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Amaryllis

(11,430 posts)
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 11:33 AM Apr 2025

Why not more of an outcry about Trump saying "we simply cannot give everyone a trial because it would take too long"???

He said Monday we can't give everyone a trial because it would take too long. Why has there not been more blow-back on this?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-rages-about-long-and-tedious-trials-in-rant-against-due-process/ar-AA1D4nhX

Trump rages about 'long and tedious trials' in rant against due process

President Donald Trump on Monday criticized the Supreme Court for hindering his administration’s efforts to deport migrants without due process, saying it would be impossible to afford a trial for everyone it’s seeking to deport.

“My team is fantastic, doing an incredible job, however, they are being stymied at every turn by even the U.S. Supreme Court, which I have such great respect for, but which seemingly doesn’t want me to send violent criminals and terrorists back to Venezuela, or any other Country, for that matter,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Trump has sought to deport migrants it accuses of being gang members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, claiming wartime powers to remove them from the country without due process. His efforts have been blocked in multiple courts, and the Supreme Court early Saturday issued an order to temporarily pause the removal of a group of Venezuelan migrants under the 18th century law.

Trump wrote in his post that the courts are “intimidated by the Radical Left who are, ‘playing the Ref’” and said that his administration simply “cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years.”

“We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of Illegals we are sending out of the Country. Such a thing is not possible to do,” Trump wrote.

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Why not more of an outcry about Trump saying "we simply cannot give everyone a trial because it would take too long"??? (Original Post) Amaryllis Apr 2025 OP
Our dear leader alone will decide who gets a trial surfered Apr 2025 #1
2 simple reasons. maxsolomon Apr 2025 #2
Great question malaise Apr 2025 #3
Somebody ask him why he's in such a hurry, and why he has fired so many immigration judges who could do this Walleye Apr 2025 #4
"I haven't time to follow the Constitution!" intheflow Apr 2025 #5
Isn't he one of the people tying the courts up? dickthegrouch Apr 2025 #6

maxsolomon

(39,127 posts)
2. 2 simple reasons.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 11:47 AM
Apr 2025

1. No one believes anything he says. Even his supporters think every sentence is bullshit.
2. Because that statement got buried in a flood of news from this Maladminstration. It never ends.

Walleye

(45,436 posts)
4. Somebody ask him why he's in such a hurry, and why he has fired so many immigration judges who could do this
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 11:57 AM
Apr 2025

dickthegrouch

(4,654 posts)
6. Isn't he one of the people tying the courts up?
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 02:17 PM
Apr 2025

With endless frivolous cases and then appeals?
If he dropped half his cases the courts could probably get much more efficient.

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