What kind of person or government entity would feel it was OK to disobey a court order? A fascist, dictator type of person or government entity. The US is sick.
Maybe we should start by prosecuting at the bottom? I spent my career as a middle school guidance counselor and was responsible for addressing incidents of HIB (harassment, intimidation, bullying). Outcomes were best when we focused on the underlings instead of the kingpins. It didn’t take long for the house of cards to collapse after that.
Through that lens, I’ve been reading about potential charges of Misprision of Treason. “Anyone with knowledge of treason who fails to report it can be charged with misprision of treason, punishable by up to seven years in prison.”
Misprision of Treason laws cover treason at the state and federal level in the following states:
Louisiana (La. R.S. 14:114): Defines it as the concealment or failure to disclose treason, punishable by up to 10 years at hard labor.
Florida (876.33): Defines it as a third-degree felony to conceal treason and fail to report it to the Governor or a judge.
Virginia (§ 18.2-482): Class 6 felony for failing to report known treason within a reasonable time.
Nevada (NRS 196.030): Category C felony for concealing knowledge of treason.
Rhode Island (11-43-3): Explicitly prohibits the misprision of treason.
Illinois: References misprision of treason in relation to state treason laws.
Additionally, federal law (18 U.S.C. § 2382) criminalizes the misprision of treason against the United States.
Are you comparing treason to the current disobedience of court orders? This is no kindergarten class. It's men and women with guns that came into the job with much anger. Prosecuting one underling will only result in a more hateful replacement. The only way to address this fascist attack is to cut of its head.
I’m disabled and sometimes struggle to communicate clearly. My apologies. My point is that initiating state-level criminal charges against Miller, Wiles, Hegseth, etc. could yield valuable evidence as well as satisfying accountability. That could make them useful arrows in our quiver of weapons to restore democracy.
Roy, it seems to me we need to do both get the underlings as well as the ones at the top. In any case this is treason against the nation, and from enemies within! It is important to bring charges and support our courts, then punish those who ignore the rulings.
Then virtually the entire GOP Congress, tRump's pals in SCOTUS, and most of the current administration are guilty and have some explaining to do. I checked for Washington DC and heck, it's in the US Code, which covers all of America -
Misprision of treason in Washington, DC, is a federal offense under 18 U.S.C. § 2382, involving the concealment and failure to report known acts of treason against the United States to authorities. It is punishable by up to seven years in federal prison, fines, or both. It requires active concealment of treason.
Of course, given the obvious fact that the guilty parties have little to no respect for the LAW, unlikely anybody will be held accountable. As I see it, that's essentially the issue here, that tRump and his lackies and thugs have been committing treasonous acts and getting away with blatantly violating laws all over this country and very, very few have had to answer for anything.
I agree that the US has sustained a total moral collapse but there is always regrowth after even the most devastating catastrophes. That new growth will reflect the dominant value system. Which wolf will we feed?
Fascists are sick. The majority of Americans fear and loathe fascists. The exceptional "deplorables" hired by the t administration give our country a bad name. But many legal eagles are suing this rogue government's various lawbreakers and are winning more often than not. It's a common reaction to be angry, but it's practical to protest, petition and support the legal fighters who outnumber the roughnecks and are growing more numerous each day. In recent weeks and months, some special elections are showing Ds beating Rs, often by large margins. Even some R politicians are urging the president to "turn down" the aggressiveness (brutality). Waiting and watching, accepting that the midterm elections are too far off--can be frustrating. But the time is ripe to do one positive thing at a time, as often as we can. We can donate to legal activists, write letters to the newspapers and other news media, talk with friends, contribute to campaigns of progressive politicians, a month at a time depending on your budget. The US has problems, but good doctors are plentiful.
Growing numbers of t voters regret their errors in 2024. Many more are beginning to put the facts of high cost of living and loss of healthcare (as just two examples) together. It's sad they're only now beginning to wake up, but maybe this change of mind is like an addict beginning to seek help.
