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This is obviously the only correct legal holding and anyone who disagrees is a fascist who rejects the rule of law. It's as simple as that; we can't have a system of the executive black-bagging people without cause or process, much less one that ships them to a place a court already said they can't.

You mean just disappearing foreigners to concentration camps in El Salvador with no due process is bad for tourism? Shocking

Even if he blinks, the next conversation will be about US brand equity “scarring.” 🇺🇸

I honestly think the funniest part in this is the increase in blank sailings aka empty containers shipping out of Asia during this period. I hope Xi shuts the ports down until the tariffs hit just to fuck with us.

DOJ doesn't have the order which even if they did still wouldn't justify sending him to a prison in El Salvador. Again: if there's a group that doesn't get due process, then nobody actually has due process, because the government can always just say you're in the group without it.

🚨 If you’re continuously stunned by the behavior of gerrymandered GOP representatives in the world of Citizens United, don’t be. Here’s how to think of them: They are no longer public servants. Improving public outcomes is not their goal. Nor do they do better in life… 1/

you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead

Warrantless arrest and deportation of someone legally here and defiance of a court to bring them back. Impeachment, removal, charges.

The idea that the federal government can go before a judge and say, “Yeah we arrested the wrong guy, but too bad, so sad” is not alarming nearly enough people yet.

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

I must not be the first person to bring this up But there has never been a more vindicated guy

As Trump wrecks the economy, destroy savings, jobs, & people's lives w/ his massive tax hike (disguised as tariffs) - once again Senate/House Democrats are being bunch of cowards and pulling their punches. And folks wonder why the Democratic brand is in the gutter. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

"The signs were there" they were just being waved by people i didn't recognize as human, oh well.

an important thing to remember about Trump is that his replacement-level right-wing white dude love of military symbolism coexists with a belief that only suckers are willing to serve and die for their country

this is why shipping migrants to third party countries is inherently a due process violation. it very literally removes them from the realm of legal process entirely.

If we were an actual democracy still Trump and Vance would be impeached and removed by Easter. But we’re now a kleptocracy with no civil rights so nothing will happen.

Also it doesn’t make any economic sense to do it

it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

These ghouls want another Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Like they are doing everything they can to recreate the conditions for a redux

Not being forced to work in a sweatshop to make the new Jordans is like being ripped off

One of the may ways the Republic is collapsing is an abandonment of the fundamental deal: instead of hitting each other with sticks, we’ll decide things by voting. It’s imperfect and often sucks but it used to be better than the sticks. But it depends on a set of norms. /1

MAGA supporters should be relegated to second class citizens. Put them under conservatorship of some blue haired SJW or something.

Again Madisonian democracy is dead and it’s time to start fighting for its replacement before its dictatorship

The precedent set here is the end of Congress, which I don't think Congress will even notice

we’re cooked

The crowd that saw politics in everything was always going to destroy everything to further their own politics

This is why North Korea has the world's leading economy

Someone page Stephen Miller cuz there’s an actual judicial coup ongoing

if you have a prison nobody ever leaves there are likely significant reasons you do not want it to become a prison that sometimes people leave

This hits harder if you followed what Trump did with the families of Abbey Gate victims. He brought them to Bedminister, brought them to RNC, basically worked with them as surrogates to trash Biden. Coffins coming on his watch? brb golfing

Two Republican judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals just effectively overturned Justice Allison Riggs' victory over Jefferson Griffin by retroactively nullifying thousands of lawful votes. A massive and outrageous blow to democracy.

Obviously it's all insultingly stupid but the fact they used an LLM on a list of less than 200 total countries is just mind bogglingly lazy

the emperor’s favorite concubine fired one of his top internal security officers while rumors abound that the household eunuch has lost the emperors favor

The idea that liberals are incapable of seeking accountability from authoritarians and criminals is so ahistorical. Nuremberg, The Hague, these were the creation of liberals, not leftist radicals

Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there

And the most logical industrial policy for those high value goods is a combination of FTAs covering inputs, credits and investment to grow domestic production and strategic tariffs coordinated with allies to limit adversaries dominance of the markets. Not tariffs on everyone til they kiss the ring.