drumman541

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Christian (classical Jesus not Republican Jesus) trying to show the world that not all of us have married our faith to a political party. Proud Georgia Tech alum THWG!

My Wordle statistics showing that my streak of correct answers just hit 1,000 days.
A screen print of text detailing an injury that James Wood suffered yesterday.
An outline of the state of Georgia with the words "'round here we yell THWG" inside it.
A black dog laid in a bed cuddled with a stuffed animal.
A screen print of my Wordle stats showing that I have a 900 day streak.
A dog resting on a gray blanket on a brown leather sofa.
Buzz standing over a turkey that looks like UGA with the text “Happy Hatesgiving” on the side of the table.
A screen print of a portion of the box score of Georgia Tech beating Cumberland 222-0 in college football on October 7, 1916.
Map of Georgia with the text “round here we yell THWG”
Screen print of Loomer’s deposition.
Georgia Tech's mascot, Buzz, holding up a sign that says "To Hell with Georgia."
The front of tonight’s program.
And at a more fundamental level, it would be rather stunning if the law were otherwise. A world in which federal courts lacked the power to order the government to take every possible step to bring back to the United States individuals like Abrego Garcia is a world in which the government could send any of us to a Salvadoran prison without due process, claim that the misstep was a result of “administrative error,” and thereby wash its hands of any responsibility for what happens next. Rather than providing fodder for snarky comments from the White House Press Secretary, that possibility should terrify all of us—and, hopefully, the Fourth Circuit and the Supreme Court as well—and push courts to provide whatever relief is possible under the circumstances, as Judge Xinis attempted to in yesterday’s ruling.
These moves don’t just hurt foreigners; as Madison warned, they threaten Americans too, eroding the very foundations of our liberty. The Constitution imposes limits on the state in order to guard against rights violations and restrain would-be tyrants. The most important limits on state power include the Fifth Amendment’s prohibition on denying due process to anyone and the First Amendment’s prohibition on any law abridging free speech. If the legitimacy of Trump’s actions is ceded because his targets are unsympathetic foreigners, those powers will be deployed against citizens eventually.
We begin with the basic proposition that all orders and judgments of courts must be complied with promptly. If a person to whom a court directs an order believes that order is incorrect, the remedy is to appeal, but, absent a stay, he must comply promptly with the order pending appeal. Persons who make private determinations of the law and refuse to obey an order generally risk criminal contempt even if the order is ultimately ruled incorrect.