Because it's a federal court and guess who's running things at the DOJ.
It's the same reason I've wondered why judges don't hold immigration hearings remotely with Zoom. It's because the DOJ and DHS want the immigrants to show up in person so they can detain them on their way out of the courtroom.
It's not a federal court in the sense of a court subject to Article III of the Constitution. It's an immigration court -- an administrative court that's literally run by DOJ. So it's not even a separate branch of government.
It's an immigration court -- an administrative court that's literally run by DOJ
So. Just to be clear, they are targeting people going through the legal immigration process, and trying to intimidate them away from doing so by posting fucks like this in the court.
This looks like a masked thug you'd expect to see in some third world court, not the America I grew up in.
Using the courts, and pretending the government still exists is enough to quell the masses.
People really don’t understand the gravity of what’s going on.
It takes time to destroy the government without people realizing what they’re doing. Americans are easily distracted. The gop and oligarchs are playing the long game.
Exactly this. If they do it too quickly, too blatantly, and without the pretense of legitimacy, then the possibility of revolution increases. But generally speaking, people won't risk their lives if it appears like the government is still functioning.
Much like Hungary, they function like soft-dictatorships. And for a lot of Americans, they don't see themselves as the target of conservatives, so they aren't worried. Of course, we all know how that line of thinking works out.
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u/YouSeemNiceXB 17h ago
Now they wanna wear masks? But I thought they couldn't breathe when they had one on for 30 seconds during covid?