Why Trump and His Admin Are Publicly Mocking the Supreme Court [View all]
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Source: Rolling Stone
...Trump and his administration, however, have changed their tune and are deliberately not complying with the court orders for several grim reasons, according to three people familiar with the situation.
There are plenty of officials in Trump's White House and government who don't want to give the news media what they'd deem a "win" or a "scalp," the sources say. On a practical and legal level, Trump aides and lieutenants worry that complying too readily or quickly with court orders -- or maybe even at all -- would open the floodgates to other challenges and due process claims by other migrants whom the Trump administration shipped to prison in El Salvador, a person close to Trump and an administration official tell Rolling Stone. They would much rather set the precedent that if they rendition a person to a foreign gulag, that person is staying there, no matter what.
Some Trump administration officials are simply concerned about optics and want to make it look like its policy of shipping migrants to prison in El Salvador is as ironclad as possible -- in part to act as a potential deterrent to undocumented people in the U.S. and migrants who'd want to come here, per the three sources.
Reasons aside, the administration is ultimately making a shockingly authoritarian argument with few parallels in American history: that it can send anyone, from U.S. soil, to a foreign prison, and no court can ensure the person's return. Indeed, Trump mused again on Monday about sending American citizens -- "homegrown" criminals, as he put it -- to El Salvador.
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-mocking-supreme-court-1235317269/
The article also mentioned that the administration is now saying the Supremes' order is void because "officials" have decided Garcia is a member of a gang, and they don't have to share any details about this with the court.
It also spends a couple of paragraphs covering Stephen Miller's comment this morning on Fox News that "We won the Supreme Court case, clearly, 9-0," and that Trump, Miller, and Bondi continued to pretend that they won the case during their Oval Office photo op with El Salvador's president. They were all agreeing that the 9-0 decision was in their favor, and Miller went on to say that SCOTUS found that "no district court has the power to compel the foreign policy function of the United States."
What the actual fuck!
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