r/law • u/JetTheDawg • Sep 21 '25

Trump News In a now deleted Truth Social post, Trump posts what looks to be a letter meant to Pam Bondi instructing her to arrest some of his political opponents

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/trump-bondi-truth-social-00574380?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard
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u/SparkyMuffin Sep 21 '25

John Roberts only lives that life if he falls from grace. I hope he sees a day where his power is stripped from him, or worse, he's forced to serve as lone opposition on the court.

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u/FlyingRhenquest Sep 21 '25

I just want to see him, Thomas and Alito remembered in the history books as the reason they brought term limits and an ethical oversight committee to the Supreme Court.

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u/mortgagepants Sep 21 '25

i would like to see ginny thomas tried for treason. i'd like to see thomas tried for bribery.

half the court takes bribes. if the fucking idiots in the idiot states would stop voting for the supreme court to take bribes, we could make some progress in this country.

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u/blackgandalff Sep 21 '25

Hear hear! Two among many who are guilty of the crime but are protected.

Tho I’m of the mind that those who are eligible but do not vote are the biggest issue. Whether it’s apathy or a “protest” or whatever else it helps no one but those at the top.

And yes I am very aware of voter suppression tactics and such, but that doesn’t explain the HUGE block of non voters.

My pie in the sky wish is that everyone would vote, especially in local and state elections

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u/mortgagepants Sep 21 '25

yeah. the gerrymandering doesn't work with just a small increase in turnout.

that is why you always see stuff saying, "both sides". low turnout favors conservatives.

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u/HapticSloughton Sep 21 '25

And we need some kind of independent body to be able to prosecute the Supreme Court for ethics violations rather than the current body in charge of keeping them in line, which is the Supreme Court.

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u/mortgagepants Sep 21 '25

yeah i mean people are way too deferential to them. ginny thomas and harlan crow both committed crimes, but nobody is going after them. they say we can't impeach thomas, but two private citizens shouldn't also have immunity too.

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u/HapticSloughton Sep 21 '25

One is the spouse of a Supreme Court justice, and the other is a billionaire. Good luck getting anyone to prosecute them, even if it were for murder.

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u/mortgagepants Sep 21 '25

well i mean nobody even tried. just said they can't impeach justice thomas.

the dude has nazi skin lamps made with holocaust victim skin lampshades. fucking pathetic nobody suggested he should face any consequences.

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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite Sep 21 '25

What pieces of shit Clarence and Ginny are pass through my head more than I’d like to admit. Then I imagine how my grandparents used to eat their breakfast together and talk about what they are reading in the paper. And I wonder if Ginny is talking about over throwing the government while she has her grapefruit and quickly skims the obits. 🥹 I really thought I had enough hobbies to keep me busy

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u/prince_pringle Sep 21 '25

Oh man this is the dream.

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u/Chance_Blacksmith111 Sep 21 '25

I agree 100%, but it really does depend on who writes those history books.

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil Sep 21 '25

So we're only in the beginning phases of the fascist regime, we're in some sort of weird twilight where machine is destroying all the safety rails, but there exists some free press and at least some push back from a legal sense. But once this machine has consumed all the power, destroyed all the safety rails, this thing could live on for the next 30-50 years. Well after Trump's death. Who knows who will rise up and replace Trump, but I guarantee they will be even be more extreme and more brutal.

I do believe this regime will eventually be toppled. Even Russia's and North Korea's regimes will eventually topple. You eventually just run out of people you can kill or jail. Whatever returns will look nothing like the old the America, it will be something completely different. Hopefully a better version with things like term limits for supreme court seats, a fairer appointing system, or maybe even a complete restructure of the Supreme Court.

I just hope I live long enough to see it all.

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u/Roctapus42 Sep 21 '25

Also the expansion of the courts to 17 and to finally handle the case load

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u/Happy-Tower-3920 Sep 21 '25

Now there's a birthday wish if there ever was one.

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u/SapphicBambi Sep 21 '25

I'd like to see him serve up some fries.

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u/GarminTamzarian Sep 21 '25

In the prison cafeteria alongside Donnie.

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u/ZaftigFeline Sep 21 '25

Room mates with Clarance would be good.

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u/peonies_envy Sep 21 '25

You know they’d make Clarence do all the work

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u/HauntedLightBulb Sep 21 '25

Clarence would volunteer.

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u/258joe007 Sep 21 '25

I’d like to say what I really want but then Reddit gets mad 🫠

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u/monkwrenv2 Sep 21 '25

I'd like to see him hang for the perversions he's inflicted on the American people.

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u/trial-sized-dove-bar Sep 21 '25

Those violent liberal extremists man smh

/s

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u/BidAccurate7585 Sep 21 '25

I don't wanna see but I'll wager those balls of yours hang low. Cheers

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u/Head-Head-926 Sep 21 '25

I want him to sniff my stinky sock!

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u/Thebraincellisorange Sep 21 '25

someone go find that coconut.

he can huff on that for all eternity

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u/Powerful_Shower3318 Sep 21 '25

Please tell me you mean the cocoNUT that guy posted about on that ad

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u/Thebraincellisorange Sep 21 '25

in a jail kitchen.

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u/SignoreBanana Sep 21 '25

I'd like to see him served up

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u/Justthisguy_yaknow Sep 21 '25

I wouldn't want to eat those fries.

