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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Mee@reddthat.com to c/politics@lemmy.world

Last week, the Supreme Court issued an unsigned opinion requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Maryland man whom immigration officials deported to a Salvadoran megaprison 32 days ago. But the justices pointedly stopped short of requiring the administration to “effectuate” Abrego Garcia’s return, in light of the “deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” They did so despite the fact that lawyers for the government have conceded that it had no legal basis to deport Abrego Garcia; in court, they have characterized his disappearance as an “administrative error,” as if shipping a man who has not been accused of a crime to an overseas gulag is the equivalent of neglecting to attach an itemized receipt to an expense report.

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[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago

Your highest courts have been stacked in favor of your dictator for some time. Revolt. Loudly and aggressively.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 months ago

they got the tv, we got the truth
they own the judges, we got the proof
we got hella people, they got helacopters
they got hella bombs, we got the we got the…

[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm beginning to hate the guillotine references while watching little actually get done. Y'all got a long way to go to get to your guillotine moment.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

They learned. They put their Bastille in another country.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io -3 points 2 months ago

What was it you said you'd accomplished in your lifetime? Oh right, you vote while your government fucks over the First Nations. What heroism.

[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yea you know me now and what I do cause you creeped some comments on an alt account that you didn't even care to read because it's not in line with your fucked up narrative. Fuck off. Just another cultist of a different variety and part of the reason you find yourself ruled by a dictator.

[-] TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 63 points 2 months ago

I think it's naive to think that "writing different words" would have any impact.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago

The only words to write are "Mr. President we find you in contempt of court."

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just keep on holding presidents in contempt until you get someone rational. I think the first stop for that is Rubio.

[-] thedruid@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

the legislature cant charge the president with anything while in the official act of his duties. congress has to, and they wont

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

The Supreme Couet was the one who decided that and if Roe V Wade showed us anything they can undecide that.

[-] thedruid@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

But this court already ruled that. You're letting emotion overcome fact

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Legislature = congress.

Also I believe the judiciary CAN still hold him in contempt.

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

This is not the first time that the Executive branch has ignored Supreme Court orders. See Worcester v. Georgia and the dispute between Chief Justice Roger Taney and General Cadwalader.

The problem is that the Executive branch is (theoretically) supposed to uphold the decisions of the Judicial branch, but irl, enforcement of those decisions is easier said than done when the Executive branch disagrees.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It wouldn't have changed their actions, but it would have rid them of any plausible deniability that they had committed contempt of the Supreme Court in doing so. It would have made the constitutional crisis that we ARE in undeniable, and even the idiots at Fox News couldn't pretend that the administration followed the order by "allowing" his return if El Salvador just so happened to send him back. As it is now, you will have many MAGA believing that the administration is in compliance with the court's orders and did nothing wrong. They would have at least had to face the truth if there was no wiggle room, and maybe some would actually acknowledge that the administration is in the wrong about this one thing at least.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

And regardless, doing nothing doesn't even meet the low standard of 'facilitating'.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

No but doing it officially makes it clear where things sit right now.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

The impact would have been to highlight how feckless the checks and balances are.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 months ago

Can hitmen now claim administrative error and say they didn't realize they wanted a photoshoot?

[-] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

I for one cannot wait for Trump to die. It can’t come soon enough.

[-] Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

It'll only pause shit for a week if he does. This isn't his playbook.

[-] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago

Be careful what you wish for. No matter how he goes, they'll blame his death on "the left" and martyr him. It could actually make things much worse.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Disagree. I would rather have a dead martyr, than a live Traitor. At least the dead martyr can't directly cause any damage.

Besides, MAGA is a cult of personality. They will never give their full loyalty to anyone else. Once HitlerPig assumes room temperature, it is the beginning of the end for MAGA. Their peak influence will be behind them, and they will lose at least 50% of their power instantly, and then steadily slide into obscurity.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

The only way the Supreme Court can save themselves is by ordering the arrest of the President

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Samwise Gamgee: " IM PEACH MENT"

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