Politico.eu (Unofficial RSS)1d ago
How Viktor Orbán laid traps to stop his successor from running Hungary https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-laid-traps-stop-successor-running-hungary/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Hungarianelections2026 #Hungarianpolitics #Competitionrules #Infrastructure #Transparency #Competition #Environment #healthcare #Parliament #Austerity #Buildings #Companies #Democracy #Education #Elections #EUaffairs #Judiciary #RuleofLaw #Lobbying #Playbook #Security #Budget
How Viktor Orbán laid traps to stop his successor from running Hungary

The country’s current leader has put loyalists in key public institutions who will be able to thwart the budgets and legislation of any new prime minister.

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WIST Quotations1d ago

A quotation from Lincoln

   The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
   The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first — that in relation to wrongs — embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and non-performance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.
   From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1854-07-01?), fragment on government

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/3093…

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Lincoln, Abraham - Speech (1854-07-01?), fragment on government | WIST Quotations

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well…

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News Beep1d ago

John Brown disproves Trump’s birthright citizenship case.

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Nonilex1d ago

#Trump #ballroom gets green light from #loyalist stacked commission, but its future is uncertain after judge halted construction earlier this week

The National Capital #Planning Commission, the agency tasked with approving #construction on federal property in the Washington region, went ahead with the vote because US District Judge Richard Leon’s ruling Tuesday affects construction activities, not planning, commission spox Stephen Staudigl claimed.

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Trump White House ballroom gets final OK after judge's halt order

President Donald Trump's new White House ballroom has gotten final approval from a key commission. This comes after a federal judge ordered a halt to construction unless Congress approves the project. The Trump-appointed chair of the National Capital Planning Commission said the agency moved ahead with Thursday's vote because the judge’s ruling affects construction, not planning. The ballroom is estimated to cost $400 million and has faced opposition and legal challenges. The Republican president aims to complete the ballroom project before his term ends in 2029. The ballroom will include security upgrades and is funded by donations and public dollars for security enhancements.

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News Beep1d ago

Amy Coney Barrett destroyed the case against birthright citizenship.

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Show threadFinchHaven sfba2d ago

@xankarn

"It is dangerous and wildly wrong for a U.S. President to attend oral argument in a Supreme Court case."

It's typical #DonaldTrump #StochasticTerrorism

"I'm here, I know who you are, and I'm going to watch what you do and say very closely. Don't think for one second that I don't know exactly where you live. Or that my supporters don't know exactly where you live."

#Law #Intimidation #MafiaState #Immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Hypocrisy

Show threadNonilex2d ago

Sauer, the admi’s lawyer, had a few minutes for rebuttal.

The justices heard arguments for more than two hours. #Trump left just over an hour into the session, after his lawyer wrapped up.

The argument is over. The justices will meet shortly to cast their tentative votes. The decision is likely to land in late June or early July.

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Show threadNonilex2d ago

#ACLU atty Wang said that the legal focus should be on the newborn: “The question that the #14thAmendment asks is whether the #US born #child is subject to US jurisdiction when they’re born.”

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Show threadNonilex2d ago

The #14thAmendment says people “born or naturalized in the United States & subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

The #Trump admin has long focused on the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” saying that excludes parents living illegally in the #US.

But Wang went directly at that argument Wednesday.

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Show threadNonilex2d ago

If this case sounds familiar, that’s because because #SCOTUS has already ruled on one aspect of litigation over Trump’s executive order ending the guarantee of #BirthrightCitizenship.

But importantly, that case did not test the constitutionality of the order itself, as the one the justices are hearing Wednesday will. Essentially they passed the buck.

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