C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
āAmerica has reached a very dangerous moment, as the Supreme Courtās indulgence of President Donald Trumpās belief in his own untrammeled authority collides with the justicesā expectation that he will abide by their decisions.
This evening, the Supreme Court upheld part of a lower-court decision ordering the Trump administration to seek to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whomāas The Atlantic first reportedāthe administration has acknowledged it mistakenly dispatched to El Salvadorās notorious Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT. Abrego Garcia, who came to the United States illegally but was allowed to stay after a judge ruled that he was likely to be persecuted by gangs in his native El Salvador, would be the first person publicly known to be released from CECOT.
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The fact that the order was issued without dissent was remarkable. The Roberts Court has indulged Trump at nearly every turn, first writing the anti-insurrection clause out of the Fourteenth Amendment and then foiling his federal prosecution by inventing a grant of presidential immunity with no basis in the text of the Constitution. Justice John Roberts and his colleagues have deployed a selective proceduralism to avoid directly confronting the Trump administration, one that contrasts with their alacrity in cases where they are seeking their preferred outcome. Yet the confrontation they sought to avoid has arrived nonetheless, and even the Trumpiest justices, such as Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, joined their colleagues in informing the Trump administration that what it had done was illegal and should be remedied.
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If the administration makes an insincere effort to bring Abrego Garcia back, then those rights become the very sort of āparchment barriersā James Madison feared would be easily violated. If Trump defies the Court, there is little to restrain him from acting as an autocrat, given the supplication of Republicans in Congress.
The risks here for constitutional government are tremendous. Yet even if this case now unfolds in the ideal way, Trumpās aspirations toward unchecked power mean that the nation will never veer too far from the āpath of perfect lawlessness,ā at least not as long as he remains in office.ā
www.theatlantic.com
Thereās no doubt that Trump will ignore the Court's ruling, lying that he ādid his bestā to bring Abrego Garcia back, when in fact no good faith effort was made.
And Trumpās continued defiance of the courts will confirm the fact that America has become an authoritarian fascist state, ruled by a despot and autocrat, not the law.
This evening, the Supreme Court upheld part of a lower-court decision ordering the Trump administration to seek to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whomāas The Atlantic first reportedāthe administration has acknowledged it mistakenly dispatched to El Salvadorās notorious Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT. Abrego Garcia, who came to the United States illegally but was allowed to stay after a judge ruled that he was likely to be persecuted by gangs in his native El Salvador, would be the first person publicly known to be released from CECOT.
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The fact that the order was issued without dissent was remarkable. The Roberts Court has indulged Trump at nearly every turn, first writing the anti-insurrection clause out of the Fourteenth Amendment and then foiling his federal prosecution by inventing a grant of presidential immunity with no basis in the text of the Constitution. Justice John Roberts and his colleagues have deployed a selective proceduralism to avoid directly confronting the Trump administration, one that contrasts with their alacrity in cases where they are seeking their preferred outcome. Yet the confrontation they sought to avoid has arrived nonetheless, and even the Trumpiest justices, such as Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, joined their colleagues in informing the Trump administration that what it had done was illegal and should be remedied.
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If the administration makes an insincere effort to bring Abrego Garcia back, then those rights become the very sort of āparchment barriersā James Madison feared would be easily violated. If Trump defies the Court, there is little to restrain him from acting as an autocrat, given the supplication of Republicans in Congress.
The risks here for constitutional government are tremendous. Yet even if this case now unfolds in the ideal way, Trumpās aspirations toward unchecked power mean that the nation will never veer too far from the āpath of perfect lawlessness,ā at least not as long as he remains in office.ā
The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived
The justices ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported.
www.theatlantic.com
Thereās no doubt that Trump will ignore the Court's ruling, lying that he ādid his bestā to bring Abrego Garcia back, when in fact no good faith effort was made.
And Trumpās continued defiance of the courts will confirm the fact that America has become an authoritarian fascist state, ruled by a despot and autocrat, not the law.
