The Justice Department says Trump derives his authority to deport migrants without due process from “Article II and the mandate of the electorate,” so it has no obligation to provide further details of the operation to Boasberg.
“Trump won the election so everything he does is legal,” in DOJ speak.
“Trump won the election so everything he does is legal,” in DOJ speak.
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Mike Sacks
Hooooo boy: "The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court’s March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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And we didn’t use it.
— Richard Nixon
https://youtu.be/dMt8qCl5fPk
A Constitutional crisis.
Which I have absolutely NO hope whatsoever that it will be handled correctly.
Most likely, the Court will warn & fine, and warn & fine, and things will drag out indefinitely, while the Exec branch does whatever it wants because no one will stop them.
Investigate them now!
Democrats unite
Due process is the final line before none of our lives (or votes) have no meaning, ever again.
Are you up to the task, Celeste Maloy? John curtis? Mike lee?
Many Dems are calling him out
Chris Murphy
Pritzker
Crockett
Bernie
A.O.C
.....
31% of the popular vote does not a mandate make.
Judge: Show me [insert evidence requested here]
DOJ: Nah we don't wanna 😭...
Judge: That ain't gonna fly
DOJ: NATIONAL SECURITY!
AYFKM!
It's 1933.
Taking a blowtorch to your credibility in front of a judge you may have to appear before again isn’t good for your legal career, as a general rule.
The Christian Nationalist administration is asserting itself.
It's not a popularity contest, Constitution vs. the whims of the electorate or of any president.
If he wants to change the Constitution, pass an amendment
fuck their feelings
b) If it were, if the phrase 'mandate of the electorate' has any meaning at all in this case, the mandate was to hold Trump accountable, considering he didn't even win a majority of votes cast.
Of course, we'll see what happens.
The Federal Court police will be deployed shortly
Bring those people back to US for proper procedures and if imprisonment is proper, imprisonment in a US prison under US law with proper prisoner rights
😂🤣😂🤣
logic will never work that way
which is what you're seeking in that belief, but doing so is irrational to the extreme
They had the chance and they willing said "Nah I'm OK with whoever wins". So, thus, they're ok with what happens afterwards.
It's the same result as the people who said "Yeah that's my guy!" and voted, in the end. Vote results are the only thing that matters here.
first thing that comes to mind: people who don't live in swing states who use vote abstention selectively and strategically to pus Democrats left
or people who cannot bring themselves to vote for genocide
and so on
Biden really should've deployed seal team six as an official act to protect us from the likes of Musk and Trump.
Because we're a few weeks away from Trump doing so.
John Roberts hasn't declared that Trump can't suffer consequences for his actions; he's decided that *John Roberts decides whether Trump can suffer consequences for his actions*.
The mandate of the electorate is clearly the government lawyers just making shit up.
The legislature is the ultimate check. We cannot give up hope — posterity demands it of us.
Unfortunately a crazed, submissive,and partisan Congress makes it unlikely for now.
The fact that Boasberg is a former FISC judge and presumably has clearance to a fairly high level might be relevant as well?
/s
I mean, unless they're about to stipulate that they're noting but an organized criminal organization.
An *ongoing* 13th amd violation is wholly different.
It's trite, but imagine Biden asserting this. His own party would support impeachment.
Hide the cannoli is not an answer.
It’s about time we got that Economic Bill of Rights + the ERA enshrined, not to mention ditching the EC & Senate.
Hope is great and all but it should be at least a tiny bit grounded in reality. Might as well hope for divine intervention or a benevolent alien invasion.
Let's just sit with that premise for a second shall we, fellow members of a democratic republic?
"Just trust us, these are bad people, you don't get to check, they get no process, how dare you doubt"
This is the DOJ's argument.
But yeah, the stand in the schoolhouse door happened, eventually.
It is instructive to note the length of the timeline from Brown I, Brown II, Cooper v. Aaron, through that confrontation though
My money's on his doing *nothing.*
be watching. Considering the fact they Trump was able to control Judges in his last trials with delays. And look where he is. I hope the Judge acts and doesn’t let him weasel his way out of this again.
Maybe not along early modern absolutist lines but more like pre-Christianized germanic kingship
Also the authority of an electoral mandate is distinct and even at odds with divine right
They’re committing crimes every f*ing day! ☠️
C’mon Dems! Figure something out!!!