Re: “Deportations bring showdown with judicial branch closer” (March 17, A5) and “Former UW fellow deported” (March 17, Nation & World):
It now seems that the most recent high-profile Trump administration deportations could create a constitutional disaster for the US. By deporting purported Venezuelan gang members beneath the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — regardless of a courtroom order to desert this motion — together with deporting a Brown College medical faculty nephrologist who additionally had a courtroom order quickly blocking that motion, the Trump administration has as soon as once more contemptuously and willfully thumbed its nostril at our courtroom system.
Whatever the particulars of those two conditions, President Donald Trump has disregarded the rule of regulation by blatantly ignoring the judiciary department of our authorities. I worry that it will proceed, thus making a fertile atmosphere for potential political violence. The rule of regulation is the tenet that holds our nationwide civilization collectively.
Trump needs to be our king and sees nothing flawed with that agenda. It’s our accountability as residents of this nice nation to guarantee that he’s by no means topped as such.
Corey Goldstein, Seattle
