When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the US president’s mass deportation effort.
Instead, a top justice department official insisted the ruling wasn’t binding, and the administration continued denying detainees around the country a chance for release.
By February, the district court judge in question, Sunshine Sykes, was fed up. Sykes accused the Trump administration of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in its efforts to deport millions of people. She also said she regarded it as seeking “to erode any semblance of separation of powers”, adding that it could “only do so in a world where the constitution does not exist”.
Hardly isolated, the case illustrates a broader pattern by the US government’s executive branch, in Donald Trump’s second term, of defiance of decisions by the lower courts that are part of the judicial branch, with the tone set early by Trump and JD Vance, his vice-president. The US constitution’s creation of the three branches of government, with the legislative branch being the third, was intended to ensure checks and balances so that no branch had too much power.
Well, folks, we nearly made it to 250.
Well well well, if it isn’t a rational reaction to lack of consequences.
Yeah the guy who’s faced no real consequences for breaking the law for over 60 years continues to find people to break the law in his and the United States name. As bad as it sounds least first term there were a couple responsible people around.
I’ve been hearing news about this kind of thing for ages now. I’m not interested in hearing that the Trump administration is continuing its established record of not listening to federal courts.
What I am interested in hearing is what, exactly, the judicial branch is planning to do about it. Judges are “frustrated,” the article says; great, what then? Because as much as I’d love to be wrong, the answer thus far appears to be playing softball. I don’t think the degradation of the rule of law and the rise of authoritarianism is the appropriate time for such a strategy.
So… we have a lawless president?
And that’s the definition of…?
A hat, a broach, a pterodactyl … it’s obvious what that means, but Airplane! references are far funnier. And before you ask, movie references are callbacks, but that’s not important right now.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
(Also, did I just run into you on Ars?)
Yea, and dont call me surely
Until they fear for their lives, nothing will change. Prove me wrong.
At my weekly protest had a maga guy stop his little sports car and say hey you. I obliged and squated down with my sign. He says. You don’t like trump. I say. I don’t like violation of the constitution (pointing to the part of my sign about that). He responds. Fuck you while driving off.
I find it fascinating how some percentage of the global population mentally operates differently than everyone else; to the point of reverting to blind worker ant mentality. They’ll follow their leader to their deaths if you let em.
The natural way for a post-Weimar democracy.
We all know the solution
