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Joan Friedman (MA, from NY)'s avatar

Thank you for the update. This whole affair, along with the snatching of Palestinian or Palestinian-supporting students, is horrendous. It is full-scale fascism at its worst (even Mussolini didn't do this kind of thing.)

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Betsy's avatar

This is horrific!

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Betsy's avatar

They also all need to be prosecuted

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Ron McCullough's avatar

Trump can't be prosecuted according to SCOTUS, and I'm guessing he can just pardon anyone connected with any illegality. The biggest thing though is what can the court do to force compliance if the Executive refuses to comply and has no integrity or shame or regard for Constitutional law.

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James Burnham's avatar

Presidential immunity applies only to the president.

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Bambi Doyon's avatar

They can with civil matters

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Ron McCullough's avatar

True. And I think proof is easier. It would have to come from a state or states. You know the DOJ will never cross Dear Leader.

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Bambi Doyon's avatar

That’s not completely true there are different ways or they wouldn’t bother.

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Ron McCullough's avatar

We may be talking about two different things here. The post was about prosecution. But the legal battles now are to reverse Executive Orders mostly, based on the fact that he has no Constitutional authority or Congressional laws passed to do any of it. They can't indict him but they can find what he is doing to be unconstitutional and illegal. Then we have the real crisis...what if he says screw you to the courts. It's then up to Congress to impeach him and remove him from office. Any bets on the likelihood of that?

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Lulu Manus's avatar

The irony here is the greatest abuser of due process denies others the right of due process.

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Gwynne's avatar

OMGoodness. This is good to hear. I pray for these people and it infuriates me that they are being held and housed illegally and inhumanely. The articles I've read say they have no pillows or blankets and they are severely crowded with no privacy. Noem and others are making a shameful spectacle out of this. They threaten, subdue, scare and intimidate people into staying silent. These proceedings cannot happen fast enough! I wasn't even sure if any of them had access to attorneys or any outside contacts-probably not yet. Abhorrent administration. I pray one day that yarvin, vought, musk, trump, vance, noem, homan, rubio and all involved (too many to name sadly) know the terror they have inflicted on others.

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MollyWhitebear's avatar

YES!! They all need to experience this terror themselves!

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Nora's avatar

The lengths that the tangerine turd and his enablers will go to should surprise absolutely nobody after he separated infants and babies from their parents with zero record keeping and no plan to reunite them.

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Katbg57's avatar

TRUTH!!

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Nina Gilliam's avatar

Wow. If the ILY (I Love You) sign in American Sign Language is proof of gang membership, then the entire American Deaf community and those who love them are violent gang members/terrorists, I guess.

You can count me as one of them. Come and get me.

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Katbg57's avatar

Ditto!

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gwHornPlayer's avatar

Due process protections have been intentionally violated here and the Administration has intentionally flouted the judges orders more than once. Great that Boasberg is holding his ground but the Constitutional crisis is in full, menacing bloom. No one should fantasize at this point that the government will begin to heed the judiciary’s (even SCOTUS’s) rulings. And SCOTUS will be tempted to “obey in advance” in order to maintain the absurd appearance of legitimacy and relevance. Let’s not kid ourselves about where this is headed.

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Gwynne's avatar

I still hope...I have to

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gwHornPlayer's avatar

We have to hope in order to act but there’s a fine line between hope and denial. To properly engage this fight we have to be clear eyed about exactly what we’re up against.

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Gwynne's avatar

Whatever it takes, we have to see it through. Thank you for adding your insights.

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gwHornPlayer's avatar

And thank you for yours! The sense of community is also essential, if we have any prayer whatsoever of prevailing.. I was at a protest today at a Tesla facility. The chants always make me feel powerless and ridiculous and pathetic. But the sense of community is energizing and reassuring. Absolutely critical.

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Laura Westbrook's avatar

Agree; about chants feel somewhat silly, but the sense of community, the signs… those matter.

Seems at least SOME of the republican congressional members may reconsider if enough of their own constituents are letting them know they object. Are any communities going after their elected officials to have them removed from office for not fulfilling the role for which they were elected?

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Laura Westbrook's avatar

🎵 🎶 singing on the other hand… that is evocative of so much emotion. Different emotions for different songs.

Songs have a POWERFUL impact (on most people).

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Mimi's avatar

This is cruel and terrifying. These are human beings! The fact that the Secretary of Homeland Security Noem flew with taxpayer dollars to the slave prison for a media blitz is disgusting. Using illegally detained prisoners as a backdrop is nauseating and reminiscent of Hitler’s concentration camps.

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Peggy Daly's avatar

Trump,Musk and Vance need

To check out the rooms in El Salvador’s for a week where

They sent people without due process. Let them feel the

Pain they are inflicting on

These Human Beings. I am appalled at their insensitivity.

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Kamm's avatar

Only a week? I think it should be longer...say a couple years to start. Maybe there they could learn something?!?

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James Burnham's avatar

Did they check Elon's tattoos?

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Lucyland's avatar

Or Kegseth’s?

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MollyWhitebear's avatar

Yeah! He's even got some pro-Nazi tats.

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Sharon Flynn's avatar

Justice Roberts: who thought it was a good idea to give 47 immunity? You and your court have emboldened a monster.

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Patricia Lane's avatar

It is unbelievable that these Trump/ ICE morons have ‘just decided’ to deport these individuals to prison in another country without one iota of truth designating who they are . They’re automatically enemies of the State. Trump is an enemy of the State. He has no goddamn knowledge of the laws of this country and never has . Making an ass of himself deporting these ‘not guilty of anything’ citizens and individuals with not even a nod to their humanity or their rights. Trump screamed about himself as a victim when an attempt ( legal) to hold him accountable for (his actions that we all witnessed. ) boo hoo. Damn Liar .

He’s always the victim who ‘ knows nothing’ .

I hope the Courts fry this case and do the right thing by getting these people back where they belong.

The cruelty is the point . Those that get back , should litigate the new criminal activities of this administration.

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Laurianne Perry's avatar

I shudder to think of what these poor people are going thru in that truly God awful prison ~

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Julie Jackson's avatar

Thank you, AG. I hope we all survive this. “First they came for the Communists…”

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Janelle's avatar

As always, AG, thank you for putting these horrible events in language I can understand. You are, and will remain, my most valuable source of information.

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Martha Lorantos's avatar

Is anything action being taken against the doxxing website Canary Mission? That is how ICE snatched Rumeysa Ozturk (Tufts student).

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