The US Supreme Court and its decisions

[Dekafox]

Another category of people affected is ordinary tourists:

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/politics/german-tourist-with-us-visa-reflects-on-being-held-in-ice-custody-for-weeks/3786489/

They include another German tourist who was stopped at the Tijuana crossing on Jan. 25. Jessica Brösche spent over six weeks locked up, including over a week in solitary confinement, a friend said.

On Feb. 26, a tourist from Wales, Becky Burke, a backpacker on a trip across North America, was stopped at the U.S.-Canada border and held for nearly three weeks at a detention facility in Washington state, her father, Paul Burke, posted on Facebook. She returned home Tuesday.

On March 3, Canadian Jasmine Mooney, an actress and entrepreneur who had a visa to work in the U.S., was detained at the Tijuana crossing. She was released Saturday, her friend Brittany Kors said.

More on that first case mentioned in the quote:

German tourists’ ordeal reportedly ending as they are returned from US detention

Jessica Brösche to join Lucas Sielaff, who is reported to have returned to Germany on 6 March

www.theguardian.com

There's also a British tourist mentioned in that article.

Note in at least some of these cases, they were stopped at the border, and not turned back, but explicitly taken into detention. In Jessica's case, they only got out when they did because people noticed they were missing and started making calls. Under this ruling, they could ship them off to, say, Sudan as part of a large group with others at that same detention center before anyone could step in.

 

[Pocket]

And this, right here, is why what the US is doing should not be called deportation.

 

[Rhinox]

And SCOTUS has now limited nationwide injunctions.

This is bad, no question, but the Trump admin has also fucked over the GOP with this call. These things work both ways. We'll see just how this plays out. But so far no decision on birthright citizenship. I know Alito and Thomas are desperately trying to figure out how to get that through, but I don't think they'll succeed. I do think that's the bridge too far.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

This was going to happen. The Supreme Court has been warning in decision after decision, "Please stop with nationwide injunctions or we will be forced to take up this issue." It went too far.

They sure picked an inappropriate case to do this though. Citizenship is a national question. District level relief doesn't make sense. I think this is one of those times when the Supreme Court just didn't want to decide the merits of the issue yet, like that's their job or something, so they punted for now and settled for doing something they've been wanting to do anyway.

 

[Rhinox]

This decision also shows the level of animus and outright hostility between the members of SCOTUS. The 6 are pretty tight, but the 3 are not taking their jive laying down and putting it all into the opinions.

We need to expand the court. The Roberts court is going to go down in history as one of the most biased and unhinged in the nation's history. All bought and paid for by Leonard Leo.

 

[Pocket]

All courts are biased. There is no such thing as being apolitical if your job is literally being part of the government. The only question is whether it's biased in favor of what's right, or what's wrong.

 

[MrBlud]

And SCOTUS has now limited nationwide injunctions.

This is bad, no question, but the Trump admin has also fucked over the GOP with this call. These things work both ways.

No. They don’t. I don’t know why people still expect *this* court to have any semblance of adherence to their own rules.

If (and that’s a really big *if* at this point) a Democratic President is ever in Office and does something Republicans don’t like. A Republican judge will issue a nationwide injunction. The Democratic President will take it to SCOTUS and say “They can’t do that according to you” then SCOTUS will immediately rule on the merits of the case via the shadow docket and “shock-of-shocks” they’ll find the Democratic President can’t do whatever that was. Whereas Trump can do something blatantly Unconstitutional and they’ll slow walk it until his term’s ******* over.

THAT’S how this partisan arm of the Republican Party in judges robes operates.