3mo ago

Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event

Last week’s federal court decision forbidding the Trump administration from punishing the AP for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico was to take effect Monday. The administration is appealing the decision and arguing with the news outlet over whether it needs to change anything until those appeals are exhausted.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit set a Thursday hearing on Trump’s request that any changes be delayed while case is reviewed. The AP is fighting for more access as soon as possible.

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3mo ago

Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event

apnews.com /article/trump-ap-press-freedom-court-gulf-caffd32aa8ec6b04a50b8c5277d7c9cb

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3mo ago

Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event

apnews.com /article/trump-ap-press-freedom-court-gulf-caffd32aa8ec6b04a50b8c5277d7c9cb

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3mo ago

Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event

apnews.com /article/trump-ap-press-freedom-court-gulf-caffd32aa8ec6b04a50b8c5277d7c9cb

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"Despite court order..." is becoming the ubiquitous intro to news about the Trump administration.
- i know they wouldn't be getting a conviction, but the dems seriously have to be bringing up impeachment if they want any political future for themselves, and they need to be doing it frequently
  
  Impeachment is a circus act now. I'd rather they spent thier energy actually doing something useful.
  
  Please, just let the Dems die off and become the neoliberal republicans they’ve always aspired to be.
  We need a new party that is actually left of center to even begin repairing this level of damage to the republic.
  Dems. Ain’t. It. Too old, too corrupt, and F tier political messaging.
  
  He was already impeached twice. So far it hasn’t seemed to to stop him.
  
  Wasn't this guy impeached last time he was in office? The American people have spoken and we have chosen a dipshit to run the country because most people who voted for him believed that he would hurt the people who are taking advantage of them.
- Yup, America officially becomes fascist. The executive simply doesn't respect the judicial branch anymore.
  Mark my words, Trump will not let go gently come 2029.
  
  Mark my words, Trump will not let go gently come 2029.
  That's the most depressing thing I've read for a long time. Even in the best case scenario we're stuck with this bullshit until twenty twenty fucking nine!!
- Haven't you heard though?
  Both parties are the same apparently
  Also "hunter bidens laptop" /s
  It's literally 1 party which isn't following any laws and getting in shit fights with literally, vs a party where Israel is the only bad thing that can be said about it...
  It's like that black mirror episode with Waldo.
- Plenty of presidents have defied court orders. The type of order matters greatly. Defying injunctions is only contempt of court. This was a ruling, as was the return of Garcia. These are defining of a constitutional crisis.
- What are the consequences?
Nobody in this administration should ever use the word 'constitution' in any context other than when playing D&D.
- Like they'd be cool enough
- Or when taking a shit, ie: daily constitutional.
  
  More likely using up their daily stash of opium.
  Then posting to xitter.
And for the fifth time this month, we stress test democracy!
- If there is no push back, I'd say it's broken and we're not testing anymore.
I mean, if they're going to refuse to honor a supreme court decision that instructs them to facilitate the return of a legal immigrant from the foreign prison they sent him to, why the hell would they care about a DC circuit ruling?
- Americans are still going "CAN THEY DO THAT???" every day.
  When they announce martial law, people are still going to be like "Well, this is not good, I'm going to rethink my vote!"
  
  Naw they'll be too busy at work to bother.
  
  When the announce martial law
  Why bother even announcing martial law? Trump's DHS is functionally implementing it as we speak. We are in a state of de facto martial law whether we want to acknowledge it as such or not.
- They can't return that guy, because he's probably dead....
Whether they are appealing or not, this sounds like the administration is breaking the law. The ruling to allow AP doesn't stop taking effect if an appeal is in process.
The Trump Administration keeps abusing that. They appeal something, and just do whatever they want until the appeal is processed.
Petty little man. So what good is a court if nothing is ever enforced?
- Its not. This is the breakdown of social agreements that have been long standing. Unless something is done to enforce these orders, we've effectively lost the rule of law, and things will get bad fast.
If the administration can ignore the courts, I guess everyone can now ignore the courts.
- I think we all know that's not how this works.
  
  That's how you get tased and thrown into a cage 🤷
  
  It absolutely works that way if you think like a North Irishman. Before they lost their balls, that is.
- Silly Americans are so new at this.
  No, you see that's when they announce martial law and roll out the ol' Death Squads (they'll have a patriotic name) to enforce the "new order" on the populace.
  Americans gonna be shouting "Wait, this is illegal!"
  
  Oh, yeah...
  The Reagan Regiment
  The Liberty Legion
  The Freedom Battalion
  The Constitution Guard
  The Federalist Front
  The Heritage Watch
  Stars & Stripes Corps
  The Patriot Brigade
  The Founders Force
  These smooth-brained motherfuckers are so predictable I can do this all day.
  Don't forget, the most Anti-gay group out there, is called "The Proud Boys"
  
  Liberal institutions with the capability to easily stop Trump through solidarity instead watching idly he steps all over them:
Yet more evidence that it doesn't actually matter in the eyes of the Trump administration what the law says, or what a judge says, if there is nothing behind it to physically make them follow it or face actual consequences.
- Yet more evidence that Americans can't identify threats with even a shred of accuracy.
  Like, when we were all saying "He's gonna be a dictator!" and he was all like "I'm gonna be a dictator!" and then he gets into office and starts doing a dictatorship suddenly everyone is 😮
  
  Most aren't even shocked. They could care less.
A convicted felon is defying court orders and nothing happens. Fuck yeah merica! 🦅🦅🏳️‍🌈
The fourth box of liberty must be opened.
- Is that the one in the safe under the bed?
- Jesus. What happened to the first 3?
  
  Corrupted, defanged, and ignored.
- The media and the Democrats, and probably many Americans, still seem to think that if you keep pointing out how things are wrong, illegal, and against the rules, sooner or later a system will kick in to stop them. They haven't yet adjusted to the reality of a fascist government. There is no longer freedom of speech or rule of law in the USA. There are no longer human rights. Your life can be ruined at any moment on the whim of the leader or his enforcers.
  
  Too true, flooffloof.
Courts need to look into getting some paramilitary deputies to do their enforcements. Slippery slope, I know, but without enforcement they're just yelling at a bowl of rancid jello
So you'll be taking trump to task now AP, and not just running soft interference for him, working on normalizing him and supporting all his fascist enablers?
Yeah, didn't think so. Don't let the door hit you on the way out AP.
- You mean like this article from the AP we're taking about? How are they supporting trump with this article?
  
  Hahaha - them reporting on being burned by the clown they consistently played along with? Maybe.

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