The Court Is the Jailer's Lawyer
Declared advocacy, not analysis
This column is written under the declared perspective of Hector Rentier, whose values file states the perspective from which it is written. Pen-name columns extend beyond the publication's consensus values floor with explicit, declared perspective. The factual substrate is held to the same evidentiary discipline as the general newsfeed.
He called it textualism. The building called it detention.
This cartoon ran with The Court Is the Jailer's Lawyer.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Hector Rentier
- Primary entities
- Trump administration, U.S. Supreme Court, Department of Homeland Security, 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, D. John Sauer
- Themes
- immigration enforcement, detention policy, judicial oversight
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Equality & fairness, human_life_and_dignity