It is honestly all of the immigration judges. Those judges work directly for the Executive branch and have been instructed by the Trump admin to quickly dismiss every case when requested.

In the memo, the Justice Department instructs immigration judges, who report to the executive branch and are not part of the independent judiciary, to allow Department of Homeland Security lawyers to make motions to dismiss orally and then move quickly to grant those dismissals, rather than allow immigrants the 10-day response time that had been typical.

Article updated to 24 known dead. Not sure if any of them are the girls missing from the camp. I cannot imagine how those parents must feel right now and they are being told things like this:

He added that if parents haven’t been personally contacted by the camp, they can assume their daughters have been accounted for.

So, yeah, no news is good news. If we haven’t called you, your child is probably not dead. They must feel so reassured.

According to the National Weather Service website, the flash flood watch, which included Kerr County, was issued at 1:18 p.m. Thursday. Nearly 12 hours later, a “life threatening” flash flood warning was issued at 1:14 a.m., according to the website.

When asked about the suddenness of the flash flooding overnight, Kelly said “we do not have a warning system” and that “we didn’t know this flood was coming,” even as local reporters pointed to the warnings and pushed him for answers about why more precautions weren’t taken.

“Rest assured, no one knew this kind of flood was coming,” he said. “We have floods all the time. This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States.”

They didn’t know there was a flood was coming even after the NWS issued a flood warning? Worse still, he claims it’s the most dangerous river valley in the nation, but they don’t have any way to warn people when a flash flood is coming? Wait, it’s Texas, yeah that tracks.

It is a high school next to an elementary school with a playground for preschoolers. The video shows the men walking up to the containers and apparently urinating, but you cannot specifically see that that is what they are doing. The staff at the school however did see that they were urinating.

And if you’re lucky they’ll deport you to your home country. If you’re not lucky, they may drop you in a gulag or a war zone.

Oligarchs run both governments, so yeah, their interests align.

With too many jesters including the one on the throne.

Yes. Keep escalating until there is violent resistance, then escalate more by declaring martial law and violently suppressing that resistance. He will then keep martial law in place declaring that it is not safe nor secure to hold public elections. That will be the final nail in the coffin of American democracy.

after all they have the duty to protect people

No. SCOTUS has ruled that police have no duty to protect anyone except for special relationships like a prisoner in their care. The police (in the US at least) are not there to protect you. They are there to protect the interests of the state.

I have concerns on that front as well.

From another article about this that quotes a bit of the ruling.

In his decision, Moss ruled that neither the Immigration and Nationality Act nor the Constitution give the president and administration officials “the sweeping authority” asserted in his proclamation and subsequent guidance implementing the directive.

“The court recognizes that the executive branch faces enormous challenges in preventing and deterring unlawful entry into the United States and in adjudicating the overwhelming backlog of asylum claims of those who have entered the country,” he wrote. “But the INA, by its terms, provides the sole and exclusive means for removing people already present in the country.”

Moss said that a pair of provisions of federal immigration law do not provide “the president with the unilateral authority to limit the rights of aliens present in the United States to apply for asylum.”

He further found that the Constitution does not give the president the authority to “adopt an alternative immigration system, which supplants the statutes that Congress has enacted and the regulations that the responsible agencies have promulgated.”

Oh that’s gonna get under his skin. There will be catsup on all the walls today.

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Not quite as loony as McConnell filibustering his own bill, but it’s close.

Bush knew that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and invaded anyway because he wanted to finish what daddy started. How many innocents suffered and died because of that decision? He authorized kidnapping people off the street in foreign nations and throwing them in black sites to be tortured without any evidence that they were actually enemies or criminals. He’s responsible for enough death and suffering that Trump actually still has some catching up to do, though I concede he is well on his way.

Also, the GOP in the Bush ere was not the rubber stamp it is now. They still pretended to care about what was right and wrong. That is no longer the case.

Stop white-washing Bush and acting like he was a well-meaning, doddering, buffoon. He wasn’t.

Hard disagree. Bush was as corrupt and evil, he just wasn’t as competent and lacked the full support of the GOP which was somewhat more sane in those day.

“If Americans want large spending — they don’t want to touch Social Security. They don’t want to touch Medicaid. They don’t want to touch Medicare. They want all the tax credits for this green energy and this child tax credit and this and that — then they should pay more taxes,” de Rugy said.

What a fucking crock. They could pay for it all by cutting military spending by a fraction of a percent.

It won’t matter to him. If his property gets hit then he’ll just declare that specific spot a disaster area and have what’s left of FEMA give him millions of dollars to rebuild and upgrade the whole place. It’d be like the ultimate insurance scam.

It would be a hit for Illinois, that’s true, but a win for the nation would be worth it to me.

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I have nothing but absolute respect for AOC and I would love to see her as President and I would certainly vote for her. However, I can think of only one person that would attract more vitriol from the right, and the media at large, than HIllary Clinton and that is AOC. Aside from convincing the misogynistic masses to vote for a woman, she’d have to convince them to vote for one who will be endlessly labeled in the media as a Socialist and Communist. And the masses will eat that up with no more understanding of the terms than the talking heads that will spew them across the airwaves and internet. She would have an uphill battle of biblical proportions just to win the Democratic primary.

On the other hand, I would trust AOC to run a better campaign than Hillary did. If any woman could get elected president in this country, it would be AOC. She would not blow off the working class and lurch to the center to try and court disaffected republicans. I also think AOC would do a good job sticking to issues and throwing republican failures back in their faces.

Having said all that, I don’t know if ‘28 will be her time to shine. Hell, it’s hard to make any call with confidence since Trump has about three and a half years to continue his rampage across this nation and there’s just no way to forecast what the situation will be like come primary season. At this point, I would be happier to see another candidate lead the ticket. One with similar positions to AOC but more palatable to those masses I mentioned above. The only one I really like right now is Illinois’ J.B. Pritzker.

I know he’s a billionaire but his actions in Illinois since he became governor show he is a good one. He has been pro-worker, pro-LGBTQ+, pro-choice, and has used his fortune to support progressive candidates. He is also pro-campaign finance reform because he doesn’t think people like him should be buying elections. He has also donated millions of dollars to organizations across the nation to help the left thwart republican plans to enact draconian anti-choice laws. If you’re not familiar with Pritzker, I suggest you look him up and see what he has accomplished since getting elected in Illinois.

If I could have any ticket in 2028, it would probably be a Pritzker/AOC ticket and I think they would wipe the floor with the right by focusing on issues that matter to people rather than kowtowing to mega-donors.

Case to denaturalize Zohran Mamdani to be announced in 3… 2… 1…