I am still stunned that we are doing this although I shouldn’t be. We rendered many people to black sites and Syrian prisons during the GWOT.
But that 60 Minutes story is even more horrifying in light of what the Supreme Court did yesterday. I don’t have the heart to go into it in detail. It’s pretty clear that they’re going to give Trump what he wants. Just read this piece by Steve Vladek if you want the full horror.
In essence they said that the administration can do this but they have to allow the deportees notice and the ability to claim habeas which requires adjudication where they are being held. That means they’re going to put them in prison in Texas where it will be heard by the 5th circuit who will happily and gleefully agree with Tom Homan and Steven Miller that gay make-up artists are terrorists and must be rendered to the hellhole in El Salvador. In other words they just put some lipstick on Donald Trump’s deportation pig.
We cannot count on the Supreme Court to do anything to stop him. They let him completely off the hook for trying to steal the election and inciting an insurrection against a joint session of congress when it was certifying the votes. They let him off the hook for stealing classified documents and keeping them in the toilet at his public beach resort. Why in the world would we think they’d stop him turning the presidency into a dictatorship? They pretty much already did that for him.