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Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam

🕑 Added 2025-11-18 09:00:10 +0000 UTC

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Seancé Knowles

I bought a car at a national dealership a few years ago. When I made my online account to set up payments, the loan amount was $12,000 more than what I had agreed to. I managed to get them to print all my docs bc they had only given me digital versions on a thumb drive. But I had to go in person bc they were dodging my calls. That’s when I saw Not My Signature on the contract. First hint it wasn’t my signature: IT WASN’T MY NAME and all the letters were clearly spelled out. Absolutely no one cared. Not the loan company, not the warranty company, cops, state vehicle sale regulators, credit bureaus, no one. It took 3 months just to find a lawyer to take my case. Some don’t answer the phone/return calls, some aren’t taking new clients, some don’t do this kind of law, one ghosted me after the initial consultation. The lawyer I ended up working with recommended I settle for less because it’ll cost me more than it’s worth to go through the whole judicial process. He said he wasn’t comfortable taking more money from me because it was likely the judge would push “compromise” anyway. It took 3 more months to settle and I had to sign an NDA so I can’t even leave a review to warn people. I’m fired up all over again just recapping this. The only response I had at every step was, “WHAT is the POINT of the LAW?!?!?!”

Alana McMains

LOL sorry meant Josh from the PD episode, not office

Alana McMains

As a lawyer who does indigent criminal defense in San Diego (former coworker of the amazing Josh from the public defender office!), I work with tons of immigrants charged with illegally crossing the border. That’s only a misdemeanor with a max of 6 months prison, but if you’ve been deported before, it’s a felony with a max of 10 years. But the vast majority of my clients don’t even realize they have a formal deportation aka “removal” because the expedited removal process is so fucked up and, well, expedited. People will think that because they’ve never seen a judge, they have no actual removals, they just have been caught at the border and “turned around,” as was the process for so many years. And also, they rarely are actually offered the chance to speak with an asylum officer. The Border Patrol agents often just fill out the paperwork and have them sign without even translating it. Many times they didn’t know they had the right to have the credible fear determination, or they weren’t even asked about a fear of return to Mexico in the first place. Anyway yeah fuck Congress and Bill Clinton for creating this BS process in the first place.

Yassified_Paperclip

Piling legal nonsense on a specific case by case basis simply to justify your conflicting bigoted policies is really the judicial equivalent of forcing your engine to run on bubble gum, duct tape, and zip ties. I mean... you technically (legally) CAN do that but, good luck everyone else on the road! 😃👍🏼 💥💥💥💥💥

Steven Kippel

Peter makes a great point about the fact that to preserve rights you need a larger judiciary. Conservatives oppose growing the size of government so are fundamentally opposed to protecting rights.

Steven Kippel

This originalist or “history and tradition” issue goes back to the original enlightenment ideals the country was founded on: that the people are sovereign and rights are inherent in the people, as opposed to the reactionary belief that rights are bestowed upon the subjects by the sovereign. You know “America for Americans.”