There are probably lawyers not even born yet, who will still be unraveling all of the Dotard legal disasters when they are well into their legal careers…
"'Member when he swore to “…preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”? 'Member? I do…and he began his term in office with a lie. I eagerly await his tweet criticizing this “liberal judge” (appointed by George W. Bush!) and calling for the abolishment of the Federal court system.
I want to feel good about this, but SCOTUS being what it is now, they’ll probably uphold the family separations 5-4.
With every 5-4 decision from this Supreme Court, I loathe and despise Mitch McConnell even more.
It will be waged in the courts until it gets to the five tribalists on SCOTUS
Thank God there are groups in America who haven’t torn up the Constitution, and still recognize these families as people.
Blue states to the rescue, as usual, while the jackals continue their rapacious destruction of everything sacred. What a country.
Good decision… but will raise the pressure inside the Trump double boiler … and bring us closer to the point of detonation.
Trump’s constant divisiveness - stirring up anger and hate - fragmenting the nation is just a very long ugly fatiguing overture to the raising of the curtain on a radically altered USA… all of this relentless crap is not just for grins & giggles – it is a multi step means to an end.
Also, he is the son of an immigrant:
Sabraw, 59, was nominated to the federal bench by President George W. Bush in 2003. The judge’s mother was a Japanese immigrant; his father served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Japan during the Korean War. The couple married in Yokohama, Japan, before moving to San Rafael, Calif.
The point the Dems should be making is, this shouldn’t even BE an issue. Nobody should want children traumatized in this manner.
And it’s appalling that not only are the kids separated from the parents, but nobody even gets the sort of receipt you’d get if your property was taken from you in an arrest. They’re treating these kids as even less than things. (“Sin is when you treat people as things.” - Terry Pratchett)
Remember when Republicans used to claim to be pro-family? How freakin’ quaint.
The lesson is you have to keep fighting and scrapping. We can break this regime and the control of the courts by conservatives if we keep pushing on all fronts.
Waiting for an ugly raging tweet… demanding the judge take himself off the case because he is biased because he is “orential” … just like he went after that “Mexican” judge.
And yet, 55-65% of Republicans are ok with this policy. Republicans should be ashamed, but they have lost any sense of shame.
The deadlines are 30 days, 14 days, and 10 days. These are pretty tight deadlines (and rightfully so!) on the administration. One hopes that the ongoing failure to meet these deadlines, and continuous attention from the court around that fact, will keep this horrible issue in the news for some time to come.
When you get past the pure malice, lack of conscience, and cynicism of the Trumpie’s behavior in all of this, what truly shines out is their utter and complete incompetence.
The Trump Court. It’s not a legitimate SCOTUS.
I keep thinking about a friend of mine who started an organization focused on kids in Nepal. One program is, with consent, to remove kids who are in jail with their parent and to provide care, education, and necessary support for them.
It may be time to expand.