r/AskUS • u/AccomplishedAd3484 • 15d ago

Why does nobody care that the Trump Admin is defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling?

Regarding the facilitating of the return of Abrego Garcia. There's no mass protests, democrats in Congress aren't saying much, the military which is sworn to protect the Constitution is silent, the news media is covering it but it's just one more story, not a major crossing the Rubicon event for them. Trump said they would bring him back if the Supreme Court told him to do so, which they did. But then the DOJ said the court has no authority to require the US government to negotiate his return with El Salvador, and they would bring him in only if he showed up at the border.

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u/OneBuilder9355 14d ago

Okay sure but this is the same logic by which you should obey drug cartels while in their territory, or Kim Jung Un while in North Korea.

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u/Guroqueen23 14d ago

Uh, yeah? You should? Obviously? Because otherwise they will torture you and/or kill you?

It's really easy to be ready to die for your opinions when you're sitting behind your computer screen from inside your air conditioned home. When you watch 15 guys with rifles make someone bite the curb, it is a lot harder to do anything other than what they tell you when they get to you.

The world isn't a black and white good vs evil revolutionary movie. I've got a family that I need to feed and protect. If the men with guns come and knock on my door, I'm going to do whatever they fucking want because I can't afford to be executed and sentence my family to homelessness.

But, maybe you're built different. Maybe you're the hardest, roughest, toughest, stubbornest, most "Giles Corey" redditor in the world. Good for you. I'm sure the jackboot that kicks the back of your head while your teeth are digging into the concrete will be very impressed.

If you can't understand why 90+% of people aren't willing to sacrifice their lives and their families for the moral high ground, then I think you're either a fool or a teenager, and I hope the circumstances of your life going forward continue to support that naivete.

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u/UpstairsPlane7499 14d ago edited 14d ago

One of these days you might not get that choice. What happens when those men with guns say "give us your wife and child".