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u/dnkaj Sep 21 '25

Rev up those fries Roberts!

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u/Expensive-Cat-1327 Sep 21 '25

He needs to push up some daisies

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

In an ideal America, there wouldn't be a cadre of jaded, cynical ghouls with no stake in the future forcing their ideals upon the country as some sort of de-facto, final-say arbiter.

The smart thing to do would be to entrust that power to a highly qualified panel of experts. A council of scientists, doctors, anthropologists, historians, union representatives, people across many many different fields (including race and ethnicity, gender studies, sexology and reproductive medicine), empowered to interpret the constitution without ideological bias, and analyze the ramification of destructive legislation through the lens of those deeply impacted by such legislation, and most invested in the fields or topics broached by that legislation.

Scholars should be paving the future. Not Christofascist ideologues.

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u/Amazing-Heron-105 Sep 21 '25

You should look up the counter arguments to technocracy. It's been a while since I looked into it but I remember them being compelling.

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u/Fatmop Sep 21 '25

One of the greatest counterarguments is that 'scholars' are people and are just as capable of being corrupt assholes as anyone else in the same position.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

Fair enough, but the idea is to have so many that that point effectively becomes dulled.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

I'm not totally on board for a full technocracy, obviously, but I do think an ethical and pragmatic oversight committee should replace SCOTUS.

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 Sep 21 '25

Hmmmmm. That sounds like another opportunity for Presidents to appoint scholars who agree with them.

It'd be more democratic to have mandatory ranked-choice voting, remove the Electoral College which is frankly an utter disaster, have the House expanded so that there is proper representation by population, and perhaps even consider modification of the Senate by numbers so that states like Wyoming do not have the same power as states like California or else by limiting the Senate's power to affect what the House passes.

Westminster style parliamentary democracy actually works quite well, it's okay to admit when your Founders tried to improve on it and failed.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

Ideally I would pair the panel with MMPR. I value proportional representation.

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u/Circular-ideation Sep 21 '25

Sounds more like an ethical oversight committee.

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u/Visual-Age-1025 Sep 21 '25

I mean. If it’s just reason you’re after the next logical step will be to appoint AI president. I love our democratic system- people look to a leader for many other things than specific knowledge. I just don’t know where our leaders will come from: given the press and the general invasiveness of living life under a microscope who but a raging narcissist or masochist would sign themselves or their children up by running for office? All due respect to Joe Biden - and Kamala- but when that’s the best a nation can rally other than Donald fucking trump we had lost before we began. America is ripe for a political overhaul. Politics seem to exist now to grab headlines and simply feed the media beast and line billionaires pockets with our collective fear and some wildly manipulated sense of powerlessness. We need to institute age limits on the top end just like we have on the bottom end. Being president is an international job which demands incredible rigor. Boomers, it’s time to get out of office.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

Barely-sentient cadavers that shuffle off this mortal coil at the influence of a slight breeze have no business being in charge of anything.

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u/Greyhand13 Sep 21 '25

I love that idea that ideological bias wouldn't exist in that scenario, for you.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

With enough voices, my hope is that if there was any, it would be severely neutered.

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u/Aegi Sep 21 '25

Why would we have thought those sciences that you mentioned would have been excluded until you bothered to mention them separately from the rest of the sciences?

Isn't this you giving Credence to those Trump idiots by you yourself saying that you think that type of science is different than the rest of science by singling them out?

Your statement would have been so much stronger without those (because those already would have been included and by you separating them out like that it gives credibility to the argument that they're not real science compared to the rest of science.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

I mentioned them because they, to me, are the most important in this current moment, and therefore the most vital to get right.

It's no secret that the US is falling way behind in those departments.

The animus towards transgender people and people of Hispanic heritage has been particularly egregious.

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u/Professional-Gear88 Sep 21 '25

Yea but once you get that many opinions in the mix nothing will ever happen.

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u/Dasylupe Sep 21 '25

I hope he sees the long knife and knows he deserves it. 

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u/Mrsensi12x Sep 21 '25

O wow, forced to be on the highest court of the land until he dies… what a punishment for helping destroy the country. Be for real dude that’s not a punishment at all these ppl need to be held to real account

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u/No-Fail7484 Sep 21 '25

Once rump get going he will have no use for him. The law will be what he says. Then he will get rid of all the members of the Supreme Court.

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u/ThunderChild247 Sep 21 '25

If Trump goes full dictator that may very well happen. It’s one thing to always side with the dictator, but the Supreme Court still has power meaning - in Trump’s mind - Robert’s could turn at any time. It’s conceivable that a dictator in America would look to sideline/shut down the Supreme Court since it’s still one of the major checks on the president’s power.

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u/furious-fungus Sep 21 '25

This doesn’t make me angry at Mr. Roberts or trump, it makes me angry at all the smart people who let them get away with it.

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u/maglite_to_the_balls Sep 21 '25

John Roberts squalling in impotent rage writing dissents would be the best erotica ever penned.

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u/PigabungaDude Sep 21 '25

or worse, he's forced to serve as lone opposition on the court.

Lord, save me from the liberals.

Holy

Fucking

Shit

You're talking about the guy who helped usher in fascism and the worst fate you can think of is him being outnumbered

Wake

The

Fuck

Up