Looks like the illegal deportation of one man is the test case to see whether Trump will violate the
Constitution. If so, there's no turning back. There will be nothing in place to prevent the deportation of political opponents, and people who represent guardrails to uphold the Constitution.
"U.S. President Donald Trump has done numerous things in his second term that have been deemed
authoritarian or illegal, and he's threatening to
do more. But there's one line he hasn't crossed, at least not yet. He has not wilfully, clearly, defied a court order, crossing the Rubicon into a constitutional no man's land where rules don't apply.
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What's clearer about this case is that it has the potential to open the floodgates to the constitutional crisis under Trump that many have feared and predicted. ... The response from Trump's team, so far? Outright mockery. The administration was reprimanded by lower courts and ridiculed them. The Supreme Court weighed in, and now, for the first time, Trump may be defying the high court.
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"The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order," the decision read. "This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans … still hold dear."
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A federal lawyer admitted in court that the deportation had been a mistake. The courts have now demanded that Trump bring Abrego Garcia back, or at least try. But the administration has brushed them off. In fact, it says, there was no mistake. It even
suspended the federal attorney who admitted the error.
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Numerous Trump officials, and the president himself, have dismissed the lack of due process. "Do you think that we're going to sit around, wringing our hands, wondering if, 'Oh, maybe we should release this person, give them a little bit of extra time, give them a little extra chance to plead their case?'" asked White House aide Stephen Miller.
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The final test will come when the courts deliver new instructions, and how Trump responds to them."