Posted on 04/20/2025 3:55:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It seems clear to me that the broad scope and speed of the administration’s actions have knocked the sense out of the media, the Democrats and, alas, the judiciary. They cannot seem to process the swift and expansive range of change without making themselves look ridiculous.
The Press
I could describe many examples but the easiest most complete one is that of the gang banger, wife beating, human trafficking suspect Salvadorean citizen who illegally crossed out borders and resided here. You know who I mean -- the thug the press describes as a “Maryland Man.”
So the nation is transfixed -- or at least Democrats and the news media -- by the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the “Maryland Man” who has suddenly topped “Minnesota Man” as the object of media obfuscation. He is the Salvadoran national the Trump Administration deported to El Salvador along with a bunch of Venezuelan gang members who curiously the left isn’t even trying to defend, even as the Biden Administration didn’t lift a finger against any of this gang. It’s almost as though the left and the media are using Garcia to distract from the fact that Trump did something that a large majority of American approve. Admitting gang members at the border? Who, us????
There are a lot of tangled arguments about Garcia’s legal status, and the Trump Administration’s handling of his deportation. Yet I recall a 1953 Supreme Court case, Shaughnessy v. US ex rel. Mezui (345 U.S. 206), which Walter Berns described in his fabulous first book, Freedom, Virtue, and the First Amendment:
‘An alien resident of the United States for twenty-five years journeyed to Hungary to see his dying mother, leaving his wife in their home in Buffalo. After considerable difficulty he obtained a visa from the American Consul in Hungary
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The left turns everything they touch into idiocracy.
It’s past time for Donald Trump to start ignoring the judiciary. After all, that’s what the rat party does all the time.
I only have a rumor on Reddit right now—but they are claiming the administration has put a large number of leftist immigration judges on administrative leave in the past few days.
Stay tuned—if I get any confirmation I will share.
I’m not in favor of bypassing the federal courts.
If a federal judge ignores an evidenced claim that an illegal is dangerous, then I think the federal judge should be liable in some manner for damage for a defective decision.
If the alien doesn’t want the judge to worry, the alien might buy insurance to protect the judge or post a bond.
The liability and the bond might be $10,000 each.
Congress should change the law on alien criminals. We don’t need to have alien criminals, we have too many all-American ones already. Commit an obviously criminal act and away you go, no state level conviction required.
Perhaps the (lead) plaintiff should be able to block 10 percent of the judges in a district from handling their case and the (lead) defendant should be able to block 30 percent of the judges in a district from handling their case, just like lawyers get to unquestionably block jurors in legal cases.
Junk cases should never be seen by the eyes of a judge:
Perhaps a case against the executive department with possible impact of more than one person should require the backing of a Congressional leader of the same political party as the President.
Perhaps private plaintiff environmental cases involving a federal governmental project or a state governmental project budgeted at more than $50 million should require the backing of a Congressional leader or cabinet member if the project was specifically funded by a law.
A mother can’t personally sue a hospital if it refuses your child EMTALA care and it dies.
From 1903:
THE JAPANESE IMMIGRANT CASE.
An administrative officer, when executing the provisions of a statute involving the liberty of persons, may not disregard the fundamental principles of due process of law as understood at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. Nor is it competent for any executive officer, at any time within the year limited by the statute, to arbitrarily cause an alien who has entered the country, and has become subject in all respects to its jurisdiction, and a part of its population, although illegally here, to be arrested and deported without giving such alien an opportunity, appropriate to the case, to be heard upon the questions involving his right to be and remain in the United States.
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep189/usrep189086/usrep189086.pdf
Musk needs to find out who is controlling the Supreme Court.
BTTT
“It’s past time for Donald Trump to start ignoring the judiciary.”
LONG past time. What’s a court going to do — go all stompy foot? They have no Law Enforcement authority. “Contempt of court”? BFD.
That decision made sense for one illegal alien.
It is using the Constitution as a suicide pact when there is an invasion of millions of illegal aliens.
District and appellate court judges could be barred by name by federal statute from hearing cases where the federal government or a historically/currently federally funded person or entity is a party.
The Congress has Article I, Section 8 power to make rules for the government.
The judiciary did nothing.
Now they want every one of these illegals to get an individual set of hearings.
Absolutely not.
The solicitor general has already replied to SCOTUS' midnight order, pointing out that since SCOTUS is not a court of first resort and no case has yet been heard by a lower court for the petitioners, SCOTUS is acting unlawfully by agreeing to consider the cases:
If they are trying to move outside their area of responsibility and authority, yes.
George Soros has bought and paid for the remnant of anything LIKE an objective and non-biased judiciary we ever had
The Mexican government encouraged invasion of the USA.
IMO the Alien Enemies Act would allow Trump to toss out all Mexican invaders without hearings if Trump gets his way.
The courts aren’t going to let him do that.
“A country in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country, but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values our democratic system was intended to preserve.” Yet that’s the direction District of Columbia Court Judge James Boasberg seems to be headed, and unless the Supreme Court acts to stop this nonsensical reading of the Constitution, making of it a suicide pact destroying nationhood, we will be heading into a constitutional crisis forcing the president to do his duty to protect our borders or comply voluntarily with an overreaching judiciary. (Voluntarily, because the courts lack any enforcement mechanism.)
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