Yes, we're the baddies now

 Never to be heard from again.

They're doing their level best to start riots in Chicago.

UPDATE 11/14/2025:  Simply evil.

Gestapo action

 ICE is made up of truly horrible people.

Disappeared in America

 

No kings in America

In a ruling that began by invoking Franz Kafka’s “The Trial,” U.S. District Judge James Boasberg granted hundreds of men whom the Trump administration sent to a terrorism prison in El Salvador a chance to win their freedom.

“The reason should be self-evident: the ‘due process of law’ exists so that no ‘person’ within our borders — regardless of citizenship — is deprived of his ‘liberty’ on insufficient evidence or a spurious charge,” Boasberg wrote on Wednesday.

It’s not clear what form of due process the men eventually will receive, especially given the Trump administration’s attempts to resist compliance in these cases. From a legal standpoint, fighting Boasberg’s finding would seem futile: The Supreme Court recently ruled that the men at El Salvador’s CECOT prison are entitled to due process — “with all nine Justices agreeing,” Boasberg noted.

[...]

“Our legal tradition is wholly incompatible with the establishment of a network of overseas prisons, shielded from the Great Writ [of habeas corpus] by the facade of foreign control, to which the government routinely exports detainees without due process — a legal no man’s land,” the ruling states. “Indeed, the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 generally prohibited detention ‘beyond the seas’ to places where the writ did not run, […] and such abuses partly animated this nation’s War for Independence.”

Boasberg cited the colonists’ grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence, declaring George III’s tyrannical for “depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury” and for “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses.”

  Adam Klasfeld Substack

Judge Boasberg was waxing expansively literary in this one. A "ruling for the ages" in the words coined by Trump's Supreme Court.

Judge Boasberg found that he lacked jurisdiction to hear the men’s habeas corpus petitions himself because senior State Department official Michael G. Kozak wrote in a sworn declaration that El Salvador controls the “detention and ultimate disposition of those detained in CECOT.” The judge found that Supreme Court precedent prevents him from second-guessing that assertion, absent direct evidence contradicting it. That means that whatever due process the expelled immigrants receive won’t be in Boasberg’s courtroom.

Hmmmm. He's the DC judge. So who will hear their cases? We don't have a court in El Salvador.

“The court is nonetheless mindful of the possibility, raised by plaintiffs, that the government has adopted and presented its arrangement with El Salvador as a ‘ruse — and a fraud on the court — designed to maintain control over the detainees beyond the reach of the writ,’” [Boasberg] wrote.

[...]

Ultimately, Boasberg found that he must take [the government's attorney] “at his word,” despite his declaration’s “incongruity with multiple public statements made by both Salvadoran and U.S. officials.”

Why, judge, why?

Boasberg ended that phase of his analysis with a warning: “The court nonetheless reminds the government that any official who makes knowingly false statements in a sworn declaration subjects himself to perjury prosecution.”

[...]

Boasberg [...] expressed a willingness to recommend criminal contempt cases himself through a private attorney if he finds charges warranted and Trump’s Justice Department refuses to bring them.

And Trump's DOJ will not be bringing those charges.

Still fucking with Abrego-Garcia

 

Above the law

 

Trump: Send out the attack dogs

The Supreme Court in a 7-2 ruling Friday said the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants in its rushed effort to remove them from the U.S. last month using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), a 1798 wartime law.

Through its order, the Supreme Court extended its pause on AEA removals from the Northern District of Texas. However, the court did not determine whether the Trump administration can ultimately carry out removals using the AEA.

Instead, it asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to determine whether Trump’s [invocation] of the AEA was legal and how much notice is due to those targeted by the act.

[...]

While granting the migrants’ appeal, the Supreme Court also rebuked the Trump administration for not complying with its previous order on removals using the wartime act. In that order, SCOTUS said that those subject to removals must be given an adequate amount of notice and a change to challenge.

“Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster,” the court said.

[...]