Need to defund ICE and rebuild an ethical immigration policy. Please tell me they are not ordered to ditch the masks or are they so “afraid” of doxing?
I ordered buttons with a bullseye and the caption “Am I next?” They arrived yesterday and I thought 50 would be enough for friends and family but I’m down to my last 8.
Reich wants Democrats to demand ICE follow court orders as condition for funding.
It sucks that Democrats don’t control appropriations. Republicans do. They hold the House. The people Reich wants to “inform” about constitutional responsibility are the same people cheering ICE for ignoring judges.
“Failure to obey court orders terminates funding”but enforced by whom? The majority party that explicitly wants ICE operating outside judicial oversight? That’s the feature, not the bug.
Judge threatens acting ICE head with contempt, government releases one detainee to avoid the hearing. Release one person when the judge makes noise, violate 99 other orders with impunity.
ICE isn’t ignoring courts accidentally. It’s regime policy. The administration wants enforcement apparatus that operates beyond judicial constraint.
But sure, let’s “make sure the public knows ICE is lawless.”
You are right, Johan, but Dems can influence the budget, and they must insist on the removal of Noem. The ICE travesty is enormously costly to taxpayers, and its justification--that we are in the midst of an invasion--is not credible anymore. It is all theater designed to overturn the Constitution. Perhaps those applauding the cruelty will stop applauding.
No, “they” don’t all know. I’m in Chicago. Every anti-ICE post I see on social media includes comments like “ICE is just doing its job” or “Thank god for ICE” or “ICE is protecting us.”
Class action lawsuit — How many girls were victims of statutory rape, trafficking, sexual abuse, etc., by these insanely wealthy amoral "people"? Two thousand? Take a page from the Pederast-Protector in Chief and sue for $10 billion in damages for _each member_ of the plaintiff class. That's TWENTY TRILLION DOLLARS in cumulative civil damages from the entire assemblage of prospective defendants. Such a class-on-class civil action might not bankrupt the richest of the defendants, but the legal bills and reputational damage to _all_ of them would be astronomical.
And if I'm the plaintiffs' lawyer, I'd gladly forgo the customary one-third of damages in favor of compensating my clients... or making a substantial payment towards the US national debt incurred by the obscene tax cuts benefiting these clowns.
Eadie, Mark, you’re right, the absurdity is the point.
Trump sues his own government for $10 billion and nobody blinks. That absurdity proves the system works for power, not justice. So yes, let’s run the thought experiment: $10 billion per victim, thousands of victims, $20 trillion total.
It won’t happen because the legal system isn’t designed to bankrupt elites, it’s designed to protect them.
But the fact that we can imagine Trump extracting billions from taxpayers while Epstein victims got nothing? That’s the tell.
Your proposal exposes what the system actually values. Trump’s wounded ego: $10 billion. Trafficked children: nothing.
The structure revealed through the contrast.
So while the class action won’t work (defendants control the courts, victims can’t safely come forward, assets get offshored, appeals run forever), the exercise is useful. It shows exactly who the system serves.
Trump can sue for invented damages and be taken seriously. Epstein victims can’t sue for actual rape and get justice. That’s not a bug. That’s the system working as designed.
The $20 trillion lawsuit won’t happen. But it should. And the fact that it won’t tells you everything about who the law actually protects.
Your view of corruption is like mine. We live in a country where half of us voted for LIES (president and congress throughout).
This is why many federal courts can be morally vested ... so far. Judges hand around for a while and can operate independent of the trumpster and his buddies.
Argentina and Brazil tyrannies had control over judges.
Any authoritarian polities that don't have control over judges?
Disarm ICE. They are supposed to be clerks and failed. Demand they partner with legal and properly trained law enforcement officers when deployed away from the border or port of entry like aiports.
The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good had decades of training. He was in the National Guard deployed to Iraq as a machine gunner, so he knew rules of engagement. He had SWAT and FBI training. The problem is the "absolute immunity" given to agents by J D Vance and Stephen Miller.
