Yeah.

At first, I thought, "Holy shit what are the Germans doing," but when I read it I began to think about it from the broader perspective on what justifies using fatal weapons in self-defense, and what things should happen first...

Personally, I think she should get off Scot-free because of the fact that women are all too often overpowered by men and victimized cruelly in the worst ways, but I understand the logic of wanting to have a higher criteria for the use of lethal force.

The Germans are wrong here, IMO, but a closer look made me more sympathetic to their position. And the fact that the sentence was suspended is good.

Kilmer Garcia was not an American citizen. Or are you talking about someone else?

I got excited for a minute and thought there was an ADL post because Stephen. Miller looks so much like Jonathan Greenblatt.

So, let's try to find some information about this:

In March 2019, Prince George's County, Maryland, police arrested Abrego Garcia and three other men in a Home Depot parking lot, where they were seeking work as day laborers.[2][19] One of the men claimed Abrego Garcia was a "gang member," but The Atlantic reported that, according to court filings, the man offered no proof and police said they did not believe him.[19] Abrego Garcia was never charged with a crime in connection to his arrest.[20]

Police handed custody of Abrego Garcia over to ICE for deportation proceedings. In those proceedings, the government claimed that he was a member of the MS-13 criminal gang because "he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie" and a confidential informant claimed that he was active with an MS-13 group based in New York,[2] where he has never lived.[16] ICE relied on information from a form that was filled out by a local police officer who was suspended not long after for "giving confidential information about a case to a sex worker", and thus was unavailable when Abrego Garcia's lawyer sought more information.[21] Roger Parloff of Lawfare notes that since neither the officer nor the informant were cross-examined, the accusation went through two layers of hearsay to reach the immigration court. An immigration judge determined that the informant's claim[22] was sufficient evidence for the purpose of denying Abrego Garcia's bond request; another judge upheld that ruling on appeal, saying the claim was not clearly wrong.[18] However, no court has ever made a "full adjudication" of this issue.[18] David Bier, associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, notes that the standards of evidence are lower in an immigration bond hearing than in a trial; in a bond hearing, the government's statement is assumed true and the burden of proof is on the defendant.[23] Abrego Garcia has consistently denied any connection to MS-13.[24]

Wikipeida

Here is what the DHS is saying:

“This was just one of those examples of an individual that is a MS-13 gang member, multiple charges and encounters with the individuals here, trafficking in his background, was found with other MS-13 gang members—very dangerous person, and what the liberal left and fake news are doing to turn him into a media darling is sickening,” said Secretary Noem.

DHS.gov

Now, what is the evidence that he has multiple charges and encounters, and that he was found with MS-13 gangsters..?

I did not find it, but it does not mean that it is not necessarily true. His lawyers are shopping for an audience with the meida, I think, and they will selectivley present information, just as how the government is guilty of such.

Something else I found interesting:

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: "When President Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, that meant that (Abrego Garcia) was no longer eligible, under federal law … for any form of immigration relief in the United States."

It’s inaccurate that the U.S. government’s February designation of MS-13 as a foreign terrorist organization automatically revoked Abrego Garcia’s protection from removal, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, said.

People who are proven members of a terrorist organization are ineligible for protection from removal. But in Abrego Garcia’s case, to revoke his protections, the U.S. government "would have been required under law to reopen his immigration court proceedings and prove to the judge that he was a member of MS-13 and therefore no longer eligible for withholding."

Politifact

This declaration of those guys being terrorists is truly impactful.

BTW, this very well could be right wing terror. I recognize that. I am not posting this to score political points - it's in the crime section because it is an interesting crime.

Moreover, every idea has to be assessed as an idea separate from its believers. It's called poisoning the well when you try to sully the worth of an idea by associating it with its craziest adherents.

You can't deny that he has cleaned up El Salvador.

He's a hero for that.

There is no question, though, that convicted illegal immigrants are deportable, and that people unlawfully residing in the US are deportable.

