An article that Slate published shows the intense biases that the MAGA Republican USSC has, heavily favoring djt and MAGA elites and policies, while heavily disfavoring Biden, Democrats, democracy and the rule of law:
The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—the Maryland father wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison—has captivated the nation and spurred Democratic lawmakers into action, with Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen flying to El Salvador on Wednesday to try to get him freed. But the Supreme Court does not appear to appreciate the urgency of the crisis. Last week, the court struck a compromise in Abrego Garcia’s case that has left him trapped in prison: The majority faulted a federal judge for potentially interfering with diplomatic negotiations, declaring that she could not compel the U.S. government to “effectuate” his return, only to “facilitate” it, a distinction based in “due regard for the deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.” Predictably, the Trump administration has seized on this deferential language as a justification to do nothing to bring Abrego Garcia home. In offering Trump this opportunity, the Supreme Court very directly set different rules for President Donald Trump than it had for President Joe Biden, gifting the former freedom from judicial intervention into negotiations with a foreign nation.
The court’s profound solicitude for Trump’s power over foreign affairs marks a sharp break from its attitude toward Biden’s authority in this field, one thatseems to reflectreflects judicial hostility toward both immigrants and Democratic presidents. It rarely intervened when conservative federal courts repeatedly intruded into the Biden administration’s immigration policy—most notoriously, when U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk effectively seized control over the southern border for nearly a year. In 2021, Kacsmaryk ordered the Biden administration to restart Trump’s Remain in Mexico program, an undertaking that required complex diplomatic negotiations with the Mexican government. He instructed U.S. officials to beg their Mexican counterparts for permission to house migrants from other countries in Mexican territory. He oversaw these weekly diplomatic talks between two sovereigns, subjecting U.S. officials to invasive interrogations about their goals and strategies. And he threatened to hold these officials in contempt if they failed to coax the Mexican government into a new agreement.
The Supreme Court allowed this arrangement to drag on for more than 10 months before finally putting a stop to it by a 5–4 vote that reflected, at most, mild concern over Kacsmaryk’s seizure of Biden’s foreign affairs authority. Its blasé attitude toward the episode could not stand in sharper contrast to its deep concern for the slightest encroachment into Trump’s prerogative over diplomatic negotiations in Abrego Garcia’s case. The courtappears to applyhas applied different standards to Biden and Trump in the arena of foreign affairs, tying Biden’s hands while freeing Trump’s. And it is always immigrants, democracy and the rule of law who pay the price. (edits added for clarity and respect for truth)
1. I really wish that what's left of the MSM would stop coddling and normalizing illegality and cruel, corrupt authoritarianism by djt and MAGA elites. Hence my edits, seems to reflect reflects, appears to apply has applied, and democracy and the rule of law. From what I can tell, the MSM remains in a state of MAGA subversion, systemic incompetence and/or paralysis by fear.
2. I assert that democracy and the rule of law are damaged by activist, unprincipled MAGA judges. In this case, it's the hyper-radical Kacsmaryk and the five radical authoritarian Republicans on the USSC bench. Inexplicably, Barrett was a MAGA Republican who voted against the other five Republicans (maybe she has a brain worm?). In essence, what those five authoritarian Republicans did was to allow djt to break the law and get away with it. The law the five MAGA judges allowed djt to break was due process. Abrego Garcia was arrested and deported illegally without any due process. With djt and authoritarian MAGA elites, our authoritarian MAGA USSC allows the rule of law to be crushed by djt and radical right authoritarianism without reason or one iota of shame.
Q: How probative or convincing is this of a heavy USSC bias favoring djt and MAGA elites and policies, while heavily disfavoring Biden, Democrats, democracy and the rule of law (when it is inconvenient), or is this limited to an anti-immigrant bias or something else?
