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(151,125 posts) Mon Apr 21, 2025, 03:50 AM Monday

Amy Klobuchar calls on supreme court to hold Trump officials in contempt

Source: The Guardian

Sun 20 Apr 2025 16.51 EDT
Last modified on Sun 20 Apr 2025 16.52 EDT

Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar warned on Sunday that the US is “getting closer and closer to a constitutional crisis”, but the courts, growing Republican disquiet at Trump administration policies, and public protest were holding it off.

“I believe as long as these courts hold, and the constituents hold, and the congress starts standing up, our democracy will hold,” Klobuchar told CNN’s State of the Union, adding “but Donald Trump is trying to pull us down into the sewer of a crisis.”

Klobuchar said the US supreme court should hold Trump administration officials in contempt if they continue to ignore a court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Ábrego García from El Salvador, the Maryland resident the government admitted in court it had deported by mistake.

Klobuchar said the court could appoint a special prosecutor, independent of Trump’s Department of Justice, to uphold the rule of law and charge any officials who are responsible for Ábrego García’s deportation, or have refused to facilitate his return. The senator’s comments came hours after supreme court released justice Samuel Alito’s dissenting opinion on the court’s decision to block the Trump administration from deporting more Venezuelans held in north Texas’s Bluebonnet detention center .

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/amy-klobuchar-samuel-alito-trump-immigration

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Amy Klobuchar calls on supreme court to hold Trump officials in contempt (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Monday OP

GOOD! We need to keep the pressure on ALL THE TIME! CTyankee Monday #1

S.Ct. needs to remember the Constitution & grow a spine, NotHardly Monday #2

Well, let's take an inventory here... ShazzieB Monday #5

Start at the bottom, hold anyone responsible in a jail cell louis-t Monday #3

K&R Blue Owl Monday #4

I love me some Amy and love what she's calling for... Montauk6 Monday #6

I'll ask again, Roberts are we a country of laws and due process ? republianmushroom Monday #7

CTyankee

(66,027 posts)

1. GOOD! We need to keep the pressure on ALL THE TIME!

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Mon Apr 21, 2025, 10:17 AM

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NotHardly

(2,070 posts)

2. S.Ct. needs to remember the Constitution & grow a spine,

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Mon Apr 21, 2025, 10:19 AM

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ShazzieB

(20,310 posts)

5. Well, let's take an inventory here...

Reply to NotHardly (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 21, 2025, 02:20 PM

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We know three of them already have a spine. (Thank you, Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor, for your faithful service, in the face of continually being outvoted.)

Two of them are beyond hope (Thomas and Alito, or as I like to call them, T & A). I fear those two are corrupted beyond the point of no return.

That leaves four who definitelyneed to grow a spine. I think a couple of them Roberts and Barretf) are showing some signs of that, but the other two (Gorsuch and Kavanaugh) need to get on board already. Then we might really get somewhere!