So say that this is a travesty is an understatement. Can this decision be reversed? When all the places they enjoy eating, when the nannies and construction workers and farm workers get rounded up under this asinine interpretation, will they feign stupidity and say “That’s not what meant?” Hope so.
That Edith Jones is a real piece of work. First named to federal courts by Reagan, she was considered one of Dubya's top picks for Supreme Court ( a seat that ultimately went to David Souter - when he was considered a conservative, of course ).
Considering her violently right wing views, Jones should not be in position to rule on legal matters "objectively".
"A group of civil rights organizations and legal ethicists filed a complaint of misconduct against Jones on June 4, 2013, after she had allegedly said that 'racial groups like African-Americans and Hispanics are predisposed to crime' and are 'prone to commit acts of violence' that are more 'heinous' than members of other ethnic groups. According to the complaint, Jones also stated that a death sentence is a service to defendants because it allows them to make peace with God and that she 'referred to her personal religious views as justification for the death penalty.'"
The Fifth Circuit has been a right-wing hell hole forever. Fits right in with the prevailing zeitgeist of christian white supremacy, illiteracy, rednecks and grits.
Chris Geidner did an excellent write up on this rotten decision coming from the Fifth Circuit and I referred to it elsewhere a few days ago. It should be remembered that the Fifth was not always so reactionary. In the civil rights era after the Brown v. Board of Education and Brown II decisions that court was inundated with litigation and almost invariably ruled in favor of desegregation efforts thanks to clever choices of panels by the chief justice, Elbert Tuttle. Jack Bass wrote an excellent history, Unlikely Heroes, of the Court in those years of convulsive legal battles and I highly recommend it.
I should add that another book, "Let Them Be Judged," covered the same era focussing not only on the Fifth Circuit cases but also the legal actions all across the South. I have both books in my law library and refuse to donate them!
In the region where I live, and I'm guessing elsewhere, a large number of logistics facilities and warehouses were built during the Biden administration in anticipation of increased international trade with the reestablishment of supply chains after the pandemic. Unfortunately, at about the time of their completion, Trump returned to office, instituting tariffs that have resulted in many vacancies in these large facilities. This is why DHS is looking at warehouses. Trump's economic chaos has made them available at cheap rentals.They were not constructed to provide food, water,
or sanitary conditions for large numbers of people. ICE detention facilities are being proposed in the small towns of Social Circle and Oakwood, GA. in large vacant warehouses. These cities don't want them, in that the small town infrastructures cannot support a tripling of the population.
Rachel Maddow talked about these and a former military guy who is tracking these purchases. People in small little towns in the south are protesting and getting civic leaders and elected officials to stop these sales. It’s been very effective but there are still a shit ton they are using. No one wants these being used for concentration camps. Just shows you how many people they want to arrest. I wish I could remember the name of that tracking app.
Some cities and counties are desperately passing laws saying no ICE detention centers will be allowed to build or moved into existing structures where they are. Will they stand in the Trump Era?
The mayor of Oakwood, GA said he was blindsided by the announcement of the intent to open a detention center in his small town, in that the city had never been contacted by either DHS or ICE. Boom! Done deal?
"Trump voters, largely white and largely male, have never accepted that in the past fifty years they've had to compete with women and people of color. They think something was taken away from them - something that was theirs and only theirs."
I extracted this quote from a NY Times comment section about Trump being a "backlash President." It sums up perfectly something I've believed for years:
Well they came here to work, so let's put them to work!
Habeas corpus was nice while it lasted, I guess?
We thought it, we said it, and we apologize for nothing.
You’re getting a bill for my counseling services. Deny payment at your peril. Pretty sure I have a solid case.
"We thought it, we said it, and we apologize for nothing."
I'm going to need therapy after that
So say that this is a travesty is an understatement. Can this decision be reversed? When all the places they enjoy eating, when the nannies and construction workers and farm workers get rounded up under this asinine interpretation, will they feign stupidity and say “That’s not what meant?” Hope so.
Why of course. They want to use them as their servants and slaves to do grunt work for nothing.
Despicable.
Another shameful chapter unfolds.
