July 2020 Archives

Protesters are being snatched from the streets without warrants. Can we call it fascism yet?

Michelle Goldberg, Opinion Columnist, July 20, 2020
"Through the Trump years, there's been a debate about whether the president's authoritarianism is tempered by his incompetence. Those who think concern about fascism is overblown can cite several instances when the administration has been beaten back after overreaching. But all too often the White House has persevered, deforming American life until what once seemed like worst-case scenarios become the status quo."
"President Trump and top White House officials are privately considering a controversial strategy to act without legal authority to enact new federal policies -- starting with immigration," report Alayna Treene and Stef W. Kight. "The White House thinking is being heavily influenced by John Yoo, the lawyer who wrote the Bush administration's justification for waterboarding after 9/11."

"Yoo detailed the theory in a National Review article, spotted atop Trump's desk in the Oval Office, which argues that the Supreme Court's 5-4 DACA ruling last month "makes it easy for presidents to violate the law."

"The fact that John Yoo is employed and free to opine on legal matters is an example of the culture of impunity in the United States," says prisoner defense counsel Alka Pradhan

UC Berkeley Billboard

press conference, protest, photos, video, reports

Donations via PayPal
are not tax deductible.




Events & Calendars

War Criminals Watch Events



Important Reading

Physicians for Human Rights
Broken Laws, Broken Lives

NLG White Paper
ON THE LAW OF TORTURE...

The President's Executioner

Detention and torture in Guantanamo



About this Archive

This page is an archive of entries from July 2020 listed from newest to oldest.

May 2020 is the previous archive.

August 2020 is the next archive.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.



Login

  AUTHOR'S LOGIN

Contact

  info@firejohnyoo.net