Is it time to pack it in and admit that Trump is a dictator yet?
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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Start sending US Marshals to the DOJ to arrest a few higher ups for contempt of court and remind them that the judiciary has a branch of law enforcement too.
The US Marshals are actually organized under the DOJ. Meaning they'll just fire any Marshal that obeys that order.
They teach in school that the court's weakness is that it lacks an enforcement mechanism. It seems that the founding fathers believed that broken judiciaries are balanced by the common person's conscience. This is back when people like Benjamin Franklin was able to influence thousands of literate, land owning Americans through his periodicals.
They did not anticipate that eventually the Russians and oligarchs would create mass influence disinfo campaigns using cable news, email, and social media.
The US Marshals are the enforcement mechanism
Controlled by the DOJ and Executive Branch.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Free Luigi!
I want to see Luigi run for office, since the precedent has been set that running for office is a way to escape consequences for crimes
I hope that judge is pissed off enough to start jailing Administration officials for contempt.
Thanks for the laugh, I needed that.
Imagine how different America would be if they actually held people accountable for their actions and crimes.
I was SCREAMING for it after the Bush administration, but Obama and the rest of weak-willed Dem weenies let them off the hook.
If Obama had shown bold leadership when he needed to, MAGA never could have taken root. If Biden had shown bold leadership after Jan 6, HitlerPig and his henchmen woukd be in either Gitmo or the Supermax, and their followers would all be claiming they were never MAGA.
Republicans are evil. Democrats are useless.
Very succinct. You said in a few words, what I always need a few paragraphs to say. Nice job.
Genuine question: who exactly would do that? Like I understand their are bailiffs who act as "police" in the courtroom but who would be the ones who physically arrested the Administration officials? The police or other members of the executive branch?
Presumably the Marshalls.
It's ridiculous that the US government is paying a foreign government to detain prisoners on its behalf and seems to be claiming it didn't put anything in the contract about a way to get the prisoners back.
I strongly suspect that this was all by design. If they jail them in US prisons, it's very easy for them to be released. When they're being held by a foreign government, it's very difficult to force them to release them, especially when they know the president doesn't actually want them released in the first place. I'd even wager there's an under the table agreement that they won't release them, even if pressed.
Well, it's not even under the table. The vile price of shit warden publicly said something to the effect of, "Yeah, none of them are ever seeing their homes again"
There's also the fact that the prisons are NOTABLY deadly. So if the administration winds up actually being forced to release a person, they can just have an "unfortunate accident" and now that's ANOTHER court case to determine whether they have to ship the body back (which again, is easily handled by "well it's in one of these mass graves.")
Given that they admitted he was detained by mistake in the first place, I think "evil" is the word I'd use.
It just temporary, until they finish the 30,000 bed facility theyre building in Guantanamo.
Suuure. Temporary. Just like when IT strung that wire across the ceiling...
SCrOTUS is spineless. They will kiss his slimy ass.
It's what they were appointed to do.
When the pendulum swings back and we put the fascists to the wall we can't forget SCOTUS
I really hope you're joking. We shouldn't advocate shooting fascists if they are in custody. That's a waste of bullets. Drown the fuckers in a pillow case instead.
Waste of a perfectly good pillow case. 🤨
And water
How do we know he’s even alive? They were so sure he’d never go home they may have simply killed the prisoner.
Possible. The other possibility is that they absolutely do not want a first hand account of what's going on inside to be available to the press.
ABC just had a reporter in another part of the prison, and they pack 80 prisoners to a cell, with 2 toilets, and NOTHING else.
That's the part of the prison they didnt mind showing on international television.
Because if he were dead, they'd happily announce it, just to make the Libs scream, and scare the shit out of any undocumented people.
Right now he's just Schroedinger's Political Prisoner.
Uh oh! A VERY STERN LETTER is ABOUT to be MAYBE Written!
They'll return him in a body bag.
Nah, he'll be the next one sent to that prison and never be seen again.
They wouldnt waste money on a body bag.