AP NewsBy SUDHIN THANAWALAMay 2, 2026When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the president’s mass deportation effort.Instead, a top Justice Department official insisted the ruling wasn’t binding, and the administration continued denying detainees around the country a chance for release.By February, the district court judge, Sunshine Sykes, was fed up. Sykes, a nominee of President Joe Biden, accused Trump officials in a ruling that month of seeking “to erode any semblance of separation of powers,” adding that they could “only do so in a world where the Constitution does not exist.”Hardly isolated, the case illustrates a broader pattern of defiance of lower court decisions in President Donald Trump’s second term.[...]In the second Trump administration’s first 15 months in office, district court judges ruled it was violating an order in at least 31 lawsuits over a wide range of issues, including mass layoffs, deportations, spending cuts and immigration practices, the AP’s review of court records found. That’s about one out of every eight lawsuits in which courts have at least temporarily blocked the administration’s actions.
Why can he get away with thumbing his nose at the courts... simply the Republicans in Congress do not have a backbone, and they let Trump walk all over the Constitution!
Scripps News Service reported...
The Republican administration's power struggle with federal courts — which is testing basic tenets of U.S. democracy — reflects an expansive view of executive authority that has also challenged the independence of federal agencies, a president’s ethical obligations, and the U.S.’s role in the international order.Judges find widespread noncomplianceThe violations in the 31 lawsuits are in addition to more than 250 instances of noncompliance judges have recently highlighted in individual immigration petitions — from failing to return property to keeping immigrants locked up past court-ordered release dates.
Who is going investigate the charges... the DOJ? Ha! Trump has them wrapped around his little finger!
And now... can you believe this? They want to do away with one of most basic Constitutional rights! The right to be heard in court... habeas corpus! This goes father back than the Constitution, it goes back be traced to medieval English law! To the Magna Carta in 1215 and back to even 1066 and Anglo-Saxon England.
The Trump adminstration has a problem with that!
Secret memos show that the White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants.The New York TimesBy Maggie Haberman and Jonathan SwanJune 15, 2026Last spring, Will Scharf, an arch-conservative lawyer serving as the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to the chief of staff that reflected growing unease in the West Wing about one of the extreme measures being weighed by Stephen Miller, the powerful adviser driving President Trump’s deportation campaign.Dated April 29, 2025, and stamped “confidential,” the memo was careful and lawyerly but amounted to a warning against end-running the rule of law. The subject line read: “THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.”[...]The suspension of habeas corpus has occurred just a handful of times in U.S. history, and always under the most dire circumstances of war or invasion. Yet to a greater degree than previously known, administration officials, encouraged by Mr. Trump, actively weighed taking that step in the early months of his second term — this time to accelerate the mass deportation of immigrants in the country illegally.
Hey! Forget about the laws that get in our way... this is the president!
The International Business Times UK (Why does it seems like on the NYT and foreign media are the ones only carrying this?) reports,
Donald Trump's second White House seriously explored suspending a core constitutional protection to speed mass deportations and curb protests, according to newly disclosed internal memos written in Washington in 2025 by senior staff secretary Will Scharf. The confidential documents, detailed in reporting for the forthcoming book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, show that aides weighed using both the suspension of habeas corpus and the Insurrection Act as tools against unauthorised immigrants and demonstrators.The revelations trace back to the early months of Trump's second term, after his emphatic 2024 election win emboldened a hard-line immigration drive from the Oval Office. Stephen Miller, restored as one of the most powerful figures in the West Wing, was again pressing sweeping measures to accelerate deportations and sideline the courts that had frustrated the first Trump administration. What had previously sounded like late-night cable talk was being turned into draft policy, routed through a small circle of loyalists and sceptics.
They knew that this was a bad idea, why else keep it secret?
It has historically been held that only Congress can suspend it, a precedent famously tested during the Civil War when President Abraham Lincoln suspended it and was rebuked by Chief Justice Roger Taney in the case Ex parte Merryman. But given this Congress's fear of Trump, I doubt very much that they would do anything to stop him!
They are also ignoring maritime law;
The Hillby Andrew D. Thaler,06/15/26Alone in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, somewhere off the coast of Dominica, in the dead of night with no lights to guide me, I swam. With no motor, no radio, and a hull filling quickly in the rough chop, our little dinghy no longer offered safety. The currents would soon pull us far offshore, a tiny speck in the endless sea. We chose to abandon ship.[...]There is a trust among mariners — trust that in our worst moments we cast aside whatever grievances divide us to offer aid. Our struggle is, first and foremost, against the sea.This duty to render aid to mariners in distress is codified in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue, and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.On Sept. 2, 2025, the U.S. attacked an unidentified vessel in international waters, and then attacked again as at least two sailors clung to the wreckage of their small boat. Over the next eight months, the U.S. would strike more than 60 small vessels, killing over 200 sailors. None of these sailors have ever been conclusively identified as narco-terrorists, though several were found to have no connection to Latin American drug trade. These were not enemy combatants — they were but men clinging to upturned hulls in a vast and unforgiving sea.
But this is the Trump adminstration, and they don't follow the law.
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