Originally published at: The Constitutional Clash Began When Rubio Cut A Deal With Bukele
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. This Plays Very Different Now Way back in early February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to ship migrants – and American citizens and legal residents – to…
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Fr!!$t!!
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Rubio is the most pathetic, bronzer-nosed suck-up in American history.
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Quote Of The Day
“I would call it a grinding machine. We are in this machine, and it doesn’t care if you have a visa, a green card, or any particular story. … It just keeps going.”–Russian-born Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova
A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months — putting crucial scientific advancements at risk.
The scientist, the 30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Pertova, worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab until her arrest at a Boston airport in mid-February. She is now being held at ICE’s Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, Louisiana, and fighting possible deportation to Russia, where she said she fears persecution and jail time over her protests against the war in Ukraine.
Her very first court hearing isn’t until today.
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Watching all this, knowing that just enough of my fellow citizens either actively cheered on this man, or deluded themselves into thinking he’d be better for the economy, or just sat home on election day–I can’t even. Even telling myself that TFG lied to them doesn’t help, because they knew better than to believe the lies.
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“And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents,”
I’m OK with this as long as the agreement lasts until 2030 and the Democratic president elected in 2028 uses his or hers unitary powers to ship the entire Trump administration to El Salvador for indefinite imprisonment. Elon and the DOGE boys too and MTG for the heck of it.
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[Think of all the dead Houthis I’ve had killed!]
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Marco Rubio falsely embellished his then Senate bio suggesting his parents had fled Cuba to get out from under the Communist dictatorship. Now, L’il Marco is consorting with the Salvadoran dictator to lay plans for the illegal shipping of American citizens and legal residents to foreign prisons.
So, we can conclude that Marco Rubio hated dictatorships before he liked them. Vile hypocrite!!
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" The Trump DOJ in a filing today objected in part to that discovery request, citing among other things the state secrets privilege."
Uh huh. “State secrets” to prevent us from seeing what they’re doing, but no protection of actual classified information or military operational details. Need I add that that ain’t right?
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Now we know how the Nazi leadership working with Hitler maintained their positions.
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Next, shipping Cuban Americans with the “wrong” viewpoint to El Salvador.
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Last Thursday, mega-podcaster Joe Rogan broke his allegiance to Donald Trump by condemning the administration’s policy of abducting people from the streets and covertly deporting them to a supermax prison in El Salvador, where the Constitution – including the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment – does not apply.
Over the weekend, I fielded viewers’ calls on this subject for C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, which revealed to me how so many people seem comfortable with Trump’s shocking defiance of basic due process guarantees. As Rogan put it, their argument goes something like this: “[W]hat do you do about all the criminals? ‘Take them all, fucking send them to El Salvador.’ What about due process? ‘No, fuck that.’
“Well, here’s the problem with ‘fuck that,’” Rogan continued. “What if you are an enemy of, let’s not say any current president. Let’s pretend we got a new president, totally new guy in 2028, and this is a common practice now of just rounding up gang members with no due process and shipping them to El Salvador. ‘You’re a gang member. No, I’m not. Prove it. What? I got to go to court. No. No due process.’”
(Rogan sang a slightly different tune just weeks before the election, remarking in a conversation with Shane Smith, co-founder of VICE Media, that “what we really have to do is make sure we don’t let in murderers, and fucking killers, and rapists, thieves and gang members; and a lot of them are getting through. That’s what we have to be careful about. It’s not just not letting people in.”)
From a legal standpoint, then, how feasible would it be for Trump to dispatch unmarked black vans to pick up US citizens and rendition them to torture prisons abroad? Do special protections kick in for citizens that don’t apply to migrants?
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No surprise here -DOJ refuses to comply with Judge Xinis’ orders.
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And of course, Nancy Mace doubles down again on the hate
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‘Oo? ‘Im? Nevah met ‘im?
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Ed Martin is going to let your employer know he’s coming after you.
As Abraham Lincoln vowed, a government to ruin the lives of the people, by non-elected people, for the wealthy people.
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