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Teddy Partridge's avatar

One week ago, "we" were told by The Legal Commentariat that, no, we were not at that time in a constitutional crisis. When the Trump Administration defied a court order and the time for that order had passed, THEN America would be in a constitutional crisis.

So... now?! Sounds like.

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Theo VanWhy's avatar

Trump and his cronies really don't want Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be returned to the United States (if, in fact, he is even still alive) because his return and the publicity surrounding it will reveal the abject cruelty of Trump's actions and the jaw-dropping casualness of his disregard for the rule of law and for the basic rights of human beings.

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Lynn Horsky's avatar

Hope against hope for this young man and his family.

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SPW's avatar

We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since the Supreme Court helped create this monster during his many trials but the crowning glory was their immunity ruling. That was the official start of our Constitutional crisis.

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Brianna Seabury's avatar

With all this delaying, denying, and defending.... Garcia's dead, isn't he.

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Stanley Thompson's avatar

I pray for their sake he isn’t. There will be Hell to pay.

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Julie L Scott's avatar

Or hooked up to life support?

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Auntie_beans's avatar

Those guys just don’t know when to throw in the towel, do they? Time to start throwing them in the cooler, all the way up to their boss’s boss’s boss.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

I wonder about your opinion on the new State Department order for employees to report “anti-Christian” behavior? Seems to me like the Red Scare’s facade of locating Commies but actually acting against homosexuals and Jews.

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Andrea Tuthill 🇺🇸🏴🇮🇷🇨🇦's avatar

Are you fucking serious?? They do nothing BUT anti-Christian shit, day in and day out!! Do they not consider being pathological liars as anti-Christian??? Fucking hell!! Or handcuffing children, and withdrawing lifesaving aid around the world, and bombing the shit out of Gaza and being Russian traitors or going after people for TELLING THE FUCKING TRUTH AS ANTI-Christian??? What the actual fucking fuck do they mean by anti-Christian?? Did they flunk out of Sunday school??? I am so incredibly exhausted by their vile hypocrisy, their vile hate and racism. They will end up homeless and destitute, but by god they sure did own the libs!!! And, wasn’t that a glorious day, or half day, or couple of hours, however long it lasted…..

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David J. Sharp's avatar

White Evangelicals—they believe in White; Evangelical, not so much.

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Susan V's avatar

Wait what‽‽‽

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Stanley Thompson's avatar

So … no protection for whistleblowers, but let’s protect the Christian’s. I’m a Christian and I’m gobsmacked!

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David J. Sharp's avatar

But are you the “right” Christian? Care to guess how many Venezuelans are Christians?

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Susan V's avatar

JFC

Joe McCarthy, call your office

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Dana Shilling's avatar

However, after a brief reign of terror, McCarthy turned into Just Somebody That I Used to Know.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

And drank himself to an early death.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Better yet, call Roy Cohn …

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Mamabear's avatar

I just pray he is alive🙏🏻 A notorious “gulag” and I am concerned for all the men they sent there with absolutely no due process. 💔

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Connie Dyer's avatar

Or he has been murdered by gang members he fled El Salvador to escape from and they are putting off admitting it. *sigh*

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Edward Whitehead's avatar

He fled El Salvador to escape the very gang that constitutes most of the inmate in the prison where the Trump cabal sent him. He is in mortal danger.

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George Ward Byers's avatar

Or the Trump Admin has cozied up enough to Bukele Ortez that he will make sure that Abrego Garcia will be disappeared.

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Andrea Tuthill 🇺🇸🏴🇮🇷🇨🇦's avatar

Isn’t Bukele scheduled to visit the WH next week?

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Lance Khrome's avatar

Completely in character...play dumb AND obstructionist, more delays, fuck with court orders.

Man, sure am glad the Supremes put their foot down!

/sarc

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ASBermant's avatar

At what point will the courts finally take a stand (despite the Zealot SC Justices) and start holding these "'officers' of the court" in contempt??? It is so frustrating . . .😡

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Jan Z-R's avatar

I hope Judge Xinis has a plan with big teeth in it for when they all start making excuses at the hearing why they can’t do anything.

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JmcMA's avatar

Ok Justice Robert’s…Are you going to cower to Trump, again?

History says yes!

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Ann Higgins's avatar

It’s becoming clear to me that the DoJ will do almost anything (even to the extent of allowing one of its lawyers to be committed for contempt) to avoid having to disclose any details about how and where this man is being held let alone bring him home. They are desperate to avoid setting a precedent upon which subsequent claimants can rely.

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Mark Lambert's avatar

Just please, prove we still have actual justice in this nation and start locking members of his pathetic law breaking, nose thumbing administration up for laughing in the face of justice and judges in our nation.

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Suzanne Mullins's avatar

He is either dead or seriously ill. If he is ill, or on a hunger strike, they must hope to get him healthy before releasing him. If he is dead they must hope to avoid culpability. There are no other reasons to stonewall the Supreme Court. And if worldwide rumors started ovver the Princess of Wales’s health, why isn’t there an uproar over Abrego Garcia’s?

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