Judge Boasberg cancels planned hearing to review Trump deportations

[mandrill]

https://x.com/JakeMRosen/status/1910736087305101674

 

[Valcazar]

Since habeas is a constitutionally protected common law right, it cannot be legislatively cancelled. So I like the ruling

I don't.
It's better than nothing, but banning all other avenues of redress and only allowing individual challenges is pretty shit.

It's not a bad ruling. They're going to have to radically increase their presents and vacations for Thomas. He's clearly getting grumpy

It is a bad ruling.
It's not a terrible ruling, but it comes off as "what is the minimum fig leaf we can give you without getting in your way".
Which tracks how Roberts has conducted himself in general.

 

[Valcazar]

We'll see where that leads them.

The growing problem - possibly lost in the endless other fuck-ups of the Trump admin - is that the longer this goes on, the more attention it is going to generate.

I think you are underestimating how much "lost in the endless other fuck-ups" has worked to blunt any one thing gaining traction.

And it will then end in 1 of 3 ways - all bad for the govt. :

1. Garcia returns triumphantly and is paraded around and interviewed and talks about his poor family and how he saw fellow inmates beaten to death in El S, etc. For months.

2. Garcia is "lost" and the USSC gets very, very angry.

3. Garcia is dead and becomes a martyr.

Why would 2 result in the USSC getting very, very, angry?
They facilitated his release, but it didn't happen.
That's all the USSC required.

(We don't know. It may depend a lot on political pressure from the public.)

 

[Valcazar]

View attachment 427674

https://x.com/JakeMRosen/status/1910736087305101674

Just telling the judge to fuck off.
We shall see who blinks.

 

[mandrill]

Just telling the judge to fuck off.
We shall see who blinks.

Judge needs to yank a few DoJ lawyers' permissions to appear in Fed Court and see what happens when the legal minions get their careers fucked over and nuked.

 

[mandrill]

I think you are underestimating how much "lost in the endless other fuck-ups" has worked to blunt any one thing gaining traction.



Why would 2 result in the USSC getting very, very, angry?
They facilitated his release, but it didn't happen.
That's all the USSC required.

(We don't know. It may depend a lot on political pressure from the public.)

"Lost" = "We tried for 5 minutes and phoned 2 randoms in El Salvador and asked if they maybe had a phone # and then we simply gave up." As in, we didn't fucking try at all.

 

[Frankfooter]

"Lost" = "We tried for 5 minutes and phoned 2 randoms in El Salvador and asked if they maybe had a phone # and then we simply gave up." As in, we didn't fucking try at all.

Does anyone ever return from that El Salvador prison?

 

[Valcazar]

"Lost" = "We tried for 5 minutes and phoned 2 randoms in El Salvador and asked if they maybe had a phone # and then we simply gave up." As in, we didn't fucking try at all.

Yes.
That's the worry.

Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)

NEW: A US State Department official tells Judge Xinis that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and being held in the CECOT prison, "detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador" https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.63.0.pdf

bsky.app

 

[mandrill]

Yes.
That's the worry.

Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)

NEW: A US State Department official tells Judge Xinis that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and being held in the CECOT prison, "detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador" https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.63.0.pdf

bsky.app

Yeah, I saw that. A tactical mistake by DoJ, as it neatly sets up the next judicial question, which is: "What the fuck did you do to get him back to the US then??"

It could have been played far better as "No one we contacted had any idea where the fuck he is."

 

[Valcazar]

Yeah, I saw that. A tactical mistake by DoJ, as it neatly sets up the next judicial question, which is: "What the fuck did you do to get him back to the US then??"

It could have been played far better as "No one we contacted had any idea where the fuck he is."

They can use that next time.
Drag this out for a while.

 

[Frankfooter]

trump's team says he is still alive and in prison

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5246445-trump-administration-says-man-mistakenly-deported-to-el-salvador-is-alive-and-secure-in-first-update/