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US | Supreme Court sides with Trump over Alien Enemies Act deportations despite ‘extraordinary threat to rule of law’ (www.independent.co.uk)

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5-4 opinion clears path for administration’s swift removals of alleged gang members, for now

Case file: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn. All it took was a 5-4 majority vote to completely destroy the bill of rights and any due process that might have existed. America is now a full blown dictatorship and there is NO way out of this without bloodshed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This was actually predicted.

SCOTUS is afraid to rule against him, because if they do and he ignores them, they officially lose any legitimacy.

Yeah, we don't have congress and we don't have courts anymore.

Trump isn't even a legitimate president per 14 amendment, section 3.