Donald Trump Is Defying The Supreme Court

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The Constitutional Crisis Is Here!​


Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way: pretending it is complying while refusing to do so.

During an on-camera Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, whom the Trump administration has paid to imprison immigrants deported from the United States it claims without evidence are gang members, President Donald Trump deferred to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who said the decision was Bukele’s.

“That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That’s not up to us,” Bondi told reporters. “That’s not up to us. If they want to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.” Bukele, for his part, called Abrego Garcia a “terrorist,” saying to a reporter who asked if he would return him, “I hope you’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States.” He added, “The question is preposterous.”

The bad faith of this exchange is obvious. Bukele has the power to free Abrego Garcia and send him back to the U.S. on an American plane without “smuggling” anyone or anything. But neither side wants that outcome, and so they are both pretending that it’s the other’s responsibility. It’s a game both sides are in on.

Last week, the Supreme Court instructed the Trump administration to follow a lower court’s directive to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. Born in El Salvador, Abrego Garcia came to the U.S. illegally but was under a protective order from a judge who found that he had a reasonable fear of persecution from gangs if he returned to his home country.

The evidence that Abrego Garcia is a “gang member” or a “terrorist” is negligible. Since coming to the U.S. in 2011 when he was 16 years old, Abrego Garcia has married a U.S. citizen, had an American child, and maintained steady employment. But on March 15, he was sent to the Salvadoran prison without due process as part of the Trump administration’s “mass deportation” program, along with hundreds of other men, 90 percent of whom also have no criminal record.

The only support for the idea that Garcia is a gang member is tenuous—he was identified as such by an anonymous informant in a 2019 immigration proceeding but has had no trouble with the law since. Like most of the men rendered to CECOT, Abrego Garcia has fewer criminal convictions than the current president of the United States. Even the Trump administration acknowledged in federal court that it had deported Abrego Garcia “in error.”

This morning, however, Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller claimed on Fox News that the acknowledgment that Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported had been made by a “saboteur” in the Department of Justice and that “he was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador”; he added that “this was the right person sent to the right place.” This is a lie—the admission of error was made by an ICE official in a court filing.

Since last week’s Supreme Court directive, Trump officials have harped on a line stating that the lower court should clarify its “directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” Officials including Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have interpreted that to mean that they do not have to follow the order at all. During the Oval Office meeting, Rubio chimed in to say that “no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.”

In other words, the administration is following the Supreme Court’s ruling by ignoring it completely.

This rhetorical game the administration is playing, where it pretends it lacks the power to ask for Abrego Garcia to be returned while Bukele pretends he doesn’t have the power to return him, is an expression of obvious contempt for the Supreme Court—and for the rule of law. The administration is maintaining that it has the power to send armed agents of the state to grab someone off the street and then, without a shred of due process, deport them to a Gulag in a foreign country and leave them there forever.

The crucial point here is that the administration’s logic means that it could do the same to American citizens—after all, if deporting someone under a protective order to a Gulag without so much as a hearing is a “foreign policy” matter with which no court may interfere, then the citizenship of the condemned person doesn’t matter.

Trump is already contemplating the possibility of deporting citizens. Aside from numerous public statements to that effect, Trump told Bukele, in an exchange posted on Bukele’s X feed, “Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places.” Loud laughter filled the Oval Office.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-defying-supreme-court-181000245.html

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The Constitutional Crisis Is Here!​


Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way: pretending it is complying while refusing to do so.

During an on-camera Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, whom the Trump administration has paid to imprison immigrants deported from the United States it claims without evidence are gang members, President Donald Trump deferred to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who said the decision was Bukele’s.

“That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That’s not up to us,” Bondi told reporters. “That’s not up to us. If they want to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.” Bukele, for his part, called Abrego Garcia a “terrorist,” saying to a reporter who asked if he would return him, “I hope you’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States.” He added, “The question is preposterous.”

The bad faith of this exchange is obvious. Bukele has the power to free Abrego Garcia and send him back to the U.S. on an American plane without “smuggling” anyone or anything. But neither side wants that outcome, and so they are both pretending that it’s the other’s responsibility. It’s a game both sides are in on.

Last week, the Supreme Court instructed the Trump administration to follow a lower court’s directive to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. Born in El Salvador, Abrego Garcia came to the U.S. illegally but was under a protective order from a judge who found that he had a reasonable fear of persecution from gangs if he returned to his home country.

