Apparently, we now have secret police...

[Aeson]

The Supreme court handed it to him. He can't get him back. Oh well.

They need to rule Trump has to bring them all back, the 5th and 14th guarantee due process for everyone, that foreign prisons violate the 8th, and do it in a signed decision. Then hold him and Bondi and everyone else involved in contempt if he doesn't. Otherwise the Supreme Court is useless.

[-Jrabbit]

Another ominous sign. Remember how it has always been mandatory for every politician to wear an American flag lapel pin?
Well, if you pay attention, you will notice that seems to be changing...

[Agathon]

I don't think Trump is stupid enough to ignore and piss off the SC. He's going to need them for a lot of battles, so he will probably play nice on this one.

Well, he did.

Are you no longer a Republican, Ming?

[Ming]

Now a moderate Indy... I'll get back to you when Maga is dead and buried

[BeBMan]

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/boasberg-contempt-deportation-flights/index.html

Let's see where this goes

[Broken_Erika]

Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13.
“His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/post/3lmx7fzkxvk2j

[Ming]

Trump will "try" to use the law when it suits him, and just ignores it when it doesn't.
We can expect nothing else from the convicted felon.

[Dauphin]

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/boasberg-probable-cause-contempt-venezuelan-deporations-opinion.pdf

In short. Trump admin in contempt. Either contest or admit, and tell the Court who is to be sacrificed, I mean prosecuted.

[BeBMan]

This witchhunt was surely planned in detail on Hunter Biden's laptop.

[Aeson]

Anti-terrorism czar Sebastian Borka says anyone who advocates for due process as per the 5th and 14th may be considered aiding and abetting terrorists.

I wonder if we can advocate for due process for those aiding and abetting terrorists? What about for free speech?

[Dauphin]

I'm sure that's a reasoned legal opinion.

After all, he does have * checks notes * a barely passing mark in his philosophy and theology degree from Heythrop College, a * checks notes* non-prestigious and now defunct institution that was regularly ranked in the bottom 10% of British Universities.

[Dauphin]

In another twist.....US citizen told they must leave the U.S.

'True recklessness': Boston-born attorney stunned as Trump admin. orders her to leave US

[Broken_Erika]

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia


Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”

A U.S.-born American citizen was being detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his U.S. birth certificate in court and a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an “illegal alien” who illegally entered Florida.

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, 20, was arrested Thursday evening by Florida Highway Patrol and charged under a state immigration law that has been temporarily blocked since early this month. Details of Gomez-Lopez’s arrest and detention were first reported by the Florida Phoenix news site.

After inspecting his birth certificate, Leon County Judge LaShawn Riggans said during the hearing that “this is indeed an authentic document,” but that she did not have jurisdiction beyond finding no probable cause for the charge.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s role is to enforce immigration laws that generally apply to noncitizens. American citizens are protected under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution from unreasonable search and seizure, arrest and detention.

Nonetheless, he remains detained locally at ICE’s request, said Thomas Kennedy, a spokesperson at the Florida Immigrant Coalition who attended Thursday’s hearing.

“Everything tracks for him being sent to an ICE detention center,” he told NBC News in a phone interview.

NBC News has reached out to state and federal authorities for comment.

Lopez-Gomez was in a vehicle with other passengers and was traveling to work from Georgia when they were stopped after entering Florida.

A sweeping immigration law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2023 makes it a state crime for an undocumented immigrant over age 18 to enter the state illegally.

Lopez-Gomez was born in Georgia but lived much of his life in Mexico. His first language is Tzotzil, a Mayan language, the Florida Phoenix reported.

His mother burst into tears when she saw her son virtually at his hearing, the news site reported.

“I felt immense helplessness because I couldn’t do anything, and I am desperate to get my son out of there,” she told the Florida Phoenix.

Kennedy compared the situation to Franz Kafka’s novel “The Trial” in which man must defend himself against a charge but has no information about it.

“It’s like this bureaucratic, dystopian nightmare of poorly written laws,” Kennedy said. “We are living in a time when this man could get sent to El Salvador because, what, is he going to be treated like a stateless person?”

Kennedy was referring to the hundreds of immigrants who have been sent by the Trump administration to an El Salvador megaprison after they were accused of being gang members under the wartime Alien Enemies Act. Families, attorneys and some U.S. legislators have not been able to have any contact with them.

On Thursday night, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., confirmed he had a meeting in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego García, a man who had been living in Maryland for several years and who the Trump administration said it mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March. Van Hollen traveled there after Abrego García had not been transported back to the U.S., despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering the Trump administration to “facilitate” his return.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

[Aeson]

First they came for the illegals
Then for those on immigration parole
Then those with work visas
Then the students with visas
Now they start pushing on birthright citizenship
Talking about imprisoning citizens who speak out in defense of the Constitution.

Trampling on the 1st, 5th, 8th, 14th.

Anyone not clear yet where this is heading?

[Uncle Sparky]

Trump will show you in his third term.

[BeBMan]

Well if following the law is now merely optional they should free the Mangione guy and make him Sec. of Health.