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  1. And the acting commissioner (for 2 days) was that douchebag Gary Shapley that tried to be a "whistleblower" on Hunter Biden. Apparently Bessent was not amused.
  2. I think that person was finally released.
  3. Not to mention all the bullshit defamation cases he filed. And that legal abortion he filed against Hildawg and everyone in sight, and the DTPA in Amarillo against CBS, that has now turned into a Lanham Act 43(a) case for fuck's sake.
  4. Possibly more importantly, an adult driving around with 8 unrelated kids is less susceptible to innocent explanation than an adult Hispanic male driving around with 8 adult Hispanic males, which is pretty consistent with things other than human trafficking. Sure, adult humans can be trafficked for all sorts of nefarious purposes (see Wire, Season 2), but it usually involves restraint or other coercion, like weapons. That's some highly shiesty evidence of human trafficking.
  5. Unfortunately, in this accurate statement, "white" and "colored" are interchangeable with variations of brown, black and yellow, and probably some other immutable characteristics, and ethnic labels. “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
  6. Some addendum to this. Hendrix' order denying the TRO in Texas. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69898198/27/aarp-v-trump/ "But the government’s response confirms that it has no present plans to remove either petitioner until the habeas petition is resolved and that it will notify the Court if that changes. Dkt. No. 19 at 12–13. The government once again confirmed its continued belief that “the requirement for judicial review includes a process for affording notice and opportunity to be heard prior to being removed under AEA authority” and that once “that opportunity to be heard has been satisfied, removal may proceed unless a court orders otherwise.” Id. at 13. The government further provided a declaration from Yousef Khan, Assistant Field Office Director for the United States Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who stated that “ICE does not intend to remove A.A.R.P. or W.M.M. under the AEA while their habeas petitions are pending.”" That seems to be some pretty affirmative shit from the government. Almost acting lawful. HOWEVER, what it says is that the two named plaintiffs will not be deported, but the petition represents a class of persons, namely those held in ND Tex pending deportation. Gubmint doesn't say a thing about them. Also, it says "under AEA," which leaves some wiggle room for removal/deportation under some other bullshit. Of course, one response to this by the court would be to actually enjoin them from doing what they say they won't do, along with the other putative class members. Bit hard to argue with that or appeal.
  7. The Texas district judge in question is James Wesley Hendrix, a Trump appointee that broadly lacks the "hack cred" that most of the minions have. Still appalling. Also, Chad Meacham is the acting USA ND Tex. He's been an AUSA for a long time, like 20 years, and by most accounts a pretty solid guy if a bit of a tough on crime true believer. Will be interesting to see how robustly his office represents the Administration. Oh, also he was acting during most of the Biden Administration, as well.
  8. Well, MCA is specifically a Tim Dunn production.
  9. Tim Dunn is not a preacher. Not even a self-anointed one. Which is not to say that they don't exist.
  10. President Donald Trump said that the U.S. could move on from its involvement in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine if “one of the two parties makes it very difficult.” https://www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/live-blog/rcna200877?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From %1%24s&aoh=17449971437114&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Ftrump-administration%2Flive-blog%2Ftrump-rubio-ukraine-live-updates-rcna200877 Twenty four hours. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109758248712795394
  11. Kind of interesting that he's pretending he's not driving this. He's going to have more executive protection from court processes, either traditionally or under the Sondergericht, than cabinet-level and lower officials. Xinis' strategy may work out pretty well for getting to the heart of this: depose lower-level functionaries that gave affidavits, find out who directed them, and work their way up. The natural tendency of the functionaries is to blame it on superiors, "just following orders." But if one of them admits responsibility at a level lower than POTUS, the court may be able to successfully order return.
  12. They have definitely all but defied the court in court. In court, they're still trying to be cagey about it.
  13. Ackshually, the username does kind of check out, then/than.
  14. And, it should be noted, it is probably possible for a real administration to bring a lot of Trumpers to justice under the rule of law without resorting to Trump tactics. Even should we "normalize," I don't harbor a lot of hope for Congress getting its shit together sufficiently to close a lot of the loopholes that Trump found and exploited.
