Show the average American vs SCOTUS are not the same things. I struggle to come up with places where the 2 groups would even co-mingle. Maybe, maybe at an Alabama University football game and even that MIGHT have the potential for have 3-4 SCOTUS members at most attend - and they would be a in private box and would have virtually no shoulder rubbing with the 'common folk' in the stands.
If that was the discussion, it was delusional. I can guess that at least some of the court members are aware. I suppose that none will allow it to enter their legal reasoning unless points raised in the ad are officially raised by the lawyers arguing the case. And the decision will be strictly about the case at hand. They are not prone to wading into turf wars between the executive and legislative branch, which this dispute fundamentally is.
Okay. Well showing the average American cost us over $500,000 an hour. Nice little envelope of cash for US media companies, like Fox News.
No, not theatre. The properly restrained and limited consideration of the specific facts of a specific case in order to determine specific points of law around the division of powers. Legal decisions are rarely sweeping, because the justiciable legal question on which the parties have standing to dispute are typically pretty narrow. Major impacts on policy can come from quite narrow questions of law.
Assuming not everyone who works for ICE is a goon, it's reasonable for the ones worried about being doxxed and harassed or threatened to tell the FBI to go pound sand and tell all applicable LEOs to do their job and go after people impersonating officers.
A guess: most ICE work in groups; most ICE walts - like most LEO posers - work alone. Anyone who wants to contort themselves to create unlikely scenarios for a practical world is of course free to do so.
They are uniquely unpopular. Almost all LEOs mainly are a threat to the "assholes" in the "citizens, assholes, and other police" world view. Immigration enforcement is tasked with dealing with ordinary people who are neither citizens nor assholes but whose best fit is the former, and some of the citizens have convinced themselves that illegal immigration favours them in the congressional apportionment calculations and likely voter pool. In short, they are seen by some as a threat to political power. As we have seen, that leads to everything up to and including assassination porn.
I’d say the risk is more that organized crime looking to conduct a kidnapping might dress it up as an ICE snatch. That’s a realistic possibility.
Respectfully, you don’t know what you’re talking about here. Everyday, hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers across North America go to work and ruin the days and lives of many dodgy assholes without covering their face, with their names plastered on their vests and their badge numbers memorized for when asked. Few are worried about “doxxing” if they are doing their job properly. One of the hallmarks of a free and open society is that law enforcement don’t hide their identities when doing their work. In most jurisdictions, law enforcement can’t hide their identities for fear of doxxing.
As I wrote in another reply, the "customer" population is unique in that it's composed mainly of approximately law-abiding people who just want to live and work in the US. Pretty much all other LEOs just go about their business and only have to worry about the immediate people they're dealing with.
Know your authors and their ideological beefs and filter your inputs accordingly. Of course Charlie Sykes is going to pump Democratic fortunes and denigrate Republicans'.
That is a real issue, I recall one pot grower here getting cleared of a murder charge for shooting a undercover cop when being raided, arguing he feared it was rival gang that would kill him. The cartels in Mexico wear their own very LEO/Paramilitary uniform in the areas they control.
