I think it's going to happen. she set up a 2 week discovery period to depose decision makers. Bondi will stall. Keeping this case in the spotlight will help; Americans HATE what trump is doing w Bukele. Watch Chuck Grassley's townhall...
The 5th Amendment of the constitution states NO person ( note it says person, not citizen) "shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
No matter how loud Trump officials & the completely delusional supporters claim the Constitution does not apply to individuals illegally in the US, that simply is not true. Fact is time & time again for generations it has been demonstrated over & over again the Constitution applies to ALL persons within the US regardless of citizenship status, it that were not the case the 1000s of cases across the nation where counsel was appointed for those unable to afford on their own would not be recorded.
The Due Process Clause reiterates the principle of the rule of law: "the government must act in accordance with legal rules and not contrary to them"
Trump & his admin deliberately acted contrary to the rule of law, going so far as to intentionally make false declarations of Emergency with intent to circumvent the rule of law to execute premeditated planned criminal acts with intent to assert claim of Executive privilege not subject to judicial review.
and this is just the beginning if he's not stopped. every "emergency declaration" leads to expanded military powers. he's criminally insane and we're his hostages.
I have been emailing every attorney, ACLU office etc representing Garcia & Venezuelan immigrants to stop their removal asking all them why none are challenging the acts as everything but deportations? Making the argument until they do the unlawful manufactured emergency declarations continue unchecked.
You are correct and I have already said he will invoke the resurrection act sooner than people think. But until someone challenges the declarations, designations & determinations of criminals, gang members, terrorists the Courts cannot even allude to them.
After the statements of Bukele, Bondi, Rubio & Miller monday the Garcia case is the perfect one challenge the actions being criminal kidnapping & false imprisonment committed vis false declarations and terrorist org designations which alleged cartels & gangs to be engaging in acts they simply do not ever do:
(a) International cartels constitute a national-security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime, with activities encompassing:
(i) convergence between themselves and a range of extra-hemispheric actors, from designated foreign-terror organizations to antagonistic foreign governments;
(ii) complex adaptive systems, characteristic of entities engaged in insurgency and asymmetric warfare; and
(iii) infiltration into foreign governments across the Western Hemisphere.
Good approach! I've been advocating for attaching criminal liability to several of trump's pending EOs to give Roberts a chance to clarify acts that fall outside immunity. agreed, that's the only way to get it back in front of them.
The Judge should have ordered Bondi, Noem & Stephen Miller immediately into custody for contempt. Did you happen to catch the full Miller act to reporters outside the White House monday? He flat out said MS-13 does not exist in El Salvador which raises ? did Trump declare an emergency which did/does not exist, deliberately making known & planned false statements in grounds to justify the false emergency, specifically to unlawfully invoke AEA to "kidnap & remove persons from the US solely based on his & Millers labeling them "terrorist's"? I would be of the position that's exactly what he did & argue the entire plan was created & claimed to be legal by Stephen Miller.
Where I take issue with the coverage & reporting on the 268 plus Venezuelan immigrants & others as well as Gracia being taken into custody & transported to El Salvador to be immediately imprisoned by Trump acts is the continued representation of these actions being referred to as "deportations." The fact is none of these unlawful transporting of persons from the US to El Salvador are or were or even come close to qualifying as "deportations" in any way. But the Trump admin wants us to make that the narrative. Until we stop incorrectly calling these kidnappings "deportations" the Trump admin will continue to be able to escape having to address the criminal acts ordered for what they truly are & have been from the beginning.
Deportations are the removal from the US & return to immigrants home country or another country that has diplomatic relations with home country where US does not, who agree to act as intermediary to assist in the immigrants return home. Deportations involve the removal & return where immigrants are released within their home countries. For us to call Trump's rounding up male citizens of Venezuela & El Salvador, designating every one of them "criminals", "convicted gang members," & "terrorists" with nothing to substantiate those claims, "deportations" is contributing to the circumstances for those immigrants. For us to ignore Trumps actions were for express purpose of creating on paper anyway, a record even with full knowledge & authorizing it based on 100% false & manufactured claims to claim authority under AEA: allows Trump, Bondi, Noem, Miller et al avoid having to answer in court by what authority they determined allowed them to imprison citizens from another nation in a foreign prison where not one criminal charge, conviction or sentence existed.
