@realcaseyrollins @Phil no. it’s profoundly different to, say, “break the law” because your temporary parole status got unexpectedly revoked and here you are versus breaking the law to throw someone into an indefinite labor camp. respect for the law means respect for this kind of distinction as well.
@realcaseyrollins @Phil you’ll have jaywalkers thrown into gulags in the name of respect for the law. meanwhile, TikTok trundles on despite black letter law passed by Congress and certification of thay law by this very Supreme Court. it doesn’t trouble you. but a person whose overstayed a visa? to the camps!
@Phil @realcaseyrollins Lots of people being detained and deported now literally did nothing wrong other than paperwork. They just sent a guy to Jamaica who was born on a US base to US parents. He is deemed stateless, no citizenship at all. People who came from Afghanistan legally just had their status revoked, they didn’t cross a border, the border suddenly crossed them. https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2025-06-04/texas-man-born-to-u-s-soldier-on-u-s-army-base-abroad-deported/
@realcaseyrollins @Phil because this executive acting without constraint is unlikely to abuse power, say, by removing people who’ve done no wrong more serious than be in a confusion about the paperwork to labor camps and prisons in countries to which they’ve never been. this is the new America you are cheering.
@Phil @realcaseyrollins they haven’t. they’ve just decided that no one can win relief from abuses of power in the United States except one at a time via laborious and expensive litigation or when they themselves, this single 9-person panel, choose to provide it.
@Phil well, at least you’re consistent if you want to remove universal injunctions from the Supreme Court as well. you effectively want the courts to be entirely an advisory body. you have no faith in Congress. basically you want a king, this king. you call that democracy bc he got the biggest nonminority among a small group of candidates in a very silly kind if plebiscite (silly, because as the founders knew, one person can’t meaningfully “represent” a public, they wanted virtue not acclaim.)
@Phil @realcaseyrollins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark
okay. 127 years then.
jesus.
@Phil i look forward to your consistent disapproval of egregious forum shopping in pursuit of nation injunctions by conservatives during the Biden administration.
i was then, and would still be be for, reforms to stop forum shopping. but even then, i would never be for a law that can only be applied in disparate patchwork unless and until the Supreme Court deigns to intervene.
@realcaseyrollins @Phil i just don’t have time to litigate with you what we’ve all understood the Constitution to say for 150 years right now. and neither did the Supreme Court justices, who did not rule on the “merits” of these arguments, just said if there are any merits, only they, at their own discretion, can choose to give them effect.
the Supreme Court is playing a Jenga game, pulling away one protection at a time of the vague, lived “it’s a free country” experience many of us associate with America. at first nothing seems to happen.
@realcaseyrollins @Phil here birthright citizenship.
@Phil it is retarded. it’s what the Supreme Court has done, made black letter violations of law enforceable only hypothetically in ever shifting patchworks with particularized costly litigation. this is your world. you and your movement have made it. i suspect you will regret it.
@realcaseyrollins gotta keep up.
@Phil no. i mean jurists who value rule of law.
the universal binding of Supreme Court decisions affords justices more power than is necessary to give particularized litigants justice.
“inferior” judges should pay the Court no mind, do their own thing, let each set of litigants appeal to the Supreme Court if that’s their thing.
i am serious about this. the current supreme court is unworthy of respect. jurists who value the rule of law should simply not respect it.
if the best way to rob a bank is to own one (Bill Black), what about an insurance company? cf #TobyNangle https://www.ft.com/content/ee40241a-c568-4673-88df-001c0244fb37
@admitsWrongIfProven “Generate timestamp indicators for Discord chat messages” https://hammertime.cyou/
flirt with apocalypse but turn away before consummating then enjoy the ensuing relief.
@admitsWrongIfProven we crumble them up and snort them.
@scott we should try “feet on the air and head on the ground” and see how the same correspondents react.
By far the most common SMS message I send is “stop”.