lula.

#law #geopolitics

joene 🏴🍉
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Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Israel’s genocide isn’t just murdering Palestinians en masse, it’s also destroying any semblance of morality or ethics the West might have purported to possess. International law? Bullshit. European values? Trash. Western democracy? A joke.

#israel#unitedStates #germany#europeanUnion #genocide#ethnicCleansing #apartheid#settlerColonialism#internationalLaw#europeanValues #democracy#Palestine#Gaza#WestBank
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Israel’s genocide isn’t just murdering Palestinians en masse, it’s also destroying any semblance of morality or ethics the West might have purported to possess. International law? Bullshit. European values? Trash. Western democracy? A joke.

#israel#unitedStates #germany#europeanUnion #genocide#ethnicCleansing #apartheid#settlerColonialism#internationalLaw#europeanValues #democracy#Palestine#Gaza#WestBank
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Folks, don’t be so hard on AOC, she didn’t vote against cutting off weapons to Hitler, she voted against reducing the defensive capabilities of the Nazi regime. Did I say Hitler, sorry, I meant Netanyahu. Oh, and I meant, Israel, not the Nazi regime.

reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitali
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Folks, don’t be so hard on AOC, she didn’t vote against cutting off weapons to Hitler, she voted against reducing the defensive capabilities of the Nazi regime. Did I say Hitler, sorry, I meant Netanyahu. Oh, and I meant, Israel, not the Nazi regime.

reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitali
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I’m not an expert on these things so are we calling it the Israeli-American genocide of the Palestinian people or the American-Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people?

Also, is that fair to Germany?

Is Israeli-American-German genocide of the Palestinian people more precise?

Would that make other EU countries with their own valid contributions to the genocide feel left out?

Thoughts?
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Finally: the United States sanctions Israeli officials for their ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

And by that I mean the United States sanctions the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for criticising and calling for an end to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

“Are we the baddies?”

What a silly question. When did you stop?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70rllxr0kyo

#israel#unitedStates#USA #genocide#ethnicCleansing #apartheid#settlerColonialism#Palestine#Gaza#WestBank
Leftist Lawyer
@LeftistLawyer@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

For all those searching for moral and ethical clarity in what seems a nation gone mad — I may have good news.

Hang with me for a little 🧵 thread about how, for reasons we may never understand, the #BabyBoomers and the late #SilentGeneration are criminally inclined to an abnormal degree.

First, this article from the Atlantic titled “AMERICA’S INCARCERATION RATE IS ABOUT TO FALL OFF A CLIFF.”

Here’s a non-paywalled link from Archive Today: https://archive.ph/mi5Wn

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Leftist Lawyer
@LeftistLawyer@kolektiva.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

And here, today, the #UnitedStates has chosen to re-elect it’s poster boy #BabyBoomer#CriminalInChief. Still up to the same old criminal tricks …

But, you guys. And, by “you guys” I mean, the generations younger than the criminals who still have something to fight for in this world. This means that change could be right around the corner. And, the harder we fight to get these criminals out of power, the better off we’ll all be.

So, let’s fight.
Fair, like we know how to.
And leave the criminal shit to the past by building a better world.

/end