Originally published at: Trump’s Use Of Alien Enemies Act Was Unlawful From The Get-Go
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. 5th Circuit Smacks Down Trump on Alien Enemies Act In the most important court decision on a day full of them, the most conservative federal appeals court became the first to address the substance of…
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Deported after completing their sentences, now locked in an African prison with no contact.
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A federalized National Guard can be used to protect federal installations and personnel, Breyer ruled, but it can’t engage in domestic law enforcement activities.
Ah yes, my good Judge. But he has them collecting trash so joke’s on…pretty much everyone, but especially Trump.
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Hey, let’s piss off Xi!
The US Army is moving its new strike missile to a frontline Pacific ally, angering Russia and China
- The US Army’s Mid-Range Capability, or Typhon, missile system will deploy to Japan this month.
- Typhon has previously been involved in exercises in the Philippines and Australia.
- Its deployment has repeatedly irked China. Both China and Russia condemned its move to Japan.
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…the U.S. military is now summarily executing suspected drug traffickers on the high seas
Under some definitions, this is nothing less than piracy. The lawlessness is never-ending.
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“We don’t want to fight, but by jingo if we do,
We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, we’ve got the money too!”
-MacDermott’s War Song
I.e., Jingoism.
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An earnest 84-year-old Reagan appointee to the federal bench seemed stunned and saddened after he was preposterously scolded last month by Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch for allegedly ignoring Supreme Court precedent on its emergency docket .
I seriously think the problem here is that lower federal court judges are trying to abide by the Constitution, yet SCOTUS is clearly not. Hence the inherent conflict, especially when SCOTUS doesn’t even bother explaining their reasoning, mostly because they’re unexplainable.
I’m sorry you had to apologize, judge. You’re the one who deserves the apology from Kavanaugh and Gorsuch.
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For the next few weeks, the Siamese cat and Italian maremma dog can rest easy in Canada without fear of being deported by ICE.
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We have no evidence that they were drug traffickers, and I’m not prepared to accept, on good faith, from this lying regime, that they were.
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To me the contest (for you youngsters, this was “the contest” brought to you via the BBC a generation before “the contest” brought to you via Seinfeld) was always the least of it (though my mother needed smelling salts and I had to go upstairs to grab her pearls for her to clutch). From the 3:07 mark to the 5:16 mark there is a real life lesson – or several. It has informed my entire life. “Things on your clock and no one else’s.” “Tread carefully in a burning building.” “Do? What can a dead man do? Go get buried.”
I also see it as a means to survive, resist, and live under our American Stalin-light.
A gratuitous addendum about the death rumor this weekend: just because he’s not dead doesn’t mean he’s not rotting and his stench making the whole country fester.
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“Judge Andrew Oldham”
Really? The under-50 FedSoc KKKlergy guy who is already being floated as a SCOTUS nominee (and auditioning for the job) and looks like he’s straight out of Nazi central casting and could have been Christoph Waltz’s understudy in Inglourious Basterds is all up in arms about not being able to deport brown people without due process under the thin and contra-factual pretense that their presence in the country is evidence of a “foreign invasion” coordinated by their country of origin?
Shocked, I tell you…shocked…
The only surprise here is that James Ho didn’t find some way to insert himself into the situation (don’t worry, he will) so he could continue his auditions as well.
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I have to wonder what the compensation rate to Eswatini is costing US taxpayers to keep these 5 men in a foreign prison?
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Congress could (read: should) pass a law banning the federal and state governments from using National Guard on sequential 29-day orders, denying them their full active duty pay for lengthy activations. If governments had to foot the full bill for these stupid stunts they might be less willing to do so.
I wouldn’t mind seeing some billionaires picking up cigarette butts for below minimum wage after being tried and convicted for defrauding the government and violating union/workplace safety protections. At the very least, it’d get them off social media for five freaking minutes.
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If this was truly a strike against the cartels, I don’t get it. We’re going to spend millions to take out one motorboat at a time? That’s ridiculous, even for the Trump Administration, so it must be about something else. The most obvious reason that springs to mind is regime change in Venezuela.
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Even threatening to kill TFG isn’t enough for an indictment.
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Another drunk with guns, eh?
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creating a national police force
the Supreme Court has all but overruled its own precedent
an executive branch that can ignore Congress and the funding laws
the U.S. military executing suspected drug traffickers
The Republican Party is doing such a good job.
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Or an Act of War.
Substitute German U-Boat and American fishing boat for the vessels involved.
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Hogsbreath trying to bring up the illusion of the strike on bin Laden.
And failing.
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