Youtuber and legal expert Pisco joins us this week to lay out the case for why ICE is guilty of murder. As ICE continues to terrorize Minneapolis, kidnap residents, and perpetuate violence after the murder of Renee Good, Trump is throwing around a ton of horrifying comments showing his awareness of different legal and electoral ways to officially shut down this country’s accountability to the people. To think that the Army and National Guard could be in the conversation when it comes to shutting down popular resistance puts us in the position of having to put our lives on the line for constitutional freedoms. And throwing out the midterms will ensure that Republicans can retain power the American people increasingly don’t want them to have. It’s also a great rehearsal for doing away with presidential elections and making sure we’re stuck for the foreseeable future with a fascist con artist.

We think through the avenues of legal and political authority that could prevent these nightmarish outcomes by holding Trump, Vance, and their national takeover at bay. The Supreme Court will play a huge role in all of this, and we should keep our eyes on them to exercise the power they have been given to stop exactly this kind of situation. When it comes to preventing illegal election cancellations or the invocation of the Insurrection Act, the opportunity to intervene and pull the U.S. back from the brink is theirs. There’s cautious optimism in our conversation that this truly unique moment of terror will force the Supreme Court to recognize the importance of rejecting Trump’s fascist moves. Still, like so many other political actors and institutions, the Court’s willingness to actually act on that recognition is up in the air. In our discussion, we imagine, for better and for worse, what will actually come next.

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