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erronis

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Mon Apr 28, 2025, 10:02 AM Monday

No Warrant, No Constitution: Trump's Shock Troops Seize Our Judiciary -- Thom Hartmann

https://hartmannreport.com/p/no-warrant-no-constitution-trumps-505

America is slipping into the authoritarian nightmare Putin dreamed of for us…

This column by Thom is really a good collection of the things that are being done to destroy democracy. It's a long read so I'll only excerpt the first bit about the kidnapping of a judge during a hearing. There's much more - please read.

It didn’t happen in some shadowy back alley or under the cover of night.
It happened in broad daylight — in the heart of an American courthouse.

Federal agents, acting without even the decency of a signed warrant, stormed into Judge Hannah Dugan’s courtroom on Friday morning and dragged her away like a common criminal. No warning. No legal process. No respect for the law she had spent a lifetime upholding.

But they made sure the cameras were there, so America could see what they were doing. Because this was not about justice. This was about terror.

This was a warning shot aimed directly at the beating heart of America’s judiciary:
“Fall in line — or you’re next.”


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