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  1. https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/breaking-down-the-immigration-figures/
  2. I know someone else that "hid behind due process" JD.
  3. One thing that's pretty shocking, the judgments from the Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals on A G's original removal case are shockingly thin. "Someone said he was in MS-13." Although they did state that it was a "known and reliable source," apparently the indicted cop above. So, that's the kind of due process immigrants receive here.
  4. Also Birchall, a Mormon fixer, harks back to Howard Hughes, Jr. Noah Dietrich and the rest of the Mormon Mafia. We need this era from Elmo sooner than later. I feel it's coming.
  5. That is, though, precisely the point. Until he is tried and convicted, or pleads guilty, he's not a murderer. It certainly appears that he is guilty of a homicide crime, most likely murder, but we don't know the full story yet, either. And some aspects of the full story could provide defenses that lead to acquittal or reduction of the crime to manslaughter. We don't convict people of crimes based on appearances. That statement seems to work better when the apparent facts seem more complicated than what we see here, but it is nevertheless just as true.
  6. He's actually quite a successful con man.
  7. FamILy VaLUeS! What a weird, arrogant motherfucker.
  8. So, I found this book series on Kindle Unlimited by an English guy named Andy Maslen. It's the Gabriel Wolfe series of books. Wolfe is kind of your British ex-SAS Reacher-type guy, but there's some extra interest because of the English setting and also Hong Kong. So I finished the Wolfe Series and enjoyed them as light leisure reading. And started another series by the same author featuring an English female detective, who winds up doing a bunch of Reacher-type shit herself, not quite as extreme. Less extreme I suppose because she wasn't an SAS trooper and is a chick. But I'm not enjoying it as much. I don't know if this is latent sexism on my part, or maybe the author doesn't write women as well as men. I can't put my finger on it. The two series were written pretty contemporaneously, so I can't really attribute it to some development in the author's style. EDIT TO ADD: Before the Wolfe series, I read a three-book series by the same guy, also featuring an English cop, but male. But less of a badass than either the Wolfe guy or the female detective, more reliant on smarts than fighting ability. So it's not the sort of military vs. civilian milieu. Maybe I'm just a pig. Anyone have a similar experience?
  9. Well, I guess you can say he never should have filed that declaration or let that guy say that. But, that starts to involve a lack of candor with the court. As brisket often says, when you have an evidentiary shit sandwich, like the fact that Abrego Garcia's deportation was in error, you take a big bite right at the outset, you don't try to hide and ignore it.
  10. From a more realistic perspective, how the fuck am I supposed to "focus for now on winning this"? I didn't start it, I didn't want it. I have no control over it. I have even less control over China than I do of Donald fucking Trump and his fucked up policies. To win this, I have to rely on Trump and his circus of clowns to win this. I don't have much confidence.
  11. He's Venezuelan, so there is even less "regularity" to his being deported to El Salvador. I believe he is a plaintiff in the other case before Boasberg. I was just reminded that during Trump I, there were these agreements with ES, Honduras, and El Salvador where US asylum seekers could be and were removed to those countries to seek asylum there as alleged "safe countries." And UK had one with Rwanda of all places, but no one was removed there before it was declared unconstitutional. https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/el-salvadors-controversial-offer-housing-u-s-criminals-in-its-mega-prison/
  12. Probably important to acknowledge that, other than diplomatic protests or actions, the US has no say over what Bukele does with his citizens, like Abrego Garcia. Or very little. And, accordingly, it would be problematic/impossible for a US court to order or otherwise force a foreign leader to return a foreign citizen from his home country. Trumpco is trying to pretend that that is the end of the inquiry. Of course, Abrego Garcia is there because a) we sent him there b) not merely as a returnee to ES to wander around and for Bukele to try or jail or whatever but c) specifically that he be imprisoned there, for which we are paying, and apparently retain control over the "final disposition." It should also be noted that the lawyer did not make the admission on behalf of the government, an ICE Agent did, by sworn declaration. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/11/3/abrego-garcia-v-noem/ 6. On March 15, 2025, two planes carrying aliens being removed under the Alien Enemies Act (“AEA”) and one carrying aliens with Title 8 removal orders departed the United States for El Salvador. Abrego-Garcia, a native and citizen of El Salvador, was on the third flight and thus had his removal order to El Salvador executed. This removal was an error * * * 15. Through administrative error, Abrego-Garcia was removed from the United States to El Salvador. This was an oversight, and the removal was carried out in good faith based on the existence of a final order of removal and Abrego-Garcia’s purported membership in MS-13
  13. And, even if you have a rational belief that tariffs are the solution to all our ills, or even just a component of a better trade strategy, they'd need to be phased in over a period of time to give domestic companies time to adjust, no matter how badly you want to punish our counterparties. So even if his tariff strategy wasn't stupid as fuck, the implementation is horribad. And that's even before you get to tariff one day, no tariff the next. Indeed, the on-off nature of them virtually proves that they should have been phased: oops too many unintended but entirely predictable consequences.
