The conservative Supremes come through for him again
It will be a miracle if they end up doing the right thing on any of these cases. We now have a dictatorship:
The Supreme Court made it easier Monday for the Trump administration to deport convicted criminals to “third countries” to which they have no previous connection.
In a brief unsigned order that did not explain its reasoning, the court put on hold a federal judge’s ruling that said those affected nationwide should have a “meaningful opportunity” to bring claims that they would be at risk of torture, persecution or death if they were sent to countries the administration has made deals with to receive deported immigrants.
As a result, the administration will be able to try to quickly remove immigrants to such third countries, including South Sudan. Affected immigrants can still attempt to bring individual claims.
“The ramifications of the Supreme Court’s order will be horrifying; it strips away critical due process protections that have been protecting our class members from torture and death,” said Trina Realmuto, executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, one of the groups that brought the legal challenge.
The three liberal justices on the conservative-majority court all dissented.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion that the court had stepped in “to grant the government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied.”
She said the court was “rewarding lawlessness” by allowing the Trump administration to violate immigrants’ due process rights.
The fact that “thousands will suffer violence in far-flung locales” is less important to the conservative majority than the “remote possibility” that the judge had exceeded his authority, Sotomayor said.
Even aside from the horror of putting some Vietnamese immigrant in the desert in Sudan with nothing, that last but by Sotomayor indicates they are also on the verge of ruling that the president doesn’t have to answer to the district courts and possibly the court of appeals. I guess they want to preserve a little piece of this dictatorship only for themselves. I’m going to guess they’ll be in for a rude surprise on that one if they do something that Trump and his junta don’t like. They’ll tell them they can go fuck themselves too.
Here’s one of the details that just makes your hair stand on end:
Under immigration law, the government can deport people to third countries only if it is “impracticable, inadvisable, or impossible” to send them either to their home countries or previously designated alternative countries, the plaintiffs’ lawyers added.
The Guatemalan plaintiff, identified as O.C.G., is a gay man who the plaintiffs say was quickly deported to Mexico this year even though it was not previously designated as a country he could be sent to. O.C.G. had said that was kidnapped and raped in Mexico last year.
The Mexican government sent him to Guatemala, where he was, until recently, in hiding.
On June 4, the Trump administration returned him to the United States.
They deported him and then brought him back so they could deport him to someplace like South Sudan. This is pure sadism.