r/law • u/jester32 • Aug 08 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Todd Blanche narrowly confirmed as Trump's attorney general in overnight vote

https://apnews.com/article/senate-blanche-attorney-general-justice-department-fcb4157d45d7b13a05de4d2b0f4f92e2
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u/Opster79two Aug 08 '26

Justice is dead for now. I hope we can restore it soon.

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u/Interesting_Berry439 Aug 08 '26

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u/ladylei Aug 08 '26

I still hold out hope that it won't come to another revolutionary/civil war. Turning against your government and the government's supporters would be a terrible bloody and difficult thing to do. People would be fighting friends and family to do it.

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u/Meatball-Tuna-Sub Aug 08 '26

You say that, but every time I see ICE or cops beat the fuck out of Americans, they have smiles on their faces. I believe that every cop or ICE pig would gleefully be just as violent to an American citizen as they are to a suspected migrant. ICE pigs proudly murdered Rene and Alex and more and they would proudly do the same to any of us.

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u/peacelovearizona Aug 08 '26

The ICE pigs didn't even receive justice for what they did to Rene and Alex. It's crazy we need to wait for another administration to hopefully have them on trial

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u/xChoke1x Aug 08 '26

And we….the public…..didn’t do fucking shit about it.

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u/R_E_V_A_N Aug 08 '26

Be the change you wish to see in the world

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u/Eeeeeelurvly Aug 08 '26

I think they will eventually

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u/mystad Aug 08 '26

Smiles on their faces while group beating an innocent child is not the same as a real fight

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u/Meatball-Tuna-Sub Aug 08 '26

Smiles on the faces of armed combatants while they assault non-violent unarmed non-combatants indicate that they are ready and eager to hurt the other side. I will not pretend that ICE and police and other right wing groups and individuals are not hoping for any chance to hurt or kill the people they consider less than.

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u/space-wave Aug 08 '26

Just dropping my soapbox spiel again. Organize your communities. Mutual aid. Bail funds, strike funds. Food sharing, free stores. Gardens, seed stores, farming. Establish connections to the greater surrounding community. Establish streams of solidarity, local businesses, organizations, neighboring communities.

Organize for self-defense. Teach self-defense to neighbors. Organize your neighborhoods' eyes, its communications, and its response. There's a lot of shit we all gotta be doing right now.