Trump & Bukele both along with Pam Bondi, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem guilty of Kidnapping as defined by the USC; Human Trafficking as defined by USC; false imprisonment under both Federal & State law (State laws in every state where these individuals were first detained in & then transported to Texas to be transported to El Salvador). The fact Trump specifically transported citizens of another nation to another foreign nation for the specific purpose of being imprisoned in said nation, crossing multiple international borders, where Trump made monetary payment to El Salvador for the imprisonment of said citizens meets every single aspect of the crime of Human Trafficking under the United States Code.
Deportations do not in any situation or definition involve the removal of a citizen of another nation where that citizen is transported to a nation other than their home nation, where the citizen is immediately imprisoned in the foreign nation per the direction of the US. That is not a "deportation" by any definition.
Does the Supreme Court’s immunity decision extend to unconstitutional acts performed within the scope (and outer perimeter) of the president’s core duties? I doubt it does. If the president acts unconstitutionally, would he be enjoined from persisting in such unconstitutional acts? Asking for some poor guy languishing in CECOT.
I like the way you think. I started to include a paragraph re same but word count. I think it would be excellent for a states Atty to bring criminal charges against trump for intentionally violating habeas corpus, etc.- would likely need to be where Garcia lives for standing.
For some time people like Sabrina and I have not been relectant to compare Trump, and people like Bukele, to Hitler when appropriate. Others with a public forum treat mentioning his name like uttering the name of the evl Voldemort. Only Harry Porter dared to do this. When Trump does something Hitlerian and we point this out we do so knowing full well that to say that this does not diminish the worst in history genocide and a war that killed some 75 millions people. One doesn't have to be literally a modern day Hitler to be Hitlerian. This is defined as "relating to or characteristic of Hitler or the policies of the Nazi party."
I wrote and then expanded on the above for my own Substack: "You don't have to be another Hitler to be Hitlerian. Trump's agenda is Hitler without death camps and starting a war that would kill 75 million." Here: https://halbrown.substack.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-another-hitler
Trump & his gang are in the process of trying to alter reality to make lawlessness & dictatorship normal. What will the supreme six do now that Trump has taken them at their word? Is there really anything they can do? The answer is no. They opened the door to this & now can sit back & watch from on high while the US is being broken down. I fear there is not a lot that can be done, especially given that the GOP is mostly on board with Trump’s abject immorality & lawlessness. Lower courts can issue orders but without the threat of impeachment, the Trump regime will simply ignore court orders. Can a judge order any of them picked up & jailed. Pretty unlikely to ever happen.
Putin & Orban must be happy with & proud of their acolyte. We must stand against this: protest in numbers too big to jail, hammer elected officials with calls, emails, even letters. Join Hands Off, join generalstrikeus.com, do whatever you can or there will be no one to speak for us.
Sounds Like Trump has found the right guys to be friends with all peas from the same pod , it is a shame there is no more strong voice in America , and now Trump is going to close all the America embassies looks like his is walking in Hitler's footsteps one by one slowly disposing one way or the other of any opposition that is in his way , he has even managed to take down America's finest institution Harvard and he has taken away voting right of women Poor America what a way to end a wonderful country one who has forgotten 1776
Ms. Haake, thank you for the summary. Will Judge Xinis be forced to deputize members outside the Executive branch if she files contempt of court charges against the knuckle draggers? I doubt the Executive branch will help her. Could an AG lose their law license and maintain their job? The Iowa townhall folks pressed Grassley hard. He needs to go.
Congress should pass a law saying money can not be spent on prisons outside America. If the Executive disagrees, reduce budget funding across the board 1% every day until the Executive complies. Every Republican in office is a traitor to their oaths.
Edit: Everyone should boycott the El Salvador regime. Bukele is among the worst of humanity. If we did it to Tesla, we can do it to El Salvador.
I actually hope a S. Ct. challenge under the 8th A is brought- I don't think there's any chance the US can ship prisoners abroad where there's no human rights, no civil rights, no outside access to the inside of the prison. it would make a joke of our prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
I had to refresh my memory on the 8th Amendment from your piece. I agree, an 8th Amendment S. Ct challenge would clarify that the regime can not ship people to El Salvador concentration camps and force the regime to bring all those people back. Will the SC ever issue a contempt of court ruling?