  14. The "Get help now" is an amusing late night TV approach. Conspicuously missing from the Biden site. https://web.archive.org/web/20210730041951/https://civilrights.justice.gov/
  15. https://www.mlb.com/glossary/idioms/tootblan Also seems reminiscent of the French tout blanc, meaning all white, but don't see any connection.
  16. I may have inadvertently created that impression. One common pattern is gangs terrorizing families to pay tribute money. Another common pattern is to "take in" young children with candy and money and then start getting them to do random tasks of a non-criminal or minor criminal nature, so they are nominally "in the gang." When they get older, they must either get initiated by jumping in and committing a serious crime, usually murder, or face persecution.
  17. Well all they really ruled is that habeas corpus was the proper remedy and the case in front of Boasberg had dismissed the habeas claims in favor of the APA claims. When you add in that they expressly found Abrego Garcia entitled to due process in a properly vemued habeas case, the path is now open for more far reaching orders on deportation. Not that they'll do that but they mightif Xinis and the plaintiffs build a good record of contempt for due process and SCOTUS orders.
  18. And the more the argument is made in generalities, I think the easier it is for scotus to rule adversely.
  19. Young man yells at clouds. It's well-said, but storm and fury likely signifying nothing.
  20. Daily Mail polled a bunch of Brexiteers.
  21. Yeah, there was no mention whatsoever of maintained or increased prices or any kind of austerity, even temporary, by Trump. I think there may have been a few Trump apologists who recognized how disastrous this would all be that tried to temper it by saying it would be temporary.
  22. While your complaint is accurate, I think Judge Xinis is playing this just right. She's going to let the plaintiffs gather evidence of all this bullshit and make narrowly crafted orders that punish people and the administration rather than lose her temper and order something that might be appealable and easily struck down. She makes the point that everyone is talking in "generalities:" he's not back, due process, executive power/foreign relations/national security, and that's not really helpful. One of the problems is, we don't know what level of due process is really accorded to non-citizens. Clearly, the Supreme Court said "some due process," so that much is settled. For a US Citizen or a criminal defendant (citizen or not), failure to afford due process often results in nullification of the conviction. Outside that context, we don't know what the result of failure to afford due process is. Seems a "do-over" at minimum, but that doesn't necessarily mean Abrego stays.
  23. Xinis taking no shit from Ensign whatsoever. Going to have two weeks of expedited discovery of government officials, no holidays, no sleep til Brooklyn. Government will have the opportunity to object to discovery, but pretty clear how that's going to go, and it tends toward unappealable. Gonna start with the people that gave affidavits.
  24. Look at this cunt that is the general counsel of DHS. https://www.dhs.gov/person/joseph-n-mazzara Joseph N. Mazzara is a married father of six, a Marine combat veteran, and an experienced litigator. He graduated from Christendom College and Scalia Law, and clerked for Judges Edith Jones, Brantley Starr, and Stephen Vaden. Most recently he was Special Counsel to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Oh, and he seems to be an 8th year lawyer.
  25. Here's the latest status report. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/77/abrego-garcia-v-noem/ It says they'll deport him again anyway, apparently without due process. Getting closer to the outright "fuck you."
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