Originally published at: Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court To Let It Continue Alien Enemies Act Deportations
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower court block on its deportations of Venezuelan detainees Friday, taking unusually gratuitous shots in its application at the district and appellate-level judges who had already ruled in the case. A district court quickly handed down a temporary restraining order to stop the expulsions earlier…
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Like somebody checking their pocket for loose change.
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If SCotUS doesn’t deny this application immediately and without any further discussion it only reinforces the belief that the administration can do whatever they want, without consequence.
The fact that the administration is attempting to go to SCotUS with a TRO should be laughable. This isn’t even an injunction, but these losers have such a hard-on for violating human rights they can’t stop themselves from whining they they’re the victims here.
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It’s amazing how fast they want the judicial system to work when it suits them
I’m interested to see if there’s any fatigue at SCOTUS as it becomes more obvious to people that he expects them to operate as an extension of his office (I mean a number of them are, but I’m sure they’d prefer to keep that on the DL).
I have to think (because I hang on to any optimism right now) they can only run to SCOTUS after an obvious L so many times
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We are now officially, publicly and performatively, the bad guys.
We use masked, plain-clothes operatives – thugs, officers, whatever, we don’t know – to snatch people off the street, bundle them into unmarked vehicles, and send them off to secret prisons. We offer no proof, no reasons, no process, no appeal.
Then we send dog-killer Barbie to make soft-core prison porn using choreographed legions of prisoners a human props for regime propaganda.
These are indelible stains. We used to be, at least in our own minds, the good guys. Of course, we weren’t, but we believed in that image. Now, we are proudly and loudly showing ourselves to be the worst.
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The court cases and injunctions concern the improper application of the AEA, period. Doesn’t the government have other statutes available for removal of non-citizens? It seems their real gripe is being constrained by the due process requirements of these established avenues.
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Every time I read their aggressive, official-sounding primal rage-screams in court filings, etc., I wonder anew if there’s a word beyond “kakistocracy” that means “rule by unmitigated assholes.”
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announced in a presidential proclamation that it was resurrecting long-dormant war powers to immediately deport [people] without any hearing or process.
First, it seems to me only the Republican Party wants a war.
Second, with twenty-five cents and a proclamation, you can buy a cup of coffee.
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I agree with the need for speed.
As for them being losers – with which I agree, although I’m not so sure their puppet master is – the thinking is “you can’t win, if you don’t play”.
Further, while you play, you get free media time. Finally, we taxpayers are paying for the lawyers hired to find a way to screw us over.
It costs Donald nothing.
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‘“That order is forcing the United States to harbor individuals whom national-security officials have identified as members of a foreign terrorist organization bent upon grievously harming Americans,” the Trump Justice Department wrote.’
No, Donny, it’s actually you doing that. It’s a creep named Elon Musk, out of the Dark Enlightenment.
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These people, from Trump to his lawyers in this case, corrupt the judicial system just by showing up and making disparaging remarks about previous judges and decisions. They are like a minister who used the word “fuck” in a sermon. Once he had said it in the context of a sermon, he began to use it every Sunday–and no one noticed.
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The SC Presidential Immunity ruling was made up from whole cloth by the so-called conservative strict constructionists, thereby unleashing the monster DJT. They’d better claw back that f_ckin’ ruling to preserve the nation. Can you tell that I am very, very pissed off?
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Ah, the venerable “weeks of work” exception to the Due Process clause.
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It’s been established Constitutional law for over 40 years. Only its scope was at issue.
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I want to know if the Vulgar Talking Yam (h/t C. Pierce) will plead that all of these illegal acts were “official.” Also waiting for him to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue.
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All the deportation stuff is official acts.* Even if he just starts deporting his personal enemies, that’s going to be an official act because he’s exercising his official powers. If he shoots a guy on Fifth Ave., that’s not an official act unless he can make up a really good excuse for it.
*Per John Roberts. Needless to say, fuck John Roberts. But that’s what we’re stuck with until there’s a Democrat criming from the Oval office.
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That’s what I was afraid of. Thanks, as always for the explainer.
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First they came for…but I wasn’t…
Well you know the rest!
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