“The circumstances call for a prompt and final resolution, which likely can be provided only by this Court,” Kavanaugh said. “At this juncture, I would prefer not to remand to the lower courts and further put off this Court’s final resolution of the critical legal issues. Rather, consistent with the Executive Branch’s request for expedition—and as the detainees themselves urge—I would grant certiorari, order prompt briefing, hold oral argument soon thereafter, and then resolve the legal issues.”

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented to the court’s order.

  Democracy Docket

Of course they did.

        click here

JB is running

 

Works for me.

Trump 2.0 - Up is down, black is white, war is peace

 

DOJ tripping over Trump's dick tie

U.S. District Judge James] Boasberg, the chief federal district judge in Washington, D.C., is trying to discern whether the U.S. government retains “constructive custody” of nearly 140 Venezuelan immigrants who were hurriedly deported to El Salvador under Trump’s mid-March invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used wartime power. If so, it would be possible to bring them back to receive due process, which Kambli reluctantly acknowledged they did not receive two months ago.

[...]

The judge is now asking for an “expedited” fact-finding inquiry so that he can decide whether to advance the case further. He is asking for statements under oath from administration officials about the U.S. government’s legal arrangement with El Salvador so that he can rule on whether the government does in fact retain custody of the prisoners it has sent overseas.

[...]

Boasberg said during a court hearing that Trump’s claim appears to undercut the administration’s legal position that it has no authority to return Abrego Garcia or hundreds of other immigrants the U.S. sent there in recent weeks, despite growing questions about the legality of the operation.

“Didn’t the president say just last week that he could secure the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia simply by picking up the phone and asking the president of El Salvador to release him?” Boasberg asked. “Was the president telling the truth?”

The inquiry forced Justice Department attorney Abhishek Kambli into a tricky spot.

“That goes to the president’s belief about the influence that he has,” Kambli said.

But influence, the DOJ attorney added, doesn’t equate to legal control.

  Politico

Nice evasion.

Another pointed exchange came as Boasberg pressed Kambli about Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s visit to the notorious Salvadoran prison, known as CECOT, where the deportees are being held. Noem claimed during the appearance that the prison was “one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use.”

“Is she wrong about that?” the judge asked.

“I’m not going to necessarily parse out every statement,” Kambli demurred. “Sometimes public statements lack the nuance of any given situation.”

“Is that another way of saying these statements just aren’t true?” the judge said.

“No, that’s not what I’m saying at all,” Kambli said.

Drilling down further, Boasberg pressed on whether the U.S. government is paying El Salvador to house the people it has deported there in partnership with the country’s president, Nayib Bukele, a close Trump ally. Kambli acknowledged that the U.S. government had paid “grants” to El Salvador “for law enforcement and anti-crime purposes,” which the country could use to house deported immigrants in its prisons.

Not as clever as the first exchange.

Boasberg also used Wednesday’s hearing to force the Justice Department to acknowledge that those around Trump had spent weeks misrepresenting the Supreme Court’s ruling. Trump allies have claimed that the high court upheld Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act. But the justices intentionally avoided that question. In the meantime, three federal district court judges — in Texas, New York and Colorado — have ruled that Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act was improper.

Soccer player and children's coach disappeared

 

America has turned dark

 

Time once again to write our congressional representatives. 

Return the children. 

Jackboots are back

 

UPDATE 05:03 pm:

Defying the court without saying so

 

Fascism at home in the US

 

Absolutely terrifying.

UPDATE 12:07 pm:

Literally disappeared

 

We can only hope Mr. Prada slipped out of custody somehow.

UPDATE 07:39 pm:

Incompetent and dishonest

 

Also, "United State".

Stop ICE overreach

 

What the Hell?

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Sunday proposed a deal to send 252 Venezuelans deported from the U.S. and imprisoned in his country to Venezuela, in exchange for taking "political prisoners" held by Venezuela.

In a post on X, Bukele asked that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hand over 252 "of the political prisoners you are holding," under his proposed deal.

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The U.S. is paying El Salvador $6 million to detain the migrants in its high-security Terrorism Confinement Center.

  Reuters

Did Trump SELL them to Bukele?

Who wants to tell him?