It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.
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Joshua J. Friedman
Gritting my teeth and watching the clock as DOJ misses its daily 5 p.m. ET deadline for giving Judge Xinis an update in the Abrego Garcia case ...
15 minutes late so far ...
15 minutes late so far ...
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The courts are dead.
Trump openly defied the nation's highest court with the full support of the congressional majority.
For now, it's all over. He has free reign. We're now living in a dictatorship.
There are too many crimes to count.
And what is that problem? That the rule of law is itself corrupted.
Reckon with that, or we all continue to suffer.
The justice system is meant to protect property, not humanity.
When we stop thinking of the value of things on one side of the scale and the value of our souls on the other side of the scale, as the model,
The debate becomes enlightened.
NONE of them paid any price at all for any of it.
No more declarations by dishonest Fascists -- in-person testimony from everybody, including the lawyers.
Then Romania outlawed the death penalty weeks later.
Our country has failed.
Then blacklist their families from holding any political or media office for several generations so we don't get a "Dear Leader's grandaughter runs for president" situation later ala Italy.
It was *absolutely* true for Reagan and all his guys for the multi-pronged treason they committed.
It was *absolutely* true for Bush and Cheney and ALL the Republican slime who helped them do it....
I'm wondering how many more decades are supposed to pass before we maybe decide to DO something about it....
Supreme decision was unanimous.
Garcia must be returned to the US.
Trump told them to fuck off instead.
Is the rule of law officially dead?
With parole available after serving ~50 years with good behaviour. If they’re lucky.
democrats are just going to tell us to grow up and move on, then lose another election
The main reason though is because Trump is a monster.
They basically wrote themselves out of a job. They gave up their power to a cult.
There’s no timeline where liberal “democracy” defeats fascism. The only way forward is socialism, or continued and deepening exploitation pending extinction.
For all the USA's talk about exceptionalism, that is one area where it is true.
You've had a wealth-tiered legal system for forever.
There must be a very definitive, final judgment that no future president can waive.
Except for the claims that the US should somehow arrest Bukele, which is not the priority
We Americans need to clean up our own act
Actually do it simultaneously.
But in reality we shouldn’t do the snatching part. We should at least give them a hearing.
Just drop them off at the Hague and say "have at it, gents"
I like The Hague option. I think 3 things will get us close enough.
- no member of congress, cabinet or federal bench can buy individual stocks
- capital gains are regular income
- US becomes a full member of the ICC
The dominant culture has such shitty self-esteem, we can’t even conceive of peaceful reconciliation.
We allowed money to do this to us.
HE STATED THAT HE WANTS TO SEND AMERICAN CITIZENS TO EL SALVADORE AND BUILD 5 MORE PRISONS. TO BE MANAGED BY BLACK ROCK. YOUR DOGE SAVINGS AT WORK?!!