Boddhisatva @ Boddhisatva @lemmy.world

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There's also not much point in going after the lieutenants. As long as it's a federal court holding them in contempt, Trump can just pardon them. It's happened before with Joe Arpaio. State level contempt would work if they could find a way to make that happen.

The only thing I can think of that SCOTUS to do right now to try and head this off would be to make a ruling defining what is or isn't an official act. SCOTUS needs to sack up rule solidly against Trump. They need to state that, per the Constitution, only congress can declare war. The President has no authority to declare war and no other nations are invading the USA. Therefore, all deportations under the Alien Enemies Act are NOT official acts and therefore they are high crimes and misdemeanors.

This alone would not solve the problem if Trump continues to flip them off and ignore them which seems likely. It would however put the issue squarely in the House's hands. If this conservative court plainly states that the president's actions are illegal, the pressure on the House to impeach and the Senate to convict would be huge. With the houses nearly evenly split, an impeachment in the house would only take a few Republicans to cross over. The Senate would be tougher but not impossible. It would take something like 20 Republican Senators to vote with the Dems to convict him.

If that fails to happen, if the House or Senate fails in their duty after such a court ruling, I think we might finally see enough impetus to get major resistance among the people; even more massive protests than we've already seen, a general strike, work slow downs, maybe even blue states taking steps to secede.

It's nice to see Trump can learn and grow. It wasn't that long ago when he would have just scribbled it with a sharpie. Anyway, it must really annoy Trump that thanks to Senator Van Hollen's visit, where he proved he could do what Trump admitted that he himself could not, we now have unadulterated photos of Garcia's hand without the shitty photoshop.

The problem is that they are trying to do away with due process. They want to be able to throw anyone they want into a gulag in another country where they will disappear forever. They start with immigrants, claiming that they are gang members and terrorists. They are refusing to prove it because they want to set the precedent that they do not need to prove their claims. They start with alleged foreign gang members, then will come "homegrowns," as Trump has called them.

If we don't make them prove their claims now in a court of law, it'll be that much harder to do it later, and they know it.

A federal judge in the Southern District of Texas had already blocked their removal—but the government sought to evade this order by busing the migrants into the Northern District of Texas, where the restraining order would not apply.

Judge: You may not deport these people until this case is decided.

DoJ/ICE: busses people out of judge's district Fuck you, libtard.

This admin is a joke and an embarrassment. It would be hilarious if it weren't so terrifying.

Yes. I would say this falls in the "high crime or misdemeanor" category.

Yep

SCOTUS: You will abide by the lower court's decision and facilitate the return of the man you admit was sent to a torture prison in El Salvador in error.

Trump's White House: Yeah, no. He's never coming back.

SCOTUS: ...or else...?

We have investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing. If those dumb security guards had just become police officers, they too could be "involved" parties and avoid being charged just like Norris.

Imagine you are a Mexican who comes to the USA every year to work in the fields and pick produce, or to work in a slaughterhouse, or any of the other myriad jobs that Americans won't do for themselves. Now imagine hearing that brown people are having their work and student visas suddenly cancelled without trial and are being grabbed up and shipped out of the country, again with no trial; Many of being them sent off to a torture prison in El Salvador, even people who are not from El Salvador to begin with.

How hard are you going to think before coming to this country to work knowing that you could end up on one of those flights to El Salvador and that you'll never see your family again? I fully expect produce to be rotting in the fields all across the country this year.

"Having been in a gang" does not equal is "in a gang." The courts at the time said he was formerly in a gang and was in danger for having left the gang. He qualified for protection from deportation because he was no longer in a gang. Therefore, it has not been adjudicated that he is in any gang.

There are major questions about whether the government has the authority to apply the Alien Enemies Act to gang members outside of a war situation and whether adjudications about gang membership are accurate.

Come on NBC, this is bullshit. They have no authority because there is no declared war. This is not a question. The law in question states, "in time of war". This is a fact. Congress has not declared war, therefore this is not wartime. The only question is why the courts and congress are not doing their jobs and putting an end to it.

More embarrassing for NBC, is the use of the word adjudications in this passage. What adjudications about gang membership? There have been no adjudications stating that any of these people are gang members because they have not been afforded due process and the courts have made no such rulings at all.

Yeah, reloading.

Probably best you don't send help to the red states. Trump cultists would probably shoot at the people trying to help them like they do with FEMA.

Some Democrats fear that a DNC official weighing in on primaries erodes the committee’s credibility as a neutral arbiter

The DNC? A neutral arbiter? What a crock of shit. They've had their thumb on every primary where a progressive was involved.

Still others stressed that prolonged primaries could drag the party further to the left

Yes, dear gods, the DNC could end up back in the middle if that happened. 🙄

Yeah. People will be safe from measles when they're dead from vitamin A toxicity.

(3) that he was engaged in “human trafficking” (just completely made up bullshit).

Technically, he is involved with human trafficking... now.

History says yes, but if a loving god truly exists, one won’t.

Trump is president. Clearly there is no loving god.

The issue is that it was a county judge. A county judge doesn't have the authority to overrule ICE even when they are illegally detaining a US citizen under a law that has already been blocked by another judge. Who knew?