When you have a felon (yes, I'm talking about you, TACOman) who was convicted of 34 counts for falsifying business records, lost 2 cases of sexual abuse and defamation against E. Jean Carroll and continues to give the middle finger to court ruling against him, it's not at all surprising that he would appoint shyster lawyers who have not one ounce of respect for the courts or the rule of law. It is high time that we stopped calling it the Department of Justice and renamed it the Ministry of Injustice or the Illegal Deportation Committee.
At what point can Administration lawyers be charged with perjury for lying in court? What they’ve done goes far beyond mere contempt and is dabbling in obstruction.
Very disturbing. Growing up hearing about how people turned a blind eye to Asian Americans and German and Italians being put in internment camps and the horrors done to Black Americans and Native Americans, I thought how far we have come as a country and I was glad to know of our history but proud we where heading out of barbaric times. Then in college when George W. had the potential “evildoer” Middle Eastern people stripped of guaranteed rights, the knot in my stomach started that today sits like a rock.
It was one thing for Trump to lose cases before the election all the way to the Supreme Court, then have them swoop in and save him personally. It's quite another to have his administration lose dozens upon dozens of cases at every level of the lower courts, including to judges appointed by Trump in his first term, to then have the Supreme Court swoop in to save him. We haven't yet had a huge Supreme Court win for Trump reversing every lower court ruling - but they're already playing the same game, allowing actions to proceed while they sit on the cases. Today's ruling allowing deportations of TPS migrants to be sent to countries deemed unsafe while to case is considered is the latest example.
It feels it'll eventually get to the point where we bar any lower court from hearing an administration case and just send it to the Supreme Court for quick disposition. Or is that already in the Big Beautiful Bullshit Bill?
Very familiar tactics used by the administration- we are all so dreadfully tired of them and tired also of seeing how successful they are so long as the six conservatives on the court let the Executive get away with them. But ACB shows signs of disenchantment and the Solicitor General's brazen misrepresentations may hasten her departure.
Chief Justice John Marshall would (and SCOTUS should) agree that the government lawyers are making a mockery of our Constitution. Writing for SCOTUS, Chief Justice Marshall emphasized in Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803) that anyone who violates his oath to support our Constitution (required by Article VI) is guilty of “worse than solemn mockery” of our Constitution. In a later opinion for SCOTUS (Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. (6 Wheat.) 264 (1821)), Chief Justice Marshall emphasized that any federal employee “usurp[ing]” any power “not given” in the Constitution commits “treason to the Constitution.” That was reiterated by Chief Justice Burger speaking for SCOTUS in United States v. Will, 449 U.S. 200 (1980).
I love Lisa’s writing! She lays her story out so well without getting lost in the weeds! Thanks PN!
When you have a felon (yes, I'm talking about you, TACOman) who was convicted of 34 counts for falsifying business records, lost 2 cases of sexual abuse and defamation against E. Jean Carroll and continues to give the middle finger to court ruling against him, it's not at all surprising that he would appoint shyster lawyers who have not one ounce of respect for the courts or the rule of law. It is high time that we stopped calling it the Department of Justice and renamed it the Ministry of Injustice or the Illegal Deportation Committee.
I am reminded of Martin Niemöller’s 1946 poem “First They Came”:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
The pastor's poem has never been more relevant than at this time of America's Dark Ages.
Agreed
That's been a daily reminder ever since T-rex 2.0's first EO.
Aye
At what point can Administration lawyers be charged with perjury for lying in court? What they’ve done goes far beyond mere contempt and is dabbling in obstruction.
Very disturbing. Growing up hearing about how people turned a blind eye to Asian Americans and German and Italians being put in internment camps and the horrors done to Black Americans and Native Americans, I thought how far we have come as a country and I was glad to know of our history but proud we where heading out of barbaric times. Then in college when George W. had the potential “evildoer” Middle Eastern people stripped of guaranteed rights, the knot in my stomach started that today sits like a rock.
Excellent article. Also highly disturbing.
It was one thing for Trump to lose cases before the election all the way to the Supreme Court, then have them swoop in and save him personally. It's quite another to have his administration lose dozens upon dozens of cases at every level of the lower courts, including to judges appointed by Trump in his first term, to then have the Supreme Court swoop in to save him. We haven't yet had a huge Supreme Court win for Trump reversing every lower court ruling - but they're already playing the same game, allowing actions to proceed while they sit on the cases. Today's ruling allowing deportations of TPS migrants to be sent to countries deemed unsafe while to case is considered is the latest example.
It feels it'll eventually get to the point where we bar any lower court from hearing an administration case and just send it to the Supreme Court for quick disposition. Or is that already in the Big Beautiful Bullshit Bill?
Bleak, but we need to know the depths of the Supremes' corruption.
Very familiar tactics used by the administration- we are all so dreadfully tired of them and tired also of seeing how successful they are so long as the six conservatives on the court let the Executive get away with them. But ACB shows signs of disenchantment and the Solicitor General's brazen misrepresentations may hasten her departure.
Chief Justice John Marshall would (and SCOTUS should) agree that the government lawyers are making a mockery of our Constitution. Writing for SCOTUS, Chief Justice Marshall emphasized in Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803) that anyone who violates his oath to support our Constitution (required by Article VI) is guilty of “worse than solemn mockery” of our Constitution. In a later opinion for SCOTUS (Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. (6 Wheat.) 264 (1821)), Chief Justice Marshall emphasized that any federal employee “usurp[ing]” any power “not given” in the Constitution commits “treason to the Constitution.” That was reiterated by Chief Justice Burger speaking for SCOTUS in United States v. Will, 449 U.S. 200 (1980).