He hadn’t been sent to an El Salvadoran prison, but I’m pleasantly surprised anyone has managed to come back after being wrongfully deported. The law isn’t completely gone yet.
I think I posted a link to this spreadsheet somewhere, apparently a different thread, a few weeks ago. Anyway, I’m glad it seems to be having an impact. And here’s an important thing to remember about students starting something like this. The Federalist Society, which now basically controls federal judiciary appointments, especially when Republicans are in control, began as a student organization. Maybe this little spreadsheet could grow into a left leaning version of FedSoc.
There’s a reason why so many countries, especially in Europe (where we have a tendency to pay attention more than other parts of the world) pay for education through university. Students are the future, every generation.
Meanwhile, we’re run by Boomers (says this Boomer) who won’t get out of the way because they feel threatened by at least 3 generations under them.
Every decent parent knows that the next generation taking things further and making them better is what you want, not something to fear.
Shall i throw in my standard parenting advice? The job of any parent is to make themselves unnecessary. Hopefully not unwanted, but unneeded. If you still feel the need to control your kids past probably middle school, something has gone very wrong. I absolutely agree with you. The boomers (spoken as a borderline boomer/Xer) need to let go.
This is bigger pushback on the combination of foreign policy/executive branch power than we’ve typically seen. Again, from a Trump-appointed judge. Speaking of which, I wish an enterprising journalist would take a closer look at all these Trump judges who’ve ruled against him, just to find what might be the pattern to their decisions, their opinions, and so forth. Instead, we got the constant braying on social media that these individuals are “brave” and “courageous” (till they’re not) or that it doesn’t matter at all. There’s another option, which is that it does matter, and does portend some real divisions in TrumpWorld, but what those divisions are, we don’t really yet a full sense of.
This is the most important passage in the ruling:
“The Court concludes that a Presidential declaration invoking the AEA must include sufficient factual statements or refer to other pronouncements that enable a court to determine whether the alleged conduct satisfies the conditions that support the invocation of the statute. The President cannot summarily declare that a foreign nation or government has threatened or perpetrated an invasion or predatory incursion of the United States, followed by the identification of the alien enemies subject to detention or removal…Allowing the President to unilaterally define the conditions when he may invoke the AEA, and then summarily declare that those conditions exist, would remove all limitations to the Executive Branch’s authority under the AEA, and would strip the courts of their traditional role of interpreting Congressional statutes to determine whether a government official has exceeded the statute’s scope.”
She doesn’t mention Trump by name, but it’s still clear what she’s talking about. It’s pretty unprecedented for a sitting SC Justice to criticize the current executive this openly. Good for her.
Seems like it’s important to remember that T**** appointed these judges but he didn’t select them. The Federalist Society did. Now we’ve seen there is a schism between TFedSoc-types and MAGA. FedSoc-selected judges seem to be perfectly willing to torture the Constitution to accomplish certain domestic goals (forced birth, 2A, Xtian “religious freedom”) but seem to be surprisingly skittish about unfettered executive power.
So will Congress next, on Tramp’s orders, impeach her?
100% correct. And, for anyone complaining that student protests can’t accomplish anything, the Federalist Society is not some ancient organization of old, stodgy conservative lawyers that’s been around forever. It began in 1982 as a conservative group of law school students at Harvard, Yale, and Chicago, to push back on what was then the dominant left leaning ideology in legal academia. Now, they control access to the judiciary anytime Republicans control either the White House or the Senate. Also, while he’s not a member to my knowledge, Merrick Garland has participated in FedSoc events, so they aren’t entirely without influence even among Democrats.
Seriously tho! This is why we NEED to be better as a society at understanding historical processes… If you can look into how movements, especially evolve over time, rather than just appearing out of nowhere to change the world, you can understand HOW to do that.
But here is me, screaming into the void yet again… 
Yeah, like . . . there’s absolutely no reason why there shouldn’t be a leftist version of FedSoc, but there’s not. There’s the American Constitution Society, but it wasn’t founded by students and it’s just never been able to gain a real foothold of influence anywhere. And I’m not sure why, but part of it is probably that it was formed in response to a specific event – the Bush-Gore SCOTUS decision – rather than being formed to promote an ideology. I don’t know. But it just hasn’t grown much.
ETA: I got curious if there was a local Kansas City chapter of the ACS. There is. They have no website of their own, and the only thing on their page on the ACS website is the names of their co-Presidents, and that there have been no recent events and there are no upcoming events. In contrast, the Kansas City chapter of FedSoc seems to have events every couple of months, and they seem to draw pretty good sized attendance. If I ever actually become a lawyer, I need to see if ACS would be something I could get involved with and try to help build up. The difference between the two groups is embarrasing.
Nah. We’re listening. 
Maybe a funding issue, with one receiving massive infusions of corporate and oligarch cash, and the other not?
If so, I don’t think the latter is embarrassing.
Sure, but the local chapter could still do something. The fact that they aren’t even putting on, I don’t know, a panel with local attorneys to talk about Constitutional rights or something. I mean, there are things they could do that wouldn’t cost a lot of money.
Good. This is the right outcome.
There might be a better place for this, but I’m puttin’ it here…
This is so good. They should make a special where Mystal gets to talk about all 10 laws.