Judge Wilkinson’s Opinion is Worth a Close Look
One problem, these days, is that there is so much “shit” that is “flooding the zone” – Steve Bannon’s metaphor, I believe – that it is very difficult to know, from day to day, which amazing and unprecedented events matter, and which don’t.
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson’s opinion for the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Abrego Garcia case matters. Eugene has already excerpted much of the opinion here, and the full text is available here.
Though it was issued yesterday (!), it already feels like old news, superseded by Trump’s attacks on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, Senator van Hollen’s visit to the El Salvador mega-prison where Abrego Garcia is being held, A U.S. threat to pull out of the negotiations to end the Ukraine war, etc. etc.
But I urge you, if you have not done so already, to spend a little of your time and attention on it. It is a very powerful piece of legal prose, and it might well re
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