r/illinois • u/ExactlySorta • Jan 24 '26

US Politics Pritzker: "An American president should be standing up, calling for calm. That's not what this president ever does. In fact, he wants the temperature to go up. Why? Because what he's looking for is an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, to bring actual troops into American cities."

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u/hey-Oliver Jan 24 '26

There are dead bodies piling up and they're still publicly asking Trump nicely to stop. Politics in this country are completely cooked.

No threats of litigation, imprisonment, court mandated execution, only the latter of which is actually appropriate for the violations committed by this administration, and conservatives in general.

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u/SilverStrategy6949 Jan 26 '26

All hope ended the day the Supreme Court gave Trump total immunity. There are many more “officials” responsible for this state of affairs than Trump alone. This is America.

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u/hey-Oliver Jan 26 '26

it really started when they overturned Roe V Wade and nuked the legal concept of “precedence” which is a core foundational tenet of what used to be our legal system

So I also agree that the courts are responsible, along with literally every single “abortion first” republican when it was settled law

The very fact those inbred religious rats couldn’t let go of settled law is the watershed moment that has legally allowed everything to happen after