It largely doesn’t matter what the court says here. The government has expressed that it is unbound by laws and the final and uliyimate court has blessed the worldview that the law does not constrain the rulers of the country. QED the rule of law is dead. long live the rulers we replaced it with.
Here's the beginning of my case that it does matter what courts say: equalopportunitycynic.miraheze.org/wiki/Supreme... Probably not that interesting to anyone else. But good for my sanity to write that out in longer form.
"[Supreme] court has blessed the worldview that the law does not constrain the rulers of the country" Actually the opposite--Abrego won a 9-0 decision, recall--but suit yourself. So if it's hopeless why would you waste time posting here?
And that's done so much to curtail the behavior from this administration
In what country is Ábrego physically located as of this post? Moreover, why would DOJ/DHS beclown themselves by blowing up a legal case with a desperate extortion plan? Why not kidnap him to El Salvador again?
After the Trump admin made up interpretations of his tattoos, deported him in error to a country he was never supposed to go to, then they told us they couldn't get him back. They can't get a grand jury to indict which is telling, so the only thing they have left is coercion on Uganda vs Costa Rica
Yeah, their behavior has been every dimension of appalling. The point is they're marshaling every bit of evil and creative energy to GET AROUND the courts, not to OPENLY DEFY SCOTUS. Competitive authoritarianism requires a gradual coopting of institutions, not a grand civil war for the ages.
That SCOTUS has ruled that the government has no duty to garcia, but should ask nicely for Garcia's return, has no real weight on whether the courts will allow punishment for violations of the law. SCOTUS has invented law multiple times to defuse hard line contempt since that ruling. 1/
I hold no confidence the SCOTUS that has evicerated Bivens relief will allow punishments for contempt against officials. I am posting to curb expectation. Maybe the court protects this one immigrant. But once the secret rendition happens, there is no recourse, as the 9-0 decision confirmed.
What was that 9-0 win, again?
Assuming that's a sincere request www.msn.com/en-us/news/p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
It was sincere and thank you for providing article. There has been so much that has happened in the last 7 months, (or has it been 10 yrs?), that I forgot about SCOTUS ruling on this.
In fairness there has been such a procession of bullshit procedural dodges all throughout the court hierarchy, it's easy to forget this. But the losses are mostly procedural. When forced to rule on the govt kidnapping people beyond jurisdiction, they unanimously disallowed it.
They disallow it but protect the government form punishment when they violate court rulings.
Seems that way. Notably after sitting in an "administrative stay" for months, the Boasberg contempt investigation was only spiked by a Trump infested *panel* of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. To my understanding JGG et al can still appeal (or may already have done) to the full bench.
Infested is a good way of putting it.