"The supreme court can't do it it's packed with conservatives who owe him their jobs. Congress won't do it Republicans slavishly follow his orders, Democrats are ill-led and divided. For today's White House, the concept of constitutional limits on executive power is a quaint relic. The news media, or sections of it, does its best amid constant legal threats. But, too often, they pay him off. Brave reporters who insist on asking awkward questions are insulted or silenced: Quiet, piggy."
"So who will tame Donald Trump? Who will halt his rolling constitutional coup his ongoing evisceration of US democracy, civil rights, living standards, global reputation and moral integrity? Voters may try to indirectly rein him back in next November's midterms (as they did recently in New York and elsewhere). But those elections are a year away. The emergency is today."
The Supreme Court, Congress, and many media outlets currently fail to check presidential overreach. Republican loyalty and Democratic division blunt congressional resistance while parts of the press face legal threats and occasional appeasement. Independent journalists encounter insults and silencing. Voters can only respond at future elections, creating an immediate democratic emergency. The US Catholic Church hierarchy, bishops, clergy, and grassroots activists have positioned themselves as organized national resistance. The bishops condemn indiscriminate mass deportation, ICE brutality, detention conditions, profiling, and a climate of fear, and they prioritize inequality, immigration, and civil rights as central battlegrounds.
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