I’m not in any way defending this. This is going to get people killed, including people who are here with legal status. Likely even citizens.
They don’t appear to be accepting just anyone off the street, though. The order talks about deputizing existing law enforcement officers as ICE agents.
So, we’re going to have even more poorly trained ICE officers rounding people up to be sent to concentration camps. People who have no idea how to validate documents. People who don’t understand the different types of legal statuses. People who want nothing more than to round up anyone with brown skin, regardless of their status. People who know that due process is dead because we can’t afford five million trials.
Ignoring what anyone thinks of undocumented immigrants, people with legal status are going to get caught in this. Some of them are going to go to camps. Some of them are going to be deported. Some of them are going to die. There will be more and more “mistakes” with no attempt at remediation.
I have no doubt that even citizens are going to die as a consequence of this.
“Troops” is in the title of this post but not in the executive order. It’s editorializing to make a point.
Dude… yeah, brush your nose, there’s something on there. Almost got it! There! It kind of looked like cheeto dust.
Of course they are! They’ve engineered their appliances to get the energy star label. If that label disappears they lose their investment because that label will no longer be there to quickly distinguish the efficient products.
Onky if the price is higher due to regulations on child labor and non-toxic materials and manufacturing processes. Oh, wait, they want to roll all of that back to the 50s, too!
I wonder if there is animosity between Trump and Huckabee Sanders. Maybe this is retribution for some slight? She did go more than 90 days without doing a press briefing before she stepped down as press secretary.
Nope, no corruption here! Definitely no corruption happening! Everything is 100% above board!
These people need to be hanged for treason.
Soon, Mike Johnson will bringing his son to classified congressional briefings to make absolutely sure they don’t miss any of one another’s porn usage.
So, four… FOUR supreme court justices think it is okay for the US government to fail to pay it’s debts to an AIDS prevention organization for work they had ALREADY DONE!
What the fuck happened to this country?
As a side note, how long before Trump starts calling SCOTUS illigitimate if they keep ruling against him?
That’s interesting. The vast majority, about 83%, of their shareholders are large institutional shareholders like Vanguard and JP Morgan Chase. Would those be who voted in this?
He also probably thinks that he is going to get a cushy job for his sacrifice. Hopefully Trump refuses to pay in the end, like normal, and this guy speaks out after getting screwed.
I can’t imagine this is a legal way to get rid of federal employees. Hell, I doubt this is a legal way to get rid of ANY employees.
It has nothing to do with the jusldge’s feelings.whats the point in issuing a Temporary Restraining Order 21 days after the fact when it is moot 30 days after? A TRO on day 1 would have made sense. A TRO on day 21 does nothing but add to the chaos. They are still going forward with other legal arguments but the TRO served no purpose at this point.
The judge needs a motion in front of them to consider. Waiting 21 days to ask for a temporary restraining order in an action that would take effect after 30 days shows a lack of urgency on the part of the plaintiffs and the burden was on the plaintiffs to show urgency in the case.
This is like a little kid watching their brother eat their candy for five minutes, then complaining to their parents when the candy is almost gone.
Don’t get me wrong, Trump’s actions here were illegal, but the plaintiffs needed to bring their motion for a TRO fast enough that it wasn’t nearly moot by the time they did.
I think the point is, the plaintiffs are telling the judge “this is of the utmost urgency” 21 days after the fact. The judge feels that, if the plaintiffs really felt that it was that urgent they should have acted with urgency themselves. So the judge is giving their request the same level of urgency that they did themselves.
If they had made a similar motion the day after the firing took place, their motion might have been granted, but this seems like a case of “too little too late”.
This man needs to go to prison for this. He is allowing unvetted people to gain access to sensitive information about former and current government employees. As a former federal employee whose information was leaked in the last OPM data breach, I am beyond irate about this. I will be contacting all of my representatives to make it ABSOLUTELY FUCKING CLEAR that this is unacceptable and needs to be stopped and result in incarceration for everyone involved including the security guard who was “just doing his job” by NOT DOING HIS MOTHER FUCKING JOB!
I wonder what things are slipping by while we’re all distracted by this insanity…
Loren AliKhan
She.
Also, yes, she blocked it for a week. She blocked it immediately because it has a significant chance of causing harm if it were to take effect immediately. This gives her time to consider the issue and give a real ruling. The fact that she blocked the order from going into effect so quickly indicates that she thinks that she is likely to block the order altogether.
You’re right, it’s not a “major loss” for Trump yet, but it is shaping up to be one. I expect she will block this, it will get appealed to the DC Court of Appeals who will affirm, then SCOTUS will decline to hear the subsequent appeal.
Come on, no one is this dumb. The senators knew they’d do this from the moment they voted to confirm. This is just premeditated political backtracking to fix as much damage as they can now that they’ve received their reciprocal favors.