The evidence that Abrego Garcia is a “gang member” or a “terrorist” is negligible. Since coming to the U.S. in 2011 when he was 16 years old, Abrego Garcia has married a U.S. citizen, had an American child, and maintained steady employment. But on March 15, he was sent to the Salvadoran prison without due process as part of the Trump administration’s “mass deportation” program, along with hundreds of other men, 90 percent of whom also have no criminal record.

The only support for the idea that Garcia is a gang member is tenuous—he was identified as such by an anonymous informant in a 2019 immigration proceeding but has had no trouble with the law since. Like most of the men rendered to CECOT, Abrego Garcia has fewer criminal convictions than the current president of the United States. Even the Trump administration acknowledged in federal court that it had deported Abrego Garcia “in error.”

This morning, however, Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller claimed on Fox News that the acknowledgment that Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported had been made by a “saboteur” in the Department of Justice and that “he was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador”; he added that “this was the right person sent to the right place.” This is a lie—the admission of error was made by an ICE official in a court filing.

Since last week’s Supreme Court directive, Trump officials have harped on a line stating that the lower court should clarify its “directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” Officials including Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have interpreted that to mean that they do not have to follow the order at all. During the Oval Office meeting, Rubio chimed in to say that “no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.”

In other words, the administration is following the Supreme Court’s ruling by ignoring it completely.

This rhetorical game the administration is playing, where it pretends it lacks the power to ask for Abrego Garcia to be returned while Bukele pretends he doesn’t have the power to return him, is an expression of obvious contempt for the Supreme Court—and for the rule of law. The administration is maintaining that it has the power to send armed agents of the state to grab someone off the street and then, without a shred of due process, deport them to a Gulag in a foreign country and leave them there forever.

The crucial point here is that the administration’s logic means that it could do the same to American citizens—after all, if deporting someone under a protective order to a Gulag without so much as a hearing is a “foreign policy” matter with which no court may interfere, then the citizenship of the condemned person doesn’t matter.

Trump is already contemplating the possibility of deporting citizens. Aside from numerous public statements to that effect, Trump told Bukele, in an exchange posted on Bukele’s X feed, “Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places.” Loud laughter filled the Oval Office.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-defying-supreme-court-181000245.html

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In general, I think it is pretty much a given that Trump goes beyond contempt for the Supreme Court and the rule of law, and has actual little use for either. He views the Court as his, and the rule of law as an inconvenience​

 

The Constitutional Crisis Is Here!​


Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way: pretending it is complying while refusing to do so.

During an on-camera Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, whom the Trump administration has paid to imprison immigrants deported from the United States it claims without evidence are gang members, President Donald Trump deferred to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who said the decision was Bukele’s.

“That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That’s not up to us,” Bondi told reporters. “That’s not up to us. If they want to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.” Bukele, for his part, called Abrego Garcia a “terrorist,” saying to a reporter who asked if he would return him, “I hope you’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States.” He added, “The question is preposterous.”

The bad faith of this exchange is obvious. Bukele has the power to free Abrego Garcia and send him back to the U.S. on an American plane without “smuggling” anyone or anything. But neither side wants that outcome, and so they are both pretending that it’s the other’s responsibility. It’s a game both sides are in on.

Last week, the Supreme Court instructed the Trump administration to follow a lower court’s directive to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. Born in El Salvador, Abrego Garcia came to the U.S. illegally but was under a protective order from a judge who found that he had a reasonable fear of persecution from gangs if he returned to his home country.

The evidence that Abrego Garcia is a “gang member” or a “terrorist” is negligible.
Being convicted of it is pretty good evidence, dude.

Since coming to the U.S. in 2011 when he was 16 years old, Abrego Garcia has married a U.S. citizen, had an American child, and maintained steady employment. But on March 15, he was sent to the Salvadoran prison without due process as part of the Trump administration’s “mass deportation” program, along with hundreds of other men, 90 percent of whom also have no criminal record.
He had a criminal record, Kenny. He broke the law coming to the United States illegally, and he was a gang member in MS-13 while he was here, and got convicted of it, but set free anyway.
The only support for the idea that Garcia is a gang member is tenuous—he was identified as such by an anonymous informant in a 2019 immigration proceeding but has had no trouble with the law since.
He broke the law, Kenny. He is subject to deportation, which took place.
Like most of the men rendered to CECOT, Abrego Garcia has fewer criminal convictions than the current president of the United States.
Trump has no criminal convictions.
Even the Trump administration acknowledged in federal court that it had deported Abrego Garcia “in error.”
Don't think so.
This morning, however, Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller claimed on Fox News that the acknowledgment that Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported had been made by a “saboteur” in the Department of Justice and that “he was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador”; he added that “this was the right person sent to the right place.” This is a lie—the admission of error was made by an ICE official in a court filing.

