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Resistance Bug's avatar

So if *America* isn't responsible for them, and *El Salvador* isn't responsible for them, then.... 😐

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Jaimie Hileman's avatar

And that's how you disappear people for life in a 21st century Chateau d'If oubliette from which there can be no escape!

Because these prisoners no longer have a legal status of ANY sort regarding custody nor nationality. They can never be freed because they will never again possess any clearly recognized status upon which a legal argument for release can ever be established.

This is by design.

Soon the Trump administration and successive GOPMAGA regimes will begin deporting enemies of the MAGA state under these murky regimens, including persons with birthright citizenship, US citizens with US parentage, political dissidents, and members of suspect classes, such as transgender Americans, LGBTQ persons, secular humanists, non-white Americans, and pro-democracy activists. Whatever happens to them will forever remain a mystery, like Katyn Forest or Amelia Earhart.

We have just witnessed the establishment of the "legalized" underpinnings for a process of Final Solution.

The murder machine genocide carousel speeds or slows, but never stops spinning.

"Never again"...yet again.

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Resistance Bug's avatar

That's a LOT of us. The better portion of America, I would argue. So... They're gonna have a lot of us to go through first.

I say civil war happens first.

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Jaimie Hileman's avatar

We are already in a Cold Civil War and the transition to a "Hot" one is likely only weeks away. Now that ICE is a national, secret, unaccountable, paramilitary force like the Gestapo and SS, assaults on blue state governance and security forces are inevitable and expected. California, New York, and Illinois are in imminent danger of invasion, and possibly Maine and Minnesota, too.

If you haven't seen the film "Civil War", I highly recommend it.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Again, excellent analysis in such troubling times—if it were I, spluttering abounding.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Thank you Chris for your

tireless work in keeping

us up to date with

factual information.

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Paula Dunn's avatar

❣️ Chris - your SubStacks are so appreciated. Thanks for insights & status of cases.

“In the filing, those challenging the administration asserted that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that that “jurisdiction and legal responsibility” for those sent there remains “exclusively” with the U.S. (Much more on that below.)”

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Larry's avatar

It strikes me that the DOJ plan to appeal everything is going to wind up with there being so many cases that it will exhaust the lawyers available to them and begin to look even more like the Keystone Cops.

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Jaimie Hileman's avatar

Overloading and collapsing the judicial system in order to procure blanket rulings from the GOPSCROTUS shadow docket is a key ingredient in the Project 2025 plan to decouple the holding of power in the US from any electoral process. The upshot will be a permanent single party rule with the head of state determined by an election of GOP/MAGA party chief by party delegates (see the historical General Party Secretary elections by the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Party Congresses for a real world example of this type of governance, or how the Chinese Communist Party delegates elect a party leader who is then also the de facto and de jure head of state).

This is by design and Project 2025 is proceeding at pace, possibly even ahead of schedule.

We are not going to see free and fair elections in the '26 midterms and possibly no elections at all if a martial law crisis is implemented.

I'm seeing a terrifying number of Trump 2028 and 2032 banners and flags.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Interesting development: The DoJ is willing to dance with SCOTUS to delay its Project 2025 dreams of ending birthright citizenship AND ridding the nation of unwanted brown skinned people … but will let Trump’s law firm litigation slide. I guess we all know who’s really boss—the Project 2025 Boyz.

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Matt Collins's avatar

What are the chances Kozak is actually charged with perjury now, and what would that even look like?

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Michelle R's avatar

Thank you for the detailed write-up Chris.

Regarding: “The Court … reminds the Government that any official who makes knowingly false statements in a sworn declaration subjects himself to perjury prosecution.“

I have become quite cynical and disillusioned. As much as I like to see wins in the legal challenges against Trump, and the admonishments about perjury, I must ask, can't Trump just pardon anyone who violates the Law, and hence, these legal threats be ignored? I am not sure how much reach Presidential Pardons have.

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Jaimie Hileman's avatar

In this second Trump administration, after the 2023 ruling of Trump vs. the United States, an executive order carries a greater legality than statute, case law precedent, or even the constitution, as presidential authority is supreme within the executive branch and the executive branch is now reified and no longer coequal to the other branches and subsequently, no longer subject to meaningful judicial review or other processes questioning constitutionality. It is legal if the president said it was

We now live in an authoritarian empire loosely resembling a formerly constitutional republic/representative democracy.

The GOPSCROTUS coup has established permanent MAGA single party rule.

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