No. of Recommendations: 17
in the Abrego Garcia case.
4th Circuit denied the Trump administration's appeal to them and delivered a well-written opinion - by the most conservative judge on the panel.
I'm sure better people here can find a link to the opinion. For now, here's a video that's mainly just a reading of the opinion. The whole opinion is on screen, so feel free to skip straight to it for your reading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS9DsHGhs-8Here's a couple of snippets from the Court's opinion:
While we fully respect the Executive's robust assertion of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision.
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The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done.
This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.
The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. ... Moreover, the government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was wrongly or "mistakenly" deported. Why then should it not make what was wrong, right?Dope, can you understand that? This is exactly what I was trying to tell you, but you stubbornly refuse to listen to fact and logic, replacing with your own fatally flawed opinion instead of actual facts.
--Peter
