The Supreme Court bestirs itself -- Jennifer Rubin

[erronis]

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-bestirs-itself

Leaving the Trump regime room to maneuver is always a mistake.

When the Supreme Court issued its per curium opinion on April 7 holding that those contesting their deportation under the Alien Enemies Act had to proceed in the district in which they were held and given due process to object, I suspected its refusal to get to the merits of the matter and to definitively halt extrajudicial deportations was a mistake Unfortunately, I was right.

Beginning Friday evening, the ACLU made a remarkable series of moves to halt the apparent rushed deportation of busloads of Venezuelans, seemingly in contravention of the Supreme Court’s order just days ago making clear that “detainees must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal…. The notice must be afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs.”

Constitutional scholar Steve Valdeck lays out the government’s shenanigans:

In the S.D. Tex. case (J.A.V. v. Trump), Judge Fernando Rodriguez (not that it should matter, but a Trump appointee) barred the government from removing the named plaintiffs or anyone else “that Respondents claim are subject to removal under the [AEA] Proclamation, from the El Valle Detention Center.” (The other rulings were also geographically specific.)

Then things got messy. According to media reports, starting on Thursday, a number of non-citizens being held at the Bluebonnet detention facility in Anson, Texas (in the Northern District of Texas) were given notices of their imminent removal under the AEA (in English only), with no guidance as to how they could challenge their removal in advance. Not only did this appear to be in direct contravention of the Supreme Court’s ruling in J.G.G., but it also raised the question of whether the government was moving detainees to Bluebonnet, specifically, to get around the district court orders barring removals of individuals being held at El Valle and other facilities.

The ACLU, acting with lightning speed, then dashed to Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., to halt the apparent deportations (denied), back to the Northern District of Texas (denied) and up to the Fifth Circuit. Sensing the government might again rush migrants out from under the nose of the courts, the ACLU went to the Supreme Court. Low and behold, the Supreme Court shouted “STOP!” Actually, the Supreme Court in an unsigned order (with dissents from Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas to follow) explicitly told the government not to deport anyone pending an order of the Supreme Court.

The magnificent ACLU lawyering might not only have preserved another batch of migrants due process rights, but it also finally, finally, forced the Supreme Court—which has been loath to directly confront wanna-be despot Donald Trump—to put an end to the contemptuous cat-and-mouse game the government has been playing with the courts. Trump and his minions have treated court orders as mere suggestions and injunctions as speed bumps on their quest to create a lawless penal system to eject those legally in the United States (and maybe even “homegrowns,” i.e. citizens) to hellish foreign prison in a banana republic paid to do Trump’s bidding.

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[gab13by13]

1. Donate to the ACLU and Indivisible

I was always pretty good in vocabulary, had 3 years of Latin in school, but "bestirs" is a new word for me.

[erronis]

3. I'm guessing "bestirs" come from OE.

Then I looked it up - yup Middle English from OE. I think I remember being taught that a lot of words that have to do with daily living are likely to have an OE origin.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/bestir

Then Judge Boasberg who recently used the word "contumacious" in a ruling got a lot of people rushing for their dictionaries. Seemed an excellent term for describing the trmp lawyers and other associated fools.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. If SCOTUS doesn't draw a line in the sand and enforce it

the shakedown will continue on every law on the books and potentially everyone. I'm none too optimistic. Sam and Clarence will tell us why due process doesn't apply.

[spanone]

9. Surely sad and unforgivable that two Supremes were willing to overlook Due Process.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

4. Thanks to the ACLU.... A Big THANKS to the ACLU ....again 😍

Thanks ACLU

👍🏼

[DENVERPOPS]

5. I f you want to see about that type prison

Watch the Movie: Midnight Express

about a stupid American Kid who gets sent to one of those prisons for attempting to bring home some drugs from his visit to Turkey.

[erronis]

6. I remember that. It was horrifying back then as a similarly-aged kid.....

[DENVERPOPS]

7. I had a friend when I was 20

that was caught with drugs in Mexico, and was sent to a prison like that.....eventually, his wealthy parents, months later, took a hundred thousand in cash down there, and bought their way into the prison, and paid many different parties big amounts of money to let them take my friend back to the USA.......

[mzmolly]

8. Great movie.