Top Trump administration officials—including the president, vice president, attorney general, and secretary of state—openly celebrated the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants over the weekend in defiance of a federal judge’s order to halt the removals, which were carried out under a 1798 law that plainly states it is only operative in the context of a declared war.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance wrote late Sunday that “there were violent criminals and rapists in our country” and “President [Donald] Trump deported them.” There was no due process for the more than 200 Venezuelans whom the Trump administration claims are gang members.
Vance’s social media post, which came in response to reporting about the White House’s acknowledgment that it ignored the court order blocking the deportations, was met with disgust and alarm.
“You are beyond vile,” political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote. “You have no idea if the ones that were picked up and sent illegally to an El Salvador prison are all violent criminals. You abused the plain language of the law, gave them no due process, and defied a legitimate court order. This is American Gestapo.”
So is Trump about to Find Out™ what happens when you ignore a court order, or is the rest of America gonna see him face absolutely no consequences for this?
No consequence… sadly thisbis what the majority of americans want (or don’t care enough to stop)
Depends on what the Marshalls end up doing. They are supposed to enforce for the judiciary, but they are under the executive branch. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ranks were full of brain dead Trump supporters and we are cooked.
He’s been disobeying court orders his whole life, why would he change that now that the highest court appointed him as king?
How many felonies did he get away with before the election?
Why would he give a fuck about courts?
Trump better be CAREFUL! Otherwise the Judges MIGHT send him an ANGRY letter that someone will have to Read to him!
the removals, which were carried out under a 1798 law that plainly states it is only operative in the context of a declared war.
Didn’t read the whole article to see if it touched on this, but I have to wonder if Trump declaring drug cartels as terrorists plays into this. Obviously, most if not all are probably not part of the cartel, but it doesn’t seem to take much for this admin to loosely tie people to their out groups and the other branches not to push back.
Evidently the Federal Judge didn’t put the “turn the planes around immediately” language in the written ruling. He said it verbally. Of course Trump ignored the verbal part. Future rulings will likely be more careful.
