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5th Circuit Says Due Process Rights For Immigrants No Longer Exist In Its Jurisdiction
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So what they are saying is that "their jurisdiction" is above the constitution. Hopefully you're as pissed as you should be
Here’s a reminder that packing the 5th circuit court of appeals with batshit conservative judges was a key step in the Southern Strategy. There’s also a county in Texas that only has enough of a population for two judges, and they made sure both of those are also batshit conservative. So any time they want to get a batshit conservative ruling, they just file it in that one specific county in Texas. And then Texas appeals go to the 5th circuit. And any circuit rulings are applied nationally (due to lower courts using precedent to set cases) unless it goes all the way to the SCOTUS. And with the current SCOTUS, they can simply refuse to see the case, and the 5th circuit ruling will stand.
Lots of times, the court cases are obviously staged. There have been cases where a plaintiff didn’t even realize they were named in a case that ruled for/against them, because the PAC that actually filed the case simply used their name to be able to file it in that county.
As an outsider, all of this seems like a system that is both corrupt and badly designed.
I'm just in a constant state of outrage at this point
if anyone does not get due process then no one does. The whole point of due process is not allowing law enforcement to be judge, jury, and executioner. Its one of the most important parts of the bill of rights.
Republicans clearly think it's fine to summarily execute those who "don't comply"
and this goes further into due process. when its ignored with something like a police shooting as far as investigation its equally problematic although unfortunately we don't have an amendment to deal with that side.