Friday, August 31, 2018

The Rule is The Rule.

       What happens when the Trump Administration decides not to follow a ruling of the Supreme Court? What consequences are there for the Administration? Suppose the Supreme Court decided in an 8 - 1 decision that a notice of a hearing  that does not include the time, date and place of the hearing is not a hearing at all. Now suppose the Administration ignored that decision and continued to hold such hearings for the purpose of deportations.     
        Just what can or should the Supreme Court do in order to have its decision obeyed? Who told the Administration that it could ignore the United States Supreme Court? Would you consider this to be a crisis? One of the co-equal branches of our government ignoring the rulings of another branch? When a President of the United States ignores a ruling of the Supreme Court of America is there any way to force him to acquiesce? If it means that the Congress is required to act on this problem, and refuses to do so, what then?
       Just remember that our Congress is in no way strong enough to flex its muscles and show it believes in the Constitution. What then? People, we are approaching a point in our history when a President becomes a dictator. If he can ignore the Supreme Court and if the Congress is too weak to force him to adhere to the SCOTUS's ruling then we are no longer a democracy.
       The Department of Homeland Security has been ignoring that exact ruling in its hearings on deportation, according to an article in the National Memo, by Sarah Okeson. Can it be that our Congress will ignore this transgression? Might the Supreme Court just shrug it's shoulders and go on to the next case? Emperor Trump will make America (not) Grateful Again.

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