Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: VOX

Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.

Federal law states that the United States shall not “expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” This law implements a treaty, known as the Convention Against Torture, which the United States ratified more than three decades ago.

Federal regulations, moreover, provide that even after an immigration judge has determined that a noncitizen may be deported to another country, that judge’s order “shall not be executed in circumstances that would violate Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.” And those regulations also establish a process that immigrants can use to raise concerns with an immigration judge that they may be tortured if sent to a specific country.

The Trump administration, however, claims it has discovered a loophole that renders all of these legal protections worthless, and is now asking the Supreme Court to explicitly give it the authority to make use of that loophole in order to enact its immigration policies.

According to President Donald Trump’s lawyers, the administration can simply wait until after an immigration judge has conducted the proceeding that ordinarily would determine whether a particular noncitizen may be deported to a particular country, and then, if that noncitizen is allowed to be deported, announce that the immigrant will be deported to some previously unmentioned country — even if that immigrant reasonably fears they will be tortured in that nation.

Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D., the case where the Trump administration asks the justices to neutralize the Convention Against Torture, is unlike some of the more high-profile deportation cases that reached the Supreme Court — such as the unlawful deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador — in that no one really questions that the immigrants at the heart of this case may be deported somewhere.

Read more: https://www.vox.com/scotus/416163/trump-supreme-court-deport-immigration-convention-torture

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— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser.bsky.social) 2025-06-09T22:49:49.676Z

[hildegaard28]

1. Wow

These people are just plain evil.

[ananda]

5. I know. I'm going, seriously?

Every time I think they can't go lower,
they do.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I never would have imaged a US president requesting this abomination.

[slightlv]

13. That's how I felt when we started doing all this torture under Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld.

I still believe they should be tried for war crimes. Trump isn't even using the illusion of war to justify his sadistic desire. And I don't doubt for a minute these "techniques" will be turned against American Citizens sooner rather than later. And we must insist on a Truth and Reconciliation committee when we finally get him out of the WH. Him, and his nazi friends.

[duhneece]

3. Among the cruelest actions they want nt

[republianmushroom]

4. Darker shades of Bush and AG Alberto Gonzales.

Is this where it started ?

[ananda]

6. And Dick Cheney.

It was bad enough then, but now it's so much worse.

[republianmushroom]

7. Never forget Bush and Cheney hand in this.

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[OMGWTF]

14. Never forget that Cheney The Dick made $39.5B from his BS no-bid contracts in his two BS wars of aggression.

That this mofo and his puppet GeeDumbya escaped a trial in The Hague for war crimes is a travesty.

[Solly Mack]

8. Color me not the least bit surprised or shocked.

[uppityperson]

9. W T F .

[Kablooie]

10. They are delightfully charming people, aren't they?

Watch the Stepford SCOTUS give him the power to Hitlerize everything in the US.

[Martin68]

11. Of course he did. Trump is trying to create a full-blown totalitarian dictatorship.

[OMGWTF]

12. Sick mofos. All of 'em.

[karin_sj]

15. Utterly disgusting

... but not surprising at all.

[Orrex]

16. Why the fuck doesn't he just die already?

[angrychair]

17. Really, I'm done

This is fucking insane. I mean batshit crazy fucking insane.
This asshole is literally asking for the ability to torture people or have them tortured in another country. What the hell is going on. This is not the world I hoped for as a kid. Literally the opposite. I am at a total loss for words.

[róisín_dubh]

18. I mean, we don't adhere to a lot of human rights treaties...

so why stop with this one (just in case)
For fucks sake this is nightmare fuel and will basically negate any of the country conditions reports I do for asylum seekers (many of them invoke the CAT in their asylum claims and rightly so).
Jesus fucking christ on a motorbike.