“There’s a reason why, across more than three thousand cases in dozens of federal district courts, the #Trump administration decided to have its first appeal of a loss on this issue go to the #FifthCircuit,” said Steve Vladeck, #SCOTUS analyst & professor at Georgetown University Law Center, who has previously written about the legal dispute in these cases.
#law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny
@Nonilex Without habeas, the potential is that Trump's regime could use this process to indefinitely detain anyone without them ever seeing a courtroom and being able to say to a judge "I am a citizen of the United States and have been wrongfully detained against my will."
This is a system for disappearing people without appeal.
A divided federal appeals court on Friday ruled in favor of the #Trump admin’s policy of detaining millions of undocumented immigrants, even those who have been living in the #US for decades, without the opportunity to challenge their detention, handing Trump a major “win” as he seeks to carry out an aggressive #deportation campaign.
#law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny
@Nonilex Shouldn't forget his pining for the Nobel Peace Prize while at it. It's either peace or, in this case, war.
The 2-1 ruling from the ultra conservative #5thCircuit Court of Appeals means that in several southern states, scores of #immigrants who had been living in the #US unlawfully, including those who were previously allowed to remain out on bond as their case made its way through the #immigration system, can now be detained & denied the opportunity to seek their release through bond hearings before immigration judges.
In thousands of cases around the country, federal judges had consistently ruled that the policy #Trump rolled out last year was #unlawful, but Friday’s decision marks the first time an appeals court has backed it. The ruling only applies to #immigrants in #Texas, #Louisiana & #Mississippi.
#law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny
“There’s a reason why, across more than three thousand cases in dozens of federal district courts, the #Trump administration decided to have its first appeal of a loss on this issue go to the #FifthCircuit,” said Steve Vladeck, #SCOTUS analyst & professor at Georgetown University Law Center, who has previously written about the legal dispute in these cases.
#law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny
@Nonilex ..of course not a possibility, but I wonder what the results would be if we could "poll" all the Appeals Circuit Courts on how they would have ruled on this case.....
“The #FifthCircuit isn’t just the most right-leaning appeals court in the country; the government drew on this panel two of that right-leaning court’s most right-leaning judges. It’s hard to imagine they’re going to get the last word,” he said.
Though other appeals courts around the #US are still examining the policy, the 5th Circuit’s ruling tees up a likely showdown over it at #SCOTUS.
#Trump #law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny
