Well done and very thought provoking. It’s confirmation of Franklin’s statement that he and his colleagues had given us a republic if we could keep it.
I will add that this is more than being about SCOTUS. Every elected official sitting in our Congress took an oath to uphold the constitution. And boy do they have a powerful took- the wallet. And the ability to remove POTUS for high crimes and misdemeanors. If kidnapping our countries residents without due process doesn’t rise to that level, I don’t want to live to see what does.
It’s time, high time, for officials to re-read their oaths and act accordingly. Failure to act is complicity.
This is a wise and worrying comment. Of course, laws only work in the context of a solid consensus that they make sense, for the public good and for individual freedom--which ends where another individual's freedom begins (as we all know in theory). But our social consensus, and its political and legal foundations, has dangerously frayed. And we now face the alarming prospect, provoked by a criminally lawless president, of complete breakdown. The coming days and weeks and months will show how resilient our constitutional system really is, and what role we the people are willing to play to preserve it.
All well and good except the first sentence. Trump is already defying a unanimous decision of the high court on Kilmar Abrego Garcia - we are in the Constitutional crisis right now.
The Roberts court is undermined the rule of law. Several times by giving Trump what he wants in light of that. I wrote this following
it's a "future history" based on what has transpired so far. Given SCOTUS' huge hall pass to the Trump administration they are driving a truck through the Constitution and literally ignoring the courts and Roberts is to blame for letting it get this far in service of his ideology!
Headline AP News:
Supreme Court Justices arrested Jan 20, 2026 Wash DC
Yesterday afternoon, shortly after the justices of the United States Supreme Court heard final arguments on whether the Trump administration could sanction law firms for their work as adversaries to the United States government, US Marshall's entered the court room and arrested all nine members as well as several key staff members who work for the court. As of this morning, it was reported through an anonymous source the Justices were interned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba awaiting military tribunals.
The justices had recently ruled on a couple of cases of deportation which required the administration to follow due process before arresting and deporting people detained by ICE. Several US citizens have been caught up in the detentions and deported to El Salvador where one of the American men was killed in the notorious prison there.
On his Truth Social site, President Trump said: "THE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT ARE CLEARLY ANTI-AMERICAN AND TREASONOUS TO ALLOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND DANGEROUS GANG MEMBERS TO REMAIN IN OUR BIG BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY EVEN ONE MORE DAY."
Some commentators point to the slippery slope leading to this action started in 2025 when Trump signed a flurry of executive orders many banning law firms from working on cases involving the government, mass deportations and random detentions. In one such case, in July 2025, when ICE tried to detain American citizen, that citizen had a legal concealed carry permit and attempted to defend himself against agents resulting in a shoot out with the death of one ICE agent and the American citizen they had attempted to detain.
Previous rulings by the court have invested a lot of authority in the president and executive branch with regards to Fourth through Eighth Amendments to the Constitution, allowing what many constitutional scholars actual infringements on the rights in those amendments. With the erosion of those amendments, there isn't really any clear path for the interned justices to appeal to any authority outside of the White House.
It's not known when the justices will be tried in the military court.
Well done and very thought provoking. It’s confirmation of Franklin’s statement that he and his colleagues had given us a republic if we could keep it.
I will add that this is more than being about SCOTUS. Every elected official sitting in our Congress took an oath to uphold the constitution. And boy do they have a powerful took- the wallet. And the ability to remove POTUS for high crimes and misdemeanors. If kidnapping our countries residents without due process doesn’t rise to that level, I don’t want to live to see what does.
It’s time, high time, for officials to re-read their oaths and act accordingly. Failure to act is complicity.
This is a wise and worrying comment. Of course, laws only work in the context of a solid consensus that they make sense, for the public good and for individual freedom--which ends where another individual's freedom begins (as we all know in theory). But our social consensus, and its political and legal foundations, has dangerously frayed. And we now face the alarming prospect, provoked by a criminally lawless president, of complete breakdown. The coming days and weeks and months will show how resilient our constitutional system really is, and what role we the people are willing to play to preserve it.
Excellent point about the lack of an enforcement arm for the Supreme Court. More on this question here: https://www.nowitshistory.com/p/can-trump-defy-the-courts?r=1m1xa4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
All well and good except the first sentence. Trump is already defying a unanimous decision of the high court on Kilmar Abrego Garcia - we are in the Constitutional crisis right now.
The Roberts court is undermined the rule of law. Several times by giving Trump what he wants in light of that. I wrote this following
it's a "future history" based on what has transpired so far. Given SCOTUS' huge hall pass to the Trump administration they are driving a truck through the Constitution and literally ignoring the courts and Roberts is to blame for letting it get this far in service of his ideology!
Headline AP News:
Supreme Court Justices arrested Jan 20, 2026 Wash DC
Yesterday afternoon, shortly after the justices of the United States Supreme Court heard final arguments on whether the Trump administration could sanction law firms for their work as adversaries to the United States government, US Marshall's entered the court room and arrested all nine members as well as several key staff members who work for the court. As of this morning, it was reported through an anonymous source the Justices were interned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba awaiting military tribunals.
The justices had recently ruled on a couple of cases of deportation which required the administration to follow due process before arresting and deporting people detained by ICE. Several US citizens have been caught up in the detentions and deported to El Salvador where one of the American men was killed in the notorious prison there.
On his Truth Social site, President Trump said: "THE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT ARE CLEARLY ANTI-AMERICAN AND TREASONOUS TO ALLOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND DANGEROUS GANG MEMBERS TO REMAIN IN OUR BIG BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY EVEN ONE MORE DAY."
Some commentators point to the slippery slope leading to this action started in 2025 when Trump signed a flurry of executive orders many banning law firms from working on cases involving the government, mass deportations and random detentions. In one such case, in July 2025, when ICE tried to detain American citizen, that citizen had a legal concealed carry permit and attempted to defend himself against agents resulting in a shoot out with the death of one ICE agent and the American citizen they had attempted to detain.
Previous rulings by the court have invested a lot of authority in the president and executive branch with regards to Fourth through Eighth Amendments to the Constitution, allowing what many constitutional scholars actual infringements on the rights in those amendments. With the erosion of those amendments, there isn't really any clear path for the interned justices to appeal to any authority outside of the White House.
It's not known when the justices will be tried in the military court.