Contempt for the Constitution

Speaking to the extrajudicial seizure and rendition of people from the United States to El Salvador (and, in several instances, from one US State to another), legal analyst Joyce Vance writes:

“These cases are about making sure that, American citizen or not, criminal or not, peoples’ right to have the day in court that the Constitution guarantees them is honored. That’s all. But it’s everything.”

 Joyce Vance . April 16, 2025

Source

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/contemptible-856?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

FAFO 01

 Fucked Around; Finding Out

(#01 in a series)

Chief Justice John Roberts

Holy….

One Week Before Easter, Putin’s Palm Sunday Civilian Massacre Kills Dozens in Ukraine

Sources
http://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-sumy-b034da8f4d83d08e5ea24c6033dbe3cf

[Russia used cluster munitions in deadly attack on Sumy, US ambassador saRussia used cluster munitions in deadly attack on Sumy, US ambassador says](https://kyivindependent.com/ambassador-brink-reacts-to-russian-attack-on-sumy-says-cluster-munitions-were-used/)

[Russia used cluster munitions in deadly attack on Sumy, US ambassador says](https://kyivindependent.com/ambassador-brink-reacts-to-russian-attack-on-sumy-says-cluster-munitions-were-used/)

[At least 34 killed in Russian attack on Ukraine’s Sumy condemned by EU, US](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/13/dozens-of-dead-and-wounded-in-russian-strike-on-ukraines-sumy-zelenskyy)

a tiny slice of mass noncompliance

A tiny slice of the crowd at Seattle City Center on April 05, 2025 … so far back we couldn’t hear the speeches, only the cheers from those who arrived early. Pretty inspiring nonetheless .

‘Tomorrow there'll more of us.’ — Hamilton

Update: I posted this first on Facebook and an old friend commented:

"So sad. Protesting the effort to cut government waste to save important programs like ss..sending back dangerous illegals & so many other critical things after 4 years of not having leadership. Makes no sense. No wonder half of the President’s cabinet is made up of EX-democrats. Wait..the President was once a Dem too! Hahaha."

To which I replied: 

Ah! Thanks for this! It’s clarifying. There’s more to it, but regarding your complaints…

We aren’t protesting the effort to cut government waste, or to save important programs like Social Security, or to hold criminals to account for their lawlessness — we’re protesting the intent to pursue those ends *in ways that violate* the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.

We’re protesting actions that are in themselves lawless — taken *without* due process, in violation of the clear statutory requirements that embody equal protection before the law, without exception. 

We want America to be America. I think we’re in the mainstream of history and hope for the future when we demand that the current Administration and Congress act with fidelity to the Constitution.

So, unless you *don’t* want those things, this is a misunderstanding. And I’m sorry we weren’t clearer before.

Of course, there *is* more to it than just this, but if a person's central complaint is as basic as that, I don't see anything wrong in beginning with a basic response. *Maybe* it will lead to more....

Stop right there

From 11 years ago, a powerful reflection on the emotional toll of stop and frisk policies.

http://bit.ly/1gOhARg

Today, my American-born, gainfully-employed, tax paying, God loving friend with brown skin and a latin surname says he no longer leaves home without his passport.

There is a tax on being a brown-skinned person in America.

We have to make it stop.

Clown Car

The clowns in this car claim they can annex Greenland, Panama, Gaza, Canada.

And yet….

The dumbos claim they can’t compel El Salvador (El Salvador!) to return people wrongly transferred and imprisoned there in the last two weeks.

I’m starting to wonder if these chuckleheads can be trusted.*

This is not great, Bozo.

SOURCE

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJYZRFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWvW02Jyt65cC-88kQmW8cp_7s0yK4HNvN7vE2XfWLXwMW3q8W9s3ETYyA_aem_eiNgUXkcgCfmPQypKJHUfA

* Just kidding — their record as court dingleberries was solid before now.