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What the actual fuck? I thought the Supreme Court was there to uphold the LAW, not whine and cry about administrative crap. These conservative strategic delays are causing a constitutional crisis! So Texas is going to round up a bunch of people (maybe not even check to see if they are documented) and dump them in Mexico, only for this to likely get struck down in the future and then what? Am I missing something? How can you 'temporarily' decide to ruin peoples' lives permanently?

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Chris,

Your expert analysis of the SC rulings including insights into the reasonings is priceless. Keep up. You are great. We are in this together.

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Pandora's Box writ huge. This'll come back to bite the Supremes in their collective, bloated asses.

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So, the reactionary right members of the supreme court have essentially deemed Texas to be an entity that can supersede federal law. It’s as if Texas is a stand alone country. We can expect this action to further embolden Texas to do whatever the hell they want. Federal government be damned.

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Everyday I'm more flabbergasted by the rightwing authoritarian approach of our entire judicial system.

the Extreme Court should be their name, not the Supreme Court.

We must get Supreme Court limits and expansion..... if not these Ultra conservative nationalists are going to ruin this country. We literally will not have any rights at all, especially women.

Get ready for vigilante " justice" in Texas. Roadblocks pulling over every single brown person.

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Geez. Terrible.

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So angry, yet again.

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Waiting for my governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to

start her own border

enforcement. And then,

there's Florida, expecting a

wave of Haitians. SCOTUS

has definitely opened

Pandora's Box. There was 1

thing left in the bottom of the

box though, after all the

furies had flown out. That

was hope. Keep hoping

and working for a BLUE wave

so we can bring this court,

through legislation, to its

senses.

Thank you Chris for all the work and time you devote to

us.

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Mar 20·edited Mar 20

Okay, so Texas can remove non-citizens to Mexico. What if Mexico's army shoots back? Does Texas intend to wage war with Mexico? Is Texas expecting the US Army and USAF to come to its rescue?

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The substance of the law is hidden in the interstices of procedure. (Holmes, J. attrib.)

Well, there are other ways to play that game. The Article III Circuit Courts of Appeal and District courts are not the creatures of the Supreme Court, they creatures of Congress by setting them up in the first place, signing off on their judges in the second place, and rarely removing judges from office.

The current arrangement of the Circuit Courts and the District Courts that feed into them is not immutable. It doesn't even need to align with state boundaries or be geographically contiguous. (Or why don't Alaska and Hawaii have their own Circuit Courts of Appeals?)

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Can they deport those already granted asylum?

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It will be fun to see each state develop and implement and enforce its own immigration law now!

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???SCOTUS helping to lay the groundwork for Texas(and other states to secede??? Sure appears that way to me. Who needs the federal government? Certainly none of the 50 States and US Territories per SCOTUS decisions of the past 3.5 years.

No matter what, the revolution to finish the destruction of the former United States is well underway. Democracy is being undermined inch by inch by this SCOTUS.

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'Although it’s a positive sign that the appeals court does appear to have seen Barrett’s message, the likely result here is that the merits panel considers the motion and ends the administrative stay by granting or denying the request for a stay pending appeal, which then leads the losing party right back to the Supreme Court asking for relief on the shadow docket.'

This is just plain obscene.

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