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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIan Millhiser: The Trumpiest court in America
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/27/23496264/supreme-court-fifth-circuit-trump-court-immigration-housing-sexual-harrassmentTrent Taylor says his cell, in a Texas psychiatric unit operated by the states prison system, was covered in human excrement. Feces smeared the window and streaked the ceiling. Someone had painted a shit swastika on the wall, alongside a smiley face. According to Taylors allegations in a federal lawsuit, there was such a thick layer of dried human dung on the floor of the cell that it made a crunching sound as he walked naked across the cell.
Taylor alleged that he was kept in this cell for four days, where he neither ate nor drank due to fears that the excrement, which was even packed inside the cells water faucet, would contaminate anything he consumed. Then, on the fifth day, he was moved to a bare, frigid cell with no toilet, water fountain, or bed. A clogged drain filled the new cell with choking ammonia films. With nowhere to relieve himself, Taylor held his urine for 24 hours before he could do so no longer. And then he had to sleep alone on the floor while covered in his own waste.
The Supreme Court eventually ruled 71 that Taylors lawsuit against the corrections officers who forced him to live in these conditions could move forward, and that lawsuit settled last February. But the Supreme Court had to intervene after an even more conservative court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, attempted to shut down these claims against the prison guards.
A unanimous panel of three Fifth Circuit judges held that it was unclear whether the Constitution prevents prisoners from being forced to remain in extremely dirty cells for only six days although, in what counts as an act of mercy in the Fifth Circuit, the panel did concede that prisoners couldnt be housed in cells teeming with human waste for months on end.
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Ian Millhiser: The Trumpiest court in America (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Dec 2022
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Ray Bruns
(4,098 posts)1. What's going to be their next ruling? The rack is a routine exercise board?
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)2. K&R
Sick