Step 3: Attack the Courts & Stack the Judiciary

Control the Courts, Control the Country"

The courts are the last line of defense against tyranny. If they fall, democracy falls with them.

Every autocratic leader—from Hitler to Putin to Trump—has understood this. That’s why one of the first steps in dismantling democracy is removing independent judges and replacing them with loyalists.

In America, this process has already begun.

Trump, the Heritage Foundation, and MAGA extremists are stacking the courts with far-right judges who will uphold their authoritarian agenda—no matter how unconstitutional. If they succeed, the courts will no longer protect democracy. They will protect the dictatorship.

🟥 Step 1: Fill the Courts With Loyalists Who Will Rule in Their Favor

📌 Timeframe: 2016 – Present
📌 Modern Parallel: Trump and MAGA are following the same strategy used by Putin, Orbán, and other autocrats.

🔹 How They Take Over the Judicial System
✔ Appoint far-right, extremist judges who prioritize ideology over the law.
✔ Rush confirmations to ensure as many lifetime appointments as possible.
✔ Use courts to block any policies or investigations that threaten their power.

🔹 Historical Examples

  • Hitler’s Nazi Party purged independent judges and replaced them with Nazi loyalists.

  • Putin’s Russia has no independent judiciary—all judges rule in favor of the Kremlin.

  • Orbán reshaped Hungary’s courts to make all opposition challenges impossible.

🚨 How This Connects to Today:

  • Trump appointed over 230 federal judges—including three Supreme Court justices—during his first term.

  • Many of these judges were hand-picked by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation.

  • Project 2025 plans to finish the job—ensuring every court is controlled by MAGA loyalists.

🟠 Step 2: Use the Courts to Shield Themselves From Accountability

📌 Timeframe: 2020 – Present
📌 Modern Parallel: Trump and MAGA judges are blocking investigations and protecting right-wing corruption.

🔹 How They Are Using the Courts to Protect Themselves
✔ Judges appointed by Trump are ruling in favor of MAGA policies, even when unconstitutional.
✔ Courts are being used to delay or block criminal cases against Trump and his allies.
✔ Legal challenges to voter suppression, gerrymandering, and election interference are being dismissed.

🔹 Historical Examples

  • Putin’s courts refuse to prosecute corruption in the Russian government.

  • Hungary’s courts uphold election laws that guarantee Orbán’s continued rule.

  • Trump’s judges are already ruling in ways that shield him from prosecution.

🚨 How This Connects to Today:

  • Trump-appointed judges have repeatedly ruled in ways that delay investigations into his crimes.

  • MAGA-controlled courts are already upholding extreme voter suppression laws.

  • If they control the courts, no legal challenge to their power will ever succeed.

🟡 Step 3: Strip the Courts of Their Independence—Make Judges Fear Retaliation

📌 Timeframe: 2024 – Future
📌 Modern Parallel: MAGA leaders are already laying the groundwork for targeting judges who don’t rule in their favor.

🔹 How They Will Intimidate Judges
✔ Encourage violent rhetoric against judges who rule against them.
✔ Push for impeachment or removal of judges who oppose their agenda.
✔ Ensure that legal threats and political pressure force judges to comply.

🔹 Historical Examples

  • Putin’s judges who rule against the Kremlin face arrest, exile, or worse.

  • Orbán has forced independent judges to resign and replaced them with party loyalists.

  • Trump and MAGA have already begun threatening judges who don’t rule their way.

🚨 How This Connects to Today:

  • Trump has repeatedly attacked judges in cases against him, calling them "corrupt" and "political hacks."

  • MAGA lawmakers are calling for the impeachment of judges who rule against their agenda.

  • If they succeed, no judge will be willing to stand up to them.

🟢 Step 4: Eliminate Judicial Review—Make Courts Rubber-Stamp Their Policies

📌 Timeframe: 2025 – Future
📌 Modern Parallel: Project 2025 includes plans to remove judicial oversight on key policies.

🔹 How They Will Weaken the Courts Even Further
✔ Pass laws that remove courts’ ability to review executive actions.
✔ Pack the Supreme Court with more far-right justices.
✔ Create legal loopholes that allow policies to be enacted without judicial interference.

🔹 Historical Examples

  • Hitler abolished independent judicial review, making Nazi policies absolute.

  • Putin’s government prevents courts from overturning pro-Kremlin laws.

  • MAGA’s plan is to restructure the courts so that no legal challenge to their rule can succeed.

🚨 How This Connects to Today:

  • Project 2025 includes plans to weaken judicial oversight over presidential actions.

  • If Trump returns to power, expect a push to expand the Supreme Court with far-right justices.

  • Once this is complete, the rule of law in America will be dead.

🔴 Final Warning: A Nation Without Independent Courts is No Longer a Democracy

When the judiciary is no longer independent, the government is no longer accountable.

If MAGA succeeds in fully taking over the courts, every challenge to their power will be blocked. Every policy—no matter how unconstitutional—will be upheld.

At that point, America will be a democracy in name only.

🚨 We are dangerously close to this reality. The question is—will we stop it before it’s too late?