Post election prediction

[FunkyDexter]

Is it just my imagination or does it seem like more and more things are having to be decided by the Supreme Court.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/appe...y?id=120562513

That doesn't feel like it should have reached that level. A mistake was made, a judge made a ruling, fix it and move on.

I just don't remember the Supreme Court being so involved in seemingly routine matters. I admit, I pay a lot more attention to the news now than when I was younger.

I'm surprised we haven't been talking more about this because the implications are pretty terrifying. To summarise: A legal immigrant with no criminal record was taken off the street and transported to a foreign (and notoriously brutal) prison without any kind of trial or legal process. I get that some may suspect that he was a member of a gang but, importantly, there was no legal attempt to ascertain if those suspicions were actually valid - so we really have no idea if he was or wasn't but we do know that, under previous legal proceedings, a judge had given him protected legal status - meaning he was explicitly NOT to be deported.

That's bad! But it gets worse.

The DOJ has acknowledged that he should not have been deported and that they made a "clerical error". Yet, when confronted with those events their response has not been to address that error, it has been to shrug and say "pfft, not our problem". Indeed, they are actively fighting the court order instructing them to bring him back. The "we'll make mistakes but we'll fix them quickly" mantra only really holds water if you actually fix them - otherwise you're just breaking things. And in this case the thing that was broken is a man's life and that of his American born family.

That's bad! But it gets worse.

Because this man (and the others that were shipped with him) had no legal process they were never charged, they were never tried and they were never sentenced. That last bit is REALLY important because it means he has no release date. He's not serving a sentence that will ever end - absent some further intervention he will be there until he dies.

That's bad! But it gets worse.

He's not the only one. Just over 260 individuals were shipped in this fashion. So far we know of two who seem to have been entirely innocent and we have no idea of the guilt or innocence of the remainder. But Bloomberg is reporting that roughly 90% had no criminal record in the USA so it seems a reasonable bet that a substantial proportion of the remainder were innocent.

That's bad! But it gets worse.

When asked if Trump would consider using this power against US citizens he said he'd love to.


So anyone in the US who Trump decides he doesn't like risks being shipped to indefinite detainment in a brutal foreign prison with no legal recourse.

Are we allowed to start calling him a fascist yet?