https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-supreme-courts-ominous-national-security-ruling/530886/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-supreme-courts-ominous-national-security-ruling/530886/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-supreme-courts-ominous-national-security-ruling/530886/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-supreme-courts-ominous-national-security-ruling/530886/
WTF?
ReplyDeleteWE HAVE TO BE SAFE. What?
ReplyDeleteExcept those we deem to be unsafe, even in error.
ReplyDelete(nods nods) although, as I wrote earlier today, it wasn't the whole SCOTUS, only it's eligible right-wing Justices. Two liberals had to recuse themselves, and the two who could vote, voted against.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, an ominous sign of how the court may act when this regime brings forth the next Korematsu.
Well, I am not a lawyer and am aware that this is an issue of law which is a thing which is frequently not what the colloquial us are thinking it is. 'Cuz there's technical stuff and things.
ReplyDeleteThat said, there is clearly a problem with the issue of tone and appropriateness as set from above. Not to mention the above actually bothering itself about the below. It's clearly too easy for humans to become abusive monsters given any unchallengeable authority. While I get that there needs to be some latitude in an actual emergency, there absolutely needs to be accountability both during and after.
Otherwise, I gotta ask, does it not make the US and the Nuremberg Trials a gross hypocrisy? Declaring an emergency or a war does not make it ok to be inhumane to everybody unless they can prove they deserve humanity. It is not supposed to be ok to say you were just following orders. It is certainly not supposed to be ok to go way past the orders and improvise man's inhumanity to man.