Silencing the Defenders: Trump's War on the Last Line of Resistance -- Thom Hartmann

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https://hartmannreport.com/p/silencing-the-defenders-trumps-war-5cc

If Trump can destroy America’s biggest law firms, who will be left to stand against him?

Donald Trump and his henchmen have set out to break the legs of American democracy by making it difficult for people he hates to hire an attorney to defend themselves or sue the Trump administration. He and Musk are also, with their public statements, apparently trying to terrify federal and state judges into submission with threats that their followers will employ violence.

This could very well herald the end of our republic, transforming America into something that more closely resembles Russia or 1930s Germany than anything Hamilton or Franklin would have endorsed.

First, some background.

The Founders of our nation and the Framers of our Constitution thought they had it all figured out. For thousands of years, Europe had been ruled by warlords, popes, kings, and the morbidly rich. But now, for the first time since the failed Greek experiment three thousand years earlier, a democratic “rule by the people” might actually work.

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The ground was prepared by Trump’s billionaire friends corrupting a handful of Supreme Court justices, so that body would declare in their 2010 Citizens United decision that money was the same thing as free speech, which is protected by the First Amendment. They added that “corporations are persons,” too, so big companies and even entire industries could also spend unlimited amounts of money to purchase elections for their favored politicians.

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