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Breaking- FederalJudge (Original Post) malaise Yesterday OP
...... H2O Man Yesterday #1
Thank you my friend malaise Yesterday #2
Glad to! H2O Man Yesterday #6
ouch, my head hurts , but gets the genearl idear. AllaN01Bear Yesterday #37
From the response H2O Man Yesterday #38
Next up, Trump deports the judge Orrex Yesterday #3
Impeachment #3 will come first malaise Yesterday #7
This Congress and Senate will not impeach/remove Trump PJMcK Yesterday #28
A few deaths and resignations can change numbers malaise Yesterday #29
I admire your optimism! PJMcK Yesterday #31
We would need to flip a MINIMUM of 18 Senators..... lastlib Yesterday #39
If the Dems take the House back next year, I'd say it's on the to-do list. calimary 21 hrs ago #44
Even if he is not convicted, an impeachment is an impeachment soldierant 23 hrs ago #42
Ummm - Trump** appointed the judge. soldierant 23 hrs ago #40
All the more reason (nt) Orrex 22 hrs ago #43
Happy to hear it. OLDMDDEM Yesterday #4
So it'll be like all these other cases, they'll move to the SC and bingo.....change to allow. a kennedy Yesterday #5
I think that H2O Man Yesterday #8
it has to be on the record NJCher Yesterday #11
You noticed that too orangecrush Yesterday #17
Pisses me off malaise 14 hrs ago #47
Can we just deport Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon instead? Initech Yesterday #9
No atreides1 Yesterday #10
Don't threaten us with a good time. MontanaMama Yesterday #15
Really like this idea..... a kennedy Yesterday #12
How about every member of the Russian mafia in this country? sop Yesterday #24
Agreed! If these assholes want to live in Russia so badly, they can go live there. Initech Yesterday #25
Why BeerBarrelPolka Yesterday #30
if we could keep the immigrants and deport the supremacists Skittles Yesterday #36
Keep the immigrants, deport the supremacists! Initech 10 hrs ago #50
I've said it many times Skittles 6 hrs ago #51
We can do both malaise 14 hrs ago #48
K&R!!! - So now KRASNOV will keep on and use his immunity? UTUSN Yesterday #13
A Dump appointee, no less mcar Yesterday #14
They won't listen and will do what they please anyway. appleannie1 Yesterday #16
Until we accept the reality of what we have to do to stop this, they most certainly will! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E 14 hrs ago #45
Constitution Iamscrewed Yesterday #18
Another greatest page from malaise! Nt spooky3 Yesterday #19
Will they comply? surfered Yesterday #20
Duh. We're not at War, for Chrissakes. maxsolomon Yesterday #21
More here malaise Yesterday #22
Justice prevails! Dark n Stormy Knight Yesterday #23
Boggles my mind too. Dark SheltieLover Yesterday #27
" I cannot believe so many Americans are fine with the Trump regime's blatant fascism." OldBaldy1701E 14 hrs ago #46
But will kraznov listen & obey? I think not. SheltieLover Yesterday #26
Nope. Courts have little enforcement powers.. Buttoneer Yesterday #32
They have options, but aren't using them. SheltieLover Yesterday #33
YES! spanone Yesterday #34
Deadline: Legal Blog---Trump-appointed judge calls Trump's Alien Enemies Act invocation 'unlawful' LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #35
Email from the ACLU ... donate if you can ... cliffside 23 hrs ago #41
Doesn't mean he won't stop trying. louis-t 10 hrs ago #49

H2O Man

(76,704 posts)
6. Glad to!
Thu May 1, 2025, 12:53 PM
Yesterday

And if I wasn't getting ready to head to a rally, I'd have said more. The Rule of Law will be challenged in the late spring/summer by the administration. We are approaching that now. And this is the field the conflict will play out on.

H2O Man

(76,704 posts)
38. From the response
Thu May 1, 2025, 10:21 PM
Yesterday

the rally I attended in rural, upstate New York, I am confident that a widening number of people recognize this administration poses serious dangers, and must be stopped.

PJMcK

(23,551 posts)
28. This Congress and Senate will not impeach/remove Trump
Thu May 1, 2025, 03:57 PM
Yesterday

As much as I hope for such an outcome, Trump will be safe until he screws over the elected Republicans and they turn on him.

I don't expect that to happen any time soon.

Pity.

PJMcK

(23,551 posts)
31. I admire your optimism!
Thu May 1, 2025, 06:58 PM
Yesterday

It'll take a dozen or seats in the House to flip for an impeachment resolution to pass. There will be a lot of resistance from Republicans, of course, and the right wing media.

