…Mark Rosenbaum, a lawyer with #PublicCounsel, said, “The order reflects there is something very wrong when the federal government goes to war against an American city & ignores the #Constitution.” He added, “Hopefully this ends the actions of the government rounding up carwash workers & other hardworking people like they were domestic terrorists.”

#law #immigration#DueProcess#CivilRights#Judiciary#Trump#ICE#Gestapo#AbuseOfPower #tyranny

“What the federal government would have this Court believe — in the face of a mountain of evidence presented in this case — is that none of this is actually happening,” the judge wrote.

She said that “roving patrols” without reasonable suspicion violated the #FourthAmendment of the #Constitution & that denying access to lawyers violated the #FifthAmendment.

#law #immigration#DueProcess#CivilRights#Judiciary#Trump#Gestapo#AbuseOfPower #tyranny

In the orders, the judge, Maame E. Frimpong of the US District Court for the Central District of #California, directed agents to stop #RacialProfiling in the course of seeking out #immigrants, & mandated that the #federal government, which has deployed hundreds of agents from #ICE & other agencies in #LosAngeles County, ensure detainees have access to legal counsel.

#law#Constitution #immigration#DueProcess#CivilRights#Judiciary#Trump#Gestapo#AbuseOfPower #tyranny

When Microsoft locked an ICC prosecutor out of their email, it proved just how easily U.S. power can reach across borders and into the heart of global justice, writes Paul Budde.

THE RECENT INCIDENT involving Microsoft and the International Criminal Court (ICC) should send a chill down the spine of every democratic nation.
Following a sanctions order from White House, Microsoft locked ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan out of his enterprise-level Office 365 account.
That account wasn’t personal — it was part of the ICC’s institutional infrastructure.

And just like that, an American tech giant disabled access to a key international legal actor.

...

What’s worse is the normalisation of it all. We scroll past headlines like “Microsoft cuts #ICC access” and carry on with our day. The sociologist Alexei Yurchak coined a term for this: hypernormalisation — the idea that everyone knows the system is broken, but we all pretend things are normal because no one can imagine how to change them..."

#Tyranny#Kakistocracy#ManufacturingConsent#Office365#Censorship

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/trumps-war-on-the-icc-goes-digital-with-microsoft-as-an-ally,19894

why isn’t Iran a democracy? they once did have a democracy …

the answer: the #GreedyBastards running BP (British Petroleum) along with the UK government destroyed it over … OIL!

#OilandGas#DullesBrothers #democracy#Iran#ProfitsOverPeople #tyranny #terrorism#UK

“I’ve lived in #LA for 35 years already & I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said, adding that more than half of his Hispanic [& Latin] clientele are afraid to leave their homes. “Our business has been down I would say 60% to 70%.”

Asked for comment, city leaders in #Pasadena said that they are aware of Wednesday’s #arrests & the officer pulling his #gun on a resident….

#immigration #law#StateSponsoredAbduction #economy#SmallBusiness#Trump#AbuseOfPower #tyranny#AmericanAutocracy

Video of the operation captured by woman inside Dena’s Burgers, on the corner of Orange Grove Blvd & Los Robles Ave, shows the men being put into an unmarked van & taken away.

#immigration #law#StateSponsoredAbduction#Trump#AbuseOfPower #tyranny#AmericanAutocracy

Found the video via Austin American-Statesman

#USMarines detain civilian at #LA anti-#ICE #protests for first known time after #Trump deploys #military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW5oRFbHbuQ

#law#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#RightToProtest#FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy#LosAngeles#California#NationalGuard#Marines #resist

Per Idrees Ali of Reuters:

The #troops are authorized [by whom? Not by law] to detain people who pose a threat to federal personnel or property, but only until #LawEnforcement can arrest them.

#Trump #law#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#RightToProtest#FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy#LosAngeles#California #military#NationalGuard#Marines #resist

The incident took place at the Wilshire Federal Building in #LosAngeles where #Marines took charge of the mission to protect the building earlier on Friday, in a rare domestic use of US #troops after days of #protests over #immigration raids.

#Trump #law#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#RightToProtest#FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy#LosAngeles#California#NationalGuard #resist

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Exclusive: US #Marines carry out first known #detention of #civilian in #LosAngeles, video
shows

Marines deployed to #LA carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the US #military confirmed after being presented w/ Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty #troops deployed there by #Trump.

#Trump #law#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#RightToProtest#FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy #protests
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/

Well, the #PosseComitatusAct has officially been violated.

#NationalGuard troops have detained #civilians in #LAprotests, commander says

National Guard troops already have temporarily detained civilians in the #LosAngeles #protests over #immigration raids, the commander in charge said Wednesday, but they quickly turned them over to #LawEnforcement [the 30 second rule is only for food fools].

#Trump #law #democracy#RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-immigration-raids-los-angeles-c9957a0d4ded48e40ce78efb0b7a8fbf

Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman also said about 500 of the #NationalGuard #troops have been trained so far to accompany #ICE agents on #immigration operations.…

Sherman is commander of Task Force 51, which is overseeing the >4,000 Guard troops & 700 #Marines who have been deployed to #LosAngeles to provide security during the #protests.

#Trump #law#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy#California

The board is also concerned that the budget that Secretary of #State#MarcoRubio is requesting from #Congress for the next fiscal
year #cuts spending for the Bureau of #Educational & #Cultural Affairs, which includes the #Fulbright program, to $50 million from $691 million this fiscal year. [Holy crap!!! That’s insane]

#law#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

The memo written by the board says that members are resigning “rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we believe are impermissible under the #law, compromise #US national interests & #integrity, & undermine the mission & mandates #Congress established for the #Fulbright program nearly 80 years ago,” according to a copy obtained by The Times.

#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

In addition, the #State Dept is reviewing the applications of about 1,200 scholars from other countries who have already been approved by the board to come to the #UnitedStates, the people said. Those foreign #scholars were also supposed to receive acceptance letters around April.

#law#Fulbright#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

The board approved those scholars over the winter after a yearlong selection process, & the #State Dept was supposed to send acceptance letters by April, the people said. 🚨🚨🚨 But instead, the board learned that the office of public diplomacy at the agency had begun sending REJECTION letters to the #scholars based mainly on their #research topics, they said.

#law#Fulbright#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy