"If the administration is claiming inherent constitutional authority to ignore court orders whenever it doesn’t want to follow them, not much to the rule of law remains."
Harrowing stuff from legal scholar Matt Seligman on Trump border czar vowing to ignore courts:
https://newrepublic.com/article/192848/transcript-trump-press-sec-reveals-lawlessness-get-worse
Harrowing stuff from legal scholar Matt Seligman on Trump border czar vowing to ignore courts:
https://newrepublic.com/article/192848/transcript-trump-press-sec-reveals-lawlessness-get-worse
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KCP8yZgxW4
Trump has defied his oath of office and our Constitution by ignoring court orders. He must be impeached and removed if there is any hope of saving our democracy.
- But more seriously: If it really isn't, then one of our first orders of business is making sure our fellow citizens to whom it wasn't obvious understand it.
Seriously, though: Do people not get this? Did you need it explained to you? This is an emergency for the entire country, and we do need people to get why, and I did think it was too obvious to need explaining.
Now our leader is saying laws don't matter.
Noted. ✅
2. If admin caves on less important issues but ignore on important ones it's a dictatorship
3. If SCOTUS doesn't take cases it's a dictatorship
4. If SCOTUS reverses when admin says to it's ...
I'll bet enrollment drops.
I don't believe this goes the way they hope it will.
Especially if they blow up social security - 17% of the population will be on the street protesting.
RE: allegations that the Venezuelans are "gang members"... Exactly as you say, there's been no evidence presented by either the US or El Salvador to verifies it, because there's been no "due process" in immigration court
https://bsky.app/profile/cassandrasaidso.bsky.social/post/3lkluepr4zk2w
Those people weren't given any sort of due process or a chance to defend themselves or assert their legal status in the country.
If they are defying a court order to do it, it's illegitimate & illegal.