Remember Dacre wants elected judges. He is on record as saying he has a problem with our judicial system and wants major reform. He wants the ability to influence the law. It's about power not terrorism.
I've said this elsewhere but Trump's tweets over the weekend are almost as if Trump wants a terrorist attacks as it can be used to manipulate the system to weaken the US's constitutional institutions - namely the courts.
Think about this. The Daily Mail is so different because?
Which brings me to this:
lawfareblog.com/does-trump-want-lose-eo-battle-court-or-donald-mcgahn-simply-ineffectual-or-worse
From Feb:
The clearly foreseeable consequence of the roll-out combined with Trump’s tweets is to weaken the case for the legality of the EO in court. Why might Trump want to do that? Assuming that he is acting with knowledge and purpose (an assumption I question below), the only reason I can think of is that Trump is setting the scene to blame judges after an attack that has any conceivable connection to immigration. If Trump loses in court he credibly will say to the American people that he tried and failed to create tighter immigration controls. This will deflect blame for the attack. And it will also help Trump to enhance his power after the attack. After a bad terrorist attack at home, politicians are always under intense pressure to loosen legal constraints. (This was even true for near-misses, such as the failed Underwear bomber, which caused the Obama administration to loosen constraints on its counterterrorism policies in many ways.) Courts feel these pressures, and those pressures will be significantly heightened, and any countervailing tendency to guard against executive overreaction diminished, if courts are widely seen to be responsible for an actual terrorist attack. More broadly, the usual security panic after a bad attack will be enhanced quite a lot—in courts and in Congress—if before the attack legal and judicial constraints are seen to block safety. If Trump assumes that there will be a bad terrorist attack on his watch, blaming judges now will deflect blame and enhance his power more than usual after the next attack.
Be under no illusion. This is not about terrorism. Nor is it about how terrorists are getting away with things because of human rights.
This is about power. Power which will take away YOUR rights and will do bugger all to stop terrorism.
At best this is a sickening manipulation of two terrorist attacks to distract from May's failure and to win votes.
At worse this is May setting us on a course to create constitutional crisis in NI and to undermine the devolution settlements with Scotland and NI. It puts her on collision course with the courts and possibly the House of Lords and puts our democratic institutions at risk.
Not to defeat terrorism. Indeed much of this is a dream for ISIS. It has the power to destabilise this country and it starts to destroy the very fabric and idea of democracy. Which is what they want to do.
This is a power grab not preventing terrorism and it plays into the hands who seek to destroy us.
Strong and stable my arse.