No. of Recommendations: 2
It took this long?
Judge says U.S. must allow deported Venezuelans to return for hearings WAPO
A federal judge in D.C. said some of the 137 Venezuelan men deported last year under the Alien Enemies Act can return to challenge their removals in court.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to allow a group of Venezuelans who were hastily flown out of the country last year under the president’s wartime powers to return for court proceedings challenging their deportations.
Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of D.C. said the Trump administration had denied due-process rights under the Constitution to
137 Venezuelan men who were deported in March under the rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act. The men were sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador, then moved to Venezuela months later as part of a prisoner swap.
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No. of Recommendations: 2
Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of D.C.
Is this the same case I posted about a few days ago? SCOTUS already ruled the men *must* have legal due process. Apparently, SCOTUS sent the case back to a lower court to work out the details. The lower court judge ordered DHS to submit a plan showing how they would implement due process. DHS was crying about how it was impossible to comply.
I'm sure, if the regime wants to, it will appeal to higher courts, running this all the way up to SCOTUS, again.
That is the Trump the God whack-a-mole strategy: run one claim after another up the chain, to keep an issue tied up in litigation, for years, if God on Earth Trump wants it tied up.
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 3
I'm sure, if the regime wants to, it will appeal to higher courts, running this all the way up to SCOTUS, again.
Yes, you probably posted this - I may not have recognized it. I had to look at it closely and the March date and Boasberg's name helped me recognize this is still going on. If we have any innocents tied up there, it's a travesty.
One of the ongoing cases in the Philippines I watch is an Australian who got caught trafficking. The Philippines has an offloading law which allows extra scrutiny for young women leaving the Philippines because of their susceptibility to trafficking. He tried one airport, got turned back and went to another airport supposedly, assisting these young ladies to get employment in Singapore. He was arrested at the 2d airport, spent 10 years in prion BEFORE he had a trial, then lost the trial, so he's in for life. He's been in 13 years. I think he's guilty, but I'm unhappy that it took 10 years for the trial. The initial hearing took a couple of years. Conditions inside some jails are so packed you sleep on a concrete floor with your legs across someone else's body. I had long conversations with a fellow who'd been incarcerated for 80 days.
Giving good due process in reasonable time frames is a must for any good democratic society.
