Justice Sotomayor, writing in today's deportation case. How many times must she write, "With fear for our democracy, I dissent," before Republicans get the point? Perhaps only when, as the poem goes, they come for them.
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I'm not good at the whole legalese thing. Does this mean that Mr Garcia is stuck in El Salvador forever? What does it mean for the rest of the men? What does it mean for future immigrants? Why is the Supreme Court always rule in trump's favor and against understood law?
And they will, come for them. Either them or the people will. Either way this scotus is on the wrong side of hx and if she’s not doing more than carefully penned letters, she’s no better frankly. Those in power who do nothing but performance will not be spared from the public.
It’s “only” a temporary administrative stay & tbh w/u, Roberts did set a quick schedule of today 5pm for Garcia’s lawyers to submit a response. So I expect SCOTUS to issue a final ruling on his release sometime this week.
I think Roberts & Barrett both will rule w/the liberal justices to release him
The Supreme Court is ignoring due process, what is guaranteed in the 5th amendment in the Constitution. This has opened the door to martial law or lawlessness take your pick...
Joyce, it's not that Republicans don't "get the point". It's that they're aok with it. When it eventually catches up to one of their own, they'll be down with that too.
Seems to me we have to pull all the levers legally available, in numbers, all the time. A day in the streets every weekend should be what's happening. Like Margaret Atwood said, it has to be fun. Make it a tailgate party. Bring a hibachi.
I think they will never get the point because they are, at base, authoritarians. They want to destroy democracy. They want autocracy. Alito and Thomas want it w/ a Chistofascism flavor to it.
Republicans will never get the point. They have the majority, and that is all they care about. Individual people are just small, irritating bugs to them.
"Dissent" is just an objection by a minority party, the way they see it. Completely invisible. SCOTUS became hopelessly corrupt during Trump's first term. And nothing has changed that.
Can the detainees' attys just file an amended petition switching it to a habeas petition for each of them, based solely on the failure to comply with the pre-invocation notification requirement - a ground that each detainee has, & keeping the case before Boasberg, significantly speeding the process?
They’re telling U.S. citizens what’s coming--the conviction 'part' doesn't matter, per 5-4 SCOTUS call: ‘As the Judge noted, El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, has “publicly touted,” his agreement with the United States is to “take in only convicted criminals” and that includes U.S. citizens.’
The GOP is a lost cause. They are a cult. We need to change how we engage them and stop hoping they will have decency.
47 needs to be removed as does Vance and Johnson.
Then we need to remove all of the GOP judges. Then we need to outlaw private campaign donations in favor of public.
The founders created a tripartite government to deter the rise of a monarch.
Republican "Party Uber Alles" creates the threat of autocracy the founders feared
Roberts SCOTUS, obsequious to Trump, put him above the law.
Congressional Republicans could apply Constitutionally granted powers, but won't.
So Herr Trump gets his wish. Any of us who dare oppose him and the evil he represents can be disappeared with no repercussions. Well, this old lady won’t go quietly. Make “good trouble” as long as possible.
The Supreme Court does not have a public comment phone line. They accept physical letters in the mail:
Supreme Court of the United States
1 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20543
I have personally called the number and spoke to a human. I was told the same Information verbally that is listed on the website. Not trying to argue. Passing on information to save time and frustration.
At the end of the day, do what speaks to you.
For Republicans, destroying democracy IS the point. They know that in 2045 America will no longer be a white majority nation. They need to destroy democracy in 20 years, so that it won't matter that they are a minority.
They don’t want true democracy, Joyce. Republicans just want to game the system, gerrymander and suppress voter turnout. They want power not by making the argument, but by making draconian and asinine rules that disenfranchise any opposition.
Of the hundreds who were “disappeared” most had no known criminal records, certainly far less proven criminal behavior than our 34 count convicted felon in the Oval Office. One man benefits from every privilege, as he behaves like a “shit hole” dictator to others. When will the law apply to him?
I would imagine there are ways in which a corrupt justice in the Supreme Court could be impeached or removed from their job... it looks like the evidence of wrongdoing exists for at least 2 of the current justices, so why is nothing being done to reset the Supreme Court which is in Trump's pocket?
