The Roberts Court is siding with the US Constitution, and so is the Trump administration.
The weirdest aspect to this story is how Trump critics are cheering for authoritarianism, and against the rule of law, without realizing it.
The US Constitution is very clear on the separations of powers. The Judicial Branch, including the Supreme Court, has no say over foreign affairs. It is not in the court's allotted powers. Per the US Constitution, they have no voice on such matters. Trump critics want unelected judges to exercise power over Trump's handling of foreign affairs, and that is what makes Trump critics champions of authoritarianism. They want judges to be all powerful rulers who are immune from elections and can dictate anything.
The El Salvador citizen currently sitting in an El Salvador prison broke US law when he crossed the border illegally. The Executive Branch has the constitutional power to expel the criminal foreign national. Garcia's terrorist gang involvement is irrelevant, and a catch-22. The reason there was a prohibition against deporting Garcia to El Salvador was because there was a rival gang who tries to kill members of Garcia's gang. If Garcia isn't a member of the gang then he can be deported to El Salvador, and if he is a member of the gang then he's a designated terrorist who should be deported. Either way, the correct and lawful course of action is to deport the criminal foreign national. None of that is authoritarian.
It would be dangerously authoritarian for the judicial branch to order the executive branch to go overseas to El Salvador, take possession of the citizen of El Salvador, and bring him to the United States. Such an order would violate limits on jurisdiction and separation of powers which is why Robert's court didn't order that. Robert's order isn't a violation of the US Constitution, and Trump's administration doing nothing more than offering a free airline ticket back to the US if Garcia shows up at the US embassy in El Salvador to claim it also isn't a violation of the US Constitution or Robert's court order.
STOP CHEERLEADING FOR AUTHORITARIANISM!!!
And BTW, once more we see, in this Trump action, and the administration’s response to the “mistake”, the very roots of the infamous TDS that Trump fans think is endemic among “radical left lunatics”(definition: anyone who disagrees with Trump). If we care to understand those roots. MAGA certainly has no clue where the roots of TDS lie. Those roots being the understanding that if one was raised with the belief that we Americans were a good and decent people. TDS is nothing more nor less than feeling the death of the higher angels of our nature, and the elevation of our darker angels, our mean and rotten angels, so that our president has no problem sending innocents to perhaps the worst prison in the Americas. Yeah, that will trigger the TDS I’m talking about. TDS is simply put, the sorrow, and yes, the anger, that results when one realizes the world will no longer regard us as a good and decent people, and neither can we, and our leaders seem determined to prove it.
The Trump supporters in this group need to understand that. What they love to laugh at and dismiss as Trump Derangement Syndrome is nothing less than acute alarm and dismay at seeing our darker angels elevated as our new face to the world! It has nothing whatsoever to do with anti-Trumpers are all losing their minds, radical left lunatics, supporters of a deep state, etc. Our president is our face to the world. It’s always been that way. And this one, not only wants to divide us, wants to elevate meanness, wants to support anti-democratic dictators, he wants us to join an axis of evil, for heaven’s sake.
As Judge Tribe said about this decision: “This is not who we are!!” And that realization is the root cause of TDS. And I will say, if an American citizen doesn’t feel it, as those of us who do feel that tragic loss, and want it back so badly, if one does not feel it, than honestly, what kind of American citizen is such a citizen? One who’s fine with our darker angels being our face to the world? This is not who we are.
