Posted on 04/19/2025 9:59:09 AM PDT by Jubal Harshaw
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked the removal of Venezuelan detainees accused under a wartime law of being foreign gang members early Saturday morning, after the ACLU argued the men were at risk of imminent removal to an El Salvadoran prison ....
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
They might get more rational if President Trump threatens to pack the court like the dems do.
“That first term sure had some awful choices.”
He had almost no choice. Mitch McConnell refused to go into recess the entire Trump Presidency. So he HAD to choose someone Mitch approved of. Zero choice. He recessed for Obama, but not for the president from his own party.
Yes.
If they are criminals, they may prefer Venezuela over prison.
I have thought along the same lines. I don’t know where Trump could get a qualified true Conservative for the SC at this point if an opening occurs.
I thought the Alien Enemies Act was non-reviewable. Judicially that is. The SC shoulda tossed it on those grounds with a ruling of reprimand to lower courts.
I could be wrong about it. But I know I’ve read that several times when that Bassturdberg was making his stupid rulings.
Read Levin's "Men in Black" and you will understand the problem, Lawyers just tend to skew left.
That’s what I’m wondering, can we send then to the Congo or wherever?
I’m hoping we can hold them in prison until they are kicked out.
What are the legal issues involved here?
I could not get past the pay wall.
Four Republican appointed justices voted against the administration. What was the legal reasoning?
Only Thomas and Alito dissented. We are so screwed.
“ If Trump said he would NEVER get rid of the illegals, they would MAKE HIM SEND THEM ALL HOME!”
Exactly right! Great thinking.
Biden ran roughshod over scores of immigration laws and nobody said a peep about it.
Trump follows his oath of office, enforces laws and we get nationwide protests and SCOTUS pushback.
The very deep behind of scenes of this goes all the way back to the US war against the Barbary pirates (1801-1815). The wooden ship US Navy had been sent to Africa, where it had divvied up the waters there with the (still mildly hostile) British Navy into different jurisdictions.
However, arrogant US federal judges insisted that any US ship capturing such pirates had to stop what it was doing, and bring them to the US to stand trial, wasting many months in transit.
But the US Navy was smarter than that. The British Navy was permitted to hold pirate trials aboard ship, and when convicted, to hang the pirates on their own pirate ship which was being slowly scuttled. So US ships’ captains would check their navigational charts and discover that the pirates *just happened* to be captured in British jurisdiction. So in a spirit of cooperation, they “had” to turn over the pirates to the British.
I would measure to guess that the US federal judges were not happy to learn of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_corsairs
The 19th amendment was the beginning of the end.
THAT is how the legal system as such falls afoul of its habitual legal approach to jurisdiction. This was predicted by many of the Founders, to which sufficient numbers took objection as to propose the original 13th Article of the Bill of Rights: Titles of Nobility and Honor (TONAH), the Constitutional ratification of which was then ignored.
Declare Marshal F’ing Law. Then Gitmo them. The Supreme Court. And every single Dem judge across the country.
So with the stroke of pen, Biden can allow 5 million illegal immigrants into the country as a class, allow them to stay, and illegally receive benefits.
but when Trump wants to remove them, they must be treated individually, which of course, the system was never designed for
This is how leftist hypocrisy and lawfare work.
You can’t deport criminals because they might go to jail.
“I thought the Alien Enemies Act was non-reviewable”
Roberts is now makkng the power play of his life.
He KNOWS that. But he is seizing the power anyway.
Trump should simply invoke his own authority, pile another 2000 terrorist trash onto C-17s and dump them into CECOT.
Then declare War on Venezuela and let Pope Roberts try to nullify him on that.
Guantanamo.
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