Jacob Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University, cautioned in a Blue Sky thread that the case involving a Maryland man the U.S. government acknowledges was "wrongfully deported" has reached a "crisis moment."In March, Kilmar Ábrego García was accused of being an MS-13 gang m...
As opposed to all of the non crucial red lines he passed before?
Yes. He is now directly and mockingly violating the constitution and an explicit Supreme Court order. It is now a completely naked constitutional crisis for all the public to see.
Reasonable people have seen it happening since long before today, but today marks a shift from a more covert assault to an open one, and that is noteworthy.
Eta: I don’t mean they were really covert before, either, to be clear. They dropped any remaining veil of plausible deniability today though. And then also let it slip on recording that the intent is to deprive US citizens of due process and ship “terrorists” (read: undesirables) to El Salvador, too. Today is a historic day, sadly.
You are correct. He was defying injunctions before. That’s only a contempt of court charge. There are rulings that he is defying.
He’s actually created two constitutional crises today. They refused to admit the AP into the Oval Office for the press conference with Bukele.
Well now the President and his government are openly saying that they will kidnap anyone they don’t like off the street, or out of their homes or schools, and disappear them to a foreign prison where they may be tortured, enslaved, and/or killed, without any justification, evidence, accusation or due process. Any American, or anyone else in the USA, can be going about their daily business and the cops can kidnap you and traffick you that same day into a lifetime of torture in a foreign dictatorship famous for human rights abuses, and no one in the world can help you.
All these years we’ve had to put up with Americans going on about needing guns to protect themselves from tyranny and the importance of free speech, and when an actual tyrannical dictator starts disappearing people for their political views, their race or (it’s coming) their gender identity or sexual orientation, Americans do nothing to stop it. In fact, many of the “guns and free speech” crowd just love it. Until the police come for them.
More than 1.4% of the US population (5 million people) protested on the same day nationwide a few days ago. It’s not nothing. It gives me some hope. I’m a non-passing trans woman and am well aware of the coming danger.
It is an encouraging start and I don’t mean to diminish the value of it. I hope you get through this time safely and without things getting too unpleasant for you.
All the lines have been red for a few YEARS now. Hello…is anybody there?..anybody listening?
The direction this is going is BAD.
It all should have ended when he refused to rent to black people.
The first law he broke, the first lie he told. It all went downhill (for us) from there.