I’m waiting outside the courthouse, so I love it that Rigby wrote a full take-down of Hinderaker’s malign idiocy.

Here it is — in full: “…Hinderaker approvingly quotes Marco Rubio:

“That’s where you deport people — back to their country of origin,” he argued.

Right. That’s why so many Venezuelans were sent to El Salvador.

John goes on to ask (and I have trouble believing this is a serious question):

No one disputes that Abrego Garcia was here illegally, so why is there any debate?

Well, it’s probably because an immigration judge granted Garcia protected status in 2019, forbidding his removal to El Salvador due to the persecution he faced there—a fact John neglects to mention. (Maybe he forgot.)

The truth is that the government has produced no evidence—none—that Garcia is a member of MS–13. His initial arrest hinged on his Chicago Bulls jacket and hoodie, as well as a confidential informant who has never been identified, who advised of Garcia’s gang activity in a city in which Garcia never lived.

If the government has ample evidence of Garcia’s gang involvement, they should produce it, redacted if it threatens national security. That’s what would put an end to the debate. But it seems unlikely that the government has such evidence, since Garcia has never been charged with a crime, in El Salvador or in the U.S.

He absolutely entered the country illegally, but the judge’s protection order cannot be defied on Marco Rubio’s say-so (which came after the fact, of course, since Garcia was deported “accidentally”).

The idea that President Trump has no sway over El Salvador’s actions is absurd on its face, and only serves to make Trump look weak. He can’t negotiate with Bukele, a guy to whom he paid millions of U.S. taxpayers’ money, to release Garcia into U.S. custody? What kind of dealmaker is he, anyway?

The DOJ’s (and John’s, apparently) deliberate misreading of the SCOTUS decision is wilfully ignorant, unlawful, and just a little bit snotty….”

F L A W L E S S.

Thanks man — end, update.

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He quoted it accurately… but apparently… can’t read it.

Not for comprehension at least — it seems.

And wholly forgets that Noem and Trump himself have repeatedly said that they made a mistake in sending him to El Salvador.

What a putz!

Out.

Updated @ 5 PM EDT: Now Hinderaker has joined JD Vance in trashing this man. This man below, who is lawfully here, working as a welder — and no doubt paying his taxes — while raising his family, in suburban Maryland — all for the offense of… wait for it! — for traffic tickets.

R-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght.

I am pretty sure Johnnie’s racked up his share of them, too over 65 years. But his good femme buddy, ex-Gov. Kristi Noem… did NOT come grab him under the cover of night — even if he had a Michael Jordan 23 jersey over his otherwise dapper, crisply Whyte… polo.

Nope. John thinks due process is only for him — and fellow X-tian Whyte Guys, here in ‘Murica. A$$hat. End updated portion.

“This case is certainly important to Abrego Garcia and his family,” the judge said. “In recognition of that, I feel like I can’t wait on giving my order….”

Here’s the latest, from The Guardian (UK):

“…To all the wives, mothers, children who also face this cruel separation, I stand with you in this bond of pain,” she said during the rally at a community center in Hyattsville, Maryland. “It’s a journey that no one ever should ever have to suffer, a nightmare that feels endless….”

Abrego Garcia’s mistaken deportation, described by the White House as an “administrative error”, has outraged many and raised concerns about expelling noncitizens who were granted permission to be in the US.

Abrego Garcia had a permit from the Department of Homeland Security to legally work in the US, his attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said. He served as a sheet metal apprentice and was pursuing his journeyman license….

We are better than this, America. You KNOW we are.

[Second graphic here is from five years ago, when then MAGA SD Gov. Kristi Noem tried to arrest indigenous tribal leaders for refusing the feds passage across their tribal lands and roads, to reach Rushmore. It was Tangerine they were not granting permission to, so she threatened to arrest them (claiming they were “illegals”) on their own private property. Damn.]

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