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 newest high-profile Trump administration deportations might create a constitutional disaster for the USA. By deporting purported Venezuelan gang members beneath the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — regardless of a court docket order to desert this motion — together with deporting a Brown College medical faculty nephrologist who additionally had a court docket order quickly blocking that motion, the Trump administration has as soon as once more contemptuously and willfully thumbed its nostril at our court docket 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 concern that this can proceed, thus making a fertile setting for potential political violence. The rule of regulation is the tenet that holds our nationwide civilization collectively.
Trump desires to be our king and sees nothing fallacious with that agenda. It’s our duty as residents of this nice nation to guarantee that he’s by no means topped as such.
Corey Goldstein, Seattle