It has already been established before that rights reserved for US citizens do not exist in the same way for aliens. This doesn't just apply to things like voting and gun ownership, but even things like privacy - there isn't any requirement for digitally spying on foreign citizens, for instance. You need a judge to sign off on digitally snooping an American citizens' computer, but not for an alien.

Or do you think it’s fine to keep breaking the law for potentially months, until the Supreme Court can confirm what even the lowest courts were able to determine was illegal?

They should identify the potential conflict and, based on that, potentially hold what's going on.

Just as such, if there was some fatal flaw or conflict of interest discovered with how a judge or detective conducted himself, it would not justify releasing all the connected criminals immediately. Rather, it would justify reviewing all these cases and then releasing people whom it was determined to have impacted.

I honestly think it's just because they like to imprison them indefinitely. Cops were killed by MS-13 during their war on crime.

Putting every one of these goons behind bars for as long as possible is a personal goal of Bukele.

If you watch his interview with Tucker, he absolutely believes the gangs were not just criminal, but a demonic, malevolent force.

But this is not entirely accurate. The Supreme Court overrules these sorts of judgments with some regularity.

It is also logical to continue implementing the policies that would be unaffected by such a decision.

They still have a jurisdiction to make a ruling, but not one that pauses the entire federal act when it is clear it will be appealed up to SCOTUS.

So the idea would be that a court with jurisdiction in California can make a ruling which applies to stopping a single Californian in unique circumstances from being deported under the specific law, but this cannot completely destroy the totality of the law.

And, just as we've seen, some of these rulings that would have crippled the government's ability to remove violent criminals from society do go to SCOTUS and SCOTUS sides with the law.

They're working out the kinks in the system.

And that still exists. It is merely the case that SCOTUS will have to check Federal power laws, and that the whole system doesn't get torpedoed by a single Federal circuit judge making a single ruling on a case that may not even be 100% related to the bulk of what the policy is designed to do.

How can it be called a coup when there was an election..? Trump even won the popular vote. I don't get it.

I haven't kept that much abreast of this trial, but all the reports I've seen tend to affirm that he is the most likely killer.

It was largely dismantled over the years. Highway & education funds and such get withheld.

You could also say that the classic Roe v Wade was a great example of this, and so was Obergerfell, as edicts that were unpopular at that time were forced on countless states.

I don't think BlueSky or any sort of platform creates the sentiment. I think it comes from something else that already exists, right. Whatever that may be.

I am also here because it's freer than X - I can criticize Israel as much as I want. Plus I do not want to be in an echo chamber. I get a lot out of the statements that people on the left make.

You were fucking taught about Nazis. Don’t be so fucking surprised that others got the message instead of falling in love.

See, this is where you are totally jumping the shark.

... But he's not an actual Nazi..?

Sure, I understand believing that he dog whistles to racists and has bad intentions for the country.. But you are saying that he is on the cusp of organizing a massive genocide, right? Like literally taking Jewish and minority citizens and sending them to death camps.

That is nowhere near reality.

Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian added that China was asking citizens to stay away from and not involve themselves in armed conflict.

Zelenskyy said he had instructed the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry to immediately contact Beijing and find out “how China is going to react to this.”

Interesting enough response from Lin Jian so far.

No, they are supposed to induce those nations to renegotiate trade deals.

You are a leftist, right? You believe mega-corporations and oligarchs control virtually all governments minus Communist states, right..?

Then the companies who have tariffs impacting their bottom line will ensure that their governments will renegotiate trade deals.

Responding to a post on X lauding Navarro's economic philosophy and bona fides, including his Harvard education, the Tesla CEO ripped the advisor for lacking experience.

'A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing,' Musk wrote on X early Saturday morning slamming Navarro.

'He ain't built s***,' the SpaceX founder wrote.

LOL, I love this.

The clip claims Trump will crash the stock market by 20 per cent this month 'on purpose' to weaken the dollar and lower mortgage rates.

Very interesting.