§6 General Provisions [notably this puts #OMB Dir & #Project2025 architect #RussVought essentially in charge]
“the functions of the Director of the Office of Management & Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or #legislative proposals.”
§4 Preventing Federal #Benefits for *Aliens* in Sanctuary Jurisdictions [gives #USAG #PamBondi & #DHS secy #KristiNoem the power to define benefit #eligibility in #SanctuaryCities]
§5 Equal Treatment of Americans [This eliminates state policies which authorize in-state #tuition for #undocumented immigrants.]
New #Trump #ExecutiveOrder:
“Protecting American Communities From *Criminal Aliens*”
§1 Federal #supremacy with respect to #immigration, #NationalSecurity, & #ForeignPolicy is axiomatic…[so much for #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment]
§2 Designation of “Sanctuary” Jurisdictions [#SanctuaryCities must obey see §1]
§3 Consequences for Sanctuary Jurisdiction Status
#law #immigration #ConstitutionalCrisis #SeparationOfPowers #Federalism #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-communities-from-criminal-aliens/
Judge William Orrick writes: "Here we are again," grants a preliminary injunction blocking the #Trump admin from withholding #funding for 16 #SanctuaryCities, just as he did in 2017.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued the injunction at the behest of 16 cities & counties nationally led by #SanFrancisco which in a lawsuit filed in February argued the #Trump administration was unlawfully trying to force local officials to cooperate with federal #immigration arrests.
US judge blocks #Trump from withholding funds from 16 #SanctuaryCities & counties
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump admin from withholding federal #funding from several so-called #sanctuary jurisdictions that have declined to cooperate with the Republican's hardline #immigration crackdown.
#law #Federalism #StatesRights
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-blocks-trump-withholding-funds-16-sanctuary-cities-counties-2025-04-24/
#Trump, #Musk, #Putin, #Netanjahu, #Erdoğan, #Orban, #LePenn, and #Kickl are #populist #fascists. There, I said it publicly.
Many more western politicians have clear fascist, illiberal tendencies, including previous #FPÖVP chancellors and current governors (Austrian #federalism does not work any more and needs to be severely limited to get back to a functioning government).
[https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000021253/was-kickl-als-volkskanzler-bedeuten-wuerde is a good summary of some reasonable criteria for spotting #fascism, and https://www.diepresse.com/19301692/haben-wir-es-den-faschisten-zu-leicht-gemacht gives more insight into the Austrian variant. https://www.aaup.org/news/professors-are-not-enemy-fascists-are%C2%A0 gives links to the current US government fight against academia.]
The result of this toot is probably that I _really_ shouldn't be traveling to the #US, #Israel, or #Turkey with their current governments. Luckily, I still dare write such statements publicly in Austria and the wider EU. If I really have to get into political trouble, then let it be because I denounce fascism and oppose the abuse of technology to build surveillance states driven by fear. I will not fight with violence, but I can and will fight it with words.
#US #intelligence contradicts #Trump’s justification for mass #deportations
[wait, what!?!?, but but but…are you saying that #felon47 LIED?????!!!!?!!?!?!?!!]
The determination is the most comprehensive assessment to date undercutting Trump’s rationale for deporting *suspected* *gang members* without #DueProcess.
#law #immigration #UnitedStates #democracy #federalism #ChecksAndBalances #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #Tyranny
https://wapo.st/4ipRoOd
If the #Trump admin doesn’t comply with the #law & provide the agreements made with the Salvadoran government, what will they do?
They can’t impeach with #Republicans controlling both chambers of #Congress.
Even if they then sue & win, Trump has shown he won’t abide by any court orders, not even orders from #SCOTUS.
There is no enforcing body willing or able to hold him accountable.
#Federalism and State Power Imbalances
Problems: Unequal representation in the Senate, varying state laws on fundamental rights.
Reform Focus: Address Senate imbalance, ensure national standards on voting rights, healthcare, education, and criminal justice. 8)
This man is an idiot
#Trump: “The #states are just an agent of the #FederalGovernment”
American #federalism divides power between the national & state govts.
It's literally the basis of the #UnitedStates’ system of government & he can even read about it on freaking Wikipedia.
Also, apparently #Republicans only believe in #StatesRghts when Democrats have power in the Executive or Legislative branches.
American Federalism Today: Perspectives on Political and Economic Governance by Michael J. Boskin, 2024
What are federalism's challenges and opportunities today?
The framers of the US Constitution enumerated specific powers for the federal government, leaving all else under the purview of states or the people.
I recently read an excellent article by David Kauders FRSA arguing for federalism in UK political governance . ( RSA Journal 2nd quarter 2024 …I’m a slow reader .) Just because it was excellent doesn’t imply that I agree with his views .He was reflecting on what seems like a continual descent in respect for UK politics and politicians .
Federalism? https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/01/28/federalism/ #Devolution, #Fedarlism, #Federalism, #Nationalism, #Politics, #ScottishIndependence, #UK
10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Executive Orders by a President over an individual state's water system are powerless. The U.S.A. is not a top-down unitary government. We have #Federalism in which states have great authority over their own affairs.
This is off-topic, but I think it is such a strong and well-written statement that it deserves to be read by more people:
Attorney General James Releases Joint Statement with 10 State Attorneys General: State and Local Law Enforcement Cannot Be Commandeered for Federal Immigration Enforcement:
For people laughing at this prospect, remember how states were dividing themselves into various "pacts" in 2020 because Trump's federal administration failed during the pandemic.
Who knows what California's relationship with the USA will look like in 4 years? @ktla.com
https://ktla.com/news/california/would-californians-support-seceding-from-the-united-states/
This drives me crazy.
When I post something like, “Here is what blue states can do at the state level to move forward on a policy issue, someone will whine, “You’re leaning people in red states behind!” as if we are all supposed to act like lobsters in a tank holding each other down.
We should be encouraging states to move forward on their own.Several programs of the New Deal were based on what was being successfully done by a state.
States can be a progressive laboratory.
This is the guy that the Democrats who are newly-enamored with #federalism expect to demonstrate #leadership?
“As they pondered the latent power of state government, the outlines of a new progressive vision of #federalism—pugilistic and creative, audacious and idealistic—began to emerge.”
Nearly all State Legislatures go into session in January.
Instead of just watching with horror as Trump and MAGA tear down the federal government, the time to get organized and plan a strategy to pass state laws, state regulations, and state versions of federal programs is now.
