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Right On Time, Here Come the Enabling Acts [1]
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Date: 2025-05-22
This administration has been following Germany’s playbook from the 30s almost letter for letter. Now come the Enabling Acts.
The Enabling Act of 1933 (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz, officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich lit. 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich'),[1] was a law that gave the German Cabinet—most importantly, the Chancellor, Adolf Hitler—the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg. By allowing the Chancellor to override the checks and balances in the constitution, the Enabling Act was a pivotal step in the transition from the democratic Weimar Republic to the totalitarian dictatorship of Nazi Germany. [Wikipedia]
A provision snuck into the budget bill seeks to neuter the judiciary. Section 70303 on page 116 forbids courts to charge Trump or any other government officials with contempt for defying court orders. It also blocks court-ordered national injunctions to prevent potential illegal acts posing imminent harm.
This was also planned in Project 2025.
There is also the provision that lets the president pull the non-profit status of any group he disapproves of, which is anyone helping people and telling the truth.
So, with the Congress rolling over and showing its belly, and trying to neuter the courts, the only branch left is the executive. Der Fuehrer and his WILL.
MAKE SOME NOISE!
This cannot be allowed to stand.
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