Tea at Trianon: Judicial Gaslighting: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Deportation Was Lawful

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Judicial Gaslighting: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Deportation Was Lawful

From Amuse on X:

Let that sink in. The legal team arguing that the Trump administration committed an illegal deportation not only failed to present a document supporting their claim, they cannot even locate the file that might clarify the record. The Department of Homeland Security, by contrast, does have a copy of the relevant order, and it plainly shows Garcia was not protected from removal to El Salvador.
This, then, is the steelman case: A fraud, knowingly or through negligent misrepresentation, was committed upon the courts, culminating in a legally improper demand that the US government retrieve an individual who was lawfully deported under the plain meaning of a judicial order. The scope of that fraud extends to every taxpayer footing the bill for ICE agents to re-import a gang-affiliated alien, to the Justice Department now under pressure to explain itself, and to a Supreme Court forced to issue rulings based on facts that are, at best, dubious.
There are two possibilities. Either Garcia’s attorneys made a good-faith mistake, in which case they had a duty to correct the record once they became aware of it. Or they acted knowingly, with full access to the 2019 order, and chose to misrepresent its contents to the court. If the former, they are grossly incompetent. If the latter, they are ethically compromised. (Read more.)