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This has been a habit of the Trump administration to overstate the danger of the people they've arrested,
he said
What you're really looking at is the result of a permissive environment,
former DEA agent Wesley Tabor said
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,
he saidWhat 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,
the former DEA agent explainedWe 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,
he said
The executive branch has discretion to decide this as a political question,
Blackman said
This broad immigration statute, based solely on some abstract foreign policy worry, is being used to chill speech,
Leopold saidThese are unilateral, factual determinations made by the executive,
Leopold said in an interview on MondayThey are just making stuff up,
said Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North CarolinaWhere 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,
Brettschneider said
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.”
said Corey Brettschneider, a Brown University professor and host of the podcast “The Oath and the Office.”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.”
Williams went on
Yes, separation of powers. This is the judiciary interfering in the executive function.”
When Hunt raised the separation of powers in relation to the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants – apparently without due process – Miller repliedI have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president,
he said in July 2019, during his first term
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.”
Miller addedYou can read the law yourself,
Miller said
This is a showdown. This is akin to inter-branch March Madness,
former Federal Judge John E. Jones III told CNN’s Kaitlan CollinsIt’s not a question that the plane was or was not in United States airspace,
the judge said
Any plane that you put into the air in or around that time, you knew that I was having a hearing at 5,
the judge said with evident frustrationWhy are you showing up today and not having answers to why you can’t even disclose it to me?”
the judge asked