100 DU'ers a day ask "How is Trump defying a SCOTUS order?"

[WarGamer]

The answer is... he's not.

Fantastic read. Kim leans left, appears on NPR, etc...

I can think of a couple "Holiday Inn DU "lawyers" who could learn something.

Simple Politics with Kim Wehle

Note to everyone: Supreme Court rulings involving Trump need to be read and unpacked VERY carefully. The press often just runs with the headlines — here, that the Supreme Court ordered Abrego Garcia’s release — when in fact they handed Trump a mini-victory. The same thing happened last summer with the Court’s criminal immunity ruling. People took the bait and reported that “unofficial” acts can still be prosecuted as crimes, as if there was still the possibility of accountability for Trump. But the distinction between unofficial and official acts was silly. It was a decoy. It’s the misuse of official power that produces abuses like what’s happening with the deportations to El Salvador. The Court knew this, but pretended it was finding middle ground.

Trump has to “facilitate” the return, which according to Merriam-Webster means to “help bring something about,” (or try). Effecuate, on the other hand, means to “cause or bring about something.” So, as I explained to Michel Martin on NPR’s Morning Edition, the Court is basically telling the lower court to reconsider ordering the government to make sure that Abrego Garcia is actually returned and that it may be sufficient for the administration to effectively “just try.”

Over the weekend, the government bit back at the judge, effectively telling her “too bad.” DOJ lawyers took the words straight from the Supreme Court’s decision: “The relief sought by plaintiffs is inconsistent with the Supreme Court’s instruction requiring this court to respect the president’s Article II authority to manage foreign policy.”

https://kimwehle.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-ruling-was-not

[Blues Heron]

1. Lol

[obamanut2012]

2. Yes, he is

[WarGamer]

4. Did you read the analysis by the Law Professor, Legal Advisor to ABC?

If she's wrong, you should tell her.