He had a supreme court order to do so. Sounds like Trump is in contempt of court. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Lock his ass up for 1 week. No comms.
JD can take over for a week. At least show a little power. Who am I kidding though? Supreme Court is a fucking joke.
The trouble is the same Supreme Court gave him criminal immunity for official acts (even corrupt ones), which this certainly is. Impeachment and removal is probably the only remaining legal pathway to enforce compliance, and the political will isn’t there.
It’s probably somewhat intentional that he provoked a conflict of this sort early using an issue few elected Republicans will risk their positions over. The next one will be bigger, and he wants the pattern established.
Then jail everyone involved in the deportation for kidnapping. Sure, you can’t get Trump - get everyone else. The chilling effect should be immediate.
Who’s going to prosecute it? The DOJ certainly isn’t. State prosecutors would be unsuccessful due to the supremacy clause. Congress could appoint a special prosecutor, but then we’re back to political will.
What judges can have prosecuted without the DOJ’s cooperation is contempt of court, and they do have the power to appoint special prosecutors themselves in that case (but not for ordinary crimes like kidnapping).
The state that he was taken in should file charges, the states that he flew over should file charges, the state where he was put on a plane to El Salvador should file charges. Simply the states should charge those involved since the federal doj won’t do it.
As I said in the previous comment, state prosecutors would be unsuccessful due to the supremacy clause. State kidnapping laws cannot punish Federal officials for deporting foreigners in accordance with Federal law, or with a good faith belief that they are enforcing Federal law.
Federal court orders can, of course make a deportation illegal, and did in this case. Still, criminal contempt would only apply to officials who knew about the court order, which has not been alleged with regard to the initial decision to deport Abrego Garcia. There was, however a separate order from judge Boasberg to turn the planes around. As yet unnamed officials who knew about that order and had the ability to carry it out discussed it and decided not to obey. They are guilty of criminal contempt.
The fact that every american in a nation with more guns than people seems totally willing to let this fascist keep destroying the balance of power their whole country was founded on is honesty pathetic, and I lose respect for them every day it goes on. What the fuck was the right to bear arms in that dusty old paper even for, if not this?
Big talk for someone who also isn’t about to throw their life away to take potshots at the local police station.
Government agitators: “God why are leftists such little babies! Oh you’re not a little baby? You don’t need a nappy? Well prove it! Commit a violent crime at a peaceful protest RIGHT NOW! Yeah, right into that camera. Great. That’s perfect. Thank you.”
I’m not american and my culture has no history of stockpiling weapons to fantasize about using them when the government takes our rights, so don’t try to paint me as a hypocrite for calling this out as an outside observer.
Also, please show me where I even implied people should shoot at local cops or turn protests violent? If there was any advocation of violence in my comment (for legal purposes this is an if) it had one clear target, and wasn’t specifically addressed to leftists. I don’t blame you for wanting reasons to write off what I said, cuz I can’t imagine being american right now - not a figure of speech, I literally cannot and I feel for you dudes - but please don’t resort to strawman and false equivalency fallacies to do it.
It was always for state militias, before we had a national army. That dusty paper literally says that.
Exactly: non-fascist-controlled states should’ve been mobilizing their militias against the fascist thugs by now.
The State militias (State Guards/State Defense Forces) have mostly been abolished and have been almost completely replaced by National Guard and the rest of DOD. The remaining State Guards/State Defense forces have been so thoroughly neutered and atrophied as to be essentially adult versions of boy scouts, but with less activities.
The States should restart their State Defense Forces and take them seriously as a real and legitimate military forces, not unarmed disaster response organizations.
intentions? English is not my first language but doesn’t “intention” mean that you plan to do something but haven’t yet?
tRump has actively defied the court from step one
Intent comes from a root word meaning “to stretch,” which became metaphorically to stretch one’s mind in a particular direction.
One can say “This is my intent, that was my intent, it’s my intent to continue with this, that was intended - all of those are my intentions, were my intentions and will be my intentions.”
Fascist gonna fash.
I wish reporters would bait him with questions like “you aren’t powerful enough to do that? why not? I thought you and the United States were so bigly and powerful? Are you saying you are too weak?” and “you say you CAN do it, but why don’t you show us?” and “you say you won’t do it, is that because you are AFRAID to admit that you were wrong about him?”
Also, watching that interview where he could not even fucking admit his “evidence” was Photoshop…straight out of Orwell.
tell him we are going to ask president musk about this.
How many fingers Winston?