I do always flip to the back to see her (or Jackson or Kagan) explain, in far better, simpler, and clearer language than most anyone else could muster, why the majority is not only wrong, but flatly dishonest, in its analysis.
Cold comfort, but at least they're calling the bullshit what it is.
They're selective readers & listeners, Joyce. They will never get it. They also aren't actually interested in upholding democracy or making life better for their constituents.
Never forget the holocaust. Never forget the fact those fleeing persecution were turned away from Florida- and died by torpedoes by german nazi u boats.
At one point, the US literally turned away a ship of 900 German Jews. Shortly afterward, it rejected a proposal to allow 20,000 Jewish children to come to the US for safety https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/this...
Well, he’s certifiably INSANE! Why GOP, SCOTUS, Journalists, Reporter’s, & Pundits refuse to acknowledge & address the fact he’s INSANE & persist in trying to make sense out of that which is utterly INSANE, is a WASTE OF TIME & AN INSULT TO THE INTELLIGENCE OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS.
I am no longer devoting any time whatsoever to News Programs, nor Articles, where these DUMBASSES continue to do this. The ELEPHANT in the room MUST be addressed forthwith in ALL of these discussions, which is that we have a POTUS who is certifiably INSANE!!!
My understanding is Plaintiffs for the MD man sent to the horrific Venezuela Prison must pursue a Habeas Corpus petition in the Federal Court in the jurisdiction where he was last sent in the U.S. before deportation, which in this case, is the 5th Circuit in TX, which is far Right Extremist/Fascist
Do these right-wing Justices seriously think trump is above putting THEM on a plane and shipping THEM to a torture prison outside our country if they disobey Dear Leader's judicial demands one too many times?
If harm should come to the admittedly kidnapped immigrant in El Salvador- that responsibility now rests with the Questionable and Partisan SCOTUS.
TRUMP’s partial purchase of that Court has cast doubt on it’s ability to faithfully fulfill it’s Charter.
Since the GOP Justices are not listening Sotomayor/Ketjani/Kagan need to speak directly to the American people and explain we risk losing our democracy.
Why is the question of illegal immigrants just brown people? Why hasn't anyone asked where are all the white Eastern European people? What about all of the Indian tech bros? What about the companies who have used them as basically slave labour?
I wonder if they all meet. Do they sit around a conference room table at which Justices like Sotomayor can look Alito in the eye and say, “What the fuck are you talking about?! Really?” Or…are they walled off from one another by tradition and protocol? We need more people saying, “What the fuck??”
Flood the SCOTUS with postcards, emails, & phone calls re: their sickening & shameful ruling on Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act that has been used to round up innocent people & send them to torture prisons in El Salvador without due process! https://www.supremecourt.gov/contact/contactus.aspx
This makes me so sad and angry and grateful all at once. How did the GOP give up their integrity so completely to sell out their souls for this lawlessness?
With all due respect, why are you so focused on Republicans coming to their senses? I've heard you lament this many times over the years. You know it's a sign of insanity to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results, right?
I understand that people care about "groceries," but it doesn't matter whether you can afford groceries if you can be thrown into a foreign prison. Without due process, you don't have the right to eat the groceries in your fridge. They'll rot while you do.
I genuinely don’t think they care because this is all working white well for them (lol, autocorrect of “quite” is more precise!). But curious, where are all the hard line constitutional conservatives on the court now?? 🧐😡
Is Trump holding John Robert's kids hostage?
Why does he feel the need to jump in and bail him out of every law suit that seems to be progressing logically and reasonably towards Trump's defeat?
We all need to wake back up.
The Republican Party is no longer our loyal opposition in this Democratic Republic. They are building an authoritarian dictatorship with shocking effectiveness and speed. There is no persuading to be done here. It’s wasted effort. They must now be defeated and removed.
This feature of yesterday's horrific Supreme Court decision deserves more comment: the court split right down gender lines.
Every single female judge - even conservative Amy Coney Barrett - stood in way of Trump disappearing people at will to foreign gulags. Every single male caved.