Since last week’s Supreme Court directive, Trump officials have harped on a line stating that the lower court should clarify its “directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” Officials including Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have interpreted that to mean that they do not have to follow the order at all. During the Oval Office meeting, Rubio chimed in to say that “no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.”
Rubio happens to be correct here.
In other words, the administration is following the Supreme Court’s ruling by ignoring it completely.
The Supreme Court has no such authority.
This rhetorical game the administration is playing, where it pretends it lacks the power to ask for Abrego Garcia to be returned while Bukele pretends he doesn’t have the power to return him, is an expression of obvious contempt for the Supreme Court—and for the rule of law. The administration is maintaining that it has the power to send armed agents of the state to grab someone off the street and then, without a shred of due process, deport them to a Gulag in a foreign country and leave them there forever.
He was given his day in court, and deported. He committed a crime.
The crucial point here is that the administration’s logic means that it could do the same to American citizens—after all, if deporting someone under a protective order to a Gulag without so much as a hearing is a “foreign policy” matter with which no court may interfere, then the citizenship of the condemned person doesn’t matter.
Citizens of the United States never entered the country illegally, Kenny.
Trump is already contemplating the possibility of deporting citizens. Aside from numerous public statements to that effect, Trump told Bukele, in an exchange posted on Bukele’s X feed, “Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places.” Loud laughter filled the Oval Office.
An illegal alien is not 'homegrown', Kenny.
 

The Constitutional Crisis Is Here!​


Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way: pretending it is complying while refusing to do so.

During an on-camera Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, whom the Trump administration has paid to imprison immigrants deported from the United States it claims without evidence are gang members, President Donald Trump deferred to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who said the decision was Bukele’s.

“That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That’s not up to us,” Bondi told reporters. “That’s not up to us. If they want to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.” Bukele, for his part, called Abrego Garcia a “terrorist,” saying to a reporter who asked if he would return him, “I hope you’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States.” He added, “The question is preposterous.”

The bad faith of this exchange is obvious. Bukele has the power to free Abrego Garcia and send him back to the U.S. on an American plane without “smuggling” anyone or anything. But neither side wants that outcome, and so they are both pretending that it’s the other’s responsibility. It’s a game both sides are in on.

Last week, the Supreme Court instructed the Trump administration to follow a lower court’s directive to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. Born in El Salvador, Abrego Garcia came to the U.S. illegally but was under a protective order from a judge who found that he had a reasonable fear of persecution from gangs if he returned to his home country.

The evidence that Abrego Garcia is a “gang member” or a “terrorist” is negligible. Since coming to the U.S. in 2011 when he was 16 years old, Abrego Garcia has married a U.S. citizen, had an American child, and maintained steady employment. But on March 15, he was sent to the Salvadoran prison without due process as part of the Trump administration’s “mass deportation” program, along with hundreds of other men, 90 percent of whom also have no criminal record.

The only support for the idea that Garcia is a gang member is tenuous—he was identified as such by an anonymous informant in a 2019 immigration proceeding but has had no trouble with the law since. Like most of the men rendered to CECOT, Abrego Garcia has fewer criminal convictions than the current president of the United States. Even the Trump administration acknowledged in federal court that it had deported Abrego Garcia “in error.”

This morning, however, Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller claimed on Fox News that the acknowledgment that Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported had been made by a “saboteur” in the Department of Justice and that “he was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador”; he added that “this was the right person sent to the right place.” This is a lie—the admission of error was made by an ICE official in a court filing.

Since last week’s Supreme Court directive, Trump officials have harped on a line stating that the lower court should clarify its “directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” Officials including Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have interpreted that to mean that they do not have to follow the order at all. During the Oval Office meeting, Rubio chimed in to say that “no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.”

In other words, the administration is following the Supreme Court’s ruling by ignoring it completely.

