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Miller’s out there again threatening the courts with a suspension of habeas corpus if they don’t rule the way the fascists want. Explicitly. In words.

They’re threatening to start arresting anyone and everyone they want, at will, with absolutely no legal recourse for anyone. That’s what “suspending habeas corpus” means. Habeas corpus is the right to challenge an imprisonment through law, through the courts – it means you have to have a reason to arrest someone and it has to be valid, and people can demand you demonstrate that it’s valid or otherwise release that person.

Most people are quoting the “looking at” part, but I want to highlight two other phrases. First, I want to point at the monstrous cur calling this fundamental right of the Constitution a “privilege”:

“…the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended…”

Habeas corpus is a fundamental right, not a goddamn privilege, you solipsistic ghoul, and you know it but you don’t care. It predates the Constitution; hell, it predates the Magna Carta. What he’s doing here is telling the MAGAt base what to say and how to react, saying that it’s not a right, it’s some kind of bonus which can be taken away.

And that’s horseshit. If you don’t have the right to contest your own imprisonment, if you can be imprisoned by them at will, thrown overseas or into some dark hole to die with absolutely no recourse, then you have no rights at all, and that’s what they’re going for. You: no rights. Them: absolute power. That’s the intent.

Now, to the threat:

“[suspending habeas corpus] depends upon whether the courts do the right thing or not.”

If the courts don’t let them do whatever they want, they’ll throw out the most fundamental right that can exist – the right not to be arbitrarily imprisoned without recourse.

The right not to be disappeared.

The right to exist at all.

For anyone.

That’s what he wants to take away. That’s what they want to take away.

This alone should be cause for impeachment, conviction, and removal.

That it’s not is a complete condemnation, by their own hands, of the Republican Party.

If you’re not getting out there on the streets, why the hell not? Here are some places to look for protests near you:

• Tesla Takedown – this is a big weekend for anti-Musk protests at Tesla dealerships. Find yours. Get out there.
• Indivisible – this is a bigger list with a more general focus. Find something near you. Get out there.
• No Kings – June 14th. Put it on your calendar now. Be there.

The more effective we are, the more of us there are, the more radical and scary they’ll get up to the point where they piss off enough people that they get taken down. But we have to keep building, and we have to keep getting out there, and dragging as many people out there with us as we can if we ever want to reach that point.

It’s been said a bunch, but the rubber has hit the road, and if you’ve ever wondered what you would do in the 1930s, you’re finding out now, because it’s what you’re doing right now.

Make it the right thing.

Get out there, team. And stay out there. If we want to keep a republic, we have to get this done.

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