The Supreme Court on Thursday said President Donald Trump’s administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal
The administration claims Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang, though his attorneys said there is no evidence he was in the gang, and he has never been charged with or convicted of a crime.
The administration has conceded that it made a mistake in sending him to El Salvador, where he is being held in a notorious prison, but also argued that it no longer could do anything about it.
My bet: he will take the Andrew Jackson route.
For the confused: The SCOTUS ruled that Jackson wasn’t allowed to force the native Americans off of their lands and onto reservations. Jackson responded with something along the lines of “they’ve made their decision, now let’s see them enforce it.” He pushed ahead with the reservations anyways, which led to the Trail of Tears.
Until fairly recently, it has been the most direct “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” between a president and the SCOTUS. It led to Jackson’s opponents sarcastically dubbing him “King Andrew”.
Unsurprisingly he is Trump’s favorite president.
It sounds like Jackson didn’t refuse to perform any enforcement of SCOTUS decisions. Rather, he observed that Georgia — which was the entity supposed to do so, wasn’t likely to do so. Georgia ultimately did back down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia
I guarantee you there’s going to be a fuck ton of obnoxious fascists on Reddit and Twitter quoting the fuck out of Jackson today.
He’s going to commission a 600 lb wheel of cheese and leave it on the white house lawn? Or did you mean beating an assassin with a cane? In this moment I have been completely consumed with the possible meanings of “The Andrew Jackson Route.” Jesus fuck, that could be literally mean anything. But all bad, no doubt.
Specifically Jackson ignoring the Supreme Court’s ruling that states can’t uproot thousands of Natives and move them. He is said to have commented “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.” So Georgia was able to steal a ton of Cherokee land and kick off the Trail of Tears.
A 600 lb wheel of cheese? Jesus. I’ve seen big wheels of cheese in my day but that one would take the cake.
Oops, I got the weight wrong. I was way under. It was likely well over 1000 lbs.
Just a grand ol’ fuckin time
Ah yes. The absolute peak of prosperity, getting an enormous waste of resources from incredibly conflicted organizations.
Fucking a slave?
I believe you’re thinking Jefferson though Jackson did own enslaved people
Jackson was a less well known slave raper that Jefferson.
Unlike Jefferson, I don’t believe there were any contemporaneous accounts of it, and there’s never been any DNA evidence to confirm it. I mean Jackson was undoubtedly an asshole and believed in the institution of slavery (and I believe treated enslaved people inhumanely), but as far as I understood it, not for this in particular.