We're past a constitutional crisis.What will happen when the next judges are arrested by This fascist regime.
White House’s Leavitt hedges on the possible arrests of high-level judges.

Even many of those who’ve come to expect the worst from the Trump administration were taken aback on Friday when the FBI arrested a county judge in Milwaukee, alleging that she obstructed the detention of an undocumented immigrant. Though Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was released on bond after an appearance before a federal magistrate judge, the developments marked a dramatic escalation of the administration’s tactics.

Among the many questions surrounding the unsettling developments was a look to the near future: Was Dugan the first judge to be taken into custody, or the last? It was against this backdrop that NBC News reported:

Asked if the Trump administration would arrest federal judges or Supreme Court justices who do not comply with its immigration agenda, [White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt] said anyone who is “obstructing federal law enforcement from doing their jobs” is at risk of being prosecuted. ... “Anyone who is breaking the law or obstructing federal law enforcement officials from doing their jobs is putting ourselves at risk of being prosecuted. Absolutely,” Leavitt said.

Asked specifically whether the administration is prepared to target higher-level judges, the White House press secretary demurred, calling it “a hypothetical question.” Leavitt quickly added, “I defer [sic] you to the Department of Justice for individuals that they are looking at or individual cases.”

That wasn’t a “no.”

Leavitt wasn’t the only one on Donald Trump’s team commenting on the issue. On Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi raised eyebrows with some highly provocative rhetoric on Fox News, where the Republican lawyer appeared to threaten judges with prosecutions. As this week got underway, Bondi returned again to Fox News where she referred to Dugan as “a criminal judge sitting on a criminal bench.”....

By all appearances, however, Bondi doesn’t appear to care, which does not bode well as the president and his team intensify their broader offensive against the judiciary.

The public is not on board with Trump’s idea about sending Americans to a foreign prison.
The public is overwhelmingly against the idea of sending American citizens to a Salvadoran prison. So why does the conman-in-chief keep talking about it anyway?

When Trump welcomed El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to the Oval Office, the Republican whispered to his guest about one of his apparent priorities. The audio was a little difficult to hear, but Trump clearly said that “homegrown criminals are next,” adding that El Salvador will have to build “about five more places.” He echoed the point to reporters two weeks ago and then again during a Fox News interview.

It was against this backdrop that Time magazine reporters asked the president about his ambitions in this area, and as my MSNBC colleague Hayley Miller noted:

Despite the backlash to and illegality of such a fantasy, Trump doubled down on his wish to send some criminals who are U.S. citizens to foreign prisons. ... “I would love to do that if it were permissible by law,” Trump said, adding: “We’re talking about career criminals that are horrible people that we house and we have to take care of for 50 years while they suffer because they killed people. If you ask me whether or not I would do that, I would, but totally, and I think you have to leave this part of the sentence totally subject to it being allowed under law. And people are looking to see if it would be allowed under law.”

It is not allowed under the law.

There’s also reason to believe that Americans are not even close to being on board with the idea. The latest New York Times-Siena College poll found that 73% of voters — and even a narrow majority of Republican voters — said a president should not be able to send American citizens to prison in El Salvador. Only 10% of the public endorsed the idea.

Given the nation’s partisan and ideological divisions, it’s rare to see 73-10 split on much of anything, but on this, public attitudes have reached near-consensus levels.

And yet, Trump keeps talking about this, either because he doesn’t care about public attitudes or he believes he can persuade many Americans to change their minds — or some combination thereof.

The more the president pushes this line, the more it becomes necessary to take the threat seriously.

Liberals prevail in Canada, fueled by a dramatic anti-Trump backlash
Up until quite recently, Canada’s Liberal Party and Prime Minister Mark Carney appeared to be facing electoral doom. Then Donald Trump happened.

The public backlash to Trump was the one thing — perhaps, the only thing — that could rescue the Liberal Party and keep Prime Minister Mark Carney in office. And as NBC News reported, that’s precisely what happened.

Canadian voters backed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party on Monday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. projects, in a national election strongly influenced by U.S. President Donald Trump. The CBC said it was too early to know whether the Liberals would win enough seats to form a majority government, but it projected another term for the party, which has governed Canada for almost a decade.

While celebrating the results, Carney focused much of his remarks on domestic affairs, though he also devoted parts of his celebratory speech to the American president who helped fuel the Liberals’ victory that seemed unlikely in the very recent past.

“President Trump is trying to break us, so that America can own us. That will never, that will never, ever happen,” the prime minister said.....

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As for Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the opposition Conservatives, the sudden shift in his electoral fortunes has been brutal. As of a few months ago, Poilievre was widely seen as the next Canadian prime minister. Now, thanks almost entirely to Trump’s antics, the Conservative leader didn’t just lose an opportunity to lead, he also appears to have lost his own seat in Parliament.

As Election Day in Canada got underway, Trump published a weird item online, once again insisting that Canada should become an American state. “ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE!” he wrote. “America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!”

Poilievre wrote soon after, “President Trump, stay out of our election.”

It was far too late for that: Trump had already positioned himself at the center of the election, and it made all the difference for Liberals.

OTTAWA (The Borowitz Report)—In an emotional victory speech late Monday night, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney thanked Donald J. Trump for his stunning election win.

“I don’t deserve credit for this victory,” Carney, choking back tears, told his supporters. “Donald, I couldn’t have done it without you.”

Carney received congratulatory calls from dozens of other world leaders whose political careers have been boosted by Trump, including Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“It’s like I told you, man,” Zelenskyy reportedly told the Canadian. “Trump is magic.”

Former federal prosecutors for D.C. sign memo opposing Ed Martin as D.C. U.S. attorney

Nearly 100 former employees and prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., have signed a memo opposing President Trump's nominee to lead the office. The memo is the latest effort by…

Nearly 100 former employees and prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., have signed a memo opposing President Trump's nominee to lead the office.

The memo is the latest effort by critics of acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to stop his Senate confirmation for the permanent role, which is among the most powerful federal prosecutor positions in the country. The letter was signed by a group of former prosecutors who served in the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office across seven decades, under administrations from Lyndon B. Johnson's through Joe Biden's.

The memo, a copy of which was shared with CBS News, called for the rejection fo Martin's nomination.

"There is a time when we all are called to stand for the full and fair administration of justice and the rule of law," the memo says. "For those of us who have served in the Office of the United States Attorney and still have a breath, that time is now. And the message we speak is, reject — outright and completely — the proposed nominee. Whether our message is futile or not, it is an expression of our conscience and a matter of principle that we deliver with all of the strength that we can muster."