"A judge's #security is dependent in many ways on the Marshals Service who the president appoints to protect the judges, & if a president doesn't like a decision that's coming from a judge, *theoretically* they could pull their security," Rep. Eric Swalwell (S-CA) said at a congressional hearing this month.
#Trump has already yanked protection this year from fmr military & #NationalSecurity ofcls who disagreed w/Trump.
"The more that people like #ElonMusk are putting on the wall the idea that it's appropriate to attack these judges for nothing more than ruling against the federal government, the more that we're normalizing what really are in the main very serious threats to #JudicialIndependence," Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University, said.
Efforts to undermine the #judiciary come at the same time the #Trump admin has moved to fire lawyers inside the #DOJ & the #Pentagon, penalize private law firms who represented clients Trump does not like, & to back away from participation in the activities of the #ABA.
Congressional #Republicans close to the president even have proposed #impeachment proceedings against a few of those judges, who serve for life.
#ElonMusk, who oversees #DOGE making cuts to federal agencies, himself has repeatedly posted on social media about impeaching #judges who delay or block parts of #Trump's agenda.
Federal #judges who have ruled against the #Trump admin this year are confronting a wave of threats, compromising their safety & the #independence of the #judiciary.
The sister of #SCOTUS Justice #AmyConeyBarrett received a bomb threat earlier this month, & lower court judges who paused some of Trump's efforts to dismantle #FederalAgencies & programs have been targeted.
#law #StochasticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #DomesticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #MAGA
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5316340/threats-judges-trump
Elon Musk Might Not Be Able to Salvage Tesla’s Value After All
Tesla’s value is crashing, despite #ElonMusk & #DonaldTrump ’s best efforts.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192701/elon-musk-donald-trump-tesla-value
"Elon Musk’s rightward turn has led to a downward spiral for #Tesla...
“Tesla is becoming a #political symbol of #Trump & #DOGE, & that is a bad thing for the brand”...
Trump said... acts of #violence against Teslas would be considered #DomesticTerrorism, cementing the automaker’s status as a state symbol"
#Trump does not have the power to write laws unless we & federal and state legislatures give it to him.
He can "declare" whatever he wants, but that declaration means nothing unless we allow it.
He's controlling by fear & intimidation because Congress is complicit.
...A PRESIDENT CANNOT . . .
declare war. decide how federal money will be spent. interpret laws. choose Cabinet members or Supreme Court Justices without Senate approval...
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/three-branches/what-president-can-do-cannot-do
@newsthump So #tesla is #domesticTerrorism?
I mean that was clear to me, but thanks for confirming.
Mahmoud Khalil was snatched up Nazi style after exercising his Constitutional right to protest.
All while Trump, convicted of 34 felonies, pardoned the domestic terrorists who were convicted for numerous crimes while attacking the Capitol.
…Federal courts are hearing >100 lawsuits challenging the admin’s initiatives, many of them focused on efforts driven by #Musk & his team at #DOGE to purge hundreds of thousands of #FederalWorkers & dramatically scale back govt #aid & #regulatory programs.
#Trump & his WH press sec also have criticized judges they describe as activists who have issued orders that slowed or blocked some of those efforts.
Reuters interviews w/11 federal judges in multiple districts revealed mounting alarm over their physical #security &, in some cases, a rise in #violent #threats in recent weeks. Most spoke on condition of anonymity & said they did not want to further inflame the situation or make comments that could be interpreted as conflicting w/their duties of impartiality.…
#Musk, the world's richest person, has lambasted judges in more than 30 posts since the end of Jan on his social media site, calling them “corrupt,” “radical,” “evil” & deriding the "TYRANNY of the JUDICIARY" after judges blocked parts of the federal downsizing that he’s led. Musk has also reposted nearly two dozen tweets by others attacking judges.
In recent weeks, #Musk, congressional #Republicans & other top allies of Trump have called for the impeachment of some federal judges or attacked their integrity in response to court rulings that have slowed the #Trump admin's moves to dismantle entire government agencies & fire tens of thousands of workers.
Exclusive: Judges face rise in #threats as #Musk blasts them over rulings
#USMarshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech #billionaire #ElonMusk & other #Trump admin allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash federal jobs & programs, said several judges with knowledge of the warnings.
#law #JudicialIndependence #judiciary #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/judges-face-rise-threats-musk-blasts-them-over-rulings-2025-03-05/
#DOJ tries to broaden its view of #Trump’s #Jan6 #pardons.
A Trump-appointed judge grilled a #Justice Dept prosecutor on DOJ’s change in position.
#criminal #law #insurrection #extremism #radicalization #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #felon47 #PoliticalViolence #sturmabteilung #USpol
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/trump-january-6-pardon-judge-00206301
Are you an aspiring #Nazi domestic #terrorist who wants to learn how to make #explosives to, y’know, “take care of” Dr. #Fauci? #YouTube has you covered! Not only do they have all the #videos, they’ll helpfully suggest them all right down the sidebar at the same time.
Data on #DomesticTerrorism investigations indicate #FarRight #extremists have been a rising threat to Americans over the past half decade….The rate of increase in domestic-terrorism-related cases is eye-popping: A Feb 2023 Govt Accountability Office report found the #FBI tallied 9,049 such cases in 2021, up from 5,557 in 2020; 4,092 such cases in 2019; & 3,714 in 2018. In 2017, the year of #UniteTheRight, there were 1,890 domestic-terrorism-related cases, nearly equivalent to the preceding 4yrs.
…After almost 20 yrs of obsessively focusing on Salafist jihadis, in 2021 under the #Biden admin, agencies including the #DOJ, #FBI, & #DHS began to attend to the spiking threat of #violent #FarRight #extremism. The government had a comprehensive strategy to combat #DomesticTerrorism, which was promptly removed from the #Trump White House’s web page last month. In several conversations, current & former federal #law enforcement officials expressed alarm about the current trajectory.
"Trump’s pardons immediately upended the biggest single prosecution in U.S. history and signaled a broader reversal that threatens to create a more permissive climate in which extremists could regroup, weaken the FBI’s independence and revive old debates about who counts as a terrorist, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials and national security experts.
In the whirlwind of the last three weeks, the Trump administration has purged federal law enforcement agencies of prosecutors and investigators who’d been pursuing homegrown far-right groups that the FBI lists as among the most dangerous threats to national security. The Biden administration’s 2021 domestic terrorism strategy — the nation’s first — was removed from the White House website. And some government-funded extremism-prevention programs were ordered to stop work.
“There’s no indication that he engaged in any kind of assessment or has even stopped to think, ‘What did I just unleash on America?’” Mary McCord, a former federal prosecutor who oversaw domestic terrorism cases as a senior Justice Department official, said of Trump’s actions.
Colin Clarke, an analyst at the nonpartisan security-focused Soufan Center, said “far right” and “domestic terrorism” are now “kind of dirty words with the current administration.”
Far-right movements that openly promote violence have suddenly been invigorated, he said. “Does this become a four-year period where these groups can really use the time to strengthen their organization, their command and control, stockpile weapons?” he said."
https://www.propublica.org/article/jan-6-pardons-trump-purges-domestic-terrorism-focus
This is the Radical Right's new Domestic Terrorism:
Trump’s Pick for Counterrorism Called for Arresting BLM Leaders as Terrorists
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/joe-kent-trump-blm-terrorism-counterterrorism-tulsi-gabbard-nomination/ #Politics #Facism #Radical #Extremism #Authoritarian #DomesticTerrorism
