In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law
www.propublica.org
ProPublica’s reporting provides new details about what legal risk officials were prepared to take and what laws they may have violated on their way to creating a “constitutional crisis.”
Reporting Highlights
  • Court Fight: During internal meetings, a political appointee said Trump could not have a higher tolerance for legal risk.
  • Law-Breaking: Then the administration may have broken multiple laws in crippling USAID, according to experts.
  • “Constitutional Crisis”: Monday will be crucial to see if the Trump administration follows a court order blocking their efforts.
  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    17 hours ago

    We gotta get the dems back in there so they can follow the law and not do shit until they “lose” to the next fascist. \s \s \s

  • leisesprecher@feddit.org
    25·
    2 days ago

    They don’t care.

    This entire debate relies on the assumption that they have any respect for the law. Nobody, literally not a single person in that administration will be held accountable for breaking the law.

    They’ll try 200 different laws, orders, whatever. 180 of them will be declared illegal. And then what? Nothing. No punishment at all.

    And they’ll try again and again and again. Slowly eroding the entire government.

    • Loduz_247@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      There should be an amendment that if you break the law and don’t reverse it or ignore it, an impeachment will automatically be initiated.

      • Atom@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 day ago

        Unfortunately impeachment is also meaningless. I don’t see a circumstance where 67 senators would ever vote to convict.

        The only thing that might work is to be barred from public office and placing the secret service under congressional control to enforce it. But since presidents are untouchable kings now, 2/3rds of Congress and state legislatures are never going to give that up when they could be the king one day themselves.

  • LittleRatInALittleHat@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 day ago

    If he broke the law then that means he’s going to prison right?

    He’s going to be physically removed from office and put in a prison cell right?

  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Thanks, legal experts. Now who can or will punish him? The judiciary he stacked? The Law he disregards and dismantles? A feckless Congress? Please. That court order is notarized toilet paper.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    And what about it? So you think Congress will do anything about it? That the courts would do anything about it? Democrats are powerless to do anything about it, not like I would expect them to put up any fight to begin with. The rest of America going to do crap about it? Do you think the farmers who voted to getting fucked by this will do anything about it?

    My guess would be no. Let the farmers who voted for it find out.