“If the Trump administration can get away with violating the Constitution because it knows the courts will be too slow to prevent it, then those constitutional rights simply no longer exist,” Adam Serwer writes:
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So they have blatantly defied court orders and some of these judges don't think there's a reason for urgency in their rulings??? Tell me you've been paid for without telling me you've been paid for🤦
Those that bind the Supreme Court from enforcing the law needs to to be deligitimitized in whatever ways brake the binds being used against the American rule of law.
TRUMP is the symptom of this court. When you have justices taking bribes openly and defying precedence everyday you, lose. Nullifying amendments and interpreting the constitution to mean the opposite than intended is why Trump can do what he is doing, what they rule in the future may not matter.
There is no hope from any branch of government. The Senate refused to impeach him and SCOTUS made POTUS above the law. Finally, people voted for a rapist and felon or just stayed home.
When two Supreme Court justices prioritize procedure over preventing irreparable harm to human beings facing illegal imprisonment abroad, we witness not judicial restraint but constitutional abdication.
The dissent rings hollow with phrases like "follow established procedures" while men sit on buses bound for foreign prisons without due process. History offers chilling parallels. During World War II, when Japanese American citizens were interned,
the Court waited years to hear their cases—too late for the 120,000 already displaced.In 1944, when Korematsu v. United States finally reached the Court, the damage was done, lives destroyed, constitutional protections rendered meaningless by delay.
As Adam Serwer notes, when rights can be violated faster than courts can protect them, those rights effectively cease to exist. The pattern repeats: in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed while justices debated procedural niceties.
The Court's eventual doubts about the case came too late for two children orphaned by an irreversible decision.
What Alito and Thomas term "midnight orders" were in fact eleventh-hour interventions to prevent what the Constitution forbids—deprivation of liberty without due process.
Their "selective proceduralism," as Serwer calls it, would sacrifice fundamental rights on the altar of judicial decorum. When the administration shows no hesitation in violating constitutional norms, judicial timidity becomes complicity in the erosion of liberty itself.
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It seems the headline is as
lathargicly optimistic as the judicial process.
The Supreme Court’s ‘Selective Proceduralism’ "Will" Suffocate the Constitution
Tiny problem.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/alito-thomas-dissent/682571/?gift=Yv9Uxr0lc82Qy1Co6vW4GRoIL1FMs3EnQ85XBXXp5dI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
What Alito and Thomas term "midnight orders" were in fact eleventh-hour interventions to prevent what the Constitution forbids—deprivation of liberty without due process.
We have to ENFORCE our laws!!!
He's violating a Supreme Court order!
“The Marshals Service serves as the enforcement and security arm of the U.S. federal judiciary, and ….
…. it is an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and operates under the direction of the U.S. attorney general.”