If the U.S. continues down the drain, the fault lies entirely with the one component of government that still has the power to stop it. When you look for where to place blame, look to the republican controlled House and Senate who march in lockstep towards disaster instead of honoring their oath to defend the U.S. from enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC.
#CongressFailing
#GOPTreason
#ConstitutionalCrisis
#Amendment25
#Amendment14
#Article2Section4
If you still need proof of a Constitutional crisis, here you go.
The FBI is now arresting judges.
As Sebastian Gorka has hinted, they'll be going after critics of the regime next.
One major protest a month isn't cutting it, Folks.
#uspol
#usa
#constitutionalcrisis
On the Arrest of Judge Durgan:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fbi-director-wisconsin-judge-arrested/index.html
On Sebastian Gorka calling for the arrest and deportation of critics of the regime: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-adviser-threat-oppose-deportations_n_68010f63e4b0f92ccce14fae
#KilmarAbregoGarcia’s case was both a human tragedy & an incipient #ConstitutionalCrisis. His Kafkaesque predicament is a stark illustration of what it means to be stripped of the #law’s protection, & thus a warning for us all.
But Abrego Garcia is not alone.
We Need Proof of Life for the Makeup Artist #Trump Sent to #ElSalvador
by Michelle Goldberg
I understand why #KilmarAbregoGarcia has become the face of Donald Trump’s monstrous policy of sending migrants to a gulag in El Salvador. In a court filing, the admin’s own lawyers initially admitted that his #deportation was an “administrative error,” & the White House has been disregarding a #SCOTUS ruling to “facilitate” his return.
#law #immigration #ConstitutionalCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/opinion/trump-el-salvador-makeup-artist.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=BEA24543-E9BD-4B43-95FD-D07E04D12572
In an act of profound petulance and cruelty that is very reminiscent of the Bush regime's attempts to silence critics of the War on Terror, Trump's Gestapo has literally doxed Abrego Garcia's family for their father's crime of uh, being wrongfully trafficked to a torture prison in El Salvador by mistake, apparently.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/el-salvador-prison-trump
Abrego Garcia Family Flees to Safe House After Trump DHS Posts Home Address on Social Media
"The Trump administration has not only sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran megaprison due to an "administrative error" and so far refused to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court order to facilitate his return to the United States, but also shared on social media the home address of his family in Maryland, forcing them to relocate.
The news that Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, and her children were "moved to a safe house by supporters" after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X a 2021 order of protection petition that Vasquez Sura filed but soon abandoned was reported early Tuesday by The Washington Post.
"I don't feel safe when the government posts my address, the house where my family lives, for everyone to see, especially when this case has gone viral and people have all sorts of opinions," said Vasquez Sura. "So, this is definitely a bit terrifying. I'm scared for my kids."
At this point we've all heard "the cruelty is the point" enough times that it's become a catchphrase, but I am consistently stunned by the Trump regime's ability to find new and more appalling ways to lower the bar for pettiness and a lack of human decency. There is absolutely no way you're ever going to convince me DHS and the White House didn't just expose Garcia's wife and children to the ire of Trump's white nationalist base on purpose, and I think the lack of comment from the regime makes it clear that I'm right about that.
As I've mentioned before, the problem with nearly every Trump administration authoritarian operation is that they're all a Russian nesting doll of fascist fuckery that start out wrong on the merits, and just get more outrageous and disconnected from reality as the situation evolves. The regime had no legal authority to traffic any of the men it sent to CECOT to a foreign torture prison for what appear to be mostly the civil violation of being in America without documentation; full stop. It doesn't matter if they're in a gang, even though most of them apparently weren't. It doesn't matter if they're guilty of a criminal offense, even though most of them apparently weren't. And it doesn't matter if they were husband of the year, even though every family member that has come forward have all demanded the return of their loved ones. Deportation is a legal process that requires the government to prove they have a valid reason to remove a person from the country, and the defendant gets a chance to argue against that evidence. Whatever happened here, kidnapping brown men with tattoos to then traffic them to a torture prison in El Salvador, they weren't deportations and they weren't legal.
The kidnapping, trafficking and continued detention of Abrego Garcia however is even more outrageous and appalling because the government has already admitted multiple times in court that it was a mistake that never should have happened, even by the twisted fascist logic the regime is using to justify the rest of the "deportations." Now after getting waxed multiple times in court, including a 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court that sits three Trump-appointed judges, and a grotesque attempt to provoke a constitutional crisis over the matter, the regime is petulantly refusing to return Garcia to the United States and seeking retribution for the indignity of being told they can't do this fascist bullshit, by terrorizing Garcia's wife and children.
I'm a prison abolitionist myself, but if we're going to have prisons whether I like them or not, then let me be the first to say Stephen Miller, Karoline Leavitt, and literally all the mutherfuckers in Trump's DHS, should be in fucking prison right now. This is outrageous and the word Nixonian doesn't do the fascist fuckery on display here enough justice.
