Yet again, here is another example of the Supreme Court’s dangerous and cowardly use of the shadow docket (in the words of Jerry Nadler), this time they used it to authorize an American Gestapo.
As the linked article explains, Gestapos have these characteristics:
- they’re a police force targeting political opponents and dissidents
- they’re not controlled by other security agencies and answer directly to the dictator
- the identity of their members and their operations are secret
- they specialise in political intelligence and surveillance operations
- they carry out arbitrary searches, arrests, interrogations, indefinite detentions, disappearances and torture.
ICE currently is exhibiting those characteristics, looks like Tim Walz was right…