'This Is American Gestapo': Grave Warnings as Trump Gleefully Defies Courts on Deportations | Common Dreams
'This Is American Gestapo': Grave Warnings as Trump Gleefully Defies Courts on Deportations | Common Dreams
"Not a single president in the history of the United States has ever asserted the authority to unilaterally deport someone outside of the procedures set by Congress until now."
Top Trump administration officials—including the president, vice president, attorney general, and secretary of state—openly celebrated the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants over the weekend in defiance of a federal judge's order to halt the removals, which were carried out under a 1798 law that plainly states it is only operative in the context of a declared war.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance wrote late Sunday that "there were violent criminals and rapists in our country" and "President [Donald] Trump deported them." There was no due process for the more than 200 Venezuelans whom the Trump administration claims are gang members.
Vance's social media post, which came in response to reporting about the White House's acknowledgment that it ignored the court order blocking the deportations, was met with disgust and alarm.
"You are beyond vile," political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote. "You have no idea if the ones that were picked up and sent illegally to an El Salvador prison are all violent criminals. You abused the plain language of the law, gave them no due process, and defied a legitimate court order. This is American Gestapo."
So is Trump about to Find Out™ what happens when you ignore a court order, or is the rest of America gonna see him face absolutely no consequences for this?
No consequence.... sadly thisbis what the majority of americans want (or don't care enough to stop)
Depends on what the Marshalls end up doing. They are supposed to enforce for the judiciary, but they are under the executive branch. I wouldn't be surprised if the ranks were full of brain dead Trump supporters and we are cooked.
Trump may be immune from everything, but he's not the one personally doing the deportations.
Just start arresting the people implementing the policies.
Send Big Ballz to jail and see how fast the rest of DOGE quits and goes home.
He’s been disobeying court orders his whole life, why would he change that now that the highest court appointed him as king?
what happens when you ignore a court order? remember, he's absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for official acts. he can pardon anyone he wants to. he controls the military. his cult of personality dominates the Republican party. Alito, Kavanaugh, and Thomas show absolute loyalty to him, and even decisions that should be slam dunks are 5-4 now. he's cleaned house in DoD and IC, and replaced the generals with sycophants. he has increasing control of social media, and an extensive network of allies.
I think he could successfully lead an outright coup at this point. but what's the rush? safer for him to follow the plan.
He can't pardon state crimes. Every ICE member can be arrested by the states and Trump would have to demand the Military to raid a U.S. state, which they swore an oath to never do. Just don't think there is a state up for the challenge at the moment
How many felonies did he get away with before the election?
Why would he give a fuck about courts?
Trump better be CAREFUL! Otherwise the Judges MIGHT send him an ANGRY letter that someone will have to Read to him!
Evidently the Federal Judge didn't put the "turn the planes around immediately" language in the written ruling. He said it verbally. Of course Trump ignored the verbal part. Future rulings will likely be more careful.
Next time:
"Turn the plane around"
"Okay..." depressurizes the plane
"...but you didn't say to bring them back alive..."
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the removals, which were carried out under a 1798 law that plainly states it is only operative in the context of a declared war.
Didn't read the whole article to see if it touched on this, but I have to wonder if Trump declaring drug cartels as terrorists plays into this. Obviously, most if not all are probably not part of the cartel, but it doesn't seem to take much for this admin to loosely tie people to their out groups and the other branches not to push back.