Sooo…
Elections matter …
Who’d a thunk it ! —
So essentially the government’s position is that they can detain people accused of being undocumented immigrants indefinitely, and Gorsuch et al like that position. It’s like gitmo, only closer to home.
It is, in fact, a domestic version of Guantanamo.
Too seldom are lawyers (and I am one) able to see through the trees to view the forest, as Breyer did.
This is absolutely scandalous. It makes me ashamed to be American. And by the way, this appeal was brought by the Obama administration. And let’s not get started on the sudden shutting of our doors to refugees. We have become a rotten, conscienceless, self-pitying, self-obsessed country.
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light”
Yea, so much for a “speedy trial”.
This is rather a more nuanced question than one might think. Firstly, those asylum applicants detained at the border or a port of entry are not technically yet in the United States, if they have not yet been legally admitted. As for those aliens detained on criminal charges, they still have fewer rights than citizens and residents. I’m not at all surprised that the RWNJ bloc on the court voted against immigrants’ rights and as usual, Kennedy plays the weathervane.This fight is far from over, folks, it will be litigated for a long time. I note also that Kagan did not vote; probably due to her prior government service. Thanks again, Trump voters, Scalia has been replaced by the reprehensible Gorsuch. If only there were a group of people in Washington who could pass some sort of legislation to update our legal system…if only.
Welcome to the ReWhited States of Amurikkka. May I take your freedom?
And so the Supreme Court of the United States allows ICE to disappear people. This is an obscenity and more obscenities are to follow.
This guy seems to have been a legal immigrant to boot.
The Supreme Court is the most important factor in every presidential election.
I will NEVER, EVER forgive Ralph Nader, Jill Stein, and their supporters – at least those who still refuse to acknowledged the horrific mistake they made in supporting spoiler campaigns that undermined excellent Democratic candidates in 2000 and 2016. Susan Saranwrap, “Dr” Cornel West, and other narcissistic fake “progressives” most especially.
It was these people who gave us the right-wing Supreme Court the rest of us will have to live for at least a generation. For me, the rest of my life I’m afraid. I hate those people – they are shameless and unapologetic sociopaths.
In both the elections you cited, more Democrats voted for Bush and Trump than voted for Nader and Stein. Personally, when choosing which group to direct my ire – voters swayed by intolerance vs. voters swayed by their idealism – I pick the former.