If agents are above the law, even the Constitutional requirement for judicial warrants, any new conditions passed by Congress will have an enforcement problem.
If Democrats in Congress stand firm on all demands without any Continuing Resolution, DHS will effectively be defunded.
ICE has become Trump's storm troopers. It needs to be abolished-every new hire suspended pending a thorough vetting. Any ICE hire connected to white supremacist, January 6th should be fired.
Meanwhile, during a time that ICE has terrorized our nation, real life ice had come to most of the USA with very cold weather and lots of ice from snow (and ice) storms in the last two weeks which are almost impossible to dig out from under due to the cold.
It's a pity, because ICE was created to serve a necessary function and most of 'em are probably good folks.
Their being used as the armed militia of Charlie Manson's retarded stepcousin brings to the fore Gestapoesque tactics and bullies who should've never been hired.
To protect the midterms, require ICE/CBP to stand down completely over some two week period around Election Day. During this period, no agent from either agency may appear in uniform or armed on any public street or sidewalk and no agent may conduct immigration enforcement of any kind. During this period every agent must attend civil rights training full time, in person, no exceptions.
"The duty of the Panthers is to fight injustice and engage in work that brings the community together."
— Robert Ware, San Diego Black Panther Party
When they come for your neighbors, will you answer the door? Or will you be the neighbor? The Panthers are asking us to choose—and they're showing us what choosing looks like. It means showing up. It means bodies between violence and the vulnerable. It means breakfast programs and armed patrols. It means being the protection we've been taught to expect from institutions that only protect property and power. Monday morning: pack the extra granola bar. Check on the immigrant family three doors down. Know your neighbors' names before ICE does.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Don't fall into the trap of giving the impression that you care more for illegals than for law abiding citizens. Trump never misses a chance to brand liberals as anti-American.
I would add three additions: 1. ICE agents found to use excessive force, violence, murder, kidnapping and assault should be subject to arrest and inprisonment. 2. ICE agents who do not follow the restrictions defined by congress are fired immediately. and 3. Until such time that ICE detention facilities meet defined standards, are no longer run by private companies but by the congress and are subject to independent monitoring they should all be closed.
Rather than fiddling with hundreds of lower court order violations, perhaps we might more efficiently first ask Congress to remove the President for violation of the supreme law of the land...the Constitution. Oh, wait! We tried that. It didn't work. Then the Supreme Court ruled that the President is immune from criminal prosecution. The process seems to be in a bit of a muddle. Their Boss flagrantly breaks the law multiple every day for a year and nothing happens to him.I guess that explains why ICE doesn't see the need to obey lower court orders.
I was blessed to get a full pardon July 11, 2026 after getting in trouble a quarter of a century ago for possession of drugs.
Plus, I never thought I would get it as in Florida, I have been an outspoken critic of The Orange Menace.
I fell quite certain that most of the masked thugs terrorizing our citizens and communities are ex-felons like me.
If they took off their masks online sleuths would recognize them and call them out as extreme radical right-wing fanatics.
But of course Mr Trump and his administration are calling community members exercising their first Amendment rights as agitators and home grown-terrorists.
This is a powerful, necessary argument. This is why we must insist on the dismissal of Kristi Noem. She is the one responsible for ICE behavior, and she has made the outrageous, totally unacceptable argument that her agents enjoy immunity. Noem must go! She must be replaced by an individual who rejects Trump's argument that illegal immigrants have the status of enemy combatants. We must make it clear that this is not about protecting illegal immigrants. This is about protecting all of us from arbitrary, murderous thugs. This is why we must respect court rulings.
And, meanwhile, their DEFENSE of ICE (and all directing them) is that they are just "enforcing the law." Really, by breaking it?? The lack of critical thinking skills is bottomless.
Everything Iʻve seen about the ICE/Border Patrol/Feds operations is illegal. Itʻs not lack of critical thinking, itʻs thinking that they can get away with anything, and until they are stopped theyʻll take advantage
Absolutely; I believe they relish carrying out violence with impunity. I'm speaking of those defending their actions, like the guy yelling from his truck at me with my sign.
