Who will pay for ICE's damage?

[RainCaster]

Who will pay for all those lawsuits that ICE will cause? All those broken ribs, kicked in doors, tear gassed children and more. This will definitely cause a lot of lawsuits. I fear that as taxpayers, we will get stuck with the bill. I'm not thrilled that it will be my taxes that pay for these sons of bitches and their asshole lack of judgement.

One suggestion, though I don't know how to do it, would be to force these expenses on to the GOP. They are the ones who have promoted & praised all this destruction - so it only seems fair that they should have to pay for it. They have lots of billionaires with deep pockets and this war on the taxpayers was funded by these assholes. They can pitch in, or not. If the GOP goes bankrupt and disappears I won't lose sleep.

[vapor2]

1. Agreed, let republicans foot the bill for Ice thugs

[pat_k]

2. Tragically, we are already paying for DOJ defense of the regime's criminal acts. However,

...the people are winning. And when the regime is gone, there will be solid cases against minions in the administration.

More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory detention policy
A POLITICO review of the rulings shows judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan have rebuked the administration’s new interpretation of immigration law.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/31/trump-administration-mandatory-detention-deportation-00632086

It’s one of the most thorough legal rebukes in recent memory.

More than 100 federal judges have now ruled at least 200 times that the Trump administration’s effort to systematically detain immigrants facing possible deportation appeared to violate their rights or was just flatly illegal, according to a POLITICO review

When this regime is gone, prosecutions against Trump will undoubtedly be pursued on the grounds that corruption in the form of self-dealing and acts that violate the constitution cannot be considered "official acts" for which he has immunity. Some of these may, or may not, get far.

But other people in the administration only have qualified immunity, which protects them from civil liability unless they violate "clearly established" statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.

I think there are a host of people who we will be able to hold personally liable for acts that blatantly violate constitutional rights -- particularly in light of the fact that they continue to commit the actions after courts have deemed them illegal.

[spanone]

3. trmp pardons for all criminals

[pat_k]

4. The felon cannot pardon for civil torts.

And those are the types of cases the minions will be pulled into court for.

As I posted in reply #2

When this regime is gone, prosecutions against Trump will undoubtedly be pursued on the grounds that corruption in the form of self-dealing and acts that violate the constitution cannot be considered "official acts" for which he has immunity. Some of these may, or may not, get far.

But other people in the administration only have qualified immunity, which protects them from civil liability unless they violate "clearly established" statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.

I think there are a host of people who we will be able to hold personally liable for acts that blatantly violate constitutional rights -- particularly in light of the fact that they continue to commit the actions after courts have deemed them illegal.

[Seinan Sensei]

7. Exactly!!!

Hold those posers “personally liable”

And THAT will stop all that foolishness

[KPN]

5. Great and important post. One thing is for sure. We need a clear and complete plan in place for how to

reconcile and restore the costs to people, society and government of all the criminal acts of this corrupt administration, its financiers and advisors before we remove them from power. Now is the time to begin creating a ledger in support of and to guide that planning process.

Personally, I truly believe now is also the time to be conspicuously clear there will be harsh and unavoidable consequences. We need to be forthright about that. We being leaders of the “resistance” … and we all can be and, therefore, are leaders in our own places and spheres.

[nuxvomica]

8. If that day ever comes, we send them all to Alcatraz

Like what Iceland did to the crooked bankers, imprisoning them on an island so they wouldn't taint the citizenry. Let Trump start the refurbishing now.

[iemanja]

6. The taxpayers

That’s how it always works. The federal government pays, and they are funded by us. There is no way to make only Republicans pay.