In a dictorship doesn't matter what the judge thinks, which is the unfortunate state of affairs, it appears the US citzens have yet to realise who is in power.
If it was another small country, the rest of the world would probably ignore what is currently happening in USA.
However it isn't a small country, rather one of the major countries and world powers, hence everyone gets hurt when failing to learn from history.
It's always seemed weird to me that the founding fathers designed this system without thinking what would happen in such a scenario.
You have three branches, for checks and balances, and gave one of them command of the entire US military. It seems not so much a stretch of imagination that that one may go rogue one day.
April 19 https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
No excuses.
The fact remains that every single American should be opposed to this. If the admin can freely deport someone who was here legally and with proper papers and ignore their habeas corpus rights then there is nothing stopping them from doing so to US citizens. Once you accept that rights no longer matter, you are giving up your own rights and the rights of your fellow Americans.
This is THE line in the sand. Either you agree that people have rights afforded to them by the constitution or you are a fascist. And there is no mincing words on this.
Meanwhile,
# El Salvador rejects US senator's plea to free wrongly deported migrant
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/el-salvador-rejects-us...
> [Senator] Van Hollen[, who represents Abrego Garcia's home state of Maryland,] said he had asked Vice President Felix Ulloa ... why Abrego Garcia was still locked up in the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) if he had committed no crime and El Salvador had no evidence that he was a member of the street gang MS-13. // "His answer was that the Trump administration is paying El Salvador, the government of El Salvador, to keep him at CECOT"
> Bukele said during a White House visit on Monday he did not have the power to return Abrego Garcia to the United States. // Trump told reporters he did not have the authority to intervene, leaving the man in limbo
Reminiscent of Stalin's utterance to Churchill at Yalta about not risking the pope's displeasure about Soviet resettlement plans for Polish Catholics: "How many divisions does the Pope have?"
Today in America, that could be rephrased as "The Courts? How many loosely organized, non-uniformed paramilitaries do they have?"
Imagine if we sentence the assholes officials that did not respect the court order to some time in jail in the Venezuela. That would teach them a real lesson in my opinion!
Horrible as it may sound, I'm not sure this is the court case that has the most chances of brining people on the judge's "side".
(Don't get me wrong, I know there should not be "sides" when talking about the rule of law.)
But here, Trump can play the "tribal" card to his base very easily (I'm expecting a variation of "non white woke judges are once again defending dangerous illegal gang members immigrants against hard working white Americans, this is a witch hunt, fight !")
I think the average republican voter won't care. We already know they don't care about document mishandling, cyber security, sharing war plans, gutting science, etc... They used to care about sex and religion, but don't any more. However, we know they care about kids.
Is there a lawsuit brewing about harm done by the trump administration to kids of white, non immigrants, conservative, affluent, christian, devouts, mainstream and influencial Americans ?
(That being said, I was very surprised to read that the SCOTUS itself confirmed Trump should not have deported at least one of those people [1].)
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250410235416/https://www.cnbc....
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Old news. The same judge preposterously claimed to have the same "powers" as Trump and forced the DOJ to write this letter on this very case.
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/do...
Isn't this the one that was already cleared by the Supreme Court?
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/supreme-court-lifts-temp...
and this single district judge is trying to enact a political movement.
Flights take off. Dude issues temporary ban on Alien Enemies deportations. Flights do not turn around. Supreme Court clears temporary ban. Dude now claims admin defied his court order.
Oook, one more criminal prosecution to the heap will not make any difference.
Without rule of law no other issue matters.
You think you are a citizen today because you've always been a citizen, you have papers to prove it. It's never even been questioned. What if those papers get destroyed? What if the officer interpreting your papers is employed by someone who doesn't like you because you're disobedient. Without rule of law your status as a citizen doesn't protect you. Without a functioning judiciary capable of providing consequences to those who violate rule of law, you have no one to appeal to.
This administration complains about single judges restricting their actions. That should literally terrify you. The judges are not stopping the administration, they are ruling that the law is stopping the administration. When the administration says it is judges stopping it, it is claiming that there is no law, only the actions of loyal or disobedient men.
We are in a constitutional crisis. We are effectively lawless. Right now, we cannot depend on the law to restrict powerful people's actions. We have no way to predict what is possible for someone with a gun who is loyal to the president to do without consequences and therefore no way to act as if the law protects us.