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time for some citizens arresting en masse of ice
Ice is state sponsored domestic terrorism. Ice is the equivalent of Mussolini’s blackshirts or Hitler’s brown shirts. Ice is an unaccountable fascist paramilitary. Ice will get away with whatever we allow them to get away with. The government is rogue at this point
Here is what they aren't saying: If some people can be deprived of due process, there is no due process for anyone. The DUe PRocess clause prevents states from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." "Due process" simply means a fair hearing with fair procedures to challenge the claims against you. It is a foundational bulwark against tyranny, and has it's origins in the Magna Carta. If the government can snatch you up and detain you without a hearing, you no longer have due process.
Then I suppose it's time to start 2A-ing ICE agents on sight.
It was time all the way back in January.
It's been time for a long time now, the problem is we need to be able to organize a resistance, and they've disrupted any efforts at organization by the lower classes, pretending it was just about labor unions when really it's about our ability to unify ourselves with any legitimate shared identity or concern. Divide and conquer: we've been divided, and now we're being conquered. Our choices are basically to set aside our differences with our neighbors and unite again as "we the people", or die as economically and politically irrelevant serfs whose disorganized and frustrated attempts at resistance will be carefully, methodically and violently crushed by the boot of fascism as isolated uprisings.
Turns out one has to understand the Constitution to defend it. Who knew?
The Court has agreed to hear a Trump administration appeal involving lawful permanent residents who were detained for months without a chance to ask for release on bond. A lower court ruled that prolonged detention without bond hearings violated due process protections. The administration is now asking the Supreme Court to reverse that ruling.
This is not a technical court dispute for the people inside detention. A bond hearing can be the only chance to ask a judge to look at whether continued detention is justified. Without that hearing, ICE can keep someone locked up while the immigration case moves slowly through the system.
It'll never pass the Supreme Court; It's blatantly unconstitutional.
What makes you think the supreme court cares about what is constitutional?
I have no faith in the judical branch. But even if I did, this regime has ignored the courts before.
Biden v. Texas (2022) - The SCOTUS respected that the Constitution allocated the executive power for Biden to turn over the "Remain in Mexico" immigration program.
Torres v. Texas DPS (2022) - The SCOTUS supported Congress's constitutional war powers to protect veterans employment right by allowing them to sue states.
Moody v. NetChoice (2024) - The SCOTUS upheld the 1st Amendment by rejecting state efforts to control social media content moderation.
Allen v. Milligan (2023) - The SCOTUS protected voting rights and enforced contitutional equality principles by upholding a a Voting Rights Act challenge to Alabama's congressional map.
Additional cases that show the SCOTUS will decide against the Trump admin on many topics:
DHS v. Regents of the University of California (2020) - prevented the Tramp admin from ending DACA
Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) - The SCOTUS upheld Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
Trump v. Mzars USA, LLP (2020) - The SCOTUS rejected Trump's claim that Congress could not obtain financial records
Department of Commerce v. New York (2019) - The SCOTUS blocked Trump's effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census