Court rules in favor of 4 men deported to Africa, denied lawyer meetings for 9 months

The 5th amendment guarantees due process. The Supreme Court has upheld in nine different decisions that this applies to non citizens in the US. This is a lawless administration.

The headline makes the situation sound much better than what it is. So we are deporting people, without any convictions, to maximum security foreign prisons where they are being explicitly denied rights because they havent been charged with crimes in THAT country either. Imprisoned for nearly a year so far while our government obstructs attempts to afford them their basic human rights. I mean, this is just criminal. Flat out criminal.

>A lower court had previously ruled that local lawyer Sibusiso Nhlabatsi, who is working on behalf of the men's U.S.-based lawyers, could meet with them, but the Eswatini government immediately appealed that decision. >In a ruling delivered on Thursday, the Supreme Court dismissed arguments by Eswatini authorities that the deportees didn't want to meet with Nhlabatsi, and that they had no right to legal counsel anyway because they had not been arrested or charged with a crime in Eswatini. So, this is how it's going to play out. The Trump/Epstein administration will stop sending deportees to Eswatini. But not before they denounce anything and everything those deportees get to say to they lawyer. Then they'll do some backroom deals with the other countries that have agreed to the same human trafficking catastrophe Eswatini agreed to. In the meantime the deportees are going to fight against the DOJ in order to get their story out. All the while tens of thousands of criminal cases the federal government was working on was stopped.

In an effort to consolidate information here - what were the crimes originally committed by these men that they apparently already did time for?

The Supreme Court in the African kingdom of Eswatini has ruled that four men sent there by the United States last July under the Trump administration's third-country deportation program can finally meet with a lawyer after they were denied in-person legal counsel for nine months while held at a maximum-security prison. A lower court had previously ruled that local lawyer Sibusiso Nhlabatsi, who is working on behalf of the men's U.S.-based lawyers, could meet with them, but the Eswatini government immediately appealed that decision. In a ruling delivered on Thursday, the Supreme Court dismissed arguments by Eswatini authorities that the deportees didn't want to meet with Nhlabatsi, and that they had no right to legal counsel anyway because they had not been arrested or charged with a crime in Eswatini.

Conservatives, what don't you like about the Constitution, due process?

Yeah this whole 3rd country deportations is ridiculous and there are moat certainly people we sent there and have no record of doing so. But here's some fun information about Eswatini. ESWATINI/SWAZILAND: Ruled by King Mswati III, Eswatini is an absolute monarchy where protests are violently repressed. Human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko was assassinated in 2023 with no justice delivered (HRW on Eswatini). The U.S. State Department cites prison overcrowding, poor ventilation, and lack of nutrition and health services (BBC report archive). Prison statistics: - Human Development Index: 0.61 (142 of 193) - Homicide rate: 12.66 per 100,000 - Total incarcerated: 3,405 - Incarceration rate: 243 per 100,000 - Prison density: 120 percent - Facilities: 12 - No National Preventive Mechanism established For those unaware of the counties in Africa, South Sudan is by far the worst. Their Human Development Index: 0.381 (192 of 193)

I did not know these third country deportations were being held in jail in the third country. I guess I was just naive, but I didn’t think it could be ratcheted up to that level of evil.

People who believe in heaven and help vote for this. How do they think they would be judged? Is it all just performative? Do they convince themselves the blood I'd not on their hands? I truly don't understand.