Answer a question to Tuesday Daily briefingThe press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said the president Donald Trump“The idea” is potentially expelled from American citizens “violent” and “heinous”, adding an apparently important warning: “if it is legal”.
This is not the case.
But that does not mean that it cannot happen. Indeed, justice Sonia Sotomayor warned one day earlier.
Dissident from the Supreme Court decision To grant an emergency reparation to the government in one case on deportations, Sotomayor written that The implications of the legal position of the Trump administration are that “not only non-citizens but also the citizens of the United States could be withdrawn from the street, forced in planes and confined to foreign prisons without possibility of reparation if judicial control is illegally refused before withdrawal.”
The possibility is also hidden in another appeal in the process before the judges, in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, which was wrongly expelled to El Salvador. Despite an “administrative error” to send it to this country, the government resisted remedy the error. Support his return, constitutional scholars wrote In the high court that, if the government’s position was correct, then “the executive power would have a degree of quivering power – the power that the president could exercise extreme and extraordinary, including against American citizens that the president simply disadvantaged.”
Leavitt’s comments thus reinforce the importance of the future decision of the Court in the case of Abrego Garcia, whose consequences could inform how far this administration will go.
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