U.S. officials said in court filings on Sunday that they were not obligated to help a Maryland resident get out of prison in El Salvador after he was erroneously deported, despite a Supreme Court ruling directing the government to “facilitate” his return to the United States.
Attorneys for the administration of President Donald Trump said the high court’s order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia meant they should “remove any domestic obstacles that would otherwise impede the alien’s ability to return here,” not help extract him from El Salvador.
The Supreme Court says you’re required to! But even if you’re not required to, you shouldn’t have to be required to, you should do the right thing because it’s the right thing. Any decent president would be beside himself with guilt for sending someone to megaprison who shouldn’t be there
All these court orders don’t mean a thing, I piss on them, the courts have less honor than a goat. The courts are unwilling and/or unable to enforce their orders, and until they are willing or able, it’s just a show that’s wasting everyone’s time. The Trump administration is sending people to life in prison without a trial, without even charging folks with a crime, and the judges are standing on the side saying “but you can’t do that!” Well, guess what happy cappy, they’re doing it! So what now?
The SC was complicit when they chose the word “facilitate” instead of giving measurable tasks.
That’s so fucking little a requirement, it’s effectively not one. How no one saw this I don’t know.
And yet the Trump admin still failed to follow it
All they had to do (as an example) is tell someone, somewhere, that only one form of ID is enough to let him back into the country—if he happens to show up there—to be compliant.
Anything along these lines is “following the court order” to facilitate his return.
That’s the problem, SCOTUS saw it and specifically reduced it from effectuate down to facilitate.
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Well, in the end they can’t force another country to return someone, even if they wrote it in plain English. There is only so much that can actually be done. I’d be surprised if The World’s Coolest Dictator^TM was that opposed to returning the person, if alive, though.
Republicans:
instructions unclear, doing the reich thing instead
Their runaround is stupid. “Well it said we only need to FACILITATE, and he’s in Salvadorian custody, so all we can do is ASK them. Since Bukele doesn’t WANT to, we can’t really do much else, we’re just some backwater little regional power compared to the mighty El Salvador.”
America will always do the right thing.
After they’ve tried literally everything else.
Ohh, sometimes not even then. Sometimes we walk backward. Like right now.