Court of Appeals strikes down the government’s appeal of the district judge’s order in the Garcia case. Reagan-appointed J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote for the unanimous opinion.
“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all,” Wilkinson wrote.
“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order,” he continued. “Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.”
Bottom line: no court, up to and including the Supreme Court of the US, can make trump do anything. “Contempt of court” to him is just so much white (excuse the expression) noise. He might throw an underling or two under the bus, but there will be no tire tracks on him.
The Atlantic today (gift link):
Lots of blahblahblah, ending here:
Ultimately, asking what would happen in such a circumstance is like consulting the Monopoly rulebook for instructions about what to do if somebody flips over the board. At that point, we are playing a different game.
This metaphor was thrown around on this very board during trump 1.0, along the lines of, “trump doesn’t play by the rules–he just flips the table over and all the cards and chips go flying.”
Perhaps - just perhaps - there is some recognition this man is not a dangerous criminal and he’s being treated humanely.
I fear it more likely he was cleaned up and clothed for a photo-op.
I mean, if there ARE some people being sent to this prison who aren’t hyper-dangerous criminals then holding them in less harsh conditions may well save El Salvador money… if El Salvador is doing this strictly for profit. We already know some in the US are doing this for the cruelty.
A doctor born in the United States says she received an email from federal immigration authorities demanding that she leave the country immediately.
Lisa Anderson, a physician from Cromwell, Connecticut, told NBC Connecticut on Wednesday that she recently received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security telling her, “It is time for you to leave the United States."
No matter what you thought of his policies, Obama was truly a role model, a husband, a father, a gentleman, and a statesman. No matter what you think of his policies, Trump is truly just an awful human being.
Rarely a week goes by where Donald J. Trump isn’t plumbing the depths of ignorance and depravity among his cult followers, playing on their innumerable and profound moral failings for his own personal gain.
I’m probably way, way behind, but what on earth justifies military force on the populance?
Did no one recall the Branch Davidians Waco disaster? And that was home-grown “yee-hah, fuck yeah” American terrorism, met with an amoured breaching vehicle, and plenty of what I would describe as paramilitary forces.