feel like "you can't be sold into international slavery" has deeper roots in the constitutional design than the 8th amendment, and that's not taking anything away from the 8th amendment
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i know this is just an off the cuff post or whatever but you definitely know about the "Slave Trade Cause", the 13th amendment right, etc.? the constitution kind of explicitly allows for selling people into international slavery? like they were/are down with that stuff for sure
I mean I would love if that were true, but even the 13th amendment is very much "hey slavery is still cool in some cases, especially outside our borders. It's just not cool in *all* cases my dudes!"
like the most basic issue is "the president is allowed to do to those things which are permitted by law rather than those things which are not forbidden by law"
I’d take it back one step further. Sovereignty belongs to the People (citizenry), and the People delegate power to the entire constitutional system. The President is not sovereign and does not have the power to essentially denaturalize citizens at will.
I'm still losing it with the "legal advocates argue." You called a source on does kidnapping a man and putting him in a foreign prison with no trial and seemingly no prison term raise constitutional issues? And you wanted to leave room for "advocates" to argue the other side?
People are way too optimistic as to what "well, the 13th amendment" is going to do if there's a crew of gun men willing to put Americans on planes to El Salvador
Amidst all of this I had not quite organized my brain to recognize "we have restarted the international slave trade" is an accurate description of current US policy. But it's true.
just for kicks here's a bunch of conservative redditors back in february reacting to bukele's offer mostly with variations on "idk seems pretty damn unconstitutional but it's not like he's actually gonna do it"
Michael we aren't selling people into slavery, we will be paying el Salvador to put people into a forced work camp and torture prison. Totally different!
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