The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures…. ICE agents don’t get to kidnap someone, from a coffee shop parking lot, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process…. Holding someone against their will while refusing to tell them why, or denying them access to contact anyone, is a constitutional violation

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issues a BLISTERING dissent against her fellow justices, accusing them of giving Trump more power than a KING and throwing centuries of precedent in the trash so that Trump can dismantle our democracy! Every American needs to read this… This morning, Trump’s judges on the Supreme Court made the shocking decision to allow Trump to fire the two Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission just because he didn’t like them. Giving Trump the power to appoint and dismiss regulators goes against the entire institution of having regulators in the first place – and it’s a stake in the heart of our democratic checks and balances. Justice Sotomayor sounded the alarm in her dissent, pointing out that Trump now has MORE power than King George did, who had to have his appointees approved by Parliament. “Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong." “The text of the Constitution, along with its history, the longstanding practices of the political branches, and the precedents of this Court, make clear that Congress may limit the causes for which the heads of Commissions like the FTC can be removed by the President. "In holding otherwise, the Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws." “These great statesmen and Justices knew something that today’s majority apparently does not: that fealty to the Constitution means respecting not just what it says, but what it does not say and by its silence leaves to others to decide.” “It also means respecting precedent—not as a wooden exercise, but out of a recognition that, whatever our confidence in the theories of the present moment, the wisdom of our founding document does not belong to today’s Justices alone.” “Because the Court ignores these foundational tenets, and in doing so upends rather than upholds the separation of powers, I respectfully dissent. “ This court has made it very clear that precedent, the Constitution, and good-faith commonsense will have no effect whatsoever on their rulings. They understand that they were put in place to implement a white supremacist conservative political project to permanently seize power in America, and they will rubber-stamp that agenda at every opportunity. Expanding the court and diluting its power is now a political necessity if we ever want the Constitution to have meaning again.