Obviously, a huge victory for the migrants here and a major defeat for Trump’s lawless effort to rush out a rendition flight before the courts could act.
But also—potentially a massive signal from the Supreme Court that it is finally prepared to go toe to toe with Trump to halt AEA deportations.
Second, it is plain as day that the Supreme Court simply did not trust the Trump administration’s claims that it would not deport migrants over the weekend without due process. If the court did believe these representations, it would not have acted in such a rapid and dramatic fashion; it could have waited for the lower courts to sort through the matter, confident no one would face irreparable harm in the meantime. The majority’s decision to wade in straightaway points to a skepticism that the Justice Department was telling the truth. It’s damning, too, that the majority did not even wait for DOJ to file a brief with the court before acting. The only plausible explanation for the court’s order is that a majority feared the government would whisk away the migrants to El Salvador if it did not intervene immediately. That fear is well-grounded, since we now have substantial evidence that the government lied to a federal judge last month to thwart a court order stopping deportation flights.
The only plausible reason for the Supreme Court to rush out its order at 1 a.m. is that a majority of justices refused to trust the Trump administration's promise that it wouldn't secretly deport migrants without due process.
That alone marks a hugely consequential shift.
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The existential national crucible that Donald Trump has brought to the fore with his experiment in disappearing people to a torture gulag in El Salvador presents us with one of the starkest test of values and the constitution our country has ever faced. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/has-americ...
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
Look, you can't reduce the price of eggs without destroying the constitution, ripping innocent people from their homes if Trump doesn't like them, imprisoning and torturing them without any recourse to the law.
Mind you, it seems Trump can't even reduce the price of eggs WITH all those powers.
I mean.
What’s really wild, though, is the way the MAGA cult of personality replicates this dynamic at the institutional level. These inanities bubble up out of Trump’s brain and the GOP must embrace them as Great Leader’s dogma, or else it might have to admit it’s in the thrall of a deranged maniac
You can see, in real time, constantly, Trump spouting some half-formed nub of an idea, and then when it engenders controversy, gradually transforming that idea into an overriding policy directive, because the alternative is to admit error, which is psychologically impossible for him
It all makes sense once you realize a recession is actually a good thing for the 1%.
To appreciate how the US has changed, watch these classic movies.
- The Post
- All the President’s Men
- Hidden Figures
- American President
- Dave
- Apollo 13
- Good Night & Good Luck
- Imitation Game
- Spotlight
- Wag the Dog
- Die Hard With A Vengeance
The world they depict is unimaginable now.
Is this what they meant by a Red Wave?
Hiding from the public sounds like a solid plan moving forward 🙄
Since Congress’s allotted funds have already been improperly unallocated, U.S. citizens are questioning whether they are legally required to continue paying federal taxes.
THANKS TRÜMP 👎🏼📉👎🏼
Clearly US must recuse itself from negotiations as Trump is comprised. The interests of the aggressor in a war should not be taken up by the third party. Normalizing the invasion of sovereign nations is how WW3 starts. Threatening Canada and Greenland with being American states is how WW3 starts.
Worth noting that if the true goal of psychopath @elonmusk is to be remembered as one of history’s greatest mass murderers, then he’s well on his way…
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The religious right has persuaded me to embrace one of its core beliefs. Its support for a fascist criminal traitor has made me believe in the concept of evil.
It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
Brutal.
Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist
I love that the Reagan ‘80s can be boiled down to two little memes
Please go on Fox and let the viewers know this is happening.
I'm a pilot. The FAA's safety practices are superb, the result of decades of cooperation w/the aviation community.
Musk's idiots don't realize that government isn’t a business. By indiscriminately slashing the FAA's staff, they aren't going to make it more efficient. They are going to kill people.
Something to consider for anyone planning to get on an airplane anytime soon:
Țřųmþ and Mǔ$ķ — both psychopaths — actively *want* even more plane crashes. They can just blame them on Buttigieg and Biden and say “See? That’s why we need Ełøņ and $þ@ċęX to take over and privatize it all.” 🤷🏼♂️
Trump's new FAA Administrator
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. Of the FAA.
