Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.
Federal law states that the United States shall not “expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” This law implements a treaty, known as the Convention Against Torture, which the United States ratified more than three decades ago.
Federal regulations, moreover, provide that even after an immigration judge has determined that a noncitizen may be deported to another country, that judge’s order “shall not be executed in circumstances that would violate Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.” And those regulations also establish a process that immigrants can use to raise concerns with an immigration judge that they may be tortured if sent to a specific country.
The Trump administration, however, claims it has discovered a loophole that renders all of these legal protections worthless, and is now asking the Supreme Court to explicitly give it the authority to make use of that loophole in order to enact its immigration policies.
Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.
Legal or not, why are you looking for excuses to torture people?
State terrorism, plain and simple
See, this is why gwb and his cronies should have been prosecuted.
Instead, centrists were delighted when harris got dick cheney’s endorsement, and were upset when gwb declined to endorse.
yeah. The civil war is starting.
We should have Trump dragged through the streets by a Tesla.
Wouldn’t you rather use something more reliable? What if it rains?
I would suggest a Swasty-truck, but they keep breaking down
If only the US citizens weren’t fascists themselves.
I’m not
There are at least two of us then. Makes me feel a little better.
I’m not either!
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According to President Donald Trump’s lawyers, the administration can simply wait until after an immigration judge has conducted the proceeding that ordinarily would determine whether a particular noncitizen may be deported to a particular country, and then, if that noncitizen is allowed to be deported, announce that the immigrant will be deported to some previously unmentioned country — even if that immigrant reasonably fears they will be tortured in that nation.
Is there no evil idea these guys don’t love?
You could look at it from the perspective of the moral foundations.
- Care/harm✅
- Fairness/cheating✅
- Loyalty?/betrayal?
- Authority?/subversion?
- Sanctity?/degradation?
- Liberty/oppression✅
Only about half of these are clear to me. I think Trump needs to step up his game if he wants to get to the worst outcome possible.
Orange man is really leaning into this role of authoritarian dictator, isn’t he?
Holy shit
We’re so fucked.
I’d be happy if he got his wish and then magically disappeared and we heard rumors of him being waterboarded for fun. I’d do it myself.
Not before me you don’t!
extraordinary rendition meets enhanced interrogation, I guess.
Sean Hannity still hasn’t been waterboarded for charity.
The fact that the riots have only just started, and for something that has been going on for months, says a lot about the citizens of the US. I have no faith in any of you.
People really don’t want to believe that there is no electoral solution anymore. People really don’t want to believe that it’s too late to save the illusion of peace any longer. This is a late af wake up call to how incredibly fucked we are, and many people will still hit snooze.
For what it’s worth, speech doesn’t mean as much anymore, as we now live in a time where violence is the dominant form of power. For this reason, peaceful protests will do little, and mass riots can easily help the oppressors escalate even further. Fighting the incredibly militarized federal and local governments is practically untenable. Over half a century of cowardly libs empowering anti-riot forces has made this a nightmare scenario for resistance.
There is so little recourse at this point that the best thing we can do is prioritize not dying so we can outlive Trump’s reign. We’ll need luck and cooperation to survive the infectious diseases, natural disasters, and economic devastation that the state will do less than nothing to mitigate. It’s up to us to support each other, because there is no social contract left.
Weird, why would he want to do that.
