New York Times: Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Migrants To Countries To Which They Have No Connection

I’m a principled isolationist.

Obviously, I was never going to support Trump attacking Iran for Israel, however, I remain hopeful that he will succeed and salvage some wins in other areas he ran on like immigration.

New York Times:

“The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to deport migrants to countries other than their own, pausing a federal judge’s ruling that they must first be given a chance to show that they would face the risk of torture and letting the administration send men held at an American military base in Djibouti on to South Sudan.

The court’s brief order gave no reasons and said the judge’s ruling would remain paused while the government pursues an appeal and, after that, until the Supreme Court acts. The court’s three liberal members issued a lengthy dissent.

The order was the latest in a series of rulings related to immigration decided by the justices in summary fashion on what critics call its shadow docket. Among those rulings were ones calling for due process for migrants before they are deported under a rarely invoked 18th-century wartime law.

Other rulings allowed the administration to lift protections for hundreds of thousands of people who had been granted temporary protected status or humanitarian parole. …”

Non-interventionism is like safety belt.

It keeps the focus and attention on domestic issues and eliminates foreign distractions.

As with the recent Supreme Court victory on “trans” child sex mutilation, Israel has succeeded in sucking all the oxygen out of the room, poisoning the political conversation and dividing the online Right, which will have the effect of shifting attention away from Supreme Court victories which otherwise would have been heralded. This ruling is just a pause on a lower court ruling. It is already being drowned out though by the rancor online which shows no signs of abating any time soon.