Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
*** An earlier version of this episode incorrectly referred to the asylum officers who conduct credible fear interviews as border patrol agents. ***
If the government is acting all authoritarian-y, detaining you in violation of your rights, there’s a basic assumption in the Constitution that you can use “The Great Writ” of habeas corpus to challenge that unlawful behavior. But Samuel Alito would like to remind you what happens when you ASS U ME. Something something immigrants, something something you’re wrong. So yeah, Constitution HUMILIATED.
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| 0:00.0 | We'll hear argument next in case 19161, the Department of Homeland Security versus Thrasingham. |
| 0:10.5 | Hey everyone. This is Leon from Prologue projects. On this episode of 5 to 4, the hosts are talking about Department of Homeland Security v. Therasiagem. A 2020 case about what happens when |
| 0:22.8 | the government decides you don't deserve meaningful due process. The case centers on an asylum |
| 0:27.8 | seeker who fled violent persecution in Sri Lanka and tried to challenge his fast-tracked deportation |
| 0:33.2 | through habeas corpus. The Supreme Court said that habeas doesn't really apply here. |
| 0:38.9 | Effectively blessing a system or immigration officers have the power to make life or death |
| 0:43.1 | decisions with almost no judicial oversight. |
| 0:45.8 | This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. |
| 0:51.8 | Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have exposed our nation, like Jeffrey Epstein's emails, have exposed Donald Trump. |
| 1:00.8 | Ooh. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm Peter, and I'm here with Riannon. |
| 1:03.5 | Hello. |
| 1:04.1 | Our duly elected president, he's just gotten himself in a little bit of hot water. |
| 1:10.9 | Reams of emails. Some new emails implicating him and also a hilarious array, frankly, of |
| 1:18.2 | pseudo-celebrities and elites. Larry Summers, Deepak Chopra, all just emailing Jeffrey Epstein |
| 1:26.7 | after everyone knew he was a pedophile. |
| 1:29.4 | Right. Talking about their girlfriends, talking about what parties Donald Trump was at, |
| 1:34.9 | sharing photos is just disgusting. The Larry Summers one is the funniest to me because at one |
| 1:41.4 | point he says like, hey, you know, you can't even hit on women anymore |
| 1:46.9 | without getting into trouble. And it's like, that's like a very standard sort of reactionary |
| 1:52.4 | thing. I can't even talk to women anymore. Yeah. But to say that to a pedophile. Well, and in the |
| 1:59.4 | same breath, isn't he saying, I don't know, I skimmed these fucking emails. Isn't he saying like, and women's IQ? It's just so low. He also made like a joke in the email about women being stupid. These are the guys. These are the guys protecting each other right now. These are the guys doing all the bad stuff in private, in public. |
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