Good so imprison them all and all who agree to doing this right?
Always nice when a judge confirms something we’ve all seen with our eyes.
Now put them in prison.
Soooo are they in prison?
Who? White guy #248 with a mask?
Maybe it’s me who just doesn’t understand the law, but it’s exhausting constantly seeing judges determine ICE is flagrently violating the law and all they do is say “oh now you’d better stop breaking the law”… Is it beyond the purview of the judiciary to impose actual penalties for wrongdoing?
The executive branch enforces the judicial branch’s interpretation of the laws passed by the legislative branch. I believe there’s a small judicial police department, but really all of the checks and balances we were taught about are gentleman’s agreements. If say the legislative branch decides that the head of state is God king of the golden shower, praise be upon him, and the executive branch agrees, it doesn’t really matter that the judicial branch thinks it’s illegal.
They have the Marshalls. But they can also deputize people to enforce Court orders.
The biggest hurdle federal judges face right now is the pardon power. They effectively can’t hold the administration in criminal contempt because Trump can make it go away.
Which leaves them with civil contempt, which is really difficult to enforce.
I believe there’s a small judicial police department
The US Marshalls. Not that small.
American judges have been hobbled by decades of Republican legislation and judicial interpretations as well.
The American court system has fucked itself into a corner where judges have to make these incredibly dumb technical rulings in specific interpretations and precedence, whereas as judges in many other western countries have much more freedom to look at the big picture or take into account systemic effects.
Is it beyond the purview of the judiciary to impose actual penalties for wrongdoing?
Sort of. The problem is, the country has gotten so completely apathetic and desensitized that no one is ensuring the Executive branch is kept in check. This is what happens when you allow one branch of government to become so completely corrupted. Especially the branch that actually has the muscle/dumb grunts.
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump issued a sharply-worded opinion
Holy shit. That’ll teach em
I lol’d in the traditional meaning
Oooh. Lemme guess, nothing happens. Hey fellas, go rape children. Zero consequences, precedence set.
Hey fellas, go rape children.
No, I don’t think that I will.
There are very few laws that punish unconstitutional behavior by officials, and even those that exist (like the constitutional limit on the President receiving gifts and honors) have been largely ignored on pretenses (like the golden jet being gifted to a legal entity in Trump’s name instead of to him directly).
That is probably something I would change. It should be a crime for any government official to try to stifle free speech, to deny due process rights, or any other right granted by the Constitution. The punishment should involve the threat of being automatically removed from office and barred from similar offices in the future.
But this is on the background of a judicial system that invented “qualified immunity” to essentially limit the scope of applicable law so that even very egregious violations are protected.
“This thing you’re doing is VERY illegal! You better stop doing it or else!”
North Mexico nowadays.
The only good thing about the Republican Regimes are how incompetent they are.
That’s a trait of all fascist regimes.
The incompetence of hitler and several other key figures was hugely important in their defeat, mussolini never made the trains run on time despite the popular saying.
Then explain why North Korea’s fascist regime hasn’t fallen yet. That’s three generations of “incompetence,” with no end in sight!
Face it: declaring that fascists are inherently incompetent (thus implying the problem will sort itself out eventually and you won’t have to work to defeat them yourself) is nothing but pure hopium.
I wish, but the red fascists seem to be doing pretty well right now, except for that brief rough patch the USSR had before electing their new despot.
More strict than the bill of rights?
Anyone else feel like a modern day school house rock video would just be depressing?
Instead of “I’m just a bill on capitol hill” it would be “I’m just a nazi, running and gunning the government like yahtzee!”
Will this have effects ? if not this year, maybe this century ? it seems many judges have been dropping many hammers …then what ?
The sound of judicial hammers is the mating call of the civil lawyer.
