The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday morning, asking the justices to allow it to enforce an executive order that directs government officials to quickly remove, without a hearing, noncitizens who are designated as members of a Venezuelan gang. The order relies on a 1798 law that until now has only been invoked during wartime.
I don’t see SCOTUS allowing this in this context, but they will reaffirm that it is valid during wartime.
Which just means we’re going to be in a shooting war in Central America by summer.
The MAGAs will just do what Republicans did long ago, when they declared a “War on Drugs.” Most citizens thought it just meant that they were taking the issue seriously, but what it really meant was that by declaring a “War,” they could take advantage of numerous policies that were only intended to be used during wartime.
So MAGA will declare a War on Illegal Immigrants, and use that to justify their cruel, unAmerican behavior.
I thought that’s what the silliness with Greenland and Canada was for….
He thinks Europe and the rest of NATO is a bunch of freeloaders, living under (expensive) security provided by the US. All the Canada/Greenland talk is bluster to get Europe to spend money on their own military.
The scary shit is the Birthright Citizenship stuff, and he doesn’t even actually care about either “birthright” or “citizenship”. What he cares about is the 14th amendment phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”.
The kind of people who are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the US are agents of a foreign government. Generally, we think “diplomat”, but the other major group is “enemy combatants”. Enemy invaders are not subject to US law, and are not entitled to constitutional protections. They can be targeted by the military. If captured, they can be detained indefinitely (until the conclusion of never-ending hostilities) as POWs, or deported without involving the courts.
He wants to solve the immigration problem with Apache gunships, B-52s, Abrams tanks, and the 82nd airborne, rather than ICE and the courts. If he needs a war to do that, a war we shall have.
I think you’re underestimating him. First of all the evidece in fact points towards him actually trying to go through with annexing Greenland. Which he might want for its ressources but it would also put him in a much better position against Canada and since he’d be loathed by all his former allies anyway at this point he might as well go all in. Also none of what’s happening is intended to solve the so called immigration problem. It’s first and foremost a front for forced labor. And it’s not gonna stop at immigrants. If they declare you an enemy combatant and throw you in jail it doesn’t matter if you actually are or if your political activism just inconvenienced them. You can’t do anything about it because at that point your consitutional protection is already gone.