Supreme Court’s Hasty Ruling denies Law and Justice

The President of the United States has invoked a centuries-old wartime statute to transport individuals to a notoriously brutal, foreign-run prison. For those who cherish freedom and justice, this should be deeply troubling. The statute in question is the seldom-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which was infamously utilized by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941 to justify the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II. It took the court nearly 75 years to acknowledge the grave error of this decision.

This action sets a dangerous precedent.  The District Courts ruling had temporarily halted the deportations and ordered the return of Venezuelan migrants to the United States. The Trump administration has labeled these migrants as dangerous gang members, without providing concrete evidence, while the lawyers for many of these individuals have attested to their lack of criminal history. Shockingly, some were detained and sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison simply because of their tattoos.

The Supreme Court has now intervened, hastily dismissing the District Court’s order in a brief, four-paragraph opinion. They refused to hear arguments or breifs and in the shows of the night cooked up their opinion.  This decision was based solely on a new legal pronouncement, which one would assume would require careful consideration and deliberation. Justice Jackson expressed her dismay, stating, “I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate manner.”

It is now painfully evident that the Supreme Court has transformed from a bastion of law and justice into a mere reflection of personal political beliefs and agendas!