But, as you know, the Senate is the key for removal. It will have to be a catastrophic circumstance for Republicans to vote for Trump's removal. I just don't see that happening because these asshole Republicans are so far up Trump's backside that it seems unlikely they will turn on him.

Unless it becomes a total shit show. Then anything could happen. However, my fear is that if we reach that inflection point, the US will have been so damaged that its recovery will take years beyond my lifetime.

lastlib

(25,822 posts)
39. We would need to flip a MINIMUM of 18 Senators.....
Thu May 1, 2025, 10:42 PM
Yesterday
Eighteen who are so drugged on the Kool-Aid that nothing short of an apocalypse would turn them. With the Senate seats that are up in 2026, we would be fortunate to gain two seats unless another 2008-esque crisis occurs. It's a long shot, at best.

KFC/hamberders, do your thing--PLEASE!!

calimary

(86,040 posts)
44. If the Dems take the House back next year, I'd say it's on the to-do list.
Fri May 2, 2025, 01:40 AM
21 hrs ago

Up near the top.

AND pushed HARD by us, their constituents, so they’re crystal clear as to what we want from them.

We have to get LOUD, REPETITIVE, and UNRELENTING. At EVERY turn. They have to feel surrounded and outweighed and damn near suffocated by the sheer numbers of us. They’re pretty damn thick-headed, so we have to be OVERWHELMING.

soldierant

(8,444 posts)
42. Even if he is not convicted, an impeachment is an impeachment
Thu May 1, 2025, 11:35 PM
23 hrs ago

and we will be able to put a third asterisk behind his name. I wonder how many the total will be.

a kennedy

(33,400 posts)
5. So it'll be like all these other cases, they'll move to the SC and bingo.....change to allow.
Thu May 1, 2025, 12:53 PM
Yesterday

🤬 🤬 🤬 I hope I’m wrong, but I just feel so like who cares what all these judges say, the orange piece of shit and his cronies will just ignore the directives anyway.

H2O Man

(76,704 posts)
8. I think that
Thu May 1, 2025, 12:55 PM
Yesterday

is a rational concern. But I think the USSC will rule against the felon. That sets up what will happen when he ignores the highest court in the land.

NJCher

(39,923 posts)
11. it has to be on the record
Thu May 1, 2025, 01:04 PM
Yesterday

every time we get a positive decision, there's always a poster who shrugs it off and says he ignores it anyway.

Can we all agree that is probably the case and that we're just doing this for the record? Save everybody the trouble of making yet another post that says he'll ignore it?

Save time making the post, save others reading it.

Initech

(104,623 posts)
9. Can we just deport Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon instead?
Thu May 1, 2025, 01:00 PM
Yesterday

Nothing of value would be lost there!

atreides1

(16,635 posts)
10. No
Thu May 1, 2025, 01:02 PM
Yesterday

They would only do what they do from another location. I'm afraid that it'll have to be something a little more permanent than deportation...

Initech

(104,623 posts)
25. Agreed! If these assholes want to live in Russia so badly, they can go live there.
Thu May 1, 2025, 03:48 PM
Yesterday

And leave us alone!

Skittles

(163,826 posts)
36. if we could keep the immigrants and deport the supremacists
Thu May 1, 2025, 08:35 PM
Yesterday

THAT would make America great again; yes INDEED.

Skittles

(163,826 posts)
51. I've said it many times
Fri May 2, 2025, 03:58 PM
6 hrs ago

I'll take an undocumented immigrant as a neighbor ANY DAY over a flag-waving, Bible-thumping MAGAt - because one BELIEVES in America, the other one certainly DOES NOT.

UTUSN

(74,020 posts)
13. K&R!!! - So now KRASNOV will keep on and use his immunity?
Thu May 1, 2025, 01:17 PM
Yesterday

Last edited Thu May 1, 2025, 08:00 PM - Edit history (1)

OldBaldy1701E

(7,748 posts)
45. Until we accept the reality of what we have to do to stop this, they most certainly will! (n/t)
Fri May 2, 2025, 07:48 AM
14 hrs ago

Iamscrewed

(190 posts)
18. Constitution
Thu May 1, 2025, 02:07 PM
Yesterday

Impeachment is necessary because of violation of the oath of office. Full fucking stop.

maxsolomon

(36,456 posts)
21. Duh. We're not at War, for Chrissakes.
Thu May 1, 2025, 02:41 PM
Yesterday

Now, to quibble about it for months all the way to the SCOTUS.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,359 posts)
23. Justice prevails!
Thu May 1, 2025, 02:55 PM
Yesterday

For now. I cannot believe so many Americans are fine with the Trump regime's blatant fascism. I knew there were some, but 44% approving of Pissolini's masked goon squads in unmarked vans and no ID badges snatching people off the streets. It simply boggles my mind.

