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angrychair

(9,725 posts)
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 10:25 PM 6 hrs ago

TSF Immigration Raids

I keep reading from the half-ass news media that he will use the military to conduct raids while completely skipping over how this is legal given the Posse Comitatus Act. Am I missing something? Is declaring an "emergency" enough? Seems just saying it's an "emergency" is legally weak at best. Would expect that to be almost impossible to defend in court.

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regnaD kciN

(26,590 posts)
2. It will be challenged in court...
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 10:31 PM
5 hrs ago

...and, eventually, SCOTUS will make the final decision. Need I say more?

Takket

(22,506 posts)
3. by the time SCOTUS makes up its mind there will already be millions suffering in concentration camps
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 10:36 PM
5 hrs ago

because he's just going to say "this is an official act" and order it done while it is in the courts. SCOTUS kneecapped its own power to hold the presidency in check.

0rganism

(24,656 posts)
4. When you're the president, they let you do it...
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 10:38 PM
5 hrs ago

TSF is quite willing to abuse those powers and privileges to which his predecessors, whatever their various shortcomings, typically showed respect and restraint.

brush

(57,459 posts)
5. Unfortunately it seems the corrupt SCOTUS 6 has given the new dictator immunity...
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 10:41 PM
5 hrs ago

for 'official acts' which he and his cabal will decide what's official. Come Jan. 20th, 2025 he can round-up, deported, imprison or even have someone killed with impunity.

Everything changes in Jan. The nation won't be the same.

angrychair

(9,725 posts)
6. Sorry this is just scare politics
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 10:50 PM
5 hrs ago

It is unequivocally the law and while TSF may be immune for certain "official acts" that does not make it legal for anyone else
Meaning the military carrying out an order like this is not immune. They would violating the law.

brush

(57,459 posts)
7. We'll see. I have a feeling the final word is with SCOTUS...
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 10:58 PM
5 hrs ago

as to if his orders constitute 'official acts'.

TheKentuckian

(26,134 posts)
8. I'm less than certain what difference it makes what the courts say
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 11:17 PM
5 hrs ago

What happens if he tells the courts to sit and spin?

Absolutely nothing.

He could molest and snuff five hundred six month old baby boys in a row on 5th Avenue and gain popularity and power.

angrychair

(9,725 posts)
9. Just my opinion
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 11:47 PM
4 hrs ago

For what it's worth, we are all going to have a very...very...very, long 4 years. To have this level of cynicism as your starting point before he even takes office, is going to make it even harder.
Ease off the gas a little and take some deep breaths. We will all get through this together here on DU

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