Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 4, Week 28 (278 total reports)
03.09.2025-09.09.2025
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Jerry Goebel
The Supreme Court, under John Roberts, has become Trump’s plaything. Trump can fire anyone he wants, he can arrest anyone he wants, and racial profiling is now legal.
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Everyday this nation, under this administration steps one step closer to fascism. Indeed, many say we have already crossed that line. One Step Closer
Top Links of the Week
09.09.2025
Chief Justice John Roberts Is Trying His Darnedest to Make Trump a Dictator
The Supreme Court under John Roberts has become Donald Trump’s plaything. Roberts’ court has given Trump the power to 1) fire anyone he wants, and 2) arrest anyone he wants. This once-sacred branch of government now rubber-stamps anything the conservative president wants—including racial profiling. This is no longer the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), it is the Supreme Court of Trump — U.S. Trump owns the Republicans, he controls his cabinet, and he dictates the rulings of this court. Our primary hope lies in persistent resistance and showing up at the mid-term elections.
08.09.2025
Fear of Losing the Midterms Is Driving Trump’s Decisions
This article by The Atlantic staff writer, Jonathan Lemire, examines what is keeping President 47 up at night. The mid-terms and the strong chance of losing the House. According to Lemire, some of this president’s worst memories are the impeachment trials he faced when he lost the House in the 2018 election. Usually, Presidents are blamed for the economy when going into the midterms, and this administration’s economy is not looking pretty. This week will be significant as the Supreme Court takes up the legalities of Trump’s dictatorial use of the EEPA (Emergency Economic Powers Act) to create tariffs. Some say—as Lemire points out—that a Trump win in the Supreme Court (allowing him to keep the tariffs) might actually be worse than a Trump loss. Revealing how ineffective the tariffs have actually been. Either way, it does reveal a path forward for those who want to stop this administration’s determined march towards fascism. Turn up and win the mid-terms. Staying home is not acceptable. Not voting is the same as voting for Trump.
05.09.2025
The Biggest Test for the Supreme Court Yet
Tariff law may not be your usual enjoyable morning reading material, but Paul Rosenzweig, legal and justice scholar, points out that the upcoming cases before the Supreme Court about this president’s right to declare an international emergency and thereby be able to take over the right to impose tariffs (and by association, military occupation of cities), is what is truly at stake. The focus is on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which, Rosenzweig points out, “grants the president certain emergency authorities to deal with any unusual or extraordinary threat to the American economy from abroad. The IEEPA gives the president wide-ranging economic powers to ‘block’ transactions, for example, or to ‘regulate’ or ‘prohibit’ importation of foreign goods if the president thinks it necessary. Will the Conservative Court under ultra-conservative Chief Justice, John G. Roberts, Jr., continue to grant broad license to this president in their unified quest to attain an authoritarian government? It’s an important week to keep an eye on tariff laws, whether you enjoy it or not.
04.09.2025
The Fight for Truth
This is an important transcript from the podcast, “The David Frum Show,” in which he interviews award-winning journalist and author, Jonathan Rauch. In it, they discuss how disinformation has become a “central political strategy,” but especially how this administration moved from a “fire hose of falsehoods,” in Trump’s first term, to a “machinery of lies,” in this second term. The latter is imminently more dangerous because it means that lying has moved to the organization of government, not just the machinations of one crazy, old man. The podcast also examines the frailty of Donald Trump, including the possibility that a major health event recently occurred and what a J.D. Vance presidency would look like. As I said, this is a critical conversation that you’ll want to read, if not listen to.
03.09.2025
September 2, 2025
This President seems determined to make the United States into a barbaric nation that reflects his own predatory inclinations. Trying to hide the removal of up to 600 children over the long weekend in the middle of the night is but one action this last week that Heather Cox Richardson points to as this administration’s emphasis on cruelty and hatred. To argue for leniency because, “these are children,” falls on deaf ears in an administration that has only been too obvious in treating children in a predatory manner. We mustn’t lose sight that this is not just Trump’s rapacious cruelty, but an entire administration urged on by the likes of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noehm, and Project 2025. It will take us decades to sort out the damage these people have done to the nation’s reputation and the lives of children around the world. Perhaps when the insanity is done, the trials for human rights crimes can begin. These people belong in prison, but if there really is someplace worse—that is where they should go.
