“'The ruling is nonsensical and wrong, but it is also particularly horrifying in this moment. The consequences are all the more alarming, building, as it would, on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket order that unleashed Kavanaugh stops, ultimately, across the nation,' Chris Geidner wrote in reaction to the ruling."

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #FifthCircuit #EthnicCleansing
/18

"Federal judges around the country — faced with a resultant wave of habeas petitions — have widely rejected the Trump administration’s interpretation of the law. The 5th Circuit accepted the administration’s new interpretation & its decision applies within Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi to 'every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past,' notes one expert."

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/17

"The big weekend news came late Friday when a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a key element of the Trump administration’s policy of mass detention of migrants. …

Despite 30 years of government practice, [the Trump regime] re-interpreted a 1996 law to allow it to detain migrants anywhere in the country without a bond hearing."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #FifthCircuit #EthnicCleansing
/16

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/a-brutal-5th-circuit-ruling-promises

"The Fifth Circuit has ruled against 30 years of precedent in favor of indefinite ICE detention, which more than 360 other judges have already rejected. And not just at the border, everywhere. Maybe SCOTUS will step in? Sad laugh."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #FifthCircuit #EthnicCleansing
/12

https://www.wonkette.com/p/bloody-footprints-where-mercy-should

"A decision by a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals endorsed Trump’s dystopian contention that any immigrant subject to deportation must be held without bond until final disposition of their case. The decision was a surprise outcome that flies in the face of hundreds of contrary holdings over three decades."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

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/11

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/fifth-circuit-panel-authorizes-mass

(continued from /5)

Think again. I grew up in the household of a lawyer who ran for a judge's seat twice. I learned bitter lessons early in life about how absolutely not blind justice is in the US when money is waved under Lady Justice's blindfold.

Follow the money … right to the judge's seat and the courtroom.

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #FifthCircuit #EthnicCleansing
/6

As you think about judges (in this case, in the right-wing Fifth Circuit) getting on board with this program of ethnic cleansing and mass detention (see /1-4 above), think about all the money flowing around behind the scenes to purchase and fit out those warehouses as huge prisons. Think judges aren't swayed by money?

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #FifthCircuit #EthnicCleansing
/5