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Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Jackson: "At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See, e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944)."

Is there not a presumption that officials will know that denying judicial review contradicts established law and precedent? In going ahead with this anyway can they not be charged with kidnapping?

I can't take this any longer. Our government has been bought. It no longer stands for our basic rights. This is a darker than than I imagined. We cannot last another 3.5 years.Our democracy and our economy will be gone.