U.S. POLITICS HAS REACHED AN ALL-TIME LOW

 

Read this paragraph from today's NY Times to see how the U.S. political system has reached an all-time low. A lawyer has to get a restraining order to avoid ICE from transferring the deportation case of his client to a district with a Republican judge. Back in the good-old-days nobody talked about Republican and Democratic Party judges. Legal procedures in those days were politically neutral, at least on the surface.

“Hours later, Mr. Mahdawi’s mother, older sister and lawyers were scrambling to find him after his abrupt detention at an immigration center in Colchester, Vt. His lawyers requested a temporary restraining order to prevent federal officials from transferring him to a more conservative jurisdiction — a tactic used in the detention and attempted deportation of at least four other college demonstrators.”

I knew theoretically speaking that this kind of thing was possible, but I never imagined it would happen in the near future here in the U.S. and it’s happening in real time.