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edhopper

(35,830 posts)
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 06:29 PM Friday

"I expect the ... legal profession to understand

that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation… From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour.”

What is disconcerting is that nobody reading this would be surprised by Trump saying it.

Disturbing because it is from Hitler in 1942.

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"I expect the ... legal profession to understand (Original Post) edhopper Friday OP
One more unnerving thing. Biophilic Friday #1
Some scary shit going down. OverBurn Friday #2
Meaningless bluster. TomSlick Friday #3
Again edhopper Friday #7
Chilling. Trump is already moving to silence and intimidate the judiciary IrishBubbaLiberal Friday #8
This message was self-deleted by its author wolfie001 Friday #11
Ouch. TomSlick Friday #12
I was going to guess Pam Bondi, Ms. Toad Friday #4
Stephen effing Miller Iamscrewed Friday #5
"... Hitler addressed the judiciary in a speech in the Reichstag on April 26, 1942 ..." mahatmakanejeeves Friday #6
+I would be surprised soldierant Friday #9
Of ocurse that's What Fucking Dictators Do... & If Cha Friday #10
"Protect the patriots. Kill the pests" dalton99a Friday #13
I don't think that's a Hitler quote HereForTheParty Saturday #14
It is edhopper Saturday #15
Was watching a doc on the holocaust where Jews were being deported out of the country. kerry-is-my-prez Saturday #16

TomSlick

(12,351 posts)
3. Meaningless bluster.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:02 PM
Friday

Presidents have no authority to remove judges. Even Thomas and Alito would condemn any attempt to remove a judge other than by impeachment.

IrishBubbaLiberal

(1,542 posts)
8. Chilling. Trump is already moving to silence and intimidate the judiciary
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:40 PM
Friday

Chilling.


….on April 26, 1942. Hitler said: “I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation.. From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour.”

Response to IrishBubbaLiberal (Reply #8)

Ms. Toad

(36,727 posts)
4. I was going to guess Pam Bondi,
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:05 PM
Friday

Until I got to the removing from office . . . and then I would have guessed Trump.

soldierant

(8,422 posts)
9. +I would be surprised
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:41 PM
Friday

if the Mango Moron could put together a coherent sentence with words with more than two syllables.

But the sentiment would not surprise me.

Cha

(309,990 posts)
10. Of ocurse that's What Fucking Dictators Do... & If
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:50 PM
Friday

anyone can't see that then they're in the Cult

Everything is "there" for the Fucking Dictator. That needs to be Stopped.


Oh shit.. I didn't read the last line.. too pissed!

dalton99a

(88,308 posts)
13. "Protect the patriots. Kill the pests"
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 11:17 PM
Friday

Translated from Letter to All Judges-Announcement of the Reich Minister of Justice-Nr. 1-in Heinz Boberach, ed., Richterbriefe: Dokumente zur Beeinflussung der deutschen rechtsprechung 1942-44 (Boppard am Rhein: Harold Boldt Verlag, 1975), pp. 9-10.

At a time when the best of our people are risking their lives at the front and when the home front is tirelessly working for victory, there can be no place for criminals who destroy the will of the community. Those in the administration of justice must recognize that it is their job to destroy traitors and saboteurs on the home front. The law allows plenty of leeway in this regard. The home front is responsible for maintaining peace, quiet, and order as support for the war front. This heavy responsibility falls especially to German judges. Every punishment is fundamentally more important in war than in peace. This special fight is targeted especially against those designated by law as “pests.” Should a judge decide after conscientious examination of the criminal act and of the perpetrator's personality that a criminal is a “pest,” then the seriousness of this determination must also be firmly expressed in the harshness of the verdict. It is a matter of course that a plunderer, who reaches for the possessions of another after a terror attack [bombing] by the enemy, deserves only death. But every other culprit who commits his crimes by exploiting the circumstances of war also sides with the enemy. His disloyal character and his declaration of war [on the German people] therefore deserve the harshest punishments.


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kerry-is-my-prez

(9,866 posts)
16. Was watching a doc on the holocaust where Jews were being deported out of the country.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 06:34 PM
Saturday

And then being killed. How do we know what’s going to eventually happen to all these people being deported? It’s a good thing we have Dem politicians going over there - but they aren’t letting them in the facility. Maybe we need to send Kristi Noem over there??

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