Once upon a time, maybe. In the current GOP it really looks as if Laws and our Constitution are merely words on paper that are easily ignored if they contradict whatever evil and illegal acts are contemplated.
What kind of person or government entity would feel it was OK to disobey a court order? A fascist, dictator type of person or government entity. The US is sick.
True.
Trump is only the most egregious symptom of a stage 4 cancer.
Brain cancer
Apparently so!
Yup.
Maybe we should start by prosecuting at the bottom? I spent my career as a middle school guidance counselor and was responsible for addressing incidents of HIB (harassment, intimidation, bullying). Outcomes were best when we focused on the underlings instead of the kingpins. It didn’t take long for the house of cards to collapse after that.
Through that lens, I’ve been reading about potential charges of Misprision of Treason. “Anyone with knowledge of treason who fails to report it can be charged with misprision of treason, punishable by up to seven years in prison.”
Misprision of Treason laws cover treason at the state and federal level in the following states:
Louisiana (La. R.S. 14:114): Defines it as the concealment or failure to disclose treason, punishable by up to 10 years at hard labor.
Florida (876.33): Defines it as a third-degree felony to conceal treason and fail to report it to the Governor or a judge.
Virginia (§ 18.2-482): Class 6 felony for failing to report known treason within a reasonable time.
Nevada (NRS 196.030): Category C felony for concealing knowledge of treason.
Rhode Island (11-43-3): Explicitly prohibits the misprision of treason.
Illinois: References misprision of treason in relation to state treason laws.
Additionally, federal law (18 U.S.C. § 2382) criminalizes the misprision of treason against the United States.
Are you comparing treason to the current disobedience of court orders? This is no kindergarten class. It's men and women with guns that came into the job with much anger. Prosecuting one underling will only result in a more hateful replacement. The only way to address this fascist attack is to cut of its head.
I’m disabled and sometimes struggle to communicate clearly. My apologies. My point is that initiating state-level criminal charges against Miller, Wiles, Hegseth, etc. could yield valuable evidence as well as satisfying accountability. That could make them useful arrows in our quiver of weapons to restore democracy.
I thought I might have been misunderstanding your post. We are on the same page. Thank you
🙏 Many thanks.
The current disobedience involves murder.
Roy, it seems to me we need to do both get the underlings as well as the ones at the top. In any case this is treason against the nation, and from enemies within! It is important to bring charges and support our courts, then punish those who ignore the rulings.
Agreed. Except I do not believe these acts satisfy the definition of "treason."
Then virtually the entire GOP Congress, tRump's pals in SCOTUS, and most of the current administration are guilty and have some explaining to do. I checked for Washington DC and heck, it's in the US Code, which covers all of America -
Misprision of treason in Washington, DC, is a federal offense under 18 U.S.C. § 2382, involving the concealment and failure to report known acts of treason against the United States to authorities. It is punishable by up to seven years in federal prison, fines, or both. It requires active concealment of treason.
Of course, given the obvious fact that the guilty parties have little to no respect for the LAW, unlikely anybody will be held accountable. As I see it, that's essentially the issue here, that tRump and his lackies and thugs have been committing treasonous acts and getting away with blatantly violating laws all over this country and very, very few have had to answer for anything.
What are Attorneys General waiting for????
My thoughts exactly.
From what I’ve read about the revolution in France (1789), we have a big house-cleaning to achieve once we have a majority in congress.
A shame we can't do a good Spring cleaning, eh?
The Constitutional definition of "treason" is extremely narrow. Is it defined more broadly in these states?
Actually, it is this regime and their base which are sick. Those of us fighting them are quite sane but simply exhausted.
The USA is sicker than sick, Richard. It has terminal cancer.
I agree that the US has sustained a total moral collapse but there is always regrowth after even the most devastating catastrophes. That new growth will reflect the dominant value system. Which wolf will we feed?
When
I must agree.
