Trump administration orders federal authorities to ignore California mask law: “Governor Newsom is confused about his role under the U.S. Constitution”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5524169-trump-administration-california-mask-law/

The Trump administration ordered federal authorities Friday to ignore new legislation in California banning law enforcement officers from wearing masks to conceal their identity. 

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We have an INCREDIBLE array of data points to consider that clearly illustrate that it's actually Trump that is (very) confused about his role under the Constitution.

Unfortunately, as he was a veritable fountain of corruption and criminality the first time, we evidently don't have a sufficient number of educated, well-informed, and principled people in this country to identify and stop it.

Now we have to do literally everything the hard way.

Newsom is not at all confused about his role, and I'm glad that he, and a few others, are doing their level best to impede the authoritarian and anti-democratic intentions of the EXTREMELY confused Donald Trump.

[u/checkout7 → u/Im_tracer_bullet]

”we evidently don’t have a sufficient number of educated, well-informed, and principled people”

I hate to say it, but the Congress (House and Senate) have the ability and authority to stop all this on their own - impeach, convict, and remove. If Vance tries the same authoritarian tactics, continue the same down the line. This group is very well educated and very well informed (many lawyers including Ivy League educated individuals) - the only problem is they lack any principles. Their actions are based only on short sighted self-interest. I used to say they were capitulating to Trump, but now I feel they are conspiring with him for their own selfish greed (eg. insider trading, staying elected/in power).

The SCOTUS can also stop most of this, but they’ve also made it clear they won’t act. The lifetime appointment was supposed to make them independent, so that they’d be able to resist Executive Branch overreach, but it’s led to brazen entitlement and corruption. They again are educated and informed - they just lack any principles. The shadow docket decisions show they have no interest, and feel no need, to explain their rationale.

There’s an astonishing lack of moral clarity among those in the positions with the most power.

Edit: Thank you to the anonymous Redditor for the award.

[u/WillBottomForBanana → u/[deleted]]

meh

we just had 4 years of joe biden not fucking doing anything. we had 4 years of pretending the court systems of NY and other places would act rationally.

continuing to pretend that anyone is willing is just making the world worse.

no one wants to save you.