I wouldn’t say they are a rogue agency, Trump wants them to keep enforcing regardless of what the courts say. Judiciary vs. Executive can’t be described as one side going rogue, it’s a constitutional crisis.
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Little doubt the judge would find CBP in contempt, however, I question where the US Marshals stand. What if they refuse to do their jobs? Jerry Brown could send in the Cali Army National Guard, but what if they, too, refuse to do their jobs?
The people who started this Great Experiment did so in direct reaction against the Rule of Men. I’d imagine George Washington, in particular, is generating quite a bit of electricity right now.
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An odd way of framing things.
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What part of it?
FTFY
Much of the rest of your comment devolves into something something BUT THEY’RE RELIGIOUSLY INTOLERANT something something that doesn’t make much sense.
So places like Saudi Arabia are on the list, right? I believe most of the 9/11 hijackers were from that fine, religiously upstanding country, right? They’re on The List, yes? No? No, they’re not on the list? Ah. Care to explain that logic?
I’m gonna go ahead and mark your post as:
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Well, if he said it on TV it MUST be true!
Just like allowing banks to do predatory mortgage schemes is “keeping the American dream alive.”
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More like closing the barn door after the horse has burned down the barn, emptied out your bank account, stolen your wife and car and bolted for the Bahamas while shouting “Cuck”.
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Seriously, fantasising that The Culture are gonna turn up, park a GSV in orbit, and sort all these motherfuckers out is one of the only things that gets me off to sleep.
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I read the shit out of the Pliocene books in high school, but I’ve never read the others. We both probably should.
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Right. Its essentially playing chicken with the constitution. If everything works as the law says it should, and Trump balks first we get to keep our government. If anyone else balks first we have a despot.
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Federal Judges have their job for life, barring conviction for something truly antisocial.
Damn horses!
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Just checked, it looks like the executive branch will be complying with the rulings of the judicial branch.
So no constitutional crisis for the US today.
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Well Trump’s people have been saying that for days. And it hasn’t proved to be true. Now their byline seems to be that the State Department just happens to be revoking all those visas anyway. They’re essentially trying to enforce the same executive order without reference to the executive order.
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Alright, I was thinking about the outright just enforcing the ban rather than visa revocation against an order. Still, I think revoking all those visas with some bullshit cover is basically pushing the issue off to another court case, which is shitty but considerably less shitty than open defiance of court rulings (which would essentially dismantle the nation). Every day he doesn’t dissolve congress and declare himself president for life is a good day.
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Welcome to Drumpf SOP. Why litigate today what we can litigate next Tuesday?
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I know all about this. The previous Canadian government came up with a super strategy: If the court strikes down a law, just pass basically the same law again! Let them spend another couple years and huge chunk of money getting that one struck down!
Turns out rule of law is for suckers.
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Yeah, um, your former PM’s admin picked up that SOP from the US GOP, sorry. They’ve been pulling that schtick for a generation with abortion access and jeebus in public schools.
[edt] Here it’s been an expensive repeat cycle until a week or so ago. We soon discover if the Rule of Law can continue to tamp down autocrats.
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Fair enough. He did borrow a great deal from the GOP playbook.
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