"Each time we show solidarity with others, or support those who are protecting the rule of law, helping the targeted, or exposing the lies and the corruption, we are standing up for democratic values of justice, accountability, equality, and more. In doing so, we model the behaviors the authoritarian state wants us to abandon."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #Musk #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #resistance
/15

https://lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-living-through-moral-collapse

"You know who's doing great organizing for us right now? Elon Musk and Donald Trump, that's who. By attacking and alienating more and more swathes of the American public, they're handing us the possibility of a coalition bigger and broader than maybe anything we've ever seen in this country before. A gift, if we take it and do something with it."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #Musk #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #resistance
/14

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-ground-plant-some-flowers-on-it-too/

"The unitary executive theory is really just a way to cloak the morphing of a democratically elected president into a dictator with the appearance of legality. If presidents can do whatever they want, including putting people on a plane and sending them to prisons in a foreign country with no due process whatsoever, then really, who are we?"

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #UnitaryExecutive #SupremeCourt
/13

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-a7d

"Before we give up the rule of law because Trump wants us to do so, I believe we must continue to fight for it in spite of anything they throw at us. …

Every single moment, statement, or action that slows down the backslide into authoritarianism is a good one, and we should look for and document them."

~ Chris Geidner

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
/12

https://www.lawdork.com/p/what-the-trump-admin-did-after-the-tro

"Saturday night, the administration deported 260-something alleged Venezuelan gang members. Alleged, because these people have had no hearings or any kind of public due process that we know of, and so we don’t actually know who they are. They could have been US citizens who’d been on their way to church."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
/11

https://www.wonkette.com/p/anybody-going-to-stop-trump-disappearing

"The question has changed from,

'What will happen IF Trump ignores a court order?'

to

'What are we going to do about the fact that Trump HAS ignored a court order?'”

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
/10

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-moment-of-crisis-trump-intentionally

"Far from Trump’s once-upon-a-time, oft-repeated lie that he was only focused on deporting criminals, a Lebanese doctor, kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor with a legal visa was detained and subsequently deported back to Lebanon.

Despite a federal judge’s order to give the court 48 hours’ notice, Dr. Rasha Alawieh was put on a flight to Paris."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
/9

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/a-lawless-presidents-contempt

“'Oopsie… Too late ' tweeted the Salvadoran leader. He was immediately retweeted by the White House, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and 16,000 other unspeakably cruel assholes."

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #ElSalvador #Rubio #LittleMarco
/8

“'Any planes that are going to take off or are in the air need to be returned to the United States,' Judge Boasberg ordered from the bench.

That did not happen. Instead, planes that were in the air landed in El Salvador, where hundreds of asylum seekers were turned over to President Nayib Bukele, a brutal authoritarian who calls himself the 'world’s coolest dictator.'"

~ Andrew Torrez

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #ICE
/7

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trump-says-court-orders-dont-count

"And ICE is reportedly violating its own policies by detaining people for much longer than 12 hours, and without food for days. BAD, ALL OF THIS IS VERY BAD."

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #ICE
/6

"ICE is already detaining green card holders: Not just Mahmoud Khalil, but also German-born New Hampshire resident Fabian Schmidt, who has had a green card since 2008 and was detained at Logan airport in Boston over a decade-old marijuana misdemeanor, then 'violently interrogated' by ICE agents trying to get him to voluntarily give up his green card."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #ICE
/5

https://www.wonkette.com/p/can-you-spare-some-eggs-tabs-mon

"Lawyers for Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a doctor specializing in kidney transplant patients and a professor at Brown University’s medical school, said she was deported on Friday despite a court order to the contrary from Judge Leo T. Sorokin of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts.”

~ Mattathias Schwartz

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
/4

"It’s hard not to see the two cases as related and further evidence that we have arrived – two months to the day after Trump’s second inaugural – at the falling-over-the-cliff’s-edge moment we’ve long thought would mark an irreversible-in-the-short-term descent into authoritarianism."

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
/3

"At the same time the Alien Enemies Act was playing out, the Trump administration apparently deported a professor at Brown University’s medical school in direct contravention of a federal court blocking her expulsion."

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
/2

"The photos and videos of humans beings to whom this is done are dehumanizing, and deliberately so. …

This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. The messaging was obviously coordinated in advance. And the entire humiliating procedure was carried out before cameras that were already in place."

But my 401(k)!

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
/4

"Anyone can be dehumanized, portrayed as a 'monster,' and the dehumanization proceeds from the humiliation of the body. If you took one of these deportees, gave him a certain haircut, and put him in a suit, he would look like a cabinet member. If you take a cabinet member, shave off his hair, put him in a prison jumpsuit, chain his hands, and then put him between two masked men who frogwalk him to a deportation plane, he would like like a criminal."

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations /3

"You do not know who was on those two planes to El Salvador. The individuals who arranged the deportation claim that the deportees were 'foreign alien terrorists,' but we have no way of knowing whether this is true. They also claim that they were 'monsters,' which is not true. We do not know the names of the human beings who were deported."

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
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