{"id":20295,"date":"2025-12-01T13:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanistische-union.de\/?post_type=publikation&#038;p=20295"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:58:32","slug":"donald-trumps-assault-on-democracy-and-civil-rights-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"publikation","link":"https:\/\/www.humanistische-union.de\/publikationen\/vorgaenge\/vorg-252\/publikation\/donald-trumps-assault-on-democracy-and-civil-rights-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s Assault on Democracy and Civil Rights in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"v-absatz-ohne-western\" lang=\"en-US\">Donald Trump\u2019s return to power as the American President in January 2025 is posing threats far graver than the enormous damage he inflicted on civil rights during his first term from 2017 to 2021. During that first term Trump focused on remaking American policy, but in the first eight months of his second term he has focused on remaking American governance, all with an apparent goal of concentrating power in his own hands. It is not hyperbole to say that we in the United States now are veering away from democracy toward dictatorship, a charge I do not make lightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-absatz-einzug-western\" lang=\"en-US\">The current Trump assault can be traced back to just before Joseph Biden became President when, on January 6, 2021, a mob emboldened by Trump stormed the United States Capitol in an effort to physically prevent official certification of Biden&#8217;s November 2024 election victory over Trump. That violent attack on American democracy was an omen of things to come, and in this essay I focus on several areas where we have seen important developments: presidential immunity from criminal prosecutions, diminished judicial authority, presidential control over independent agencies, deployment of military troops in American cities, summary expulsions from the United States, and stripped American citizenship. Before turning to these areas, however, it is worth reviewing the basics of the American system of governance that is under siege.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\n<p class=\"v-autoreninfo-western\"><em><strong class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Chris Dunn<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"en-US\"> is an American civil-rights lawyer based in New York who for nearly 40 years worked for the American Civil Liberties Union <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">(ACLU)<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">, including as the legal director of the ACLU\u2019s New York affiliate until the end of 2024. He has published widely about civil rights in the United States and taught for 13 years at New York University Law School.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"v-autoreninfo-western\"><em><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr. Dunn can be reached a<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">t <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"mailto:ctdunn.nyc@gmail.com\">ctdunn.nyc@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Dieser Artikel steht nur in der Kaufversion der Zeitschrift vorg\u00e4nge zur Verf\u00fcgung. Sie k\u00f6nnen das Heft im <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanistische-union.de\/service\/shop\/vorgaenge\/\">Online-Shop der Humanistischen Union<\/a> erwerben: die Druckausgabe f\u00fcr 14.- \u20ac zzgl. Versand, die PDF-\/Online-Version f\u00fcr 5.- \u20ac.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[21,37,47,2982,2974,16],"tags":[831,682,3588,4162,4441,4459,4163,4458,3650,667],"autoren":[2943],"publikationen":[4438],"class_list":["post-20295","publikation","type-publikation","status-publish","hentry","category-demokratisierung","category-europa-internationales","category-lebensweisen-pluralismus","category-neonazis","category-pressefreiheit","category-rechtspolitik","tag-buergerrechte","tag-demokratisierung","tag-diktatur","tag-donald-trump","tag-entdemokratisierung","tag-praesident","tag-trump","tag-us-praesident","tag-usa","tag-vorgaenge-artikel","autoren-christopher-dunn","publikationen-vorg-252"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Donald Trump&#039;s Assault on Democracy and Civil Rights in the United States - Humanistische Union<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humanistische-union.de\/publikationen\/vorgaenge\/vorg-252\/publikation\/donald-trumps-assault-on-democracy-and-civil-rights-in-the-united-states\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Donald Trump&#039;s Assault on Democracy and Civil Rights in the United States - Humanistische Union\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Donald Trump\u2019s return to power as the American President in January 2025 is posing threats far graver than the enormous damage he inflicted on civil rights during his first term from 2017 to 2021. 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