Posted by croes 4/1/2025
That's evil and stupid.
By that twisted logic, the President can ship all the gold in Fort Knox to a Russian bank under his own name, and US courts "won't have jurisdiction" to rule that it must be returned.
People claim that Obama "couldn't" close it, but I think DOGE have demonstrated with USAID that the President absolutely could have closed it by executive order and simply cutting off the pay of everyone there.
You're assuming the system would have been as compliant with Obama as they are with Trump, but I doubt that would have been the case. Congress passed a law to make it illegal for Obama to close Gitmo and simply refused to allow it, but their hands are mysteriously tied WRT Trump and DOGE.
Second, Obama did not had supreme court saying "president is above the law and can break it" nor would right wing supreme court justices voted for it. Trump has that ruling, because his politics matches the one of the right wing supreme court justices.
Third, Obama had actual opposition. Conservatives and republicans were opposing EVERYTHIGN he was doing. And had power to do so. Including when he adopted their own ideas. They even threw massive fit about suit of a wrong color. Right now, republicans have all the power including , majority in supreme court, so there are not checks or balances.
Camp X-Ray was specifically designed to be nobody's jurisdiction. They have nothing.
That is utterly shameful. It brings back reminders of our slave-owning past, where human beings were deprived even of the ownership of their own bodies.
> An executive order that Mr. Trump signed the day after taking office instructs federal contractors not to engage in D.E.I., which the order described as “illegal discrimination.” The letter to French businesses said the order “applies to all suppliers and contractors of the U.S. government, regardless of their nationality and the country in which they operate.”
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("Make China great again" already occurred, in the 1960s.)
Trump is still very very far away from that.
Assuming this man is innocent, we should rather blame El Salvador for actually imprisoning him.
No! Trump bypassed due process intentionally and quickly (and illegally) so that the courts, which ruled it illegal, couldn't pass the ruling in time to stop the flights.
We should blame Trump and all of the chain of command beneath him that took part in it.
Its only 3 month since Trump became president.
Calling someone a Nazi is saying he's a mass murderer. Don't cry wolf!
A Nazi isn’t already a murderer but someone who sees himself as a superior race and others as Untermensch.
Many Nazis didn’t kill anyone but were ok with it.
Be aware though - as soon as anyone ends up in El Salvador (or wherever), it apparently doesn't matter if any "accidents" were had. What's done, is done.
This is incredibly convenient if you want to trim the opposition a little.
And if you care to read court fillings the proof of the man being gang member is:
- Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie.
- A confidential informant claimed he was an active member of MS-13 with the "Westerns" clique (which operates in New York, where Garcia never lived).
There's a possibility he's dead already, and so the current administration or El Salvador or both are stalling for time long enough that the media cycle moves on to something else.