No erudite comments from me today David. This is an excellent Issue of TPM but I'm feeling a bit discouraged today. Imagine being hit with a baseball bat. That's what being hit by a bullet feels like. This administration has shot America in the side and today I'm feeling the pain and I know there are more bullets in the way.
Re: shipment of immigrants to Libya...the US is party to various international treaties supporting 'non-refoulement", that is to say prohibiting transfer of refugees to a country where they fear torture or persecution. Needless to say, the migrant camps in Libya admirably qualify as "black sites", where inhumane conditions and practices reign.
How can this be justified, either morally or legally? Well, in tRumpland, anything goes, as we have witnessed since tRump's inauguration, and nothing is getting in the way of these assaults on human rights continuing, despite mounting court orders to the contrary.
"The Trump administration continues to try to find countries willing to take third-country nationals detained by the U.S.:..."
They're missing a great opportunity - China. We send them deportees, China sends us cheap TVs and those dolls Trump likes to talk about so much. No cash changes hands, so Trump would have to regard it as a huge trade victory.
The idea of the Extremes that the only remedy for violations of the AEA is a habeas proceeding has always troubled me. As Judge Hellerstein points out, the AEA itself requires a hearing before an Article III judge BROUGHT BY THE EXECUTIVE. Why is the burden on the detainee to file a habeas action?
"DOJ argument that even if it returned him to the U.S. it would not give him asylum" WTF? Is DOJ planning on dictating to the immigration court what they must find, as opposed to the court deciding as it should on the evidence at a hearing? How exactly is predetermining what an immigration court must decide "due process?"
Military Service: reflecting on the reality of our society choosing nearly continuous worldwide conflict, it seems most appropriate for ALL US citizens to participate in national service.
The choice of our defacto mercenary military staffed with zealots, or citizens choosing to do their part for a better future seems beneficial.
But our current era manufactures fear and hate instead of civility, for the benefit of the overlords. So many neglected opportunities….
No erudite comments from me today David. This is an excellent Issue of TPM but I'm feeling a bit discouraged today. Imagine being hit with a baseball bat. That's what being hit by a bullet feels like. This administration has shot America in the side and today I'm feeling the pain and I know there are more bullets in the way.
Re: shipment of immigrants to Libya...the US is party to various international treaties supporting 'non-refoulement", that is to say prohibiting transfer of refugees to a country where they fear torture or persecution. Needless to say, the migrant camps in Libya admirably qualify as "black sites", where inhumane conditions and practices reign.
How can this be justified, either morally or legally? Well, in tRumpland, anything goes, as we have witnessed since tRump's inauguration, and nothing is getting in the way of these assaults on human rights continuing, despite mounting court orders to the contrary.
"The Trump administration continues to try to find countries willing to take third-country nationals detained by the U.S.:..."
They're missing a great opportunity - China. We send them deportees, China sends us cheap TVs and those dolls Trump likes to talk about so much. No cash changes hands, so Trump would have to regard it as a huge trade victory.
</snark> - Just to be clear.
So who gets to check The Commander in Chief's sweaty bonafides?
Trump dumba$$
The idea of the Extremes that the only remedy for violations of the AEA is a habeas proceeding has always troubled me. As Judge Hellerstein points out, the AEA itself requires a hearing before an Article III judge BROUGHT BY THE EXECUTIVE. Why is the burden on the detainee to file a habeas action?
"DOJ argument that even if it returned him to the U.S. it would not give him asylum" WTF? Is DOJ planning on dictating to the immigration court what they must find, as opposed to the court deciding as it should on the evidence at a hearing? How exactly is predetermining what an immigration court must decide "due process?"
I agree with Michael
today, David. An
excellent MM but am
also feeling the effects
of the continuous
assault against our
country from within.
Military Service: reflecting on the reality of our society choosing nearly continuous worldwide conflict, it seems most appropriate for ALL US citizens to participate in national service.
The choice of our defacto mercenary military staffed with zealots, or citizens choosing to do their part for a better future seems beneficial.
But our current era manufactures fear and hate instead of civility, for the benefit of the overlords. So many neglected opportunities….