‘This Should Be Shocking:’ Read a Federal Appeals Panel’s Sharp Rebuke of the Trump Administration
The Executive possesses enormous powers to prosecute and to deport, but with
powers come restraints. If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due
process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will
not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?* And
what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary
powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be
present, and the Executive's obligation to “ take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed"
would lose its meaning. U.S. CONST. art. II, § 3 ; see also id. art. II, § 1 , cl. 8.--Judge Wilkinson joined by Judge King and Judge Thatcher.
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'Homegrowns are next': Trump floats sending violent American criminals to El Salvador
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| President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. |
