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Sanders: We’ve got a president of the United States who— Crowd: Boooo Sanders: I agree

submitted 1 hour ago • 23 comments

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

submitted 2 hours ago • 49 comments

Whatever the Abrego Garcia Court thought it was doing when it wrote "The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs," this is the result.

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

People are pointing out that we need to see the agreement b/t Trump & Bukele, and of course that is true - but we also need to realize that they are altering the agreement in real time to serve whatever purpose the moment calls for.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

The principle at stake here is so fundamental it predates even Magna Carta in English law, and before that stretching all the way back to Rome, and has its similarly ancient equivalents in every legal system in the world, because it's the inherent bedrock foundation of what courts and laws are for.

submitted 5 hours ago • 22 comments

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

submitted 3 hours ago • 213 comments

❤️💧

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

The administration is going to run into a legal bind. (1) As a baseline OUTER limit, the written agreement with El Salvador is limited to 1 year. (2) The text reads: "pending the United States’ decision on their long term disposition."

submitted 6 hours ago • 74 comments

The United States Supreme Court, as packed by the Federalist Society, as supported by the Randy Barretts and Ilya Shapiros and Jonathan Turleys of America, is suited to squabble over what “facilitate” means but not to achieve justice or protect or defend the United States Constitution.

submitted 6 hours ago • 58 comments

Stalin’s police investigator explained to his victim: ''We never arrest anyone who is not guilty. And even if you weren't guilty, we can't release you, because then people would say that we are picking up innocent people.’’

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

Bring 👏 back 👏 circuit riding 👏 but at the district court level 👏 If John Roberts really is the institutionalist he’s been made out to be, he needs to see the government’s repeated shenanigans before the district court up close and personal

submitted 8 hours ago • 26 comments

I know we live in wild times bc I’m out here RT’ing Ed Whelan on the daily

submitted 6 hours ago • 19 comments

well if there is one thing whose awesome power republican presidents respect and are powerless in the face of it's a central american nation's national sovereignty

submitted 8 hours ago • 31 comments

It is very good question and one I’ve been asking for months. If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress. To my knowledge, they have not done so.

submitted 7 hours ago • 84 comments

AOC: The crumbling of our rights and protections. Understand that all of this is what it means and what it feels like to be governed by billionaires. This is what oligarchy feels like.. it is this system that has brought us the most corrupt administration in American history..

submitted 9 hours ago • 34 comments

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

submitted 7 hours ago • 150 comments

One way to understand the Trump administration in its second term as explicit class warfare by an alliance of billionaires and gentry against knowledge workers and professionals or the Professional-managerial class. For Trump's war on PMC to work, he has to not destroy his allies while fighting it.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.

submitted 10 hours ago • 139 comments

If Trump facilitates the return of Abrego Garcia he'll show disrespect for the Constitution and due process as such while doing it Trump is hostile to the Constitution and to Magna Carta but friendly to trial by ordeal

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Me when they’re looking for volunteers at work.

submitted 8 hours ago • 21 comments

Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

submitted 7 hours ago • 76 comments

I expect Trump to try to show regal benevolence and majesty while facilitating the return of Abrego Garcia It's not a convincing flex imo to talk about anyone as a "barbarian" while simultaneously being hostile to habeas protections and to due process as such

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

El Salvador is a "proud and sovereign nation" but Canada is not.

submitted 7 hours ago • 70 comments

Absolutely And, Trump does have will Will to blasphemously claim divine prerogative power to be the sole dispenser of accusations and consolations Trump has will to be the sole judge in trial by ordeal

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump is anti-due-process For him, Magna Carta and habeas corpus is just not how "the world really works' And Trump is pro-trial-by-ordeal If someone asked him, should the 4th lateran council have prohibited blessings for the ordeal, Trump would say not at all

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I think it's likely Trump does facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia But in a way that reinforces Trump's values Which are hostility to due process as such And hostility to the 1215 prohibition of blessings for trial by ordeal (Same year as Magna Carta) Trump is pro-ordeal

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

submitted 10 hours ago • 318 comments

At the direction and behest of the United States. Not because he violated any law in El Salvador.

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

There is not a soul on earth who believes that President Bukele wouldn’t immediately release Abrego-Garcia if asked by the United States. President Bukele is coming to the United States this week; he can give Abrego-Garcia a ride on his plane!

submitted 9 hours ago • 63 comments

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 9 hours ago • 384 comments

NEWS: Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia call for their client to be brought back to Maryland — and for the government to be held in contempt for its failure to comply with the court's orders in the case. They also ask for discovery into the gov't's actions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 9 hours ago • 35 comments

This satisfies part (1) of the order, but does not even take a shot at parts (2) and (3). The order:

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

did that State Dept official hear President Trump say yesterday that he was perfectly able to bring Abrego Garcia back to the US?

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW: A US State Department official tells Judge Xinis that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and being held in the CECOT prison, "detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 9 hours ago • 76 comments

BREAKING: Trump administation attests that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and secure but is under the "sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 9 hours ago • 483 comments