When Trump and Vance were spreading lies about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs in Ohio, how do you think Amy Coney Barrett explained that one to her family? She has two adopted children from Haiti. I imagine she was pretty angry.
John Roberts shown little sign of seriously challenging Trump in actual judgements. Counterintuitively, it turns out that one of Quisling's own nominees is willing to defend habeas corpus - and unsurprisingly it's the woman.
Remember Reagan appt Sandra Day O'Connor? She disappointed RW bros too.
Much of what I'm seeing is that women are generally more intolerant of tRump and willing to oppose him, possibly because they recognize that beneath that sleazy, predatory, misogynistic, malevolent exterior lies a sleazy, predatory, misogynistic, malevolent interior.
Repubs ONLY worry abt a threat2 Our Rights&Freedoms WHEN IT AX'LLY FX THEM IN THR OWN LIVES. Like if thr daughter bled2death in a parking lot bc she wz turfd frm3hospitals p a part'l miscarriage brought her NOT QUITE CLOSE ENUF2DEATH 4MDs2remove a dead&rotting fetus frm hr womb w/ a 15min procedure.
When someone will investigate what Trump has on all this corrupt justices, politicians…Epstein real list? or something like it? We need to find out to start cleaning 🇺🇸
No one is safe here. That’s their point. Fear. Fear of being broke, fear of being homeless, fear of getting sick, fear of terror attacks, fear of getting snatched off the street by masked men and disappearing forever, fear of losing everything by fire or tornado…..
They will never…because they lack the capacity. They are self serving and evil. Sorry, not sorry. You cannot hope someone will empathize, fathom, a concept they are incapable of feeling or comprehending. There is no humanity in humanity. They personify this point. They are failures as human beings.
Those making decisions in Trump Mafia Inc. do not care. They will never go hungry. They don’t need to budget. Their children will have better education than the crappy voucher schools they push. They don’t have student loans. Their daughters have access to abortion. They’re wealthy, white & free.
Joyce, aren’t they just seeing what they can get away with? We only have two weeks before April 20th and the implementation of the Insurrection Act. That really concerns me! 🥺
Republicans agree with this. They love it. They no longer support democracy. Get it yet? Stop trying to “reach” these people. It’s pointless. We need to elect people that will have the goal of upending this court. It’s an illegal institution and has been since McConnell rigged it.
As part of a 1990s fed case in NY, we often chafed at prosecutorial rules that made it harder, not easier, to curtail the actions of the people we opposed. Never understood it, but some jurists, AUSAs think blanket orders are less defensible than individual cases. It is just as frustrating now.
And for those that help him take over the government just remember one thing in Germany there was such a thing called the night of the long knives. Don’t forget that either Republicans.
Brittany Griner was returned after an actual minor violation. It is BS that we can’t get illegally imprisoned free, that US citizens are actually paying El Salvador per person for. Anything Trump muppets spew is pure a$$ coverage. Do not speak of Christianity when this is nothing but pure Evil!
The Republicans made a campaign promise for mass deportations and they won the White House and Congress with that promise. They now intend to fulfill that promise in spite of the Bill of Rights. 😡😡
I am not optimistic that the Supreme Court will confront the President and Congress over this.
I mean, I’m not an attorney, but doesn’t this smack of “withholding due process“? I remember clearly studying about both the 5th & 14th amendments in high school (!) so I think the US Supreme Court should know a little more than I do in this matter.
Wonder if Polymarket is taking bets on the number of Constitutional amendments we'll have left, say, in 6 months? Or by June when Herr 47 holds his military parade? Buh bye 1, 4, 5, 14, ... Regime is going through 'em like DOUCHE squad through a bag of Doritos at an all-night data theft session.
I’m afraid it’s not limited to a single political party at this point. We’ve allowed a culture of selfish self-involvement to blossom into a majority. Until this attitude across society can be reversed, we’re not getting out of this mess. Right now, we’re all frogs in that pot.
Maybe Rs get the point and just don't care. While we watch in horror as American democracy is dismantled, others welcome the 'strongman government' made more pernicious because the so-called 'strongman' is a rather dumb narcissist.