This rhetorical game the administration is playing, where it pretends it lacks the power to ask for Abrego Garcia to be returned while Bukele pretends he doesn’t have the power to return him, is an expression of obvious contempt for the Supreme Court—and for the rule of law. The administration is maintaining that it has the power to send armed agents of the state to grab someone off the street and then, without a shred of due process, deport them to a Gulag in a foreign country and leave them there forever.

The crucial point here is that the administration’s logic means that it could do the same to American citizens—after all, if deporting someone under a protective order to a Gulag without so much as a hearing is a “foreign policy” matter with which no court may interfere, then the citizenship of the condemned person doesn’t matter.

Trump is already contemplating the possibility of deporting citizens. Aside from numerous public statements to that effect, Trump told Bukele, in an exchange posted on Bukele’s X feed, “Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places.” Loud laughter filled the Oval Office.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-defying-supreme-court-181000245.html

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Fuck you asshole. You supported the assassination of your president so, fuck you!

'I will give them student loan forgiveness regardless of what the Supreme Court says'
 
Fuck you asshole. You supported the assassination of your president so, fuck you!

'I will give them student loan forgiveness regardless of what the Supreme Court says'
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The Constitutional Crisis Is Here!​


No, it's not. If this is a "constitutional crisis" then Biden ignoring the Supreme Court on student loans was well ahead of it.
Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way: pretending it is complying while refusing to do so.

That isn't outright defiance. It's legalistic foot dragging. Facilitate means "to help" or "to try" not must or will.
During an on-camera Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, whom the Trump administration has paid to imprison immigrants deported from the United States it claims without evidence are gang members, President Donald Trump deferred to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who said the decision was Bukele’s.

There is evidence that Abrego Garcia was / is an MS 13 gang member. The court found he was so in 2019 and Abrego Garcia failed to make any attempt to deny or refute that charge. Therefore, he is an MS 13 gang member in the eyes of the court.
“That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That’s not up to us,” Bondi told reporters. “That’s not up to us. If they want to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.” Bukele, for his part, called Abrego Garcia a “terrorist,” saying to a reporter who asked if he would return him, “I hope you’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States.” He added, “The question is preposterous.”

This is legalistic foot dragging. The US administration is saying it's up to El Salvador to release him for return, and if they do, they'll provide the means to get him back to the US. The El Salvador administration says he's an MS 13 gang member and has nothing coming and he'll rot in CECOT. The US courts can't control or order El Salvador to do anything so the US administration is saying until they do their hands are tied.
The bad faith of this exchange is obvious. Bukele has the power to free Abrego Garcia and send him back to the U.S. on an American plane without “smuggling” anyone or anything. But neither side wants that outcome, and so they are both pretending that it’s the other’s responsibility. It’s a game both sides are in on.

Bad faith? No, more of a "Catch 22." Bukele has no incentive to free Abrego Garcia who he sees as an MS 13 member while the US administration has no incentive beyond the court saying they should help in this return to do anything. Abrego Garcia is in purgatory limbo at this point with little or no hope of either one budging on those positions. The US courts are really at an impasse at this point too.
Last week, the Supreme Court instructed the Trump administration to follow a lower court’s directive to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. Born in El Salvador, Abrego Garcia came to the U.S. illegally but was under a protective order from a judge who found that he had a reasonable fear of persecution from gangs if he returned to his home country.

Why did Abrego Garcia wait until Trump took office to do anything on his case or previous order of deportation?
The evidence that Abrego Garcia is a “gang member” or a “terrorist” is negligible. Since coming to the U.S. in 2011 when he was 16 years old, Abrego Garcia has married a U.S. citizen, had an American child, and maintained steady employment. But on March 15, he was sent to the Salvadoran prison without due process as part of the Trump administration’s “mass deportation” program, along with hundreds of other men, 90 percent of whom also have no criminal record.

Actually, it is solid since Abrego Garcia failed in 2019 to do anything to refute those claims which the court found to be substantial enough to adjudicate him as an MS 13 gang member. That legally makes him one. In fact, the weak case is his claim he isn't a gang member since that claim is self-serving, his knowing he was likely to be deported.
The only support for the idea that Garcia is a gang member is tenuous—he was identified as such by an anonymous informant in a 2019 immigration proceeding but has had no trouble with the law since. Like most of the men rendered to CECOT, Abrego Garcia has fewer criminal convictions than the current president of the United States. Even the Trump administration acknowledged in federal court that it had deported Abrego Garcia “in error.”