Fascists are sick. The majority of Americans fear and loathe fascists. The exceptional "deplorables" hired by the t administration give our country a bad name. But many legal eagles are suing this rogue government's various lawbreakers and are winning more often than not. It's a common reaction to be angry, but it's practical to protest, petition and support the legal fighters who outnumber the roughnecks and are growing more numerous each day. In recent weeks and months, some special elections are showing Ds beating Rs, often by large margins. Even some R politicians are urging the president to "turn down" the aggressiveness (brutality). Waiting and watching, accepting that the midterm elections are too far off--can be frustrating. But the time is ripe to do one positive thing at a time, as often as we can. We can donate to legal activists, write letters to the newspapers and other news media, talk with friends, contribute to campaigns of progressive politicians, a month at a time depending on your budget. The US has problems, but good doctors are plentiful.
The US isn't sick,it's what Scump is doing to us that is.
When 78 million Americans vote for Scump, the US is sick.
Growing numbers of t voters regret their errors in 2024. Many more are beginning to put the facts of high cost of living and loss of healthcare (as just two examples) together. It's sad they're only now beginning to wake up, but maybe this change of mind is like an addict beginning to seek help.
Part of the U.S. IS sick. The rest of us, not so much and we still need to stand strong!
One bad apple spoils the bunch. 78 million Americans voted for this rotten piece of dung, and that is a lot of bad apples.
Need to defund ICE and rebuild an ethical immigration policy. Please tell me they are not ordered to ditch the masks or are they so “afraid” of doxing?
I ordered buttons with a bullseye and the caption “Am I next?” They arrived yesterday and I thought 50 would be enough for friends and family but I’m down to my last 8.
Mike, they are afraid of facing consequences for assaulting and beating even killing innocent citizens and undocumented people.
Reich wants Democrats to demand ICE follow court orders as condition for funding.
It sucks that Democrats don’t control appropriations. Republicans do. They hold the House. The people Reich wants to “inform” about constitutional responsibility are the same people cheering ICE for ignoring judges.
“Failure to obey court orders terminates funding”but enforced by whom? The majority party that explicitly wants ICE operating outside judicial oversight? That’s the feature, not the bug.
Judge threatens acting ICE head with contempt, government releases one detainee to avoid the hearing. Release one person when the judge makes noise, violate 99 other orders with impunity.
ICE isn’t ignoring courts accidentally. It’s regime policy. The administration wants enforcement apparatus that operates beyond judicial constraint.
But sure, let’s “make sure the public knows ICE is lawless.”
They know…
—Johan
You are right, Johan, but Dems can influence the budget, and they must insist on the removal of Noem. The ICE travesty is enormously costly to taxpayers, and its justification--that we are in the midst of an invasion--is not credible anymore. It is all theater designed to overturn the Constitution. Perhaps those applauding the cruelty will stop applauding.
Maybe if the regime's negative actions affect enough of the ones applauding , we will see them change their behavior.
No, “they” don’t all know. I’m in Chicago. Every anti-ICE post I see on social media includes comments like “ICE is just doing its job” or “Thank god for ICE” or “ICE is protecting us.”
If you don’t know that, you’re out of it too.
I’m speaking more metaphorically, I agree with you
Johan, I value your opinion. Can this be done?
Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D.
Class action lawsuit — How many girls were victims of statutory rape, trafficking, sexual abuse, etc., by these insanely wealthy amoral "people"? Two thousand? Take a page from the Pederast-Protector in Chief and sue for $10 billion in damages for _each member_ of the plaintiff class. That's TWENTY TRILLION DOLLARS in cumulative civil damages from the entire assemblage of prospective defendants. Such a class-on-class civil action might not bankrupt the richest of the defendants, but the legal bills and reputational damage to _all_ of them would be astronomical.
And if I'm the plaintiffs' lawyer, I'd gladly forgo the customary one-third of damages in favor of compensating my clients... or making a substantial payment towards the US national debt incurred by the obscene tax cuts benefiting these clowns.
