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edhopper

(35,863 posts)
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 06:29 PM Apr 25

"I expect the ... legal profession to understand

that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation… From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour.”

What is disconcerting is that nobody reading this would be surprised by Trump saying it.

Disturbing because it is from Hitler in 1942.

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"I expect the ... legal profession to understand (Original Post) edhopper Apr 25 OP
One more unnerving thing. Biophilic Apr 25 #1
Some scary shit going down. OverBurn Apr 25 #2
Meaningless bluster. TomSlick Apr 25 #3
Again edhopper Apr 25 #7
Chilling. Trump is already moving to silence and intimidate the judiciary IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 25 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author wolfie001 Apr 25 #11
Ouch. TomSlick Apr 25 #12
I was going to guess Pam Bondi, Ms. Toad Apr 25 #4
Stephen effing Miller Iamscrewed Apr 25 #5
"... Hitler addressed the judiciary in a speech in the Reichstag on April 26, 1942 ..." mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 #6
+I would be surprised soldierant Apr 25 #9
Of ocurse that's What Fucking Dictators Do... & If Cha Apr 25 #10
"Protect the patriots. Kill the pests" dalton99a Apr 25 #13
I don't think that's a Hitler quote HereForTheParty Apr 26 #14
It is edhopper Apr 26 #15
Was watching a doc on the holocaust where Jews were being deported out of the country. kerry-is-my-prez Apr 26 #16

TomSlick

(12,358 posts)
3. Meaningless bluster.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:02 PM
Apr 25

Presidents have no authority to remove judges. Even Thomas and Alito would condemn any attempt to remove a judge other than by impeachment.

IrishBubbaLiberal

(1,606 posts)
8. Chilling. Trump is already moving to silence and intimidate the judiciary
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:40 PM
Apr 25

Chilling.


….on April 26, 1942. Hitler said: “I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation.. From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour.”

Response to IrishBubbaLiberal (Reply #8)

Ms. Toad

(36,763 posts)
4. I was going to guess Pam Bondi,
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:05 PM
Apr 25

Until I got to the removing from office . . . and then I would have guessed Trump.

soldierant

(8,445 posts)
9. +I would be surprised
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:41 PM
Apr 25

if the Mango Moron could put together a coherent sentence with words with more than two syllables.

But the sentiment would not surprise me.

Cha

(310,183 posts)
10. Of ocurse that's What Fucking Dictators Do... & If
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:50 PM
Apr 25

anyone can't see that then they're in the Cult

Everything is "there" for the Fucking Dictator. That needs to be Stopped.


Oh shit.. I didn't read the last line.. too pissed!

dalton99a

(88,397 posts)
13. "Protect the patriots. Kill the pests"
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 11:17 PM
Apr 25

Translated from Letter to All Judges-Announcement of the Reich Minister of Justice-Nr. 1-in Heinz Boberach, ed., Richterbriefe: Dokumente zur Beeinflussung der deutschen rechtsprechung 1942-44 (Boppard am Rhein: Harold Boldt Verlag, 1975), pp. 9-10.

At a time when the best of our people are risking their lives at the front and when the home front is tirelessly working for victory, there can be no place for criminals who destroy the will of the community. Those in the administration of justice must recognize that it is their job to destroy traitors and saboteurs on the home front. The law allows plenty of leeway in this regard. The home front is responsible for maintaining peace, quiet, and order as support for the war front. This heavy responsibility falls especially to German judges. Every punishment is fundamentally more important in war than in peace. This special fight is targeted especially against those designated by law as “pests.” Should a judge decide after conscientious examination of the criminal act and of the perpetrator's personality that a criminal is a “pest,” then the seriousness of this determination must also be firmly expressed in the harshness of the verdict. It is a matter of course that a plunderer, who reaches for the possessions of another after a terror attack [bombing] by the enemy, deserves only death. But every other culprit who commits his crimes by exploiting the circumstances of war also sides with the enemy. His disloyal character and his declaration of war [on the German people] therefore deserve the harshest punishments.


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kerry-is-my-prez

(9,891 posts)
16. Was watching a doc on the holocaust where Jews were being deported out of the country.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 06:34 PM
Apr 26

And then being killed. How do we know what’s going to eventually happen to all these people being deported? It’s a good thing we have Dem politicians going over there - but they aren’t letting them in the facility. Maybe we need to send Kristi Noem over there??

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