• bassomitron@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 day ago

    Haven’t they been suspending habeas corpus this whole time? I thought that was the main reason behind the SCOTUS case, that they’re mass deporting people with zero due process?

    • koper@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day ago

      Habeas corpus doesn’t prevent illegal imprisonment, it’s only a procedure to (eventually) free people after the fact. That procedure is still in place, it just takes a lot of time. Habeas corpus was used successfully to free Rümeysa Öztürk (detained for writing an op-ed). But many others are still detained because the process is slow and the DOJ is deliberately obstructing everything.

      • bassomitron@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 day ago

        But they’re imprisoning people in a foreign country where we have no jurisdiction, right? How is it possible to eventually have a court hearing for those people?

        • koper@feddit.nl
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          1 day ago

          You’re right of course. Habeas corpus alone isn’t enough to stop all of this, particularly against an administration that is blatantly undermining the courts.

          • bassomitron@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 day ago

            The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach. The lack of mass mobilization to the streets while they’re essentially black bagging human beings and making them disappear is insane. The protests in my metro have been pitiful.