The late-night order from the Supreme Court came amidst fears the Trump administration was preparing for more flights to El Salvador as soon as Saturday.
I’ve been trying to keep up with, and read, all the filings in these cases, but I have to ask: at what point does a filing need to specifically call out that the Administration has not acted in a way that should continue to afford it a good faith assumption? The logic from the district court and 5th circuit denying the TRO makes zero sense when you consider the already-illegal actions of the Administration, and the currently ongoing cases for criminal contempt. At some point, I would think judges would get the memo that the usual order of business no longer applies and that past actions should dictate that no deference should be given to the Administration as a good faith actor. People’s lives and due process hangs in the balance here. The very real and irreparable harm inflicted on plaintiffs should be the only consideration in my book. The AEA needs to be litigated. We can’t expect congress to do shit.
Might they be worried that they aren’t showing “deference “ to Executive branch as per SCOTUS ruling on the way forward for Boasberg? I should think all respect out the window if any one of them saw the felon’s posting about correcting the NYT headline. I know it would certainly get MY attention. I know the wheels of justice are slow, but perhaps a bit of grease has been applied to those wheel axles?
“At a Friday night hearing on the same question but in a different request before Chief Judge James Boasberg in the district court in D.C., DOJ’s Drew Ensign said that the Department of Homeland Security stated that they "are not aware of" any plans for flights on Saturday — but he also added that DHS wanted to "reserve the right" to have flights on Saturday.”
That’s Mr Ensign for the chop then. By properly “reserving the right” he gave the ACLU its ammunition to take the case further.
Thank you, Chris. This is schizophrenic insanity. And might I add - for the umpteenth time - Alito and Thomas belong nowhere near a court of law in a democratic country, much less on the Supreme Court. They have made a mockery of the law time and time again with their extreme, out-of-step rulings, their grift, and their allegiance to their preferred ideologies rather than the law.
Curious. I believe the United States did not “join” the World Court and I doubt El Salvador has, but does the World Court still have some standing? It would seem that kidnapped individuals were flown over international waters. It would at least stop trump and perhaps others, like the plane staff, from travelling outside the US. I would like to say that it would be embarrassing for them, but I think they are long past embarrassment.
Grrreat idea!! Did not think of that as I was going trough the 'Genevive human rights act' looking trough it and trying to find how he disgards them, the human rights act that is but your idea is as I said, grrreat. As are ALL ideas of overthrowing Felon #47🙏✌🏽🫶🫶🫶✌🏽🙏
Asha Rangappa said on Bsky that El Salvador joined the ICC in 2015 or 2016 but a post by a law firm online said El Salvador along with the US and some other countries never ratified their membership of the ICC so maybe someone knows whether Asha is right and El Salvador is subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC?
That was the America we knew before. The SCOTUS has changed how the US Constitution is interpreted which changes (destroys) the balance of power, our rights, and our ability to challenge those changes. Their reinterpretations, and the rulings that have come from them, have fundamentally changed the USA.
The SCOTUS has essentially accepted the Unitary Executive Theory (UET) giving the Executive branch way too much power with little to no checks remaining on its power. Following from the flundation of the UET was the SCOTUS ruling granting immunity from prosecution to the President, making them above the law. The President is immune from prosecution from all crime (realistically) and can pardon any who break the law with him in the unlikely event that anyone is even held responsible at all by the DOJ which the Executive now controls.
The lawlessness and glee the exude while being lawless that we're seeing now from Trump, his DOJ, and HIS other departments like ICE are a direct result of the of the sweeping changes the SCOTUS has made to our country by radically reinterpreting the US Constitution itself and the rulings that have resulted. There's a lot more results from those changes still to come. Sadly, we don't live in the same country anymore.
THAT is exactly a more in-depth analysis of how the outside world view USA of toady at this juncture in time. I, and my fellow swedish democrats have 'on-a-more-nonbias' way gone trough 'The Geneva human rights act' to see if #Felon 47 has broken any of those and what we found was shocking and enlightening. As there ar, at least 4 or even 5 of those that he broken thus making him the ideal to stand trial in The World Court as there where 4 ones he have BROKEN and it takes no stretch of anyone's imagination to see that. This is my very personal vendetta against this rotten 2-the-core landlord/reality TV participant. And we must discuss this with some advisors from and for the swedish 'House of Government' to see eventual steps to see if they can be filed and how we go about that. So...perhaps in the smallest country comes, perhaps one of the most important help with banging in the first or last proverbial nail, in hes coffin, the baffoon that is #47/Dump. Sincerely//Robert & C:o
Thank you so much Chris. I kept waiting on BlueSky for Boasberg to come back at 720 and call Court into session. He wanted to speak with the Fifth Circuit, correct? Do we know what happened? Did he come back from recess? And then refuse the TRO? I gave up at about 9 o’clock,knowing that the ACLU was going straight to SCOTUS…so smart of them. I don’t believe a word of what Drew Ensign says.