That Edith Jones is a real piece of work. First named to federal courts by Reagan, she was considered one of Dubya's top picks for Supreme Court ( a seat that ultimately went to David Souter - when he was considered a conservative, of course ).
Considering her violently right wing views, Jones should not be in position to rule on legal matters "objectively".
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Jones
Jesus ACTUAL FUCKING Christ:
"A group of civil rights organizations and legal ethicists filed a complaint of misconduct against Jones on June 4, 2013, after she had allegedly said that 'racial groups like African-Americans and Hispanics are predisposed to crime' and are 'prone to commit acts of violence' that are more 'heinous' than members of other ethnic groups. According to the complaint, Jones also stated that a death sentence is a service to defendants because it allows them to make peace with God and that she 'referred to her personal religious views as justification for the death penalty.'"
Watch a racist bitch.
We'll build a wall. Not to keep anyone out, but to keep everyone in. America (U.S. version), the prison.
The Fifth Circuit has been a right-wing hell hole forever. Fits right in with the prevailing zeitgeist of christian white supremacy, illiteracy, rednecks and grits.
Cool, cool. So, uh, we revoke the citizenship (for treason) of the appellate justices in the 5th circuit and give them a taste of their own medicine?
Don't worry -- this will soon apply to citizens as well, so we should be able to maintain equality under the law. Well, poor citizens, AKA, 99% of us.
And we're going to be uttering names like 'Surprise, Arizona' in the same breath as Buchenwald, Dachau, and Treblinka.
History repeats, and American history will be a million times more depraved and stupid.
Manzanar
Chris Geidner did an excellent write up on this rotten decision coming from the Fifth Circuit and I referred to it elsewhere a few days ago. It should be remembered that the Fifth was not always so reactionary. In the civil rights era after the Brown v. Board of Education and Brown II decisions that court was inundated with litigation and almost invariably ruled in favor of desegregation efforts thanks to clever choices of panels by the chief justice, Elbert Tuttle. Jack Bass wrote an excellent history, Unlikely Heroes, of the Court in those years of convulsive legal battles and I highly recommend it.
I should add that another book, "Let Them Be Judged," covered the same era focussing not only on the Fifth Circuit cases but also the legal actions all across the South. I have both books in my law library and refuse to donate them!
In the region where I live, and I'm guessing elsewhere, a large number of logistics facilities and warehouses were built during the Biden administration in anticipation of increased international trade with the reestablishment of supply chains after the pandemic. Unfortunately, at about the time of their completion, Trump returned to office, instituting tariffs that have resulted in many vacancies in these large facilities. This is why DHS is looking at warehouses. Trump's economic chaos has made them available at cheap rentals.They were not constructed to provide food, water,
or sanitary conditions for large numbers of people. ICE detention facilities are being proposed in the small towns of Social Circle and Oakwood, GA. in large vacant warehouses. These cities don't want them, in that the small town infrastructures cannot support a tripling of the population.
Rachel Maddow talked about these and a former military guy who is tracking these purchases. People in small little towns in the south are protesting and getting civic leaders and elected officials to stop these sales. It’s been very effective but there are still a shit ton they are using. No one wants these being used for concentration camps. Just shows you how many people they want to arrest. I wish I could remember the name of that tracking app.
Some cities and counties are desperately passing laws saying no ICE detention centers will be allowed to build or moved into existing structures where they are. Will they stand in the Trump Era?
The mayor of Oakwood, GA said he was blindsided by the announcement of the intent to open a detention center in his small town, in that the city had never been contacted by either DHS or ICE. Boom! Done deal?
I'm betting yes with Trump in charge.
Wasn’t Edith Jones once being considered by Dubya for the Supreme Court?
Yes. He didn’t think he could get the votes so he went with ray of sunshine Sam Alito. Even for the Fifth Circus, she’s extreme.
"Trump voters, largely white and largely male, have never accepted that in the past fifty years they've had to compete with women and people of color. They think something was taken away from them - something that was theirs and only theirs."
I extracted this quote from a NY Times comment section about Trump being a "backlash President." It sums up perfectly something I've believed for years:
I should have added the comment was written by a Middle Eastern woman, a U.S. citizen, who worked her way through college and law school.
And people with accents of any kind.