#Trump admin seeks #delay in #discovery process in the #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigration case.
Yesterday, Judge #Xinis said the Trump admin’s refusal to answer questions about the improper deportation of #AbregoGarcia has been "willful" "bad faith" & "evasive"
She ordered they produce details by today.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.100.0_2.pdf
"Fox News made the choice to cheerlead for the erosion of the rule of law by conflating Ábrego García’s case with a violent rape and murder even though Ábrego García has never been convicted of any crime. Trump even discussed sending “home grown criminals” or U.S. citizens, to the same draconian prison that some have compared to Nazi concentration camps." - Juliet Jeske
#AbregoGarcia
#Fox
#FoxNews
#FauxNews
#DueProcess
#ConstitutionalCrisis
#Deportation #ElSalvador
“Former presidents are uniquely qualified and situated to raise their voices and warn the American people if the country is taking a dangerous turn,” said Timothy Naftali, a historian at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “Think of them as a sort of advisory council to the people of the United States. And when the advisory council sounds the alarm, the people should listen.”
The 3 Democrats said, as much by their presence as their words, that these are unusual times for American #democracy, that norms are being disregarded & extraordinary measures are required. The only living president who has not spoken out since Inauguration Day is Republican #GeorgeWBush, though he has made little secret of his antipathy for #Trump.
In an extraordinary stretch of just over 2 weeks, 3 fmr presidents have taken to the public stage to sound the alarm against the current occupant of the White House, despite the tradition that fmr presidents generally refrain from publicly criticizing their successors.
#Obama, #Biden & #Clinton did not explicitly name #Trump, but their message was unmistakable.
#USpol #ConstitutionalCrisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/19/trump-presidency-obama-biden-clinton/
Sen #AmyKlobuchar said on CNN that #SCOTUS should hold #Trump admin ofcls in #contempt if they continue to ignore a court order to facilitate #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s return from #ElSalvador. Klobuchar said the court should appoint a special prosecutor, independent of Trump’s #DOJ, to uphold the rule of #law & charge ofcls who are responsible for Abrego Garcia’s wrongful #deportation, or have refused to facilitate his return. “We’re getting closer & closer to a #ConstitutionalCrisis,” she said.
@wdlindsy
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It's not clear what the brakes would be
Yea, the train going off the tracks on the 250th anniversary of #paulreveresride
The #Trump sickness of the 
#doubledown
1. Top Secret docs in #maralago, found out and resisted
2. Paying for #Kilmar in #elsalvdor no #dueprocess, found out, resisted, cause #ConstitutionalCrisis
3. Send (work in progress) demand letter to #Harvard found out, resisted, double down, add tax demand
I don't always agree with Ezra Klein, but he's right on this: The crisis is here. *Now*.
#NEW filing in JGG v. TRUMP (#Boasberg: #AlienEnemiesAct)
#Trump admin submits Notice of Appeal to DC Circuit Court (Doc #84)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.84.0_1.pdf
“Defendants hereby appeal from the Court’s Order and Memorandum Opinion entered April 16, 2025 (ECF Nos. 80 & 81) in the above-captioned case to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.”
Good luck (/s) muther f⁕⚠︎ers.
Congress has the power to block funding of the $6 million that Trump is giving to El Salvador to hold abducted people from the US.
#deportation #ElSalvador #trump #constitutionalcrisis #congress
During ordinary times, this accommodation would reflect an appropriate respect for the constitutional #SeparationOfPowers. In dealing with this Administration, with its maximalist conception of executive authority & its contemptuous attitude toward the #judiciary, the Justices are being played for fools.
That, the govt argued, would intrude on the President’s sole power to conduct foreign relations. So the govt’s responsibility here is to, what, maybe issue #AbregoGarcia a Global Entry card to cut the #immigration line if he somehow turns up at a #US airport? This defiant position cannot stand—not if the rule of #law is to survive.
“Facilitate” means only “taking all available steps to remove any domestic obstacles that would otherwise impede the alien’s ability to return here,” #Trump’s #DOJ argued. “Indeed, no other reading of ‘facilitate’ is tenable—or constitutional—here.”
Forget any effort to repair the Admin’s admitted mistake by seeking #AbregoGarcia’s release from Salvadoran authorities—authorities who…are being paid to jail him & others shipped there by the #US.
The #Trump Admin is arguing that #SCOTUS did not mean what nine Justices unanimously ruled in the case of #KilmarAbregoGarcia, the Salvadoran man illegally sent to a Salvadoran prison because of what the Admin contends was an “administrative error.” On Thurs, the Court ordered the govt to “‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador.” The government, in an insolent filing on Sunday evening, rewrote that instruction.
