Trump's purge begins -- with the Federalist Society

[Eugene]

Source: Salon

Trump's purge begins — with the Federalist Society

Heather Digby Parton
Fri, November 3, 2023 at 9:15 AM EDT·7 min read

We here at Salon have been documenting Donald Trump's plans for his restoration ever since he was exiled to his Palm Beach social club on January 20, 2021. It was clear from that moment on that he was plotting his comeback and the people around him weren't just licking their wounds and preparing to move on, they were readying plans to ensure that Trump's second term permanently solidified their power. They've been hard at work ever since.

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There is also Trump's Agenda 47, a laundry list of extremist right-wing "policies" described by Salon's Chauncy DeVega this way:

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This week the New York Times reported on yet another project in the works, this one spearheaded by the odious Stephen Miller and Trump's former bodyman turned hatchet man, John McEntee. Under the auspices of yet another Trump-affiliated institution, the "MAGA ACLU" called American First Legal, these two have been tasked with finding legal advisers for a new Trump administration who will not be unduly constrained by musty old traditions like "the rule of law" or "the Constitution." Think John Eastman or Jeffrey Clark, although those two will likely no longer have law licenses by that time and may even be in jail. (It's unclear if that would be an impediment to serving in a new Trump administration, however.)

What's most interesting about this new project is that they have decided that they no longer want the input or participation from the Federalist Society which is now considered a bunch of RINOs who can't be trusted:

“The Federalist Society doesn’t know what time it is,” said Russell T. Vought, a former senior Trump administration official who runs a think tank with close ties to the former president. He argued that many elite conservative lawyers had proved to be too timid when, in his view, the survival of the nation is at stake.

Such comments may surprise those who view the Federalist Society as hard-line conservatives. ...

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-purge-begins-federalist-society-131528448.html

[lastlib]

1. The Federalist people aren't fascist enough for the MAGAt crowd?

well, okay, then.....

[Ocelot II]

2. The Federalist Society comes up with authoritarian interpretations of the Constitution

and of laws and procedures, but even they believe that the Constitution and the laws are consistent, enforceable things. TFG and his minions don't think there should be any laws at all except for those than benefit TFG.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Stephen Miller.

Explains the smell.

[Dulcinea]

4. Stephen Miller has always reminded me of this:

[lees1975]

5. We keep talking like American Justice will fail to imprison Trump, or act in time, making it futile.

It would be a gigantic disappointment, and a huge failure, if Democrats in power cannot bring Trump to justice and end, with the constitution, any hope he has of getting any closer to a government-owned property except one of its federal prisons.

The crime wave that will break out if Trump is not convicted before the election might be hard to control. People will not see that there is any such thing as justice or the rule of law.