"A constitutional ruling cannot be reduced to a temporary directive that must be relitigated each time," the judge said. "The Constitution does not contemplate violations in installments."

A federal judge in West Virginia has given the Trump administration an ultimatum: Stop illegally detaining immigrants or face contempt rulings and “monetary sanctions against responsible officials.”

“Today, the Government continues to wrongfully detain those petitioners without due process,” [Goodwin’s] opinion reads. “Even now the Government incredulously asserts that the federal district courts do not have jurisdiction, that petitioners cannot raise due process violations, and that the Government has authority to mandatorily and indefinitely detain noncitizens in the local jail. The Government is wrong. Judges in this district have said that over and over and over again. I have said it myself.”

  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Lemmy really hates it when people with legal authority actually use that authority to do something. I guess they’d prefer if they all just rolled over and let the Nazis win.

    • Taldan@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 hours ago

      They’re not doing anything. They’re merely saying they could do something in the future

      Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do

      If the judges handing out these warnings agreed with the illegal detentions, but didn’t want to explicitly break the law themselves, what would they do differently? I don’t think anything. If they wanted these illegal detentions to happen, while still covering their own ass, they’d do exactly this: Drag their feet on doing any action, while verbally condemning the government breaking the law