SOOOoo they where in the midst of preparing a new "shipment of innocent people" for the contration camp/slaughter house treatment. Oh my, oh my...Has 'one flew over the cuckoos nest' began filming the reality tv version yet? Yupp, in faschist USA. Im sorry for saying that BUT Im a "just turned 50,20th febr" male democrat born and raised in Stockholm,Sweden. But studied journalism/lingustics at Stockholm University for 4 yrs and we are ALL appaled at this disregard for the written law, there is NO OTHER WAY to view this. And now its spreading to our LOVELY LITTLE COUNTRY cramped in between Norway & Finland, as Felon #47 tried to get at our exihibiton on view, about indigenous peoples fashion i.e Indians,aborigines, and yes I do know that pertains to Australia, but there are an american/indian fashion designer that actually would be stopped from traveling back to the U.S and if it hadnt been for our brave state-minister perhaps he wouldnt had been able to. Ulf Henriksson took from our state finances and contributed to their travelling back,logistics e.tc BECAUSE #47 withdrew the financial backing of our whole State Museum. AND by backing out on Harvard, we NOW have brilliant scientists here in Sweden speaking out, saying #47 are endangering millions of lives across the planet, cause now we dont have that brilliant exchange in vaccines,ideas and the whole platform we democratically protected is now -Poof- GONE!!! Excuse me while I'll fill up the GAS tank in my shower for the sake & principle of democracy. Im outie AND it was a joke in case some MAGA douche reads this and sound the alarm😂. //Robert Olin Lindholm
Bravo. But I worry. Are these folks on a bus to somewhere ELSE than the ND of Tx so that the Govt can argue that somehow habeas and the Supreme Court order no longer apply? Not a GOOD argument, but then none of their arguments in any of these cases have been even remotely sensible.
This should not be so hard and they need to get the others back and all deserve due process. This is still America.
YES!!!🇺🇸
I’ve been trying to keep up with, and read, all the filings in these cases, but I have to ask: at what point does a filing need to specifically call out that the Administration has not acted in a way that should continue to afford it a good faith assumption? The logic from the district court and 5th circuit denying the TRO makes zero sense when you consider the already-illegal actions of the Administration, and the currently ongoing cases for criminal contempt. At some point, I would think judges would get the memo that the usual order of business no longer applies and that past actions should dictate that no deference should be given to the Administration as a good faith actor. People’s lives and due process hangs in the balance here. The very real and irreparable harm inflicted on plaintiffs should be the only consideration in my book. The AEA needs to be litigated. We can’t expect congress to do shit.
Might they be worried that they aren’t showing “deference “ to Executive branch as per SCOTUS ruling on the way forward for Boasberg? I should think all respect out the window if any one of them saw the felon’s posting about correcting the NYT headline. I know it would certainly get MY attention. I know the wheels of justice are slow, but perhaps a bit of grease has been applied to those wheel axles?
Thanks for the thorough late night update. Help me remember which justices accepted large monetary gifts and trips?
“At a Friday night hearing on the same question but in a different request before Chief Judge James Boasberg in the district court in D.C., DOJ’s Drew Ensign said that the Department of Homeland Security stated that they "are not aware of" any plans for flights on Saturday — but he also added that DHS wanted to "reserve the right" to have flights on Saturday.”
That’s Mr Ensign for the chop then. By properly “reserving the right” he gave the ACLU its ammunition to take the case further.
God I hope he is fired. He’s not an ethical lawyer
none of the DOJ seem to be.
All the ethical lawyers in the DOJ have either been fired or quit.
One could also say...all the _good_ lawyers in the DOJ have either been fired or quit.
“The late-night order…” Boy I’ll say!
And before the dissenting judge could finish writing his statement!
Thank you, Chris. This is schizophrenic insanity. And might I add - for the umpteenth time - Alito and Thomas belong nowhere near a court of law in a democratic country, much less on the Supreme Court. They have made a mockery of the law time and time again with their extreme, out-of-step rulings, their grift, and their allegiance to their preferred ideologies rather than the law.
Curious. I believe the United States did not “join” the World Court and I doubt El Salvador has, but does the World Court still have some standing? It would seem that kidnapped individuals were flown over international waters. It would at least stop trump and perhaps others, like the plane staff, from travelling outside the US. I would like to say that it would be embarrassing for them, but I think they are long past embarrassment.
Grrreat idea!! Did not think of that as I was going trough the 'Genevive human rights act' looking trough it and trying to find how he disgards them, the human rights act that is but your idea is as I said, grrreat. As are ALL ideas of overthrowing Felon #47🙏✌🏽🫶🫶🫶✌🏽🙏
Asha Rangappa said on Bsky that El Salvador joined the ICC in 2015 or 2016 but a post by a law firm online said El Salvador along with the US and some other countries never ratified their membership of the ICC so maybe someone knows whether Asha is right and El Salvador is subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC?
