Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem directed that hundreds of Venezuelan men who were removed from the U.S. in March be transferred to El Salvador, despite a federal judge ordering deportation planes turned around, according to a new court filing from Trump administration lawyers.
In the filing late Tuesday, the Department of Justice said that DOJ and DHS officials conveyed their legal advice to Noem after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg gave first an oral directive and then a written order that sought to block the deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador,” DOJ said on Tuesday.
I so very much hope that people find a way to get this bitch into prison after all is said and done.
So fucking arrest her. If a judge tells me explicitly not to do something and I do it anyway, I go to jail for contempt. Why should the people in power have fewer consequences?
See the ® after her name, though? That means that she will never see the consequences of her actions.
Exactly. IOKIYAR.
Republicans rarely hold other Republicans to account, and Democrats often want to “look forward” even when Republicans have done war crimes and Democrats might be able to actually do something about it…
she would be pardoned by trump immediately.
laws dont matter anymore.
Pardons are only federal. This is federal but I’d be surprised if they hadn’t broken some state laws too. I’d be less surprised if nothing stuck
We need to start punishing people on our own I guess
If only there was some third way
Some festivities… or even a party of sorts.
I see Republican politicians getting arrested and convicted all the time.
Just because a subset get arrested and convicted doesn’t mean that justice is being done across the board. Until the highest levels of govt see actual consequences for breaking the laws that they weaponize against their enemies, the justice system has failed.
With great power comes great responsibility, and abusing that power and neglecting their responsibility could have more severe punishment than the same crime committed by someone not in a position of power.
No one can say they are just fucking fascist religious hustlers… those things are done out of pure spite!
Spitefull vicious dangerous fascist religious hustlers… Let them fight to the death in a colosseum and when there’s only one survivour left… open the gates and let the lions in…
By her own proclamations, she is now a criminal and eligible for deportation to El Salvador ASAP
How many times does this administration have to violate court orders before the fourth box is opened?
bannon: “flood the zone”
Jail does not exist in USA! Justice system does not work too. Otherwise she would be in jail. USA101 justice.
Jail definitely exists here if you’re brown and/or poor tho. Like, its kind of very intentionally used to keep certain groups as off-their-feet as possible. In that way, it definitely works too. But as for what a justice system is supposed to do? You’re not wrong on that one. It’s completely fucked and only serves the wealthy.
It could have been worse, at least those detainees weren’t puppies
Jail does not exist in USA! Justice system does not work too. Otherwise she would be in jail. USA101 justice.
