We live in an age where we can gather a group of people from around the world on a minute’s notice and hold a conversation among them in real-time over vast distances. Where any piece of information can be found and accessed in seconds from anywhere on the globe.
But the U.S. courts are still as slow as they were when the fastest transport we had was horses.
If anything, they’re probably slower now than they were 200 years ago.
And sure, be deliberative; debate; hear and consider all sides in a controversy. No one sane wants courts that just rule off the cuff, on vibes.
But there’s no excuse, for example, for the courts to still be faffing around over ordering the government to bring those people back from El Salvador while their cases are being tried here.
It’s been over a month.
A month.
That is absurd.
This should have taken 2 minutes:
- court: So, you shipped all those people off to El Salvador after being ordered not too?
- government: Yup!
- court: Well, you bring them back right now and we’ll talk about how big a slap you’re getting later.
The Trump administration would not have actually obeyed that court order.
Of course they wouldn’t have.
No one really thinks this crowd will actually do what the courts say unless they agree with it.
(And given the open revolt against the actual text of the laws coming out of the Supreme Court lately there’s frankly no telling what the hell would happen when these cases get there.)
But at least we could have already moved along to where this is all going to end up eventually anyway: the open fight over whether the coup has succeeded and the former U.S.A. is a dictatorship now.
With all the running and the fighting in the streets and the shooting.
Because what’s a coup without some fighting in the streets?
