Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
Donald Trump’s extremist attacks on top Democrats as “the enemy from within” and talk of deploying the military against political foes if he wins the election are stark signs Trump will endanger the rule of law in America, say former US justice department officials and scholars.
The Guardian
Trump has in return blasted those former cabinet-level officials, going so far as to suggest that his second joint chiefs of staff chairman, Mark Milley, should have been executed for treason. This time around, Trump has said only true believers in him – and in his “Make America Great Again” movement – will be allowed into government.
Reuters
Since Trump took office in January 2017, his administration worked aggressively to turn back the clock on our nation’s civil and human rights progress.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
US President Donald Trump ignited a row over the use of waterboarding Wednesday after claiming intelligence professionals told him it “absolutely works.”
CNN
As President Donald Trump’s days in the White House wane, his administration has been racing through a string of federal executions.
BBC
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They make Mr Trump the country’s most prolific execution president in more than a century, overseeing the executions of 13 death row inmates since July of this year.
Project 2025 also calls for federal prosecutors to circumvent local district attorneys and to charge people for crimes when local prosecutors do not. Cader, who spent more than 13 years as a federal public defender, told me this wouldn’t always be possible, as federal laws and state laws don’t always overlap. But she said that gun and drug crimes are huge areas of criminal law where federal prosecutors could have a marked impact on mass incarceration by pursuing more cases, and seeking longer sentences, as Project 2025 proposes.
The Marshall Project
