"A constitutional ruling cannot be reduced to a temporary directive that must be relitigated each time," the judge said. "The Constitution does not contemplate violations in installments."

A federal judge in West Virginia has given the Trump administration an ultimatum: Stop illegally detaining immigrants or face contempt rulings and “monetary sanctions against responsible officials.”

“Today, the Government continues to wrongfully detain those petitioners without due process,” [Goodwin’s] opinion reads. “Even now the Government incredulously asserts that the federal district courts do not have jurisdiction, that petitioners cannot raise due process violations, and that the Government has authority to mandatorily and indefinitely detain noncitizens in the local jail. The Government is wrong. Judges in this district have said that over and over and over again. I have said it myself.”

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    There are literally tens of thousands of them right now.

    How are they going to enforce hundreds of sanctions covering that many people?

    This is how you shatter the law… break it so much, it’s literally impossible to enforce.

    This is what the mob does, and it’s no coincidence trump has ties to the mob going back decades.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      17 hours ago

      I don’t think it would be all that difficult. Time consuming, and you’d need additional manpower than a single judge, but nowhere near impossible.