SheltieLover

(67,176 posts)
27. Boggles my mind too. Dark
Thu May 1, 2025, 03:52 PM
Yesterday

I honestly believe they cannot connect the dots. It's a short trip from immigrants go citizens!

Nice to see you agan!

OldBaldy1701E

(7,748 posts)
46. " I cannot believe so many Americans are fine with the Trump regime's blatant fascism."
Fri May 2, 2025, 07:52 AM
14 hrs ago

To quote the great comedian Tim Wilson: "Well, there's your problem."

SheltieLover

(67,176 posts)
26. But will kraznov listen & obey? I think not.
Thu May 1, 2025, 03:50 PM
Yesterday

Incoming limp-dick weak finger wag in 3, 2, 1...

SheltieLover

(67,176 posts)
33. They have options, but aren't using them.
Thu May 1, 2025, 07:54 PM
Yesterday

Someone posted a lengthy explanation.

Lock them the fuck up.

LetMyPeopleVote

(162,387 posts)
35. Deadline: Legal Blog---Trump-appointed judge calls Trump's Alien Enemies Act invocation 'unlawful'
Thu May 1, 2025, 08:30 PM
Yesterday

The Texas judge’s ruling is significant because it dealt head-on with the merits of the wartime law. It’s not the last word on the issue.
https://bsky.app/profile/photoframd.bsky.social/post/3lo5gx4mso22b

Trump-appointed judge calls Trump’s Alien Enemies Act invocation ‘unlawful’. The Texas judge’s ruling is significant because it dealt head-on with the merits of the wartime law.



https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/alien-enemies-act-invocation-unlawful-rcna204232

President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act has faced intense preliminary litigation in courts around the country, leading to rulings such as the Supreme Court’s insistence that people potentially subject to the act must receive due process. But a new and significant ruling from a Trump-appointed judge on Thursday gets to the heart of the matter, deeming the president’s invocation itself “unlawful.”

The 1798 act was previously used only during declared wars. The text of the act says it’s for “[w]henever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government.”.....

The Trump appointee reviewed the historical record from the time of the act’s passage and found that the terms “invasion” or “predatory incursion” are meant to refer to “an organized, armed force entering the United States to engage in conduct destructive of property and human life in a specific geographical area.” Applying that background to Trump’s proclamation, the judge said TdA’s activities as described in the proclamation don’t qualify under the act.

While this is just one ruling from one (Trump-appointed) judge in one district, it shows the difficulty the administration could face in ultimately prevailing before the Supreme Court on the merits of the issue. Other trial and appellate court judges around the country could also favorably cite Rodriguez’s ruling if they agree with it, though they wouldn’t be bound by it. Trial judges are bound by appellate rulings in their circuits, and all judges are bound by the Supreme Court. Rodriguez sits in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the most conservative circuit, which would typically be the next step on the appellate chain if the government chooses to challenge the ruling.

In any event, Rodriguez’s decision doesn’t prevent the administration from using normal immigration authorities outside the rarely used act to carry out deportations.

The new ruling also underscores the illegality of the administration having already summarily removed people to El Salvador under the act and deposited them into a notorious prison there. Lawyers are also pressing to get them returned to the United States. And the ruling comes as the administration fights against returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native who was also illegally deported to that country (albeit not under the Alien Enemies invocation).

The invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is not supported by the law and I am shocked that it has taken this long for a court to rule on this act. I saw that trump is appealing directly to SCOTUS and by passing the 5th Circuit. This will be fun to watch.

cliffside

(886 posts)
41. Email from the ACLU ... donate if you can ...
Thu May 1, 2025, 11:34 PM
23 hrs ago

"we just won a major victory in our lawsuit to stop President Trump's mass deportations.

A federal court in southern Texas ruled the Trump administration's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to conduct mass deportations of immigrants without due process is unlawful. The court blocked the administration from using it to deport anyone being held in the Southern District of Texas, which will prevent more people from being sent to CECOT, a prison in El Salvador notorious for torture.

Immigrants are, and always have been, an integral part of our country. And they, too, are protected by U.S. laws and the Constitution.

We still have a lot of work to do – but we will keep fighting to protect immigrants in every state from Trump's unlawful mass deportations.

Thank you for your support,

The ACLU Team"

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