Most Republicans think of one thing and one thing only. How much more money can I make, benefits can I gain. I don’t think they even read, care to learn or contemplate what is best for their constituents.
If anyone is waiting for Republicans to grow a spine, feel shame, or simply do the right thing, you’re going to be waiting a very, very, very long time.
We've failed before. Thousands of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent were imprisoned by our government during WWII. Whole families forced into military prison camps by MPs.
Far fewer people of German or Italian heritage were held in this manner.
THERE WILL BE NO PEACE IN THE STREETS UNLESS: 1) REPUBLICANS COME TO THEIR SENSES AND FORMS A VETO PROOF MAJORITY TO STOP TRUMP, AND 2) THE AMERICAN PEOPLE COME TO THEIR SENSES, CALLS EVERY REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER AND TELLS THEM THEY WILL VOTE AGAINST THEM UNLESS THEY STOP TRUMP. IF WE DON'T ALL IS LOST
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Good question. It's almost as if the majority are rank partisans and not true impartial judges at all.
I think Roberts & Barrett both will rule w/the liberal justices to release him
To be clear; THEY DO NOT CARE!
Not even a little.
That’s the problem.
🔹️SATURDAY, APRIL 19
Roth's really been *our* voice for this. He's just wonderful.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-jewish-antisemitism-wesleyan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.JtqD.1Q87vp2WyHuf&smid=nytcore-android-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-jewish-antisemitism-wesleyan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.JtqD.1Q87vp2WyHuf&smid=nytcore-android-share
47 needs to be removed as does Vance and Johnson.
Then we need to remove all of the GOP judges. Then we need to outlaw private campaign donations in favor of public.
Republican "Party Uber Alles" creates the threat of autocracy the founders feared
Roberts SCOTUS, obsequious to Trump, put him above the law.
Congressional Republicans could apply Constitutionally granted powers, but won't.
To me, they are almost there.
Supreme Court of the United States
1 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20543
At the end of the day, do what speaks to you.
With tax money!
Cold comfort, but at least they're calling the bullshit what it is.
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/this...
It doesn’t appear SCOTUS said a damn thing about the issue at hand concerning the Govt having a duty to return him, which Justice Sotomayor addresses?
WTF is going on here?!
Is it simply Plaintiff’s must pursue a remedy by filing a Habeas Corpus petition in the 5th Circuit?
Jesus Fucking Christ!!!
So much for counting on SCOTUS, as ILLEGITIMATE as they are, to appropriately follow & administer the Rule of Law..
PEOPLE: THIS IS BEYOND CRUELTY. IT’S ANTI-AMERICAN.
💩🌀
was a pretty horrible idea after all 😕
TRUMP’s partial purchase of that Court has cast doubt on it’s ability to faithfully fulfill it’s Charter.
Sad days for America’s Justice System.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/contact/contactus.aspx
For tonight… we can be as one tonight.
Why does he feel the need to jump in and bail him out of every law suit that seems to be progressing logically and reasonably towards Trump's defeat?
The Republican Party is no longer our loyal opposition in this Democratic Republic. They are building an authoritarian dictatorship with shocking effectiveness and speed. There is no persuading to be done here. It’s wasted effort. They must now be defeated and removed.
Every single female judge - even conservative Amy Coney Barrett - stood in way of Trump disappearing people at will to foreign gulags. Every single male caved.
Remember Reagan appt Sandra Day O'Connor? She disappointed RW bros too.
They don’t care.
End of story.
Their lifelong appointments are at risk!!
they will purge the never trumpers first
They want control.
ReVoluTion 🇺🇸
They. Are. All. NAZIS. This is their dream realized.
I am not optimistic that the Supreme Court will confront the President and Congress over this.
They likely discount her warnings of impending collapse of our democracy because, after all, she’s “a hysterical woman.”
😡
Far fewer people of German or Italian heritage were held in this manner.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
The Alien Enemies Act isn’t in the Constitution.
Congress can fix this TODAY by passing a law saying no deportations without a hearing.
The President can only act like a king if Congress lets him.