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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://saturation.social/users/clive/statuses/114303860697926797">Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 19:07:08 JST</a><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive" title="clive@saturation.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/21777-48-20230219204149.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Clive Thompson" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Clive Thompson</a></section><article><p>The Supreme Court has brutally enabled the Trump administration's "path of perfect lawlessness"</p><p>Adam Serwer nails it here: <a href="https://archive.is/eiFyj" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archive.is/eiFyj</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4867778#notice-9534230">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-09T19:07:08+09:00" title="Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 19:07:08 JST">about 19 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/114303860697926797" rel="external" title="Sent from saturation.social via ActivityPub">saturation.social</a></span></span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/114303860697926797">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4438096">Screenshot reading:"“The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole: namely that the government could whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done,” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan, wrote in his concurrence. “It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.”
This is eloquent and correct, but this lawlessness is happening precisely because the nation’s highest court condoned it in advance. The right-wing justices on the Roberts Court have repeatedly rewritten the Constitution to Donald Trump’s benefit, first by nullifying the anti-insurrection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment, and then by inventing an imperial presidential immunity that is nowhere in the text of the document. It is no surprise that Trump is now acting as though he is above the law. After all, the Roberts Court all but granted him permission."This sentence is highlighted: "This is eloquent and correct, but this lawlessness is happening precisely because the nation’s highest court condoned it in advance."</a></label><br><a href="https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/303/858/483/489/351/original/9e1103acdc474189.png" rel="external">https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/303/858/483/489/351/original/9e1103acdc474189.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: archive.is</div><h5><a href="https://archive.is/eiFyj">A ‘Path of Perfect Lawlessness’ - The Atlantic</a></h5><div></div></header><div>archived 8 Apr 2025 16:26:23 UTC</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 19:07:08 JST Clive Thompson
The Supreme Court has brutally enabled the Trump administration's "path of perfect lawlessness"
Adam Serwer nails it here: https://archive.is/eiFyj
In conversationabout 19 days ago from saturation.socialpermalink
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1. Screenshot reading: "“The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole: namely that the government could whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done,” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan, wrote in his concurrence. “It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.” This is eloquent and correct, but this lawlessness is happening precisely because the nation’s highest court condoned it in advance. The right-wing justices on the Roberts Court have repeatedly rewritten the Constitution to Donald Trump’s benefit, first by nullifying the anti-insurrection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment, and then by inventing an imperial presidential immunity that is nowhere in the text of the document. It is no surprise that Trump is now acting as though he is above the law. After all, the Roberts Court all but granted him permission." This sentence is highlighted: "This is eloquent and correct, but this lawlessness is happening precisely because the nation’s highest court condoned it in advance."
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