As I pointed out, it is Abrego Garcia's claim that is weak and tenuous. His criminal convictions, or lack thereof, have ZERO to do with his being adjudicated an MS 13 gang member. The error the administration acknowledges has nothing to do with that aspect of his case either.
This morning, however, Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller claimed on Fox News that the acknowledgment that Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported had been made by a “saboteur” in the Department of Justice and that “he was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador”; he added that “this was the right person sent to the right place.” This is a lie—the admission of error was made by an ICE official in a court filing.

Okay. So, who's correct here? I don't know, and I can bet you don't either.
Since last week’s Supreme Court directive, Trump officials have harped on a line stating that the lower court should clarify its “directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” Officials including Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have interpreted that to mean that they do not have to follow the order at all. During the Oval Office meeting, Rubio chimed in to say that “no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.”

The Supreme Court is clearly leaning towards telling district court judges they have ZERO legal authority over US foreign and domestic policy.
In other words, the administration is following the Supreme Court’s ruling by ignoring it completely.

Wrong. The administration is simply foot dragging. They're doing nothing because their claim is El Salvador must do something first.
This rhetorical game the administration is playing, where it pretends it lacks the power to ask for Abrego Garcia to be returned while Bukele pretends he doesn’t have the power to return him, is an expression of obvious contempt for the Supreme Court—and for the rule of law. The administration is maintaining that it has the power to send armed agents of the state to grab someone off the street and then, without a shred of due process, deport them to a Gulag in a foreign country and leave them there forever.

This is just typical legal wrangling. You just hate Trump so much that you MUST find some way to pin blame totally and completely on him while ignoring anything that doesn't support that.
The crucial point here is that the administration’s logic means that it could do the same to American citizens—after all, if deporting someone under a protective order to a Gulag without so much as a hearing is a “foreign policy” matter with which no court may interfere, then the citizenship of the condemned person doesn’t matter.

Not true.
Trump is already contemplating the possibility of deporting citizens. Aside from numerous public statements to that effect, Trump told Bukele, in an exchange posted on Bukele’s X feed, “Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places.” Loud laughter filled the Oval Office.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-defying-supreme-court-181000245.html

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Non sequiturs in the form of a fallacy fallacy.
 
So, someone who has never been convicted of a crime might spend the rest of his life in one of the worst prisons in this hemisphere.

I have literally no idea how anyone can be okay w/ this. Unless I jumped to the universe that has no sense of morality & fairness.
 
So, someone who has never been convicted of a crime might spend the rest of his life in one of the worst prisons in this hemisphere.

He was convicted of illegal entry, a crime. He was ordered by the courts to be deported. Deportation is to his country of origin, El Salvador. What El Salvador does with him is their business, not ours.
I have literally no idea how anyone can be okay w/ this. Unless I jumped to the universe that has no sense of morality & fairness.

Because he got due process by the US justice system. What you don't like is that he got justice by the US justice system you disagree with. He was in the US illegally. The moral and fair thing to do is find him guilty of being in the US illegally (which happened) and deport him to his country of origin.

This issue wasn't an issue for Abrego Garcia until the Trump administration came into power because he figured out PDQ that Trump would deport him versus Biden who wouldn't. The whole issue would have been resolved in 2019 if he were immediately deported following is sentencing.
 

The Constitutional Crisis Is Here!​


Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way: pretending it is complying while refusing to do so.

During an on-camera Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, whom the Trump administration has paid to imprison immigrants deported from the United States it claims without evidence are gang members, President Donald Trump deferred to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who said the decision was Bukele’s.

“That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That’s not up to us,” Bondi told reporters. “That’s not up to us. If they want to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.” Bukele, for his part, called Abrego Garcia a “terrorist,” saying to a reporter who asked if he would return him, “I hope you’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States.” He added, “The question is preposterous.”

The bad faith of this exchange is obvious. Bukele has the power to free Abrego Garcia and send him back to the U.S. on an American plane without “smuggling” anyone or anything. But neither side wants that outcome, and so they are both pretending that it’s the other’s responsibility. It’s a game both sides are in on.

