Someday someone’s going to write a well-received book that compiles the public statements top lawyers in this regime made and weighs them against the statements made when subject to Rule 11 in court pleadings and tell the story of the constant delta between those statements.
Im talking about political appointees who are also lawyers, defending the policies and saying things out of court, on the one hand, versus DOJ lawyers signing pleadings and lawyer who sign declarations, on the other.
You could spend an entire chapter on the lies federal courts have caught DHS in and documented and threatened to sanction them for. Judge Hatter. Hamama. The Massachusetts covid litigation. The Mesa Verde covid litigation. Fraihat. DACA. Ms. L.
So. Many. Habeas. Cases.
All those lies sort of all stem from the Initial Lie, which #scotus greenlit in the #MuslimBan cases, which is that you can openly state your racist intention for a policy, then issue the policy, then have it enjoined but somehow wash the replacement of the original racist intent
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(Just not badly enough to go to a neutral magistrate and get a warrant because that’s how much we care about the public safety mission we say we serve: We are literally not willing to just go get a warrant for a guy we put on a billboard.)
ICE pretends the Fourth Amendment has nothing to do with public safety. They want the people reading this billboard to be okay in a world where their agents can arrest anyone, anytime, anywhere. Don’t worry, though, just “bad” guys. (And some kids)
A #FOIA I’ve been meaning to do but have to admit to myself I won’t is to seek the Fugitive Operations Worksheet or Field Operation Worksheet for the FugOps teams who are supposed to be looking for guys like this man and then measure them against ICE’s effort to pick a scary face
So many people in movement worked so hard for candidates who weren’t even their third or fourth choice. And they won. Which means you have to listen to them. Sorry. That’s how this works.
(They also *knew* y’all were gonna do this. People who sat it out *told* them this is what the corporate party folks would do. Once they’re expendable again they’re disposable and it’s time to be quiet and let adults make deals. They knew you’d do this but worked anyway.)
The timing on it is just such a betrayal.
Couldn’t even wait until the national race was called to put people in their place.
If you want to build a left coalition around defending these broken, racist, toxic, deadly, costly institutions, prepare to answer why.
Just remember, as you watch how the police are going to treat white people showing up to the counting spaces in the next couple days, what you saw all summer.
Watch how the media describe white people’s behavior.
“A tense scene.”
“tensions running high”
Watch for emotional characterizations of their behavior that treat white people as complex humans with needs & desires.
You won’t here “vandals” “trespassers” “looters” “rioters”
They have really strong feelings about this election’s outcome and they’re expressing those feelings and things sometimes get out of hand but aw shucks democracy.
Non-white protestors are characterized by the government and media as mobs.
The record these advocates and professionals built assisted @RepJayapal with building a coalition to introduce, debate, and pass #HRes1153. @HispanicCaucus went to #ShutDownIrwin & heard directly from women. @JacksonLeeTX18 intervened to protect and free an Amin surgery survivor.
According to Dr. Amin's lawyer, women in ICE custody at Irwin can't expect to get their medical records of the treatment he gave at his office and the surgery he does at the hospital from the federal agency that's paying for it because it's legally responsible for their med care.