No kidding your honor. The question is what exactly are you or any other judge going to do about it?
I don’t mean that in a Trump is right kind of way. I mean it in a this is something the judiciary needs to be seriously looking into sooner rather than later.
This is precisely what contempt is for.
That’s what the article states. She’s mandating two weeks of intense discovery, which will lead to contempt of court if they cannot prove they have done everything in their power to return him.
Honest question: if the administration’s defense is shrugging because he’s in another country, doesn’t the judge have an easy layup to shut down CECOT deportations?
They can’t have it both ways, either follow due process or keep your slave detention camps domestic. It’s not interfering in foreign policy to point out they need to choose.
She did, with an injunction that they are continuing to defy. That’s another contempt of court charge. She has to do this slowly and methodically to prevent giving them evidence of bias when they appeal her rulings. The downside to a just court is the pace. Had we a functional Congress that wasn’t packed with loyalists, this would’ve been over by now.
Lot of shit gon happen in a fortnight.
I fear Trump will just ask his buddy Bukele to kill the guy, out of sheer spite.
Oh so you just want a president to smuggle another president into the country?
(Disingenuous ass with that BS he unloaded in the Oval the other day, pretending like he was being asked to bring Xi, Vlad, & Kim to Guantánamo)
“Way ahead of you, boss.”
The death of several innocent prisoners, for example
Like people are going to run around, building stuff and doing dances? I don’t know, I don’t play it…
Nothing’s gonna happen. Stop dreaming.
Trump is above justice and so are his billionaire goons. Justice is only for pariahs.
Yeah, why don’t we all just roll over and die at their feet.
I get the sentiment but we really don’t need a Debbie Downer.
If it makes you feel any better, he’s only above legal justice. There’s still a sliver of hope.
He’s speaking the facts. The sooner yall come to terms with that and plan accordingly the better.
Who is “yall” and who is you?
You. This “geewiz Debby downer” shit lol. Yall better learn to be militant about this shit.
Maybe you replied to the wrong person? Maybe you misunderstood? When I said “shit”, I meant shit.
How can they be found in contempt when they were never out of contempt.
They don’t care what judges say. The judges are just NOW finding that out?
In the legal system, far more things get reversed due to procedural issues than on merit. Generally, this is a good thing. A judge should not be able to hand out punishment on a whim.
As with most protections, fascists destroy the ones that limit them and cling to those that benefit them.
This guy’s already dead.
Wake up. Your courts haven’t been able to help you long before the cheeto was in power and was flaunting his many felonies. The courts literally gave him unlimited power already. There have been zero repercussions for him his entire life while you all cheered him on and brought him to power not once but twice.
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This whole case has collapsed into a handful of choices:
- Judge doesn’t declare the Trump admin in Contempt of Court (i.e. does nothing). This sets precedent that Trump’s administration enjoys full immunity from the judiciary, officially turning the US into a dictatorship. This is what has been happening for weeks and remains by far the most likely scenario.
- Judge declares Trump in Contempt of Court, but is unable to enforce it. This is equivalent to scenario 1.
- Judge declares the Trump admin in Contempt of Court and deputizes state police to enforce the ruling and arrest, if not Trump, at least some officials. This would be legal and remains the only constitutional solution, but would almost certainly trigger an armed response from the regime. Democracy doesn’t go down without a fight, but the end result is uncertain.
- Pro-democracy factions use illegal/violent means to force Trump to comply (military coup, sudden Luigi’s Mansion remake, etc.). However it would seem that the masks fell off and despite decades of propaganda to the contrary, literally not a single living American is willing to put their life on the line to protect Democracy.
The administration will just apply for an appeal to the decision - 6 months - then if it is approved it goes to a one man Supreme Court ruling (18 months), then they appeal again (12 months) and it goes to the full bench (24 months) who will declare its now outside the scope of action.
1a. Judge goes on a Holiday in Cambodia, so to speak, and is replaced. See option 1.
Well now I’ve gotta listen to some Dead Kennedys so thanks
- Admin complies
- Abrego suddenly ends up dead during that time. Essentially means admin would be complying.
We have to send monitors to that prison immediately until he’s safely back home
