I’m not downplaying what ICE and CBP will fee empowered to do now.

I’m not downplaying the real costs of grinding thru a BS charge before the courts toss it.

But it is also important to stress this is just an EO, not a law, bc the media is going to frame it as law.

It.
Is.
Not.

Some fire from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent:

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

Here's the quote: "Acceptance of lesser evils is consciously used in conditioning the government officials as well as the population at large to the acceptance of evil as such."

I mean, obviously, you use whatever tools are available, and there’s plenty to do with the law. Movement lawyers always have and always will figure out ways.

But if the question is, is this court going to be a dependable means of resisting fascism? Absolutely the fuck not, and often the opposite.

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

It's not hyperbole to call this case the death of meaningful constitutional rights in the United States. If you do not have an attorney that can litigate against the government, you no longer have rights. This will go down in history as the gutting of the constitutional order.

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...