SCOTUS finally rules on the Garcia trafficking case, 9-0 calling it illegal. Weirdly it ordered the lower court to re-phrase its order, with “deference” to the Executive Branch.
Ordering the lower court to cut the administration some slack because they illegally sent this guy to a place from where it’s hard to retrieve him is absolute bullshit.
What about everyone else sent down there illegally?
Yeah. CBS reported that 75% of those sent to El Salvador had no criminal record nor pending charges.
JD has been getting memed to death on the socials. Most of them are funny, some of them are very good. And then there’s this:
Rapidly expanding the groups they can target. Citizens will be next. I’m expecting eventually they’ll come up with a reason to target expatriates and dual citizens.
One of the reasons why I became a citizen n 2016 was in part because I had been paying in to Social Security for 22 years and at the stroke of a pen those earned benefits could be denied.
I wasn’t expecting Trump to win, but the GOP has been looking to undo Social Security for as long as I’ve lived here, and a non-citizen would be an easy target for denial of benefits.
Sucks that this is something that could now happen.
Treasury yields spiking ultimately is what spooked the money into forcing Trump to reverse (mostly) his tariffs. It’s a very VERY bad sign when the US has to offer high rates on bonds in order to entice buyers.
That’s happening again tonight. Meanwhile, the Japanese market is getting creamed.
Historically, the judiciary has typically deferred to the executive with respect to foreign policy. So not totally out of whack. But this case does hinge on the alleged/probable violation of someone’s Constitutional rights, which are waters the courts have rarely had a problem wading into.
Not at all out of whack
Oh, the answer is already written. They’re just giving themselves some time to claim they came up with an explanation.
Exactly. You don’t solve something on a schedule unless you’re working towards a pre-determined answer.
The “problem” with the supreme court isnt that its not handling enough of the “workload.” Those are issues for lower courts. The supreme court’s purpose is to provide institutional legitimacy and consistency of constitutional interpretation. This isn’t obvious but the supreme court serves the country better when it is boring, predictable, and “lazy.” Resolving conflict between the executive and legislative, matters between states, conflict among the appellate courts…these are the issues the court must address. The slow unfolding of constitutional interpretive theory is another.
The lower court didn’t - unlike the Supreme Court - sit on the Garcia case. Judge Paula Xinis overnight ordered the administration “take all available steps to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States as soon as possible.” Hopefully those words are small enough that the Supreme Court will not have to order her to dumb it down again.
She also ordered the DOJ, by 9:30am today, to provide an explanation as to what (if anything) they’ve done to date and ordered them to appear in court at 1pm for a status hearing.
I’m glad this case is in the hands of a judge who gives a shit.
You’ll know that our republican experiment is done when the supreme court is no longer “sitting” on individual cases.
Like you i deeply want mr. abrego garcia to be reunited with his family in the united states. How this happens is central to the future of our country. You massively misinterpret the character of the justices if you think their slow response emmanates from a lack of empathy.
I pray that the court continues to disappoint you with their heartless, lazy preservation of the nation.
You’re like the forgotten idiots who called sam houston a coward because he kept running from the mexicans. You might change your mind about justice roberts before this is over.
I would take a “heartless, lazy preservation of the nation” over what we currently see from the court.
When a chief justice speaks well, they do not need to speak often. Marbury v madison isnt very long, requires the executive to do exactly nothing, and has stood as foundational law for 222 years. I look forward to roberts making a stand at the time and place of his choosing.
…maybe when the legistature is done licking boots?takes two branches to restrain another.
If that time wasn’t when being overtly asked to grant immunity to a president for ordering the murder of a political opponent, then I do not know what you think he’s waiting for.
Roberts fails to gut the ACA completely and now he’s Earl Warren. Yeah, I don’t think that’s how this works.
Roberts’ wife takes money from law firms who have business in front of her husband’s court.
To put this into perspective, Doug Emhoff quit his very lucrative law firm position when his wife became the Vice President in order to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. Jimmy Carter famously sold his interest in the family peanut farm - not fig-leafed into a blind trust…sold - to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Today we have the conservatives on the Supreme Court waggling their conflicts of interest in our faces and claiming that only they have the authority to police themselves.
