Presented Without Comment
President Donald Trump, on Truth Social:
Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten! Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing — But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!!
(Via The Morning Dispatch)
Well, maybe some tacit comment
[T]here’s so much cosplay out there about the authoritarian hellscape we live in in American because Joe friggin’ Biden was President or that Barack Obama was President — that it gives permission to do all sorts of things that are illiberal, that are disdainful of the rule of law and the constitutional order …
Your enemies are not demonic, and they are not all-powerful and the right hasn’t always lost and the left hasn’t always won. But if you convince yourself of that, you give yourselves all sorts of permission to do a lot of stupid and terrible things under the rubric of “Do you know what time it is?”
Among the stupid, terrible, illiberal things coming out of Washington are the ominous mockery of due process and the faux outrage at people who believe that even people suspected of heinous crimes are entitled to due process.
Here’s a statement from Trump’s “Counter-terrorism” tsar, Sebastian Gorka:
It’s really quite that simple. We have people who love America, like the president, like his cabinet, like the directors of his agencies, who want to protect Americans. And then there is the other side, that is on the side of the cartel members, on the side of the illegal aliens, on the side of the terrorists.
Go to any dictatorship and you will find identical rhetoric. For his part, Yale law grad Vance has argued that providing due process for illegal immigrants means, in his words, “the ratification of Biden’s illegal migrant invasion.” Due process is governed by “the public interest” and “a function of our resources.” So habeas corpus only applies if it doesn’t contradict an election promise, and if we can afford it (of course we can afford it, if it’s a priority).
Sure, you could legally expand the numbers of immigration judges and courts, you could legally expedite removals, and you could pass a mandatory e-Verify law to ensure that no illegals could find work. But why bother with the hard work of democracy and legislation when you can just seize extra-constitutional powers?
… Trump’s enablers have … told us quite clearly who they are. And they are not that worried about public opinion, because, as Steve Bannon just told us, they intend to stay in power indefinitely like Bukele … As Trump’s OMB director, Russell Vought, asks: “Do you know what time it is?” For him and core MAGA, what he means by that — and has always meant by that — is that we are now in a post-liberal order, and the Constitution is no longer in effect.