From #sherrilynifill What are we prepared to do to fight for the idea of a truly just America even if we have never seen it? Where did we fail as citizens to uphold the sacred obligation to protect our democracy? Do enough Americans believe that it is possible to create a multi-racial democracy in which equality and justice and our core values? This was the America that the framers of the 14th Amendment made possible.
Is it even possible to set our country on a course for redemption? How can we come to terms with the fact that half our fellow citizens embrace cruelty, racism, ignorance, and cultism over democracy? How will we navigate the violence and cruelty of these times and protect ourselves, our families, and our integrity?
#sherrilynifill hitting it out of the park.
What this conservative majority is revealing about itself is worth all of us taking a pause to assess. It is not just that the conservative majority is ideologically driven and captured. It is not only that they appear to be fully onboard with Trumpism, whatever the damage to our republic. What we are facing is a conservative majority that is unwilling, but also quite possibly unable to integrate jurisprudential rigor with intellectual, moral, and imaginative capacity. Or to wrestle with accountability.
This majority is not just conservative. It has grown careless and uninterested in the consequences of its decision-making. And it presents its cold calculation and limited judicial range as virtue.
#SherrilynIfill (@ifilljustice) is a professor at @howardlawschool, which just created the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy. When she tried to create an #Instagram account for the new center, Instagram disabled it for violating community standards.
https://www.threads.net/@sherrilynifill/post/DIB3iZDx5eR?xmt=AQGzGjI0HnSAsL1yEz5Hjy5tWyctl5h3ORrgPdaHiffRWg
I created an Instagram account for the new 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy at Howard Law School last week. We put up one post announcing ourselves and received word we were suspended for “violating community standards.” We appealed and received this. Permanently disabled. What gives @mosseri?
'#Delusional' #Trump Threatens to Send #Tesla #Vandals to Prison for 20 Years... in #ElSalvador
"If genuine steps are taken to remove U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to prisons in El Salvador," said one legal expert, "this removal would violate not only U.S. law but the U.S. Constitution."
Jon Queally, Mar 21, 2025
"President Donald Trump on Friday morning said anyone caught vandalizing Tesla cars or dealerships would be sent to the notoriously violent prisons of El Salvador for a 20-year sentence, a threat characterized by critics as 'delusional' as well as overtly #unlawful.
"'People that get caught sabotaging Teslas will stand a very good chance of going to jail for up to twenty years, and that includes the funders,' Trump stated overnight, adding in all caps: 'WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!!'
"Several hours later, Trump took up the issue again on his TruthSocial platform, saying: 'I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20-year jail sentences for what they are doing to #ElonMusk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!'
"#CivilRightsAttorney #SherrilynIfill said the threat, which follows on Trump's highly controversial deportation of alleged gang members to El Salvador last week, should not be taken lightly.
"'Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began,' said Ifill in response to Trump's rantings on Friday. 'The #MigrantDetentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador. We cannot sleepwalk through this.'
"The #TeslaTakedown movement has gained steam over recent weeks, with people nationwide angered by Elon Musk's wholesale assault on cherished government agencies and programs. The world's richest man, #Musk, has been empowered by Trump to spearhead his invented Department of Government Efficiency, or #DOGE.
"As Axios reports, in response to the popular anger directed at Tesla, "Trump has put the full weight of the U.S. government behind defending and promoting 'first buddy' Elon Musk's car company, which has seen both its sales and stock price slump."
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-tesla-el-salvador
#USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Oligarchy #Authoritarianism #CorporateFascism #ResistDOGE #Resistance
"If genuine steps are taken to remove U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to prisons in El Salvador," said one legal expert, "this removal would violate not only U.S. law but the U.S. Constitution."
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