Originally published at: Showdown Between Trump And The Courts Comes To A Head
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Trump DOJ Gives Judge Runaround On Deportations U.S. District Judge James Boasberg remained measured despite confronting a Trump Justice Department that was giving him the runaround. President Trump’s constitution-shaking defiance of Boasberg’s order blocking deportations…
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Protestant country anoints a rich man king in the name of noted albino Palestinian.
We’ve seen this before.
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Tom Homan is a walking sack of bile.
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The penny ante gamesmanship by the regime’s ill prepared lawyers still serves to chip away at the rule of the law And to normalize such an attack on the constitution. This regime will disregard the constitution on an accelerated basis as time goes on. Furthermore, the regime has the deep pockets of the federal government.
“If the stupid judge doesn’t like it, what is the judge going to do to back up that order? Will he be putting government lawyers in jail? Retribution, you’ll see retribution if you try that.Go ahead try it. Go ahead, I dare you.”
—- Someone in Washington
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The plan is to gradually increase the contempt for the law and Constitution. The Trump regime is busy installing a lawless dictatorship and suppressing dissent.
In related news, Chuck Schumer had to cancel his book tour.
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And in New Mexico -
ICE ‘disappeared’ 48 New Mexico residents, attorneys say
In the first week of March, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it arrested four dozen New Mexico residents as part of immigration raids in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Roswell.
Now those people are unaccounted for, according to an American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico civil rights complaint filed Sunday, which alleges all 48 “have been forcibly disappeared.”
According to ICE’s own announcement, it arrested most of those people not for criminal convictions, but for violations of civil immigration law, such as illegal entry or re-entry after deportation.
The Trump administration is developing Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, into a “deportation hub” and considering Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque as a possible military detention site for undocumented immigrants
ICE is more likely to conduct raids and make arrests closer to where they have existing detention beds.
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Good God!
administration.
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Guilt by association
We don’t know anything about who we deported.
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I was a classroom teacher. Some students defied every rule and ignored every consequence. If the parents didn’t take responsibility to discipline or get help for the kid and administration didn’t support the teachers and take a stance to take serious action, such as suspensions and expulsions etc, the kid just knew they could get away with anything. That’s the best analogy/experience I have for understanding our current state of affairs. The Republicans should have stopped Trump as soon as he started coloring outside the lines of “normal” behavior. But they didn’t. They gave away their power. And here we are.
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No reason for the DoJ to send any lolyers to court if you’re just going to ignore any rulings against you anyway .
And TSF is still at 48% approval. The vast majority of the country either don’t know what’s going on or support it 100%.
The constitution is a dead letter, and functional government is buried in a shallow grave next to it.
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So, basically, the government’s argument is ‘guilty until proven innocent’?
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I wonder what has done this. I mean the R’s tend to just fall in line, but this obeisance is weird. Are our Senators and Representatives receiving credible death threats? If so, who would be doing that? Russia? And why hasn’t it been reported?
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WRT the deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador.
just how incompetent they really are.
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The most powerful man in the world is too busy to take a call from his incompetent manager of a small subsidiary far far away
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…if you can find them…
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More like, “guilty because we say so.”
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