Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted the deadline for Trump administration to return Abrego Garcia to the US from the El Salvador hell prison.
Just a moment...
“Breathing room.” This ruling is going to be a doozy.
I can't wait for right-wing legal experts to comment on what will surely be a horrific ruling.
"The public at large has misconceptions about what due process actually means..." and they justify the GOP justices' ruling that anybody in the US can get kidnapped off the street, kept in an unknown location, shackled like Gitmo prisoner, and then sent 1,000s of miles away to another country to live a life of torment in a hell prison.
It's unfortunate the Democrats couldn't pack the court. Wouldn't want to impugn its legitimacy.
the parliamentarian would never have allowed it
Look folks, he’s not saying he’s definitely going to rule one way or the other, he’s just saying that the government needs some time to ask El Salvador to have this guy killed so they can dismiss the case
Legit, this is what I think they're going to do. The El Salvador president and Trump sure as hell don't want someone coming back from that place and doing an interview about the mass torture camp, with 100% free speech to speak the truth.
Look forward to a bunch of news articles explaining this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_question
Most recently, courts ruled that it was totally okay for Obama to murder innocent people in Yemen, based on a precedent formed when Bill Clinton got away with bombing a pharmaceuticals factory in Sudan. And then there was the case where the Supreme Court said it was fine for border patrol pigs to murder people. And, finally, the case where they said U.S. companies can do child slavery as long as it's not here.
I am not a lawyer, which is why I'm letting myself get away with saying "totally okay" and "can do child slavery." The previous decisions are a mixture of "evil shit the president does abroad is a political question that courts can't interfere with" and "people harmed by U.S. agents while not on U.S. soil have no standing to sue in U.S. courts." I don't know what horrible thing they'll say about this kidnapping, but the above cases are the ones I'd expect to be used to grant it a fig leaf for rules and norms purposes.
Love how there is no law in the entire world or question that can be asked about a law that is not in some way a Political Question.
Pretty sure it was like a week ago when liberals were telling me how Roberts was actually a voice of moderation on the court.
It’s to avoid having to find the Trump admin in contempt of court when they inevitably announce they haven’t done anything to bring him back
It’s the Wile E. Coyote school of politics. As long as we don’t look down there is no constitutional crisis.
100%
That was the case in the USIP case, basically "look if I rule against the government they're gonna do it anyway and that's an Official Constitutional Crisis™ and we can't have that for whatever reason".
Fuck, somebody ping me when it's violence o'clock at this point. I'm bored.
Fr. The constitution is dead, can we recognize that and get on with burying the thing so we can move on?
Waiting until the tariffs tank the economy might be a smart move tho skeleton_waiting_in_chair.jpg