Judge rules DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional

One calendar year, 10 lived years.

No.

Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true.

These kind of things are highly dependent on the seperation of powers. Republicans are as devout to trump as nazis to hitler. They have control of all three branches. Trump himself should have been impeached a dozen times over at this point which is why he keeps saying if the congress flips he will be impeached because he knows what he has done is unconstitutional.

We don't entirely understand either.

But a fundamental problem is that branch of government tasked with prosecuting and enforcing those laws is the same branch of government that is flagrantly violating them.

It probably should have been independent, but even the agencies that have historically been independent have seen the executive put undue pressure on to fire their leadership and replace them with loyalists. This has been a long time coming, and there have been a large group which has been put into different powerful leadership positions at the same time who are loyal to the fuhrer.

I am also non US but I suspect it is because the more money and influence you have the justice system will bend over backwards to make sure the no innocent person is put in prison. For the rest of the people they can rot in hell for no reason sometimes... In Europe they don't really imprison the really corrupt but at least you don't see them anymore...

But this just reinforces that old saying that when a moron dumps a big rock in a lake it takes many months and years to take it out and it will not be the same anyway.

In China they have cushy prisons for corrupt politicians. The US needs to begin taking a similar tactic of threatening these people with extreme punishment (in China it’s an automatic death sentence, often commuted to life) and putting them prison.

China still has less prisoners than the US, even though they’re harsh on political malfeasance and have a population 5 times that of the United States. We would be a more democratic society if the president could be put in prison.

Simply there is no law to charge them with. The system is designed in a way that it is legal for the executive branch, including its subordinates, to act on executive orders. The courts here only serve to correct the order if unconstitutional. There's no criminal law to use.

I suppose you could always go for treason or sedition, but those have a very high threshold.

They control the entire federal legal system, other than a few judges. They aren't going to arrest themselves.

Yeah, that shit needs to be illegal, just like in Germany.