So what's a fascist party to do when they've already said the courts don't have authority over them, they intend to ignore court rulings, and they want to impeach federal judges who won't play fascist Calvinball for them, but the injunctions and restraining orders keep coming anyway? Apparently, if you're noted Christian Nationalist, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson, the answer is to threaten to dissolve the courts entirely.

https://truthout.org/articles/mike-johnson-suggests-eliminating-federal-courts-after-trump-rulings-blocked/

"Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (Louisiana) suggested on Tuesday that Congress might move to dismantle certain federal courts following at least 15 nationwide injunctions imposed by judges against executive orders issued by President Donald Trump.

“We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court,” Johnson told reporters. “We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”

Look, by no means am I saying that I'm *against* taking the fascist Trump regime to court, to try and block as much of their techbro monachist/fundie/nazi (depends on the moment with these guys) program. What I'm saying however is that waiting around to see if you'll still have human, civil, and political rights after a long protracted legal battle, while the regime continues to install a fascist dicatorship in the meantime, is an incredibly shortsighted plan of action; and yet it seems to be the one much of the liberal establishment is adopting at the moment. This is particularly true when in so much as the regime is willing to acknowledge the authority of courts at all, it's so they can issue an emergency appeal to a 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court that already gave us nonsensical fascist Calvinball rulings like Dobbs, Chevron, and Trump v. United States.

"The Trump administration has attempted to bypass, circumvent, and even dismantle the judiciary in various ways since taking over the White House.

For instance, in response to federal judges restraining or enjoining many of Trump’s executive orders, the administration has increasingly turned to the Supreme Court with emergency appeals to overturn unfavorable rulings. Emergency applications typically request swift judicial intervention, claiming urgency to prevent significant harm or injustice.

“The Trump administration has now filed six emergency applications at #SCOTUS challenging rulings by six different federal district judges spread across five different federal district courts,” Steve Vladeck, author of The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic, said on Bluesky. “Maybe it’s not the judges who are ‘rogue’?”

Given all that, I think waiting on courts that literally cannot enforce their rulings without the backing of security forces wholly controlled by the Trump regime, and might get overruled anyway if guys like Sam Alito can find a amusing way to say Trump is God Emperor now, to start resisting fascism by any means necessary is a catastrophically bad plan; which stands to reason, because this is the same liberal establishment that by and large thought it would be a good idea to help Trump win the 2016 GOP primary contest because he'd be so "easy to beat."

We can have a debate till we're blue in the face about whether or not we're in a Constitutional Crisis yet; but nothing about that debate is going to change the fact that we're clearly in the middle of a fascist takeover by billionaire nazis, Christian Nationalists, and corrupt as fuck winger politicians, even SCOTUS judges, willing to pretend all of this is legal so long as the bribe monies are on time. The time to fight back, in government, in the media, and in the streets, is now. Waiting for the courts to solve the problem isn't a strategy, it's complicity.

@Strandjunker Had they been #Dems, they would already be at #Leavenworth.

@mastodonmigration

It seems to me that Sanders should vow not to hand over another $200 million to the Democrats without demanding something concrete in return.

@mastodonmigration

I would like to know if Bernie Sanders is going to collect $200 million and he's going to give those $200 million again to the DNC so that the Democrats run on a corporate plan again with progressive money and banging on the students heads while effectively supporting Netanyahu's fully intentional genocide. One time was enough.

@Strandjunker I think the bigger story is #MAGAmoron thumbing his nose at courts and #Dems wringing their hands and tut-tutting.