More Hypocrisy from the “Enforce the Law” Crowd
They claim the feds have to "enforce the law" unless it's a policy they don't support.
They claim the feds have to "enforce the law" unless it's a policy they don't support.
"Many of the people who are critics of President Trump don’t realize that they themselves are partly responsible for much of what Trump is doing. That’s because over the years they have supported the assumption of dictatorial powers by the president. In doing so, they always assumed that their favorite ideal candidate would end up being the one wielding and exercising such powers. They assumed the risk that someone like Trump would end up being the one doing so."
"What mattered then and matters now is that the material uncovered is true
"It’s not a stretch to say that it’s one of the most important lawsuits to ever cross the desk of a federal judge. The core of the Bill of Rights is in play, and a wrong result could formalize a slide into authoritarianism that began long ago, but accelerated after 9/11."
"Would the ACLU ever offer a 'Pro-Liberty Case for Fourth Amendment Restrictions?'"
"It seems that we may need to be reminded every generation or so of the perils of foreign military intervention and the simple truth asserted by General Graves."
"So long as we're going to tolerate government officials exempting themselves from the rules they inflict on the rest of us, we might just have to be happy when there's no body count."
"Are we to believe that the same institution that so recklessly hawks military weaponry to hostile actors is so sincerely concerned with protecting America’s national-defense capabilities that we can trust it to restrict, for reasons of national security, our freedom to trade?"
"Federal agencies seized over $5 billion in 2014, which was more than the amount of property burglarized that same year, $3.9 billion."
"The national-security establishment has become the most powerful part of the federal government, one to which the judicial branch (as well as the other two branches) inevitably defers in matters that are critically important to the Pentagon, the CIA, or the NSA."