This has been a habit of the Trump administration to overstate the danger of the people they've arrested,
What you're really looking at is the result of a permissive environment,
And then, low and behold, you find out that many of them, not all of them, but many of them, are going to be Tren de Aragua members,
What you're seeing is these gangs and associated criminals were capitalizing on the fact that many of these small-town sheriffs' offices and metropolitan police departments had no clue who they were,
We are thankful for our local, state, and federal partners who joined us in investigating this case, and we stand prepared to continue aggressively investigating human trafficking in our state, holding traffickers and buyers accountable and helping victims take their first steps toward becoming survivors,
The executive branch has discretion to decide this as a political question,
This broad immigration statute, based solely on some abstract foreign policy worry, is being used to chill speech,
These are unilateral, factual determinations made by the executive,
They are just making stuff up,
Where it gets scary and this is what was so frightening about the interview is when he starts saying ‘I don’t care what the courts say – we have the right to do it anyway’ and he wouldn’t even commit to following even a Supreme Court order’ – that’s why we are so obviously in a constitutional crisis,
The whole point of Marbury v. Madison … is that you go first to the district court for federal questions and questions of constitutional law, so he’s not understanding that, ... If you think that the Supreme Court can ultimately opine, then you think the district court can opine on these matters.”
The idea that somehow there’s a class of actions that cannot be reviewed is nonsense. Everybody who lived through the 2000s knows that the war on terror was litigated in the courts over and over.”
Yes, separation of powers. This is the judiciary interfering in the executive function.”
I have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president,
That is not something that a district court judge has any authority whatsoever to interfere with, to enjoin, to restrict, or to restrain in any way.”
You can read the law yourself,
This is a showdown. This is akin to inter-branch March Madness,
It’s not a question that the plane was or was not in United States airspace,
Any plane that you put into the air in or around that time, you knew that I was having a hearing at 5,
Why are you showing up today and not having answers to why you can’t even disclose it to me?”