SATURDAY, APRIL 19TH is another nationwide protest against this criminal regime. On April 5th there were 5.5 million people protesting in the US and millions more around the world. Find your local tribe and show the fk up -- https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
This is a time for supreme anger from every American; instead, it is business as usual. How callous we've become in not recognizing man's inhumanity to man. It's a sickening feeling to know Mr. Garcia will not survive his ordeal. Now, the Supreme Court is trying to clean up the mess it made by emboldening this cruel man to act with impunity. All the evidence of his unfitness was placed at their feet, and they ignored it to show their disdain for liberalism. Now, the innocents are the casualties for their asshole decisions making this president immune from any reprisal. Is there an end to this? Each day is worse than the day before. WAKE UP AMERICA!
it's grey. but whether he pardons or not, the Garcia case is already so unpopular, the pardon question would keep the spotlight on something trump wants to go away.
Wait until Trump & Co. find out about Harvard Law's initiatives to "honor the enslaved people whose labor generated wealth that contributed to the school's founding."
Harvard took a stand for truth, justice, and what should be the American way.
Trump does not talk or behave like an American President because he’s not - he’s a fascist among other things that are not acceptable. For Trump to continue lying about immigrants and now playing a game with this young man’s life (many others, too) is reprehensible and far from what our Constitution says. For Trump to go along with this so called leader of El Salvador mentioning he needs to make more prisons speaks volumes…sick. As for Bondi along with the others they sound like parrots - repeating and bending to everything Trump wants - it’s the loyalty thing Trump demands, but it sure shows their character, which proves to be not much.
EVERY Dem on Capitol Hill should read your last paragraph on live TV every day ’til it happens.
I think it's going to happen. she set up a 2 week discovery period to depose decision makers. Bondi will stall. Keeping this case in the spotlight will help; Americans HATE what trump is doing w Bukele. Watch Chuck Grassley's townhall...
Throw every one of these corrupt evil assholes in jail for their contempt of America, the constitution, and the rule of law.
The 5th Amendment of the constitution states NO person ( note it says person, not citizen) "shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
No matter how loud Trump officials & the completely delusional supporters claim the Constitution does not apply to individuals illegally in the US, that simply is not true. Fact is time & time again for generations it has been demonstrated over & over again the Constitution applies to ALL persons within the US regardless of citizenship status, it that were not the case the 1000s of cases across the nation where counsel was appointed for those unable to afford on their own would not be recorded.
The Due Process Clause reiterates the principle of the rule of law: "the government must act in accordance with legal rules and not contrary to them"
Trump & his admin deliberately acted contrary to the rule of law, going so far as to intentionally make false declarations of Emergency with intent to circumvent the rule of law to execute premeditated planned criminal acts with intent to assert claim of Executive privilege not subject to judicial review.
and this is just the beginning if he's not stopped. every "emergency declaration" leads to expanded military powers. he's criminally insane and we're his hostages.
I have been emailing every attorney, ACLU office etc representing Garcia & Venezuelan immigrants to stop their removal asking all them why none are challenging the acts as everything but deportations? Making the argument until they do the unlawful manufactured emergency declarations continue unchecked.
You are correct and I have already said he will invoke the resurrection act sooner than people think. But until someone challenges the declarations, designations & determinations of criminals, gang members, terrorists the Courts cannot even allude to them.
After the statements of Bukele, Bondi, Rubio & Miller monday the Garcia case is the perfect one challenge the actions being criminal kidnapping & false imprisonment committed vis false declarations and terrorist org designations which alleged cartels & gangs to be engaging in acts they simply do not ever do:
(a) International cartels constitute a national-security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime, with activities encompassing:
(i) convergence between themselves and a range of extra-hemispheric actors, from designated foreign-terror organizations to antagonistic foreign governments;
(ii) complex adaptive systems, characteristic of entities engaged in insurgency and asymmetric warfare; and
(iii) infiltration into foreign governments across the Western Hemisphere.
