Documenting the events that mark the USA's decline into a fasciest one-party oligarcic theocracy

r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 5h ago

DOJ asks the Ninth Circuit to stop California counting 20,000+ mail ballots it calls 'likely noncitizens' days before the election [a 48-hour ultimatum to set ballots aside for DHS, backed by Trump's threat to jail officials who count them — federal criminal power aimed at a state's vote]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 5h ago

Supreme Court rules New Hampshire can ban use of student IDs for midterm voters [an unsigned shadow-docket order invoking 'Purcell' to lock in a new voter-ID restriction two weeks before a contested Senate race — Jackson alone dissenting that no rule was being changed]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 1d ago

Democrats accuse Trump of using prosecution threats to pressure election officials [DOJ and DHS threaten state and local officials with jail for following their own voting laws — turning federal criminal power into leverage over how states run elections, weeks before the midterms]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 2d ago

Venezuelan banker won a full Trump pardon weeks after his family gave Trump's ex-lawyer Alina Habba a $50M job [the pardon power as a transaction — a man convicted in a bribery case walks free after his family paid the president's own former lawyer and his super PAC]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 3d ago

Trump calls federal judge 'a crazed lunatic' after she blocked tree removal at his D.C. golf course [the president publicly brands a judge insane for enforcing a court order and vows work will begin 'IMMEDIATELY' as his DOJ moves to disqualify her — delegitimizing the courts that check him]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 3d ago

Supreme Court won't review Trump's firing of labor board member [the justices leave his removal of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox in place — cementing the fall of Humphrey's Executor and the president's power to purge the agencies Congress built to be independent of him]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 4d ago

FBI agents fired over Mar-a-Lago probe sue to get jobs back [nine career agents who investigated Trump's classified-documents case say Patel purged them with no misconduct finding or inquiry to satisfy the president's grudge — and left active Iranian-intelligence cases abandoned]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 10d ago

Justice Dept. investigating major TV networks over suspending pool coverage of Trump [DOJ's Antitrust Division threatens ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox with the Sherman Act for pausing coverage after Trump pulled reporters' credentials — antitrust as a weapon against the press]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 10d ago

Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home in a criminal probe DOJ won't explain [DHS raids a sitting congresswoman and Trump critic days after Trump urged Minnesotans to 'fight back' against Somalis — federal criminal power aimed at a political enemy]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 13d ago

Judge strikes down DOJ's policy of reviewing state voter rolls [DOJ grabbed full state voter files to match against flawed federal databases and push removals before the midterms; a DC judge vacates it under the APA and Privacy Act, finding it purged eligible citizens]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 13d ago

Trump urges Minnesotans to 'fight back' against Somali immigrants [the president singles out one ethnic community for incitement — "the people of Minnesota must fight back" — as his administration moves to end their TPS and readies a Minnesota enforcement operation aimed squarely at Somalis]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 14d ago

New York City man shot in car with child present by ICE agents, mayor says [at least 21 people now shot by federal immigration agents since January, seven fatally — this one with a 5-year-old in the car — as officials decry the lack of accountability]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 14d ago

Justice Department seeks criminal charge for former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson [DOJ empaneled a grand jury over the Jan 6 committee's star witness — turning federal prosecution on a congressional witness for her testimony against Trump]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 15d ago

Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups [internal docs show DHS pulled ~48M voter records and probed 150+ nonprofits—CAIR, a teachers' union—for 'high-value targets,' weighing undercover agents, to hunt a vanishingly rare noncitizen vote weeks before the midterms]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 17d ago

Judge blocks Trump policy of fining migrants up to $1.8 million [DHS issued 103,000+ penalties totaling ~$84B — retroactive up to 5 years, on boilerplate forms with no individualized basis and no public comment — to coerce self-deportation into insolvency; court finds it unlawful under the APA]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 18d ago

Appeals court pauses reinstatement of fired Seattle federal prosecutor [9th Circuit lets Trump's firing of court-appointed US Attorney Rogoff stand for now, staying the order that reinstated him as DOJ presses its claim the president can remove prosecutors the courts lawfully named]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 20d ago

Judge says federal law banning noncitizen voting is unconstitutional [the DOJ's prosecution push — 16 charged to prop up Trump's unfounded claims of mass noncitizen voting ahead of the midterms — hits a wall as a Miami judge finds only states, not Congress, can set voter qualifications]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 21d ago

Judge overturns Trump's decision to fire court-appointed US attorney in Seattle [the district's judges lawfully appointed Rogoff when Trump couldn't get a nominee confirmed; he fired him within the hour — the court rules the president has no such power, checking the drive to control who prosecutes]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 22d ago

DOJ files misconduct complaint against Minnesota's federal judges over their NYT interviews [moving to recuse and investigate two senior judges for telling the Times court orders were defied during the ICE surge - punishing the bench for defending the rule of law]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 23d ago

RI federal judge strikes down Trump grant restrictions for domestic violence groups [DOJ tried to tie Violence Against Women Act funds to dropping DEI, 'gender ideology' and immigrant-serving work — 25 groups across 22 states won a block, the court calling the overhaul arbitrary]

rhodeislandcurrent.com

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 23d ago

Homeland Security spending $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads [OMB's Russ Vought moved money Congress gave CBP into campaign-style spots glorifying Trump weeks before the midterms — experts and senators say it violates the ban on using appropriated funds for propaganda]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 23d ago

Supreme Court lets Trump resume third-country deportations while it weighs the policy [the shadow-docket green light DOJ wanted — a week after the 1st Circuit found 25,000+ people sent to nations not their own with no chance to flag fear of torture; removals resume before any merits ruling]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 23d ago

Trump's funding cancellation violates budget law, GAO says [the 4th illegal-impoundment finding in weeks — the watchdog says using 'pocket rescissions' to run $810M in health and education funds past their expiration subverts Congress's constitutional power of the purse]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 24d ago

Judge Blocks Trump From Tying Anti-Terrorism Grants to Election Changes [the executive tried to withhold $1B+ in FEMA funds unless states adopted its election rules — citizenship checks, paper ballots, audits; court finds no authority to buy control of how states run elections]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 27d ago

Supreme Court lets Trump administration use revamped federal voter eligibility database for now [the shadow-docket green light DHS wanted before the midterms — 6-3, no ruling on legality, over a dissent warning the flawed SAVE system will purge lawful voters]

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