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Since the Judiciary seem to be the only ones pushing back against the Federal overreach it makes sense to them go after them first. I don't expect Congress to
by daheza 1y ago
Since the Judiciary seem to be the only ones pushing back against the Federal overreach it makes sense to them go after them first.
I don't expect Congress to start getting arrested until or if they ever do any significant pushback against Trump and his cronies.
This is America now, the land of the lawless and unjust. Prepare accordingly people, if they do not like what you are doing they will use their full power to stop you.
- frumplestlatz 1y ago[flagged]
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoIt is absolutely federal overreach to send people to foreign torture prisons (or even domestic utopian cuddle farms) without due process, full stop.
- frumplestlatz 1y ago[flagged]
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoIt's applying reality to your abstract question. Almost no one disagrees with enforcing federal immigration law. The pushback has to do with the illegal manner in which it's happening in reality. One of the most pernicious memes among the pseudo-intellect crowd is isolating an event from its context and then saying "see, not a problem in isolation!" But these things are not happening in isolation. With high enough levels of motivated pseudo-intellectual dissection, you can portray a fatal car crash as a series of mundane procedural details and then just say "what bearing does the fatality have on it?"
- potsandpans 1y ago[flagged]
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- sorcerer-mar 1y agoPernicious is the right word. Sorry if that triggered you.
- potsandpans 1y agoCorrect word, actually
- CamperBob2 1y agoIf you have reason to believe that someone will be deprived of due process, which the Trump administration has essentially assured us, then it's a serious ethical violation to allow that to happen in your jurisdiction. And by the way, the reason why due process is important is that it's all that stands between you and me and a permanent vacation in El Salvador, if we do or say something that offends the Trumpists sufficiently.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoArguably even a violation of one's oath to the US Constitution, in fact.
- typeofhuman 1y ago[flagged]
- crooked-v 1y agoIt doesn't.
- typeofhuman 1y agoWe shall see.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoOh good, a comment I can reply to: If there is an invasion of millions of people, are you suggesting the federal government would have to merely say that you are one of them in order to pack you and your family into an airplane to a foreign slave camp for the rest of their lives, without even giving you an opportunity to argue that you're not one of those "invaders"? Give a direct answer please.
- typeofhuman 1y agoI trust the government to reasonably determine whether someone is an illegal immigrant. The courts can determine if that process is reasonable. I don't think illegal immigrant "invaders" are entitled to due process (especially when they are gang members). If we didn't have that then we'd have a gaping hole for foreign adversaries to exploit. Send their people to do harm, bog down our courts, and our government has no recourse. Does every enemy combatant get "due process" when they are engaged by US military personnel? No. Are police officers required to provide "due process" when using their firearm on a dangerous perp? No. We entrust them with the agency to act accordingly and there are systems for review.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoIt was a yes or no question, but hey I guess a comment literally 100% full of incorrect information works too. > I trust the government to reasonably determine whether someone is an illegal immigrant. Your trust is demonstrably misplaced. We already know with 100% certainty that American citizens have been detained beyond the permissible 24hr window without charges. We already know with 100% certainty that completely legal immigrants were deported. > The courts can determine if that process is reasonable They have. 9 to 0, SCOTUS said the process is not reasonable. > I don't think illegal immigrant "invaders" are entitled to due process (especially when they are gang members). Can you show me this carveout in the 14th or 5th Amendments? (You can't) > Does every enemy combatant get "due process" when they are engaged by US military personnel? No. Are US military personnel regularly engaging enemy combatants within US jurisdiction under which the 14th and 5th Amendments apply? And in any case, even abroad: yes there is a process for legally authorizing specific military engagements. > Are police officers required to provide "due process" when using their firearm on a dangerous perp? No. Using your firearm on a dangerous perp is only legal in an immediate defense context, it is not a legal punishment for breaking the law. If you want to use your firearm on a dangerous perp as legal punishment, then yes, they will get due process first. It's called being "sentenced to death," and is pretty much the most elaborate form of due process we have. > We entrust them with the agency to act accordingly and there are systems for review. Funny you say that, because the current administration's argument is quite literally the opposite. Their specific legal argument is that courts do not have any right of judicial review over their deportations.
- Hikikomori 1y agoWould call it an overreach to turn ICE into their own version of the brownshirts and disappear people without due process.
- bix6 1y agoThe immigration laws that they themselves are breaking by depriving due process? Come on now.
- MisterBastahrd 1y agoIt's patently anti-American to deny people due process. Refusing to give information to fascists who believe they have no restraint of jurisdiction is the lesser of two evils here.
- tclancy 1y agoThat is begging about four questions.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoI already see several in peer comments.
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- dekhn 1y agoIt depends on the nature of the federal action. If they do illegal things to enforce a law, that would be overreach.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoHey, regardless of your stance on borders and immigration, maybe let's not normalize defending the United State's horrible immigration law enforcement as it stands by doing this weird interrogative gotcha game.
- DrillShopper 1y ago[flagged]
- Aeolun 1y agoPlease learn how to shoot and handle a gun, before you arm yourself.
- paganel 1y ago> I don't expect Congress to start getting arrested until or if they ever do any significant pushback against Trump and his cronies They won't, or they would have done so already. Granted, I'm not an American so I might be seeing things the wrong way from the other side of the planet, but it has been 3 months already, enough time for Congress to at least be seen as doing something, anything.
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