The justices said no action should be taken to pursue the deportations of any alleged Venezuelan gang members in Texas under the rarely used wartime law.
Trump: “I’m gonna do it anyway.”
Supremes: “Okay daddy”
This is literally the opposite of what they just ruled. They supported the injunction 7-2. The district court would be charging them with contempt, not SCOTUS.
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He admitted in 2019 to having been in a gang as a 16-year-old that would result in persecution if he were returned to El Salvador, hence the judge’s ruling on blocked deportation. He testified that he came here to leave that life behind.
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The courts at the time said he was formerly in a gang
I don’t think even that’s right, I think ICE claimed he was a member of MS-13 (based off of one bullshit statement from a cop whose not allowed to testify anymore for the state prosecutors because he got caught lying about so much other stuff (arc)), but I don’t think the immigration court ever really addressed that and just left it at “If you wanted asylum you should have asked within one year after getting into the country but you’ve been here 7 years, and that’s reason enough to rule against you”
Besides that, Garcia never said he was a member of a gang. He said his family was threatened by a completely different gang and that they were going to hurt him if he didn’t join them, but he left instead of joining them (arc).
Like, his only real connection to a gang is being a victim of it, but the Laken Riley Act supporting assholes of our world will never give a shit about brown people being victimized by criminal gangs because they’re racist hypocritical douchebags (and maybe they understand on some level they’ve got the same kind of symbiotic relationship with MS-13 that George W had with Al Quaeda and Netanyahu has with Hamas).
I agree. You asked why they wrote adjudicated gang member. Technically, he would be an adjudicated former gang member.
They got SCOTUS working at 1am on a Saturday. This is reassuring news.
No they weren’t. These emergency decisions are unsigned, so normally we don’t really know who advocated for what, all we know is that a majority of the Court was in favor. Since the press is now reporting that Alito and Thomas dissented, though, they must have made some separate statement to that effect later.
But we don’t really know whether there are 7 justices in favor, we just know there are at least 5.
Two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, disagreed with the decision, the order noted.
Were they though??
I read it at 5am. My mistake. Edited for accuracy. Thanks for the correction.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
None of these people would do anything unless they had run it by their advisors.
It’s going to be an interesting time coming up.
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The Justices are siding with the Constitution of the United States, and upholding a previous ruling by a federal court.
Aren’t you supposed to be the party of law and order? Kinda turning into more of a lynch mob these days, wouldn’t you say?
