most democratic way submit to the people of our state the ability to determine their own maps. That simply has not been done. But I want to first just briefly back up and pick up a little bit on what the speaker and the prom said uh and just remind everybody what they reminded you that need to be reminded all of us again of how we got here.We got here because the president of the United States is struggling. We got here because the president of the United States is one of the most unpopular presidents in US ...

This is how the authoritarians operate. They declare an emergency and then they think that the rule of law doesn't govern anymore. The constitution is irrelevant. Well, our constitution doesn't work like that. We've got the fourth amendment for regular times and for emergency times. We've got the fifth amendment for regular and emergency times. We got the first amendment, the second amendment, the sixth amendment. >> Who's going to force them to follow them? Congressman, you know, we have the amendments are ...

-I think some of what we're seeing are basically pushing power and pushing authority in directions that we haven't gone before. -We're at a moment now where we have a president who feels unusually unconstrained. -I think we have to be concerned because this administration is pressing boundaries every day.Westin: And some of what President Trump has had to say about the courts and their rulings has not always been reassuring. -Judges are trying to take away the power given to the president to keep our countr ...

But then there's the law firms that President Trump has been pushing around. Nine big law firms struck deals with Trump after he started issuing these bogus executive orders targeting certain law firms. Nine firms did deals. Four firms refused to do deals. They fought back against him in court and all four of those firms won their cases in court. Trump didn't even bother appealing them. But new reporting from Reuters finds that Trump's assault on law firms has nevertheless had what was presumably its desire ...

RT Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor (DRL) (@StateDRL)In support of @POTUS Executive Orders, DRL just returned from a trip to South Africa to learn more about rural farm attacks and the breakdown of rule of law. Here’s what we found🧵[1/6] ...

And the rule of law itself is now, according to many experts, quite clearly under siege. We're at an early point in the term. People have noticed. People are fighting back. The president of the United States is not king. What we're seeing is this administration continue to run a foul of the law. This is against the Constitution. A king unbound by laws, who rules by decree. It's going against our rights as people and especially as American citizens. What's it going to take for us to wake up? The American peo ...

[Music] thank you today I'm going to tell you that what most people think about democracy is wrong the prevailing folk theory of democracy goes something like this in a democracy the people are always right the majority determines what's right and wrong and politicians should always just carry out the will of the people and I think we've all been brought up with this very simplistic notion about how our democracy is supposed to work um and the problem it's not true we're about to discuss whether democracies ...

As we prepare to celebrate our country's 249th birthday, we are getting new insight into what Americans think about where the country stands. A new NPR PBS News mayor's poll found 34 of Americans feel that democracy is under serious threat and see politically motivated violence as a major problem. So, who better to talk about this moment in time than presidential historian John Meechum.He wrote a new introduction to Random Houses's volume of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. So, John, um ...

But it carries costs for the rule of law https://t.co/stpZg50i0c ...

Civil Rights Enforcement - The Justice Department showed a lack of interest in enforcing civil rights laws, with approximately 70% of colleagues feeling this way [1] - The administration allegedly weaponized civil rights laws against the people they were designed to protect [1] - The department is accused of using Title Six to act on reverse discrimination cases with thin evidence [1] - The department is accused of engaging in pressure campaigns without thorough investigation [1] Investigation of Minneapolis Police Department - An investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department after George Floyd's murder revealed systemic violations in use of force and first amendment rights [1] - The new administration rescinded the investigative findings related to the Minneapolis Police Department and a troubling pattern of excessive force in Memphis [1] Integrity and Non-Partisanship - The administration prioritized loyalty over the oath to the Constitution [9][10] - The administration sought pathways to achieve desired outcomes regardless of legality [10]