Trump sold a bunch of people into slavery in El Salvador—under false pretenses if that matters to you—and when a federal judge told him to reverse that, Trump unlawfully refused, and now the Supreme Court needs to give it a think; apparently they think selling kidnap victims into slavery has merit.
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It in no way addresses the underlying issues or merits.
The court could still screw us all over, but there are no tea leaves to read in this stay.
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but then again … any institution that is so broken that it allows this sort of thing means the whole court is culpable.
i don't really blame the powerless minority here …
but it's broke!
N, why not enslaved them, right 😒
oh that's a bummer.
Support for slavery certainly has precedent in the Constitution
First several of the justices need to see if they can buy their souls back from the devil, for one thing.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/3/17/trump-deports-238-gang-members-to-el-salvador-whats-the-controversy
There are arrangements for 700-odd more deportees, and the black vans are still doing their rounds, so ...