Eadie, Mark, you’re right, the absurdity is the point.
Trump sues his own government for $10 billion and nobody blinks. That absurdity proves the system works for power, not justice. So yes, let’s run the thought experiment: $10 billion per victim, thousands of victims, $20 trillion total.
It won’t happen because the legal system isn’t designed to bankrupt elites, it’s designed to protect them.
But the fact that we can imagine Trump extracting billions from taxpayers while Epstein victims got nothing? That’s the tell.
Your proposal exposes what the system actually values. Trump’s wounded ego: $10 billion. Trafficked children: nothing.
The structure revealed through the contrast.
So while the class action won’t work (defendants control the courts, victims can’t safely come forward, assets get offshored, appeals run forever), the exercise is useful. It shows exactly who the system serves.
Trump can sue for invented damages and be taken seriously. Epstein victims can’t sue for actual rape and get justice. That’s not a bug. That’s the system working as designed.
The $20 trillion lawsuit won’t happen. But it should. And the fact that it won’t tells you everything about who the law actually protects.
As usual, your academic experience gives my old mind fuel. The question I posited was whether it was possible to do what Garfunkel suggests, not whether it is designed to do that. You might be interested in another article found in one of the comments. https://www.defiance.news/p/exclusive-americas-prosecutors-are?utm_campaign=&fbclid=IwY2xjawPxiiNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeCt5NIuo96wKzLrKe1cpP8Q6uW5bf3a9GJuHMqmTlAY2HuWVVegyn6jlHE5Y_aem_Po_BoPhXMlnfid1gS2DcDQ
Your view of corruption is like mine. We live in a country where half of us voted for LIES (president and congress throughout).
This is why many federal courts can be morally vested ... so far. Judges hand around for a while and can operate independent of the trumpster and his buddies.
Argentina and Brazil tyrannies had control over judges.
Any authoritarian polities that don't have control over judges?
We just have regular and repeating National Strikes, and even do the tea party thing. Why would we fund murderers and lawless enemies?
While it is a sexist analogy, it's on target to say that the goal of reigning in or training ICE/BP is like putting lipstick on a raging boar.
I agree with those calling for ICE/DHS to be abolished and holding the administration accountable for crimes already committed.
Disarm ICE. They are supposed to be clerks and failed. Demand they partner with legal and properly trained law enforcement officers when deployed away from the border or port of entry like aiports.
The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good had decades of training. He was in the National Guard deployed to Iraq as a machine gunner, so he knew rules of engagement. He had SWAT and FBI training. The problem is the "absolute immunity" given to agents by J D Vance and Stephen Miller.
If agents are above the law, even the Constitutional requirement for judicial warrants, any new conditions passed by Congress will have an enforcement problem.
If Democrats in Congress stand firm on all demands without any Continuing Resolution, DHS will effectively be defunded.
ICE has become Trump's storm troopers. It needs to be abolished-every new hire suspended pending a thorough vetting. Any ICE hire connected to white supremacist, January 6th should be fired.
ICE should be MELTED.
Sounds like something I would say.
Meanwhile, during a time that ICE has terrorized our nation, real life ice had come to most of the USA with very cold weather and lots of ice from snow (and ice) storms in the last two weeks which are almost impossible to dig out from under due to the cold.
Yup; that was a multiple entendre on my part.
It's a pity, because ICE was created to serve a necessary function and most of 'em are probably good folks.
Their being used as the armed militia of Charlie Manson's retarded stepcousin brings to the fore Gestapoesque tactics and bullies who should've never been hired.
It's - ugly.
To protect the midterms, require ICE/CBP to stand down completely over some two week period around Election Day. During this period, no agent from either agency may appear in uniform or armed on any public street or sidewalk and no agent may conduct immigration enforcement of any kind. During this period every agent must attend civil rights training full time, in person, no exceptions.
"The duty of the Panthers is to fight injustice and engage in work that brings the community together."