  15. Two reasons: fear of alienating the base and fear of retribution.
  16. I think you're conflating the JGG case before Boasberg with this one. SCOTUS in JGG admitted that all of these deportees were entitled to due process, but also said habeas was the exclusive remedy. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf This is a habeas case where it is alleged that he received no formal notice and his wife found he was deported to CECOT by recognizing his photo and tattoos. And not only did he not receive notice, he was barred from removal by an immigration court. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/abrego-garcia-v-noem/#entry-57 There are multiple bases for relief in Abrego Garcia. SCOTUS specifically found that his admitted erroneous deportation was sufficient grounds to sustain the district court's order that the government "facilitate and effectuate" his return.
  17. Sweet Jesus. https://x.com/jakelangj6 ETA: it appears that this is not an "organically" Frisco event, but something put together by a Florida rabble rouser.
  18. An adult, obviously. @realgreggym
  19. I'm guessing that's a championship hat shipped to El Salvador after they lost?
  20. Well a big part of that is what tools are available to the lawyer to call bullshit on the government when they do things like rely on some shithead informant. Unlike a criminal case, there isn't a Brady or Giglio burden on the government to produce exculpatory evidence or reveal things destroying the credibility of their informants and witnesses. Nor, do I think, is there much in the way of civil discovery for the defendant's lawyer to test the government's evidence. At some point, Abrego Garcia is probably going to receive due process in a US District court, apparently USDJ Paula Xinis', that is righteously pissed at the government and is also receiving the benefit of a bunch of investigative journalists doing discovery for him for free. But those future deportees are going to receive pretty half-ass civil due process a lot like those pretty shitty Immigration Court opinions I linked above. And the Supreme Court is probably going to be fine with that. And probably any Supreme Court for the last 50-75 years would be ok with it too, not just Chief Johnny and the Sondericht. A lot of what fuggled said. Habeas Corpus may provide a further backstop on half-ass rulings by half-ass immigration judges in a half-ass forum. But if you know anything about the usual habeas petition by a criminal defendant (complicated by the fact that a whole ton of them are bullshit), that's not going to give you much comfort that justice will be done.
  21. Well, that's kind of good to hear. It's kind of amusing to me to hear of younger folks than I talking about white flight, not that it's not still a thing. My parents moved to a great white ISD before segregation was a thing, before the Civil Rights Act, before busing, because my Dad's sister worked as a teacher at the high school during and after the war and told him it was the best school in Dallas. And Dad attended SMU on the GI Bill, and lived at a relative's house near campus. I lived through busing riots in Boston and some lower-profile controversy in Dallas myself. And I think that's what really commenced white flight and a lot of that was of the more purely racially motivated type, rather than the "best schools with homes I can afford type.". One phenomenon that's bizarre to me is how Dallas and Houston, and I guess most (Southern?) cities, seem to abandon suburbs after about a generation or so, moving further out from the city center and leaving a formerly nice suburb to the poors, occasionally to regentrify. None of them seem to become Tarrytowns or Windsor, NW Hills or Preston Hollow, or even Lakewood.
  22. One thing that this does demonstrate is that a US Senator, who, according to Trump has no power in foreign relations in general, or to this specific aspect of foreign relations, can obtain a meeting with both Bukele and Abrego Garcia. That, then, puts the lie to the "I'm the executive, I have exclusive authority here, and I can't do shit, and you, the courts, can't make me do shit." Stage managed or not, Bukele was either granted permission by Trump to do this, or flouted instructions not to do it. Either way, it's interdasting.
  23. That's objectively not true. People were grousing about those tariffs immediately, and about the farm subsidies they provoked later. Granted, it was on a smaller scale than today, but so were the tariffs. The more striking part is that Biden kept some of them in place, when his trade strategy is a lot more rational. And, I find it interesting that none of these post-hoc justifications for Trump's actions come from Trump himself, or even the administration. They're all invented by some outsider to try to justify the madness.
  24. Yeah, ultimately this whole mess is a coalition of kind of previously disenfranchised outliers whose interests are probably only temporarily aligned. There have already been some examples of circular firing squads that may get worse.
  25. And it is going to be so costly. Part of me wants "the left" to go on a similar wEApoNiZation campaign before returning to normalcy, if it ever regains power.
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