Another case of "you do realize that's worse, right?"
It is flatly illegal for DOD to be doing anything like this on its own rather than merely providing support to a domestic civilian agency like DHS. Their putative defense here is saying the military kidnapped people all on its own.
It is flatly illegal for DOD to be doing anything like this on its own rather than merely providing support to a domestic civilian agency like DHS. Their putative defense here is saying the military kidnapped people all on its own.
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Chris Geidner
BREAKING: DOJ claims that the Trump administration did not violate a court order barring it from third-country removals without providing process when three people were sent to El Salvador b/c the Defense Department sent them to El Salvador on March 31, not DHS, and DOD isn't a defendant.
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But pointing that out is bad somehow.
It's like they can't help but fuck over everyone they possibly can at every turn.
• the unitary executive concept
• delegated responsibilities and party liability in different government departments
Obama really should have handed it over as part of the normalization deal. There is no serious strategic reason we need it for any military purpose.