That's the unfortunate powder keg we're sitting on. Right now everyone's still generally keeping up appearances that the rules matter. It's getting pretty thin

That's the unfortunate powder keg we're sitting on. Right now everyone's still generally keeping up appearances that the rules matter. It's getting pretty thin in places. The dance the Trump admin is doing with the courts over Abrego Garcia serves multiple purposes. It gives a veneer of compliance - DoJ lawyers are showing up to hearings, they are filing briefings, they are participating in the process. It would be extremely fair to say they're not participating in good faith, the strategy clearly intends to delay and deflect any meaningful implementation of the court's order to bring Abrego Garcia back to the US. But they are participating. This appearance keeps a lot of folks on the fence. They want the big moment where it's super obvious that it's time to act. It doesn't work like that. This is how fascists gnaw away at the constructs that enable free societies. https://archive.is/g6ElI https://archive.is/g6ElI > Invoking Article 1 of the Weimar constitution, which stated that the government was an expression of the will of the people, Hitler informed the court that once he had achieved power through legal means, he intended to mold the government as he saw fit. It was an astonishingly brazen statement. > “So, through constitutional means?” the presiding judge asked. > “Jawohl!” Hitler replied.