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The
Trump
administration’s
haphazard
deportation
scheme
sent
Kilmar
Abrego
Garcia
to
an
El
Salvadoran
slave
prison…
by
accident.
OOPS!
After
a
federal
lawyer
was
forced
to
admit
the
mistake
—
because
he
didn’t
want
to
lie
to
the
court
—
the
administration
promptly
fired
the
attorney.
The
Supreme
Court
unanimously
ordered
the
government
to
bring
Abrego
Garcia
back
to
the
United
States,
which
the
administration
tried
to
lie
about
—
possibly
with
AI
hallucinated
misquotes
—
before
eventually
giving
in
and
bringing
him
back
to
the
United
States
and
charging
him
with
human
trafficking
in
Tennessee.
But
the
Tennessee
charges
were
sufficiently
flimsy
that
the
government
couldn’t
prove
a
compelling
reason
to
keep
Abrego
Garcia’s
in
custody
and
the
judge
ordered
his
release
pending
trial.
He
returned
to
Maryland
where
he
would
be
subject
to
ICE
supervision
under
his
pre-existing
status.
Pursuant
to
that
order,
he
showed
up
for
his
check-in
today
and
got
arrested.
According
to
the
official
Homeland
Security
X
account,
Abrego
Garcia
“will
be
processed
for
removal
to
Uganda,”
a
country
where
he
has
no
ties
at
all,
but
presumably
they’ve
bought
Trump
Memecoin
or
something.
A
humble
suggestion:
if
he’s
“an
MS-13
gang
member,
human
trafficker,
serial
domestic
abuser,
and
child
predator,”
then
FUCKING
PROVE
IT.
If
this
guy
is
Hannibal
Lecter
in
a
Bulls
hat,
then
it
shouldn’t
be
hard,
armed
with
the
awesome
power
of
the
Department
of
Justice,
to
stop
being
so
chickenshit
and
go
secure
a
conviction!
But
there’s
a
reason
Noem
and
her
department
are
so
committed
to
trying
Abrego
Garcia
exclusively
in
the
court
of
“Elon
Musk’s
Home
for
Wayward
Bots
And
Racists
(And
Racist
Bots!).”
They’ve
got
nothing.
The
only
smoking
gun
these
Keystone
Kops
managed
to
come
up
with
was
a
tattoo
and
they
even
had
to
invent
fake
captions
to
make
that
look
incriminating.
Total
amateur
hour.
They
showed
up
to
court
with
their
proverbial
genitals
in
their
hands
and
when
the
judge
refused
to
go
along
absent
any
evidence,
Homeland
Security
tossed
a
dart
at
a
map
and
decided
to
send
him
to
Uganda.
They’re
too
chickenshit
to
go
back
to
court,
so
they’re
dumping
Abrego
Garcia
in
Uganda
and
hoping
everyone
forgets
about
him.
The
Supreme
Court’s
original
order
demanding
his
return
provided
few
details
about
how
each
justice
saw
the
case,
but
did
focus
on
the
administration
overlooking
a
preexisting
order
forbidding
his
deportation
to
El
Salvador.
While
the
substance
of
his
case
hasn’t
really
changed
in
the
meantime,
the
administration
hopes
that
a
majority
of
the
Supreme
Court
would
be
willing
to
toss
their
concerns
about
due
process
and
leave
it
at
“Uganda
is
not
El
Salvador,
so
no
harm
no
foul.”
The
only
advantage
of
the
unchecked
expansion
of
executive
authority
right
now
is
that
the
next
president,
assuming
they
actually
get
in
office
by
2029,
should
face
no
obstacles
to
systematically
firing
and
prosecuting
everyone
involved
in
this
disgrace.
Meanwhile,
Abrego
Garcia
is
going
to
be
treated
like
a
Carmen
Sandiego
prop,
shipped
from
country
to
country
in
the
hope
that
people
stop
asking
why
the
Trump
administration
are
too
scared
to
go
into
a
courtroom.
Earlier:
Kristi
Noem
Thinks
Habeas
Corpus
Is
A
Deportation
Spell
DOJ
Makes
Up
Fake
Supreme
Court
Quote
About
Deportation
Hoping
No
One
Notices
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