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The Chomping Will Proceed: DeSantis Pulls an Andrew Jackson on Order to Shut Down Alligator Alcatraz
http://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/08/23/the-chomping-will-proceed-desantis-pulls-an-andrew-jackson-on-order-to-shut-down-alligator-alcatraz-n2417765
We don't know if President Andrew Jackson ever issued the apocryphal statement, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." There's no official record of the statement from the time, and it didn't actually appear in print until decades after the 1835 Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia.
But the spirit of Jackson's defiance lives on, whether he said those words or not. This week, that spirit lived on in Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Yesterday, DeSantis announced that not only will he NOT be shutting down Alligator Altacraz, as Obama-appointed district judge Kathleen Williams ordered him to do on Thursday night, but in true DeSantis fashion, he declared that Florida will soon be opening a SECOND similar facility in the Jacksonville area.
Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) ~ 🚨 BREAKING: Governor Ron DeSantis just announced the deportations WILL CONTINUE at Alligator Alcatraz after an activist judge ordered they start shutting the facility down.
"We're not gonna be deterred. We're totally in the right on this."
"We are gonna be opening ANOTHER facility ... Deportation Depot."
🔥 @GovRonDeSantis
Video ~ http://x.com/i/status/1958909662478426357
Stuff that in your pie-hole, clo. BWHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
Of course, he is correct about all of this, particularly the activism. Williams' order, in a ridiculous 82-page ruling, was not based on immigration law, which Trump and DeSantis are following, but on some invented environmental concerns and access to the site for the Miccosukee Tribe.
This is the second time Williams has tried to shut down Alligator Alcatraz. Earlier in August, she ordered a two-week halt to the site because of bats ... or something. That didn't work either.
After his remarks yesterday, DeSantis shared an infographic showing the huge successes of Florida's Panhandle Immigration Enforcement Operation.
Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) ~ Florida continues to deliver on the mandate to secure our interior and protect our citizens from the threat of illegal immigration.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers, in coordination with federal partners, are working to apprehend criminal aliens in the ongoing Panhandle Immigration Enforcement Operation. The illegal aliens caught in this operation have tried to flee, resist arrest, and even assault officers. Thanks to our law enforcement, these criminals have now been taken off our streets to face the consequences of their actions.
For the record, Florida had already filed an appeal Friday morning before DeSantis made his remarks. Still, clearly, he doesn't intend to pause for even a second while that appeal is being considered.
Sean (@svcigar) ~ Screw this judge.
She's no judge ... she's a Marxist activist in a black robe.
Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) ~ I am glad to see they aren't backing down. That's how you do it.
Judge Williams is welcome to visit and try to shut down the facility herself. Watch out for the pythons, though. They like to hug really hard.
And the warden is a pretty tough customer, too.
MouserD (@MousersD) ~ Earl the Warden at Alligator Alcatraz approves this message ... this is Earl ...
We're with Earl.
Joey FAFO (@jkeeter82) ~ Activist judges don’t run the state of Florida. Ron does!
We think he made that point definitively in his remarks.
The Nunn Report US w/ Dan Nunn (@TheNunnReportUS) ~ DeSantis tells judge to pound sand.
There were plenty of leftist sock puppets on X screaming yesterday about DeSantis being "lawless," but, of course, they don't actually know the law as it pertains to immigration. They just like to shriek.
Hey, clo ... they're referring to you, here, you old leftist sock puppet, you!
But it also turns out that they, nor Judge Williams, know environmental law either.
In her ruling, Williams cited Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations to justify her order to shut down Alligator Alcatraz. But several courts ruled months ago that CEQ lacks statutory authority.
Because of that, her decision will almost certainly be overturned by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
In reality, though, Ron DeSantis has already overruled her.
Unless, as Andrew Jackson may or may not have said, she would like to come to the Everglades to enforce it.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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