Summary
Trump’s defiance of court orders—refusing to release funds or reinstate officials—signals a dangerous drift toward dictatorship.
Courts use civil and criminal contempt to enforce orders, yet their power relies on DOJ-controlled agencies like the Marshals and Bureau of Prisons.
If the DOJ ignores or pardons contempt findings, judicial authority is undermined.
With Congress failing to check executive overreach, Trump’s persistent noncompliance erodes the rule of law.
The situation risks transforming government into a dictatorship unless public outrage and political resistance reverse this trend.
We’re already here. Can we stop dancing around with “here’s this way you’ll know” or “we’re coursing towards this!”?
We. Are. Here. Already.
Why are they talking like this might happen? JFC it’s happening.
The easiest sign is when you’re bombarded with instructions about how to recognize if you’re in a dictatorship.
Alternatively, the easier sign (since a good chunk of the courts are complicit) is when we started being ruled by decree. The second easiest is when language is getting policed.
After checking my notes, that started January 20, 2025, when sweeping Executive Orders were decreed that are being treated as the force of law when they most certainly are not. The removal of “T” from LGBTQ, and enforcement of the stupid, unilateral renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is the other.
Congratulations, we live in a dictatorship.
Id argue its still in pieces thanks to the states, itll be felt more directly in say Arkansas rather than say California. Though I guess thats like comparing Nizhy Novgorod to the Vladivostok, but its still a factor to consider.
We’ve been in a crypto-fascist state since Dubya. We had so many rights to question our government revoked, and even the ones who loved it had theirs removed too. Loyalty to the party didn’t secure anything.
This is just the final nail in the coffin. Dubya tried to pretend he was on the side of the American public. Trump doesn’t. Mask off, showing what America has always wanted to do and become since Nixon.
Musks little brat told Trump to shut his mouth and go away the other day so at least the situation is not without some comedy. So we have that going for us. And Luigi. Not a whole lot else though.
We are.
LOL there’s a MILLION ways we know. another big way is how the MSM fucking ignores them all
Will knowing about it enable me to do literally anything about it or is this just going to give me an ulcer to go with my other old man diseases?
You can do something about it every day. PolRev, 50501, inequality.org, theres a new resistance group every day. Now is the time to disobey. Cast your die.
Joining a political action committee will lack the… catharsis I’m looking for
Then grab that catharsis! I’m about it right now.
Shrödinger’s ToS violation
Pink mist?
Huh. TIL:
The looming obstacle to deployment of civil contempt against Trump’s merry band of constitutional arsonists is the reality that judges do not arrest or imprison people themselves. Nor does the judicial branch have its own armed employees to arrest those who defy its orders or its own jails in which to hold prisoners. Those jobs are performed by the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons … which are both components of the DOJ and are thus subordinate to the attorney general, who is subordinate to Trump. Even an order imposing a fine can be enforced only against a noncompliant defendant by action of the Justice Department.
Pretty good article on why refusing to enforce a contempt order would really be the South Bank of the Rubicon.