Did Venezuela join?
Thanks to the ACLU for protecting the rule of law!
We’re on a thin thread of a thin rope over a deep crevasse…. Let’s all do what we can to save our democracy
YES!! Pls Let's? We've got nothing to loose as of now!!
That was the America we knew before. The SCOTUS has changed how the US Constitution is interpreted which changes (destroys) the balance of power, our rights, and our ability to challenge those changes. Their reinterpretations, and the rulings that have come from them, have fundamentally changed the USA.
The SCOTUS has essentially accepted the Unitary Executive Theory (UET) giving the Executive branch way too much power with little to no checks remaining on its power. Following from the flundation of the UET was the SCOTUS ruling granting immunity from prosecution to the President, making them above the law. The President is immune from prosecution from all crime (realistically) and can pardon any who break the law with him in the unlikely event that anyone is even held responsible at all by the DOJ which the Executive now controls.
The lawlessness and glee the exude while being lawless that we're seeing now from Trump, his DOJ, and HIS other departments like ICE are a direct result of the of the sweeping changes the SCOTUS has made to our country by radically reinterpreting the US Constitution itself and the rulings that have resulted. There's a lot more results from those changes still to come. Sadly, we don't live in the same country anymore.
THAT is exactly a more in-depth analysis of how the outside world view USA of toady at this juncture in time. I, and my fellow swedish democrats have 'on-a-more-nonbias' way gone trough 'The Geneva human rights act' to see if #Felon 47 has broken any of those and what we found was shocking and enlightening. As there ar, at least 4 or even 5 of those that he broken thus making him the ideal to stand trial in The World Court as there where 4 ones he have BROKEN and it takes no stretch of anyone's imagination to see that. This is my very personal vendetta against this rotten 2-the-core landlord/reality TV participant. And we must discuss this with some advisors from and for the swedish 'House of Government' to see eventual steps to see if they can be filed and how we go about that. So...perhaps in the smallest country comes, perhaps one of the most important help with banging in the first or last proverbial nail, in hes coffin, the baffoon that is #47/Dump. Sincerely//Robert & C:o
A well reasoned and spot-on commentary. Thank you.
Finally, a strong and timely STOP from the Supreme Court. What will Trump do now? Truly uncharted territory.
Time to impeach the 2 SCROTUS "justices" who voted for NO DUE PROCESS for anyone in the US? At least get CT on tax evasion. Piles of evidence of that.
Thank you so much Chris. I kept waiting on BlueSky for Boasberg to come back at 720 and call Court into session. He wanted to speak with the Fifth Circuit, correct? Do we know what happened? Did he come back from recess? And then refuse the TRO? I gave up at about 9 o’clock,knowing that the ACLU was going straight to SCOTUS…so smart of them. I don’t believe a word of what Drew Ensign says.
SOOOoo they where in the midst of preparing a new "shipment of innocent people" for the contration camp/slaughter house treatment. Oh my, oh my...Has 'one flew over the cuckoos nest' began filming the reality tv version yet? Yupp, in faschist USA. Im sorry for saying that BUT Im a "just turned 50,20th febr" male democrat born and raised in Stockholm,Sweden. But studied journalism/lingustics at Stockholm University for 4 yrs and we are ALL appaled at this disregard for the written law, there is NO OTHER WAY to view this. And now its spreading to our LOVELY LITTLE COUNTRY cramped in between Norway & Finland, as Felon #47 tried to get at our exihibiton on view, about indigenous peoples fashion i.e Indians,aborigines, and yes I do know that pertains to Australia, but there are an american/indian fashion designer that actually would be stopped from traveling back to the U.S and if it hadnt been for our brave state-minister perhaps he wouldnt had been able to. Ulf Henriksson took from our state finances and contributed to their travelling back,logistics e.tc BECAUSE #47 withdrew the financial backing of our whole State Museum. AND by backing out on Harvard, we NOW have brilliant scientists here in Sweden speaking out, saying #47 are endangering millions of lives across the planet, cause now we dont have that brilliant exchange in vaccines,ideas and the whole platform we democratically protected is now -Poof- GONE!!! Excuse me while I'll fill up the GAS tank in my shower for the sake & principle of democracy. Im outie AND it was a joke in case some MAGA douche reads this and sound the alarm😂. //Robert Olin Lindholm
Bravo. But I worry. Are these folks on a bus to somewhere ELSE than the ND of Tx so that the Govt can argue that somehow habeas and the Supreme Court order no longer apply? Not a GOOD argument, but then none of their arguments in any of these cases have been even remotely sensible.
Thank you for keeping track of this. So valuable.
Excellent, detailed analysis of the mess yesterday. And a reminder that Alito and Thomas no longer even pretend to be upholding the law.
I'm also pissed at the two Trump judges in the DC circuit who stopped Boasberg's contempt proceedings, without justification.