Last week, the Supreme Court instructed the Trump administration to follow a lower court’s directive to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. Born in El Salvador, Abrego Garcia came to the U.S. illegally but was under a protective order from a judge who found that he had a reasonable fear of persecution from gangs if he returned to his home country.

The evidence that Abrego Garcia is a “gang member” or a “terrorist” is negligible. Since coming to the U.S. in 2011 when he was 16 years old, Abrego Garcia has married a U.S. citizen, had an American child, and maintained steady employment. But on March 15, he was sent to the Salvadoran prison without due process as part of the Trump administration’s “mass deportation” program, along with hundreds of other men, 90 percent of whom also have no criminal record.

The only support for the idea that Garcia is a gang member is tenuous—he was identified as such by an anonymous informant in a 2019 immigration proceeding but has had no trouble with the law since. Like most of the men rendered to CECOT, Abrego Garcia has fewer criminal convictions than the current president of the United States. Even the Trump administration acknowledged in federal court that it had deported Abrego Garcia “in error.”

This morning, however, Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller claimed on Fox News that the acknowledgment that Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported had been made by a “saboteur” in the Department of Justice and that “he was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador”; he added that “this was the right person sent to the right place.” This is a lie—the admission of error was made by an ICE official in a court filing.

Since last week’s Supreme Court directive, Trump officials have harped on a line stating that the lower court should clarify its “directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” Officials including Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have interpreted that to mean that they do not have to follow the order at all. During the Oval Office meeting, Rubio chimed in to say that “no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.”

In other words, the administration is following the Supreme Court’s ruling by ignoring it completely.

This rhetorical game the administration is playing, where it pretends it lacks the power to ask for Abrego Garcia to be returned while Bukele pretends he doesn’t have the power to return him, is an expression of obvious contempt for the Supreme Court—and for the rule of law. The administration is maintaining that it has the power to send armed agents of the state to grab someone off the street and then, without a shred of due process, deport them to a Gulag in a foreign country and leave them there forever.

The crucial point here is that the administration’s logic means that it could do the same to American citizens—after all, if deporting someone under a protective order to a Gulag without so much as a hearing is a “foreign policy” matter with which no court may interfere, then the citizenship of the condemned person doesn’t matter.

Trump is already contemplating the possibility of deporting citizens. Aside from numerous public statements to that effect, Trump told Bukele, in an exchange posted on Bukele’s X feed, “Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places.” Loud laughter filled the Oval Office.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-defying-supreme-court-181000245.html

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Oh, bless your heart, you and your gaggle of libtard pals must’ve skipped reading comprehension in school. That goes for your buddies at CNN and MSNBC too, all squinting through those TDS-tinted glasses at the Supreme Court ruling. Trump's playing nice with the SC's decision. Can your brain-dead partisan judges manage the same?

The SC said to facilitate, and he gave it a whirl, but here's the kicker, the guy's a citizen of El Salvador. Shocker, El Salvador's not keen on springing a criminal from their lockup and chauffeuring him to the US as a shiny new illegal alien. They said, "Hard pass." Are we supposed to twist their arm to unleash a crook? If you think that's a genius plan, you're all dumber than a bag of hammers. It screams that your party's so unmoored, so bat guano crazy, it's tough to take anything you dumbasses spew seriously. What's Trump supposed to do, launch a commando raid for a jailbreak? Hilarious. Get a grip, dimwits.
 
He was convicted of illegal entry, a crime. He was ordered by the courts to be deported. Deportation is to his country of origin, El Salvador. What El Salvador does with him is their business, not ours.


Because he got due process by the US justice system. What you don't like is that he got justice by the US justice system you disagree with. He was in the US illegally. The moral and fair thing to do is find him guilty of being in the US illegally (which happened) and deport him to his country of origin.

This issue wasn't an issue for Abrego Garcia until the Trump administration came into power because he figured out PDQ that Trump would deport him versus Biden who wouldn't. The whole issue would have been resolved in 2019 if he were immediately deported following is sentencing.
He was granted legal status and convicted of nothing.
 
He was granted legal status and convicted of nothing.
No, he was granted a stay on his deportation by the Biden administration, not the courts. Trump lifted that and deported him. Read the court minutes. I did. I also have posted them on this board if you want to go back and look at them.

Oh, he was convicted of illegal entry and that's why he had a court ordered order of deportation pending against him.
 
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