— Robert Ware, San Diego Black Panther Party
When they come for your neighbors, will you answer the door? Or will you be the neighbor? The Panthers are asking us to choose—and they're showing us what choosing looks like. It means showing up. It means bodies between violence and the vulnerable. It means breakfast programs and armed patrols. It means being the protection we've been taught to expect from institutions that only protect property and power. Monday morning: pack the extra granola bar. Check on the immigrant family three doors down. Know your neighbors' names before ICE does.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-daily-exhale-trump-is-leaving-minneapolis-maga-was-always-a-lie-and-nicki-minaj-is-still-a-piece
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Don't fall into the trap of giving the impression that you care more for illegals than for law abiding citizens. Trump never misses a chance to brand liberals as anti-American.
Everyone who is present in this country is entitled to due process, irrespective of status, under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
Being here without documentation is a civil offense, not a crime. It is a misdemeanor.
Get over yourself.
You are right, Carthago, but evidently millions don't seem to agree with you. Do you want to be right, or do you want to win elections?
I would add three additions: 1. ICE agents found to use excessive force, violence, murder, kidnapping and assault should be subject to arrest and inprisonment. 2. ICE agents who do not follow the restrictions defined by congress are fired immediately. and 3. Until such time that ICE detention facilities meet defined standards, are no longer run by private companies but by the congress and are subject to independent monitoring they should all be closed.
Professor Reich,
I am constantly awed by the clarity and common sense of your reasoning. The ones that listening to you understand. Thank you for what you do.
Dear Professor Reich,
Rather than fiddling with hundreds of lower court order violations, perhaps we might more efficiently first ask Congress to remove the President for violation of the supreme law of the land...the Constitution. Oh, wait! We tried that. It didn't work. Then the Supreme Court ruled that the President is immune from criminal prosecution. The process seems to be in a bit of a muddle. Their Boss flagrantly breaks the law multiple every day for a year and nothing happens to him.I guess that explains why ICE doesn't see the need to obey lower court orders.
Brilliant.
I was blessed to get a full pardon July 11, 2026 after getting in trouble a quarter of a century ago for possession of drugs.
Plus, I never thought I would get it as in Florida, I have been an outspoken critic of The Orange Menace.
I fell quite certain that most of the masked thugs terrorizing our citizens and communities are ex-felons like me.
If they took off their masks online sleuths would recognize them and call them out as extreme radical right-wing fanatics.
But of course Mr Trump and his administration are calling community members exercising their first Amendment rights as agitators and home grown-terrorists.
The world is upside down.
I don’t think you meant 2026?
Congratulations on getting your life back.
This is a powerful, necessary argument. This is why we must insist on the dismissal of Kristi Noem. She is the one responsible for ICE behavior, and she has made the outrageous, totally unacceptable argument that her agents enjoy immunity. Noem must go! She must be replaced by an individual who rejects Trump's argument that illegal immigrants have the status of enemy combatants. We must make it clear that this is not about protecting illegal immigrants. This is about protecting all of us from arbitrary, murderous thugs. This is why we must respect court rulings.
Excellent condition.
But WAIT! Aren’t the Republicans the party of “Law and Order”? How can the Law and Order party possibly object to being held accountable to the law??
And, meanwhile, their DEFENSE of ICE (and all directing them) is that they are just "enforcing the law." Really, by breaking it?? The lack of critical thinking skills is bottomless.
Everything Iʻve seen about the ICE/Border Patrol/Feds operations is illegal. Itʻs not lack of critical thinking, itʻs thinking that they can get away with anything, and until they are stopped theyʻll take advantage
- Karen Cooper
Absolutely; I believe they relish carrying out violence with impunity. I'm speaking of those defending their actions, like the guy yelling from his truck at me with my sign.
Once upon a time, maybe. In the current GOP it really looks as if Laws and our Constitution are merely words on paper that are easily ignored if they contradict whatever evil and illegal acts are contemplated.
Thatʻs their genius, their talent at being hypocritical and changing the rules to fit their wants and needs. Must be nice (sarcasm)
- Karen Cooper