Time for another Q&A with Tristan answering your questions on the top political and legal stories in the news, plus an early look ahead at 2026 and 2028.
I've asked this question of every political pundit and journalist I've come in contact with and no one can seem to answer it, but I'm hoping you can. If you blatantly sit before congress, as Noem did, and admit you broke the law, ignored the authority of the law and intend to continue to defy laws and ignore orders from the Supreme Court of this nation, shouldn’t an arrest warrant be immediately issued?
There has to be some unaffected force that can be called in to facilitate arrests even if it’s the DC police department or deputized citizens. If not then there is no recourse or justice and this nation is lost to them.
I was going to ask if you could provide some type of summary as to where things are with some of the more important lawsuits already filed. For example, those filed against DOGE. I worry because of the damage Musk is still doing ( creating a massive database of personal info, promoting his AI in the gov't, etc).
It looks like the only way to fight back is court cases, and you have to have standing to bring a case. This is tRump's classic ploy: break things and win by delaying court.
Would it work for those being damaged to file claims against officials' surety bonds instead? The congressmen especially need to feel some pain to wrest support away from tRump.
There is a man who filed suit against tRump about how his pardon of the J6ers (giving aid and comfort to insurrectionists) disqualifies him from office under 14th amendment Sec3. Do more of us need to do this, or have state AGs do it?
How do presidential candidates get on the ballot for primary elections? Register in every state? Is there any vetting process? For example does someone check that a potential candidate is a citizen? If Trump does run again will every state have to take it through the legal system until it gets to SCOTUS?
There are in some states. For example, in Colorado & Maine & another state (California?), their state supreme courts noted the constitutional disqualification (14th Amendment, Section 3) of Trump for further government office, & tried to prevent him from getting on the ballot, but were quickly overruled by the partisan US Supreme Court.
I've asked this question of every political pundit and journalist I've come in contact with and no one can seem to answer it, but I'm hoping you can. If you blatantly sit before congress, as Noem did, and admit you broke the law, ignored the authority of the law and intend to continue to defy laws and ignore orders from the Supreme Court of this nation, shouldn’t an arrest warrant be immediately issued?
The biggest problem is the executive branch is the enforcement arm of the govt, and it's the one filled with criminals.
I'd like to see more state AGs filing cases, but if the crime is in DC, I'm not sure what happens.
There has to be some unaffected force that can be called in to facilitate arrests even if it’s the DC police department or deputized citizens. If not then there is no recourse or justice and this nation is lost to them.
I was going to ask if you could provide some type of summary as to where things are with some of the more important lawsuits already filed. For example, those filed against DOGE. I worry because of the damage Musk is still doing ( creating a massive database of personal info, promoting his AI in the gov't, etc).
It looks like the only way to fight back is court cases, and you have to have standing to bring a case. This is tRump's classic ploy: break things and win by delaying court.
Would it work for those being damaged to file claims against officials' surety bonds instead? The congressmen especially need to feel some pain to wrest support away from tRump.
https://bondsforthewin.com/
There is a man who filed suit against tRump about how his pardon of the J6ers (giving aid and comfort to insurrectionists) disqualifies him from office under 14th amendment Sec3. Do more of us need to do this, or have state AGs do it?
suit summary at https://www.whatthehellareyoudoing.org/post/my-great-concern-is-not-whether-you-have-failed-but-whether-you-are-content-with-your-failure
How do presidential candidates get on the ballot for primary elections? Register in every state? Is there any vetting process? For example does someone check that a potential candidate is a citizen? If Trump does run again will every state have to take it through the legal system until it gets to SCOTUS?
There are in some states. For example, in Colorado & Maine & another state (California?), their state supreme courts noted the constitutional disqualification (14th Amendment, Section 3) of Trump for further government office, & tried to prevent him from getting on the ballot, but were quickly overruled by the partisan US Supreme Court.
It was Illinois.
Correct! Thanks for the correction!
You're welcome
One thing Tristan, John Robert's immunity brief said Drumpf had immunity even if he didn't leave the WH with no recourse for the people