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> Many are not "fine" with it and legal actions are proceeding. Legal actions won't bring someone back from a Salvadorian gulag. If it were an US camp, a judge
by mschuster91 2y ago
> Many are not "fine" with it and legal actions are proceeding.
Legal actions won't bring someone back from a Salvadorian gulag. If it were an US camp, a judge and his marshals could have traveled to the camp and demanded the release, but in El Salvador US judges don't have any legal authority. The best they can do is try to hold Trump himself or someone in the chain of command accountable by, say, arresting them - but that would yield an immediate constitutional crisis because there is no way anyone powerful enough doesn't also have Secret Service or other protection under their command.
That is the entire issue: there is no trust that this government will obey a court order any more. They have already shown that they do not give a shit about Congressional funding allotments so what makes you think the current administration will not do just the same with court rulings?