I want to start with a short look at a current story from Reuters, because I think it exemplifies the way the Trump regime's brazen lawlessness and criminality, dovetails perfectly with the larger fascist project to transform America into both a white ethnostate, and a fascist dictatorship; under Swine Emperor Trump, and of course his odious shadow chancellor, Stephen Miller. As the title of the piece indicates, judges across the US have ruled over 4,000 times that ICE is illegally detaining migrants and yet the regime continues to openly break the law to do so, because they wish legal precedent agreed with their "novel" interpretation of the law; it doesn't.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/ (archived: https://archive.ph/uNDJX )
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
"Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.
"It is appalling that the Government insists that this Court should redefine or completely disregard the current law as it is clearly written," U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston of West Virginia, an appointee of President George W. Bush, wrote last week, ordering the release of a Venezuelan detainee in the state.
Most of the rulings center on the Trump administration’s departure from a nearly three-decade-old interpretation of federal law that immigrants already living in the United States could be released on bond while they pursue their cases in immigration court."
The basic issue here is that the Trump regime and its Gestapo, want to hold migrants they've kidnapped in concentration camps without bail, while they wait for their immigration court dates. The law however, specifically the foundational legal principle of habeas corpus, disagrees. In response, the regime is simply ignoring the law and detaining everyone they kidnap even after they've received a court date, unless directly ordered by a judge to release a specific individual. This has resulted in the filing of more than 20,200 federal lawsuits (almost all of which the government *will* ultimately lose because the law doesn't work the way Stephen Miller wishes it did) to free kidnapped immigrants being held in US concentration camps.
Why? Well as the article notes, not everyone can afford or otherwise has an opportunity to file a habeas corpus petition in court, nor are there enough lawyers or judges to hear all these cases in a timely manner, leading to long delays; all while people suffer inside a Gestapo concentration camp intentionally designed to torture its kidnapped and illegally confined prisoners. Indeed, this massive backlog of cases means that even after a judge orders the ICE Gestapo to release a kidnapped person, the Trumpenreich routinely fails to release those people quickly.
"Using court dockets, Reuters found more than 700 Justice Department attorneys representing the government in immigration cases. Five of the attorneys each appeared on the dockets of more than 1,000 habeas cases.
Partly as a result of that legal logjam, judges have found that the government has left people locked up even after judges ordered their release.
In a court order, issued last month in Minnesota, Schiltz said the government had violated 96 orders in 76 cases. The U.S. Attorney there, Daniel Rosen, said in a filing two days later that the cases had created an "enormous burden" for government attorneys."
Of course, one could note as a judge in another recent case did, that this "enormous burden" for government attorneys was a self-made problem for the Trump regime; not only because of the sheer number of people the Gestapo has disappeared from our streets who have a legal right to bail while they await an immigration hearing, but also because Trump's lawyers vigorously contest every single habeas corpus petition filed against the government to release concentration camp prisoners.
The truth however, as we know from our study of ICE's concentration camp conditions, is that the Trumpenreich is not ignoring court orders or dragging its feet in response to them because government lawyers are overworked, nor even as a petulant temper tantrum to appease a racist base. There is a method, behind this malevolent cruelty.
This is all part of Stephen Miller's larger plan to torture migrants in concentration camps until they agree to give up their claims to stay in America and self deport. You can't torture people into surrendering their own legal rights, if you do not in fact "have the body." And that's why Trump's Gestapo doesn't care how many times a judge says they broke the law.
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