Good approach! I've been advocating for attaching criminal liability to several of trump's pending EOs to give Roberts a chance to clarify acts that fall outside immunity. agreed, that's the only way to get it back in front of them.
The Judge should have ordered Bondi, Noem & Stephen Miller immediately into custody for contempt. Did you happen to catch the full Miller act to reporters outside the White House monday? He flat out said MS-13 does not exist in El Salvador which raises ? did Trump declare an emergency which did/does not exist, deliberately making known & planned false statements in grounds to justify the false emergency, specifically to unlawfully invoke AEA to "kidnap & remove persons from the US solely based on his & Millers labeling them "terrorist's"? I would be of the position that's exactly what he did & argue the entire plan was created & claimed to be legal by Stephen Miller.
Where I take issue with the coverage & reporting on the 268 plus Venezuelan immigrants & others as well as Gracia being taken into custody & transported to El Salvador to be immediately imprisoned by Trump acts is the continued representation of these actions being referred to as "deportations." The fact is none of these unlawful transporting of persons from the US to El Salvador are or were or even come close to qualifying as "deportations" in any way. But the Trump admin wants us to make that the narrative. Until we stop incorrectly calling these kidnappings "deportations" the Trump admin will continue to be able to escape having to address the criminal acts ordered for what they truly are & have been from the beginning.
Deportations are the removal from the US & return to immigrants home country or another country that has diplomatic relations with home country where US does not, who agree to act as intermediary to assist in the immigrants return home. Deportations involve the removal & return where immigrants are released within their home countries. For us to call Trump's rounding up male citizens of Venezuela & El Salvador, designating every one of them "criminals", "convicted gang members," & "terrorists" with nothing to substantiate those claims, "deportations" is contributing to the circumstances for those immigrants. For us to ignore Trumps actions were for express purpose of creating on paper anyway, a record even with full knowledge & authorizing it based on 100% false & manufactured claims to claim authority under AEA: allows Trump, Bondi, Noem, Miller et al avoid having to answer in court by what authority they determined allowed them to imprison citizens from another nation in a foreign prison where not one criminal charge, conviction or sentence existed.
Trump & Bukele both along with Pam Bondi, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem guilty of Kidnapping as defined by the USC; Human Trafficking as defined by USC; false imprisonment under both Federal & State law (State laws in every state where these individuals were first detained in & then transported to Texas to be transported to El Salvador). The fact Trump specifically transported citizens of another nation to another foreign nation for the specific purpose of being imprisoned in said nation, crossing multiple international borders, where Trump made monetary payment to El Salvador for the imprisonment of said citizens meets every single aspect of the crime of Human Trafficking under the United States Code.
Deportations do not in any situation or definition involve the removal of a citizen of another nation where that citizen is transported to a nation other than their home nation, where the citizen is immediately imprisoned in the foreign nation per the direction of the US. That is not a "deportation" by any definition.
Does the Supreme Court’s immunity decision extend to unconstitutional acts performed within the scope (and outer perimeter) of the president’s core duties? I doubt it does. If the president acts unconstitutionally, would he be enjoined from persisting in such unconstitutional acts? Asking for some poor guy languishing in CECOT.
I like the way you think. I started to include a paragraph re same but word count. I think it would be excellent for a states Atty to bring criminal charges against trump for intentionally violating habeas corpus, etc.- would likely need to be where Garcia lives for standing.
For some time people like Sabrina and I have not been relectant to compare Trump, and people like Bukele, to Hitler when appropriate. Others with a public forum treat mentioning his name like uttering the name of the evl Voldemort. Only Harry Porter dared to do this. When Trump does something Hitlerian and we point this out we do so knowing full well that to say that this does not diminish the worst in history genocide and a war that killed some 75 millions people. One doesn't have to be literally a modern day Hitler to be Hitlerian. This is defined as "relating to or characteristic of Hitler or the policies of the Nazi party."
I wrote and then expanded on the above for my own Substack: "You don't have to be another Hitler to be Hitlerian. Trump's agenda is Hitler without death camps and starting a war that would kill 75 million." Here: https://halbrown.substack.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-another-hitler
So far.
