Oh, that was obviously different. So different, in fact, that it’s as different as black and white…

Not only that, but politicians are very concerned about their legacies, how they will be remembered. And politicians who hold on until the end do not get to manage an important part of their legacies: how they are replaced.

RBG is the prime example of this. If she had retired while Obama could have appointed her successor, she could have seen someone sane carry her seat forward in her last years. Instead, she died knowing that her replacement would probably seek to undo much of what she did.

If this congressman had not run again in 2024, he could have directly endorsed his successor and made sure his constituents were adequately represented throughout. Now Democrats are down a seat until the election to replace him, and his constituents will have to go through someone else if they need help out of Congress.

Tainted Cucumbers would be a great band name. What type of music do they play?

the potential violation might constitute criminal contempt

Pardon me?

(That’s what they will all say after the judge holds them in criminal contempt…)

But Legal is how the courts work, and at least right now the courts are the only institution that are putting a check on Trump (sometimes). Congress should be the ones making sure the Presidency is serving the needs of Justice, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon

These two are not being imprisoned (yet), they were never even accused of any crime other than not having authorization to be here (which is not always a crime in the first place), and they were originally from El Salvador.

So as shitty as the situation is, it is likely totally legal, and is a lot different than being deported and imprisoned on made up charges that you couldn’t defend.

Right, and their President has no issues with jailing his own people there on made-up charges, or jailing whoever Trump tells him to jail for a fee.

The fact that neither of those things has happened means that both men see limits to their power.

Hey, at least these men (who had no criminal records) were just deported and weren’t sent to CECOT or otherwise jailed. That’s some progress. I guess?

“Upon further investigation … ICE was unable to identify an officer or officers who asked O.C.G. if he feared a return to Mexico,” said Brian Ortega, assistant field office director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, in a sworn statement to the federal judge overseeing the lawsuit.

That should say “future former assistant field office director”, because he effectively quit his job when he made the decision not to perjure himself in defense of the Administration, even if he hasn’t been formally notified yet.

I call for an investigation into whatever Kid Rock does that he calls “music”.

Are immigrant farm workers, who have accounted for many of the U.S. cases, more afraid to come forward for testing amid the Trump administration’s deportation push?

Bingo. Why bother getting treated, if it puts you on ICEs radar and you just end up dying in CECOT?

No, they’ll continue to blame that on that vicious San Andreas gang. Pretty soon they will asserted that the gang is causing havoc all over California, literally ripping their cities in half…

It’s just like Harry Truman said, “The buck stops… over there… with that other guy.”

This is the way

It must be humiliating to be told “go fuck yourself” in 150 different languages

“Why should we listen to them if they’re so moody?”

Jesus Christ

Was a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew. If He were among us today, Trump would deport Him.

As far as these survivors are concerned, they are going about it all the wrong way. Instead of paying lawyers, they should start (very publically) saying they start a GoFundMe, and if the Administration rules in their favor, they will donate all the funds to the Trump Presidential Library for a hangar for the Qatari Air Force One, but only if they get a favorable ruling. Who’s gonna stop them?

Although it is unsigned, the two usual suspects wrote a dissent. I guess we should be lucky that all of Trump’s appointees are not as consistently wrong-headed as Thomas and Alito.

Maybe once God forces one of them off the court, their replacement won’t be quite as bad …

… Who am I kidding, we’re gonna get Emil Bove or Alina Habba or some other young moron who will make even dumber rulings for the next 40 years.

But, unfortunately, these overgrown children have endless wealth.

Not only that, but in the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that money in political campaigns is a form of speech, and can’t be regulated like it used to.

So while we have freedom of speech here, those overgrown children have much more speech than the average person.

You are overlooking the most valuable thing that Newsom has, that makes him even more qualified to earn enough votes to win: a penis.

Unfortunately, if you don’t have one, you can’t get elected right now.