Trump is still seething at the Supreme Court for halting his efforts to deport immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act without due process
On Saturday, Trump shared a post on Truth Social from lawyer Mike Davis, one of his most extreme MAGA allies, claiming that the Supreme Court put “an illegal injunction on the president of the United States, preventing him from commanding military operations to expel these foreign terrorists.”
Davis added in the post that Trump “should house these terrorists near the Chevy Chase Country Club, with daytime release.” (Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh both live in Chevy Chase, Maryland.)
Trump shared another post from Davis complaining that the justices had blocked Trump from deporting undocumented immigrants “without years of court process.” The president wrote, “The Supreme Court must come to the RESCUE OF AMERICA.”
SCOTUS has been effectively making laws for a while. Interracial marriage is legal because of a SCOTUS ruling. Gay marriage is legal because of a SCOTUS ruling. Abortion was legal because of a SCOTUS ruling.
These are all legal in Canada because parliament passed laws making them legal, and not because of Supreme Court rulings. I get the sense that the US Congress is so bad at passing any laws whatsoever that the only time laws change is when SCOTUS changes them.
We’re fucking terrible at passing any good laws. I really think being able to add riders to a bill is the biggest reason for this.