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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,852 posts)
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 11:37 AM Apr 2025

Justices Alito And Thomas Would Disappear You

Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court, for Now, Blocks Deportations of Venezuelan Migrants
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented. A group of migrants had been scheduled to be flown out of the country, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/19/us/trump-news



They would disappear you. They would put you on a cattle car. We aren't as unique as we think we are. It can happen here.


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Justices Alito And Thomas Would Disappear You (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2025 OP
I've said it before: If Alito and Thomas don't believe in due process, why did they become attorneys? surfered Apr 2025 #1
I think they are classic "end justifies the means" types. spooky3 Apr 2025 #3
I have to think DENVERPOPS Apr 2025 #17
Their narcissism prevents them from seeing that. Nt spooky3 Apr 2025 #20
Psychopaths often obtain credentials which allow them to harm and kill more people. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #13
"Ha ha. Suckers." - Clarence (R-Busboy) BoRaGard Apr 2025 #2
Yes, they are the Fascist wing of the court. Pretty clearly. GoodRaisin Apr 2025 #4
Absolutely no doubt about this. bluestarone Apr 2025 #5
Warnings Iamscrewed Apr 2025 #6
Alito & Thomas celebrate Easter by bronxiteforever Apr 2025 #7
Justices are supposed to put personal beliefs aside jgmiller Apr 2025 #8
Ginni Thomas probably has a list of names ready to hand to TSF. nt allegorical oracle Apr 2025 #9
They are next. wss2001 Apr 2025 #10
This. Half-step Apr 2025 #11
They wouldn't do that to Harlan Crow. Kid Berwyn Apr 2025 #12
Thomas is only there for the gratuities struggle4progress Apr 2025 #14
thought about it last night... WarGamer Apr 2025 #15
Only non-whites they mean. nt Jit423 Apr 2025 #16
Not surprising given their Opus Dei ties. Crowman2009 Apr 2025 #18
It can happen here and it is happening before our eyes. Grokenstein Apr 2025 #19

surfered

(13,465 posts)
1. I've said it before: If Alito and Thomas don't believe in due process, why did they become attorneys?
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 11:58 AM
Apr 2025

spooky3

(38,634 posts)
3. I think they are classic "end justifies the means" types.
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 12:30 PM
Apr 2025

They approach cases with “what outcome do I want (or am I being bribed to produce)?” And they then twist a rationale and find obscure and irrelevant bases to justify it. They are entirely unprincipled but see themselves as highly moral and superior.

They also seem to have the same revenge motivations as their hero.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
17. I have to think
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 02:36 PM
Apr 2025

They all are just as stupid as the TrumpHumping Voters

Little does the USSC, the Republicans in the U.S. House and U.S Senate, realize that in a Tyranny/Dictatorship there is
NO need for all of them as there is no Legislative or Judicial branches of government, and they will be kicked to the curb, now that they have fulfilled their usefulness in getting him and the Republican Party to this point....

jgmiller

(688 posts)
8. Justices are supposed to put personal beliefs aside
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 01:15 PM
Apr 2025

However over the long history fo the court that isn't always the case and Thomas and Alito are just following in that tradition of not putting their personal beliefs aside. They believe in due process and all that stuff but they only believe in it if it fits their idea of who deserves it which generally means rich white people and corporations.

wss2001

(85 posts)
10. They are next.
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 01:17 PM
Apr 2025

Soon if things go the way they are going, Trump will realize he doesn’t need the Supreme Court either. Ignore one court ignore them all. Don’t they realize they are presiding over the dismantling of our democracy? The rule of law means nothing to Trump and should mean everything to the court. What do they think is going to happen?

WarGamer

(18,613 posts)
15. thought about it last night...
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 02:05 PM
Apr 2025

When a SCOTUS opening comes up next... he's not going for a polished conservative like Gorsuch... he's going to name someone lik Kacsmaryk from Texas.

Crowman2009

(3,524 posts)
18. Not surprising given their Opus Dei ties.
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 02:39 PM
Apr 2025

For those who don't know, members of Opus Dei were also part of the Pinochet regime in Chile.

Grokenstein

(6,356 posts)
19. It can happen here and it is happening before our eyes.
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 02:39 PM
Apr 2025

Every day, the vile fascists cowering behind dim donnie's ongoing clown show whisper some new atrocity into his ear, and dim donnie follows along, convinced he's the one making the decisions. It's like King Theoden and Grima, except that dim donnie was never a good man and there's a entire host of Wormtongues everywhere, from the Offal Office to the "news" studios. We need to focus on the whisperers as much as (if not even more than) the bellower.

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