'Absolute power consolidated in one person': a slippery slope to the end of checks and balances - Velshi - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Donald Trump’s ongoing conflict with New York is the latest chapter in his broader assault on the system of checks and balances, this time targeting federalism, getting closer to “absolute power consolidated in one person,” warns Kermit Roosevelt, constitutional law professor at Penn.

While Congress appears to have consented to this takeover and judges work to hold the line, the American people, like generations before them, have stepped up, building a growing resistance movement. America’s story is fundamentally a fight of the underdog against Goliath. Throughout our history, it has been "the people" who redeemed America’s soul—whether through suffrage, the Stonewall Riots, the Civil Rights Movement, Black Lives Matter, or the Underground Railroad. - Aired on 02/22/2025.

[Phoenix61]

1. Time for us all to hit the streets. Grid lock everything.

Nobody goes anywhere. Nobody does anything until this shit stops.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

2. Erm... I think we slid down that slope a long time ago...

… given that there’s been absolutely no checks and balances for ages. Start with the SCOTUS and explain who exactly has been controlling what.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Agreed, the process has now ramped up, but it started under previous Republican "rule," especially with SCOTUS