Amy Klobuchar calls on supreme court to hold Trump officials in contempt

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Source: The Guardian

Sun 20 Apr 2025 16.51 EDT
Last modified on Sun 20 Apr 2025 16.52 EDT


Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar warned on Sunday that the US is “getting closer and closer to a constitutional crisis”, but the courts, growing Republican disquiet at Trump administration policies, and public protest were holding it off.

“I believe as long as these courts hold, and the constituents hold, and the congress starts standing up, our democracy will hold,” Klobuchar told CNN’s State of the Union, adding “but Donald Trump is trying to pull us down into the sewer of a crisis.”

Klobuchar said the US supreme court should hold Trump administration officials in contempt if they continue to ignore a court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Ábrego García from El Salvador, the Maryland resident the government admitted in court it had deported by mistake.

Klobuchar said the court could appoint a special prosecutor, independent of Trump’s Department of Justice, to uphold the rule of law and charge any officials who are responsible for Ábrego García’s deportation, or have refused to facilitate his return. The senator’s comments came hours after supreme court released justice Samuel Alito’s dissenting opinion on the court’s decision to block the Trump administration from deporting more Venezuelans held in north Texas’s Bluebonnet detention center .

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/amy-klobuchar-samuel-alito-trump-immigration

[CTyankee]

1. GOOD! We need to keep the pressure on ALL THE TIME!

[NotHardly]

2. S.Ct. needs to remember the Constitution & grow a spine,

[ShazzieB]

5. Well, let's take an inventory here...

We know three of them already have a spine. (Thank you, Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor, for your faithful service, in the face of continually being outvoted.)

Two of them are beyond hope (Thomas and Alito, or as I like to call them, T & A). I fear those two are corrupted beyond the point of no return.

That leaves four who definitelyneed to grow a spine. I think a couple of them Roberts and Barretf) are showing some signs of that, but the other two (Gorsuch and Kavanaugh) need to get on board already. Then we might really get somewhere!

[louis-t]

3. Start at the bottom, hold anyone responsible in a jail cell

and work your way up. Charge them. Stop talking about it.

[Blue Owl]

4. K&R

[Montauk6]

6. I love me some Amy and love what she's calling for...

But if it's all on paper and not actually carried out, what's this in aid of?

Or am I being too cynical? I guess I AM approaching 60....

[republianmushroom]

7. I'll ask again, Roberts are we a country of laws and due process ?