At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section’s head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
Top leaders of the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division have left their jobs to register their frustration with the department after the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon decided not to investigate the ICE officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good last week.
The criminal section of the division would normally investigate any fatal shooting by a law enforcement officer and specializes in probing potential or alleged abuse or improper use of force by law enforcement.
The departures – including that of the chief of the section, as well as the principal deputy chief, deputy chief and acting deputy chief – represent the most significant mass resignation at the Justice Department since February. At that time, five leaders and supervisors of the department’s Public Integrity Section, which investigates public officials for possible corruption, resigned rather than comply with an appointee of Donald Trump’s orders to dismiss the bribery case against then-New York mayor Eric Adams.
It’s incredible how many people still think that this will be a thing.
If Trump is actually able to stop or delay elections this year we have bigger problems.
I don’t think you grasp just what it would take to actually stop elections.
I’d argue that you already DO have bigger problems, you just haven’t come to terms with it yet.
Doesn’t really matter what it would take. His plan is (and always has been) that if anything doesn’t go his way, he takes it to the supreme court who he handpicked and has in his pocket. So either:
Trump just gets bolder every time people say “oh we’ll get out of this at the midterms.” He’s laughing at America.
It’s not that we haven’t come to terms with it, it’s just that any resistance will need to be legitimized by outside forces to be recognized. If you look at the long history of tyrannical governments being overthrown, American and European figureheads always talk about whether or not the local resistance groups are legitimate in their concerns or not, which ultimately determines how much outside help is given.
Look at Gaza, there’s a resistance force over there that has been branded as a terrorist organization (in certain cases, deservingly) which they now also have to fight a PR campaign online.
Going full blown delegitimizes any movement, and can justify further fascist ratcheting vs them just “claiming” violence happened against them, which EVERYONE can fully see is not happening. Sure they will claim it regardless but that loses them potential allies and any high ground.
We still have a court system. We still have elections. And both of those take time.
For anyone talking about where the lines are, that’s them. Functioning legitimate courts, and functioning legitimate elections.
Until then, we are out there demonstrating peacefully, building up our communities, and giving them the rope to Nuremberg themselves with.
He doesn’t have to stop them, he just needs to make brown people afraid to show up
This administration is already overreaching, they know Trump is about to die any moment and they’re trying to do way too much, too fast, and have a genuine belief that JD fucking Vance will still be able to hold the party and Trump’s base together. They are making wild mistakes because they know they have a chance of getting smashed in midterms.
Yes, midterms still have a very good chance of happening. There’s also a good chance they will try some bullshit to delay them or interfere, but the US is a very, VERY big place and our elections are very simple to keep secure, and they haven’t had enough time and power to really sabotage the entire thing. Yet.
Also, what else can we do? Have our own private midterms and the right isn’t allowed to touch it? We don’t really have a choice here but expect the system will be resilient enough that we can force political change. We don’t have alternatives yet.
edit: get mad, and then focus that anger somewhere productive. There is not going to be a coup, there is not going to be a general strike. Despite what the algorithm is feeding you, people are still broadly comfortable. Marches and protests are good, let’s keep doing that, but by already thinking you’re not going to have a vote, voice or representation in the midterms is resigning to defeat and fantasy and some secret desire to see the world burn.
Mussolini was not dragged out of the capital by a band of plucky rebels with broad support, nor forced out by a general strike, he was handed over by his own party and the growing political pressure due to Mussolini’s poor management of the country. The king of Italy himself placed Mussolini under arrest and handed him over to the opposition. As much as we feel discouraged and disillusioned, we still need politics. We’re not getting an anarchist utopia out of this mess. You still need to get off your ass and vote and not resent anything that drags you away from this addicting slop.
The next idiot here who says voting is useless gets blocked, I don’t engage with children.
What a defeatist attitude.
Protest, strike, boycott, obstruct, organize, disrupt.
Those are all things you can do and they’re all proven to be successful around the world. Stop putting all your hopes in a process they’ve already broken.
No, defeatist attitude is “there will be no midterms, lets instead put all our eggs in the basket that isn’t doing much.”
I didn’t say anything about not protesting and marching, only that there will probably still be midterms, the fact that you see that “defeatist” just tells me you don’t want change via politics and are fantasizing that the protests are going to turn into a coup. There will not be a coup.
It’s infuriating. People are literally laying down and taking it up the ass right now while saying, “it’s okay, it’ll be fixed a year from now”
How is saying that we “won’t have midterms” anything but lying down and taking it up the ass in advance? You’ve already given up and it’s only January.
I wish you doomers would go back to reddit.
I say it because we need to be taking action today assuming midterms aren’t happening. It isn’t doomer, fuck off with that bullshit.
“it’s ok, somebody else will fix my problems for me!”
Please explain to me how the federal government can cancel elections that are run by the states.
Almost certainly it will be a thing but it will be more difficult than past midterms. In the meantime we got to keep fighting and doing everything we can to tank Trump’s popularity (things such as talking to people who don’t follow politics much) because the less popular Trump is and the less support the more likely people will refuse the risk of rigging/stopping the election.