Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.
Federal law states that the United States shall not “expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” This law implements a treaty, known as the Convention Against Torture, which the United States ratified more than three decades ago.
Federal regulations, moreover, provide that even after an immigration judge has determined that a noncitizen may be deported to another country, that judge’s order “shall not be executed in circumstances that would violate Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.” And those regulations also establish a process that immigrants can use to raise concerns with an immigration judge that they may be tortured if sent to a specific country.
The Trump administration, however, claims it has discovered a loophole that renders all of these legal protections worthless, and is now asking the Supreme Court to explicitly give it the authority to make use of that loophole in order to enact its immigration policies.
Trump has a team of people who dedicated time, energy, and resources, to find a loophole around a ban on torture.
That sums up this administration’s direction pretty succinctly.
I agree, but there’s a difference. Trump is a figurehead. It’s not his team. Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation are the “deep state” that the right voters were convinced were controlling them through the dems. Peter Thiel, Putin, the Koch, Scaife, Uihlein, Bradley families and/or foundations, Barre Seid, Leonard Leo, Coors, Walmart, Exxon mobile, etc etc they’re all financing and guiding the hydra.
Trump goes away and Peter Thiel wormtongues Vance into doing the same shit
Totally agree with what you said. It was just easier to get a point across pointing at TrumpCo.
No way in hell he’s top dog in this shit show, just a gullible fool of hate and piss.
If you’re on the side of torture, you’re one of the bad guys
Can we not relitigate this. I remember this from like 18 years ago. It was not a good time.
Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.
Legal or not, why are you looking for excuses to torture people?
To torture people, of course.
We should have Trump dragged through the streets by a Tesla.
I was thinking feeding him McDonald hamburgers, Matilda style.
If only the US citizens weren’t fascists themselves.
I’m not
There are at least two of us then. Makes me feel a little better.
I’m not either!
Wants excuse for super powers, try no to give him that
Haven’t they already been doing this in Guantanamo?
Orange hitler needs to be impeached, removed from office, and sent to prison for his previous and current crimes.
I was hoping this would happen after his first term. However it will never, ever, EVER, happen. There just isn’t anyone with a spine who will do anything about him.
Now I’m hoping he gets a debilitating stroke/heart attack.
Or a long painful death. Colon cancer is fine, anything that can’t be treated.
Last resort is assassination, not because I’m above such things or find it distasteful etc. I was, but not anymore. No, it’s because if that happens then it’ll probably be quick and painless. And that racist rapist kiddie fiddler doesn’t fucking deserve that mercy.
Obama pardoning the Bush admin for torture was seen as weak and pathetic at the time, and its worse now.
He should have thrown the book at Bush and co.
Obama should have done a lot of things. I’m happy he did Obamacare but man he could have been so much more. Such a wasted chance. And making Biden his VP was a catastrophic error. Biden sabotaged the shit out of everything he touched.
Obamacare despite the Republicans throwing the mother of all tantrums about it was such a weak half assed piece of legislation. It was literally a Republican policy before Obama stole it and rebranded it. What he ran on and promised was a proper single payer healthcare the same as the rest of the world has. What we got was a federal search engine for insurance policies and very minor guarantees of what those policies will cover (and even that small gain is increasingly in danger of being removed).
Obama was one of the least offensive presidents of recent memory, but that’s far from being a good president. He certainly did some good things, but not as many as his reputation would make you think.
Pretty tough talk from the orange dude that vociferously whines about reporters asking “nasty” questions.
We’re so fucked.
Orange man is really leaning into this role of authoritarian dictator, isn’t he?
According to President Donald Trump’s lawyers, the administration can simply wait until after an immigration judge has conducted the proceeding that ordinarily would determine whether a particular noncitizen may be deported to a particular country, and then, if that noncitizen is allowed to be deported, announce that the immigrant will be deported to some previously unmentioned country — even if that immigrant reasonably fears they will be tortured in that nation.
Shit. That is going to work. The SCOTUS will want to suck Trumps balls a little after telling him “no” 5-6 times … to make it up to him. I bet they are going to pass this.
If you face torture or deathcamps, It’s better to go out shooting.
Weird, why would he want to do that.
extraordinary rendition meets enhanced interrogation, I guess.
Sean Hannity still hasn’t been waterboarded for charity.
And immediately admitting he was wrong about it not being torture.
It absolutely is torture. I’ve experienced consensual waterboarding myself and even if you are doing it willingly and are mentally prepared, consenting to it - it is absolutely terrifying. Your brain screams at you, just pumps your body full of fear chemicals.