Trump & his gang are in the process of trying to alter reality to make lawlessness & dictatorship normal. What will the supreme six do now that Trump has taken them at their word? Is there really anything they can do? The answer is no. They opened the door to this & now can sit back & watch from on high while the US is being broken down. I fear there is not a lot that can be done, especially given that the GOP is mostly on board with Trump’s abject immorality & lawlessness. Lower courts can issue orders but without the threat of impeachment, the Trump regime will simply ignore court orders. Can a judge order any of them picked up & jailed. Pretty unlikely to ever happen.
Putin & Orban must be happy with & proud of their acolyte. We must stand against this: protest in numbers too big to jail, hammer elected officials with calls, emails, even letters. Join Hands Off, join generalstrikeus.com, do whatever you can or there will be no one to speak for us.
Sounds Like Trump has found the right guys to be friends with all peas from the same pod , it is a shame there is no more strong voice in America , and now Trump is going to close all the America embassies looks like his is walking in Hitler's footsteps one by one slowly disposing one way or the other of any opposition that is in his way , he has even managed to take down America's finest institution Harvard and he has taken away voting right of women Poor America what a way to end a wonderful country one who has forgotten 1776
Ms. Haake, thank you for the summary. Will Judge Xinis be forced to deputize members outside the Executive branch if she files contempt of court charges against the knuckle draggers? I doubt the Executive branch will help her. Could an AG lose their law license and maintain their job? The Iowa townhall folks pressed Grassley hard. He needs to go.
Congress should pass a law saying money can not be spent on prisons outside America. If the Executive disagrees, reduce budget funding across the board 1% every day until the Executive complies. Every Republican in office is a traitor to their oaths.
Edit: Everyone should boycott the El Salvador regime. Bukele is among the worst of humanity. If we did it to Tesla, we can do it to El Salvador.
I actually hope a S. Ct. challenge under the 8th A is brought- I don't think there's any chance the US can ship prisoners abroad where there's no human rights, no civil rights, no outside access to the inside of the prison. it would make a joke of our prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
I had to refresh my memory on the 8th Amendment from your piece. I agree, an 8th Amendment S. Ct challenge would clarify that the regime can not ship people to El Salvador concentration camps and force the regime to bring all those people back. Will the SC ever issue a contempt of court ruling?
Just imagine blondi Bondi in orange! ~eric. MeridaGOround.com
SATURDAY, APRIL 19TH is another nationwide protest against this criminal regime. On April 5th there were 5.5 million people protesting in the US and millions more around the world. Find your local tribe and show the fk up -- https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
Acting pursuant to an agreement between the Estats Unis and El Salvador. Was Congress part of this agreement as required in the Constitution?
This is a time for supreme anger from every American; instead, it is business as usual. How callous we've become in not recognizing man's inhumanity to man. It's a sickening feeling to know Mr. Garcia will not survive his ordeal. Now, the Supreme Court is trying to clean up the mess it made by emboldening this cruel man to act with impunity. All the evidence of his unfitness was placed at their feet, and they ignored it to show their disdain for liberalism. Now, the innocents are the casualties for their asshole decisions making this president immune from any reprisal. Is there an end to this? Each day is worse than the day before. WAKE UP AMERICA!
Can Trump pardon them for contempt?
it's grey. but whether he pardons or not, the Garcia case is already so unpopular, the pardon question would keep the spotlight on something trump wants to go away.
this congressional research report discusses pardons for contempt of court: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB10186
I wrote about Harvard Law today.
Wait until Trump & Co. find out about Harvard Law's initiatives to "honor the enslaved people whose labor generated wealth that contributed to the school's founding."
Harvard took a stand for truth, justice, and what should be the American way.
I even had Superman in my illustration.
https://halbrown.substack.com/p/wait-until-trump-and-co-find-out
Trump does not talk or behave like an American President because he’s not - he’s a fascist among other things that are not acceptable. For Trump to continue lying about immigrants and now playing a game with this young man’s life (many others, too) is reprehensible and far from what our Constitution says. For Trump to go along with this so called leader of El Salvador mentioning he needs to make more prisons speaks volumes…sick. As for Bondi along with the others they sound like parrots - repeating and bending to everything Trump wants - it’s the loyalty thing Trump demands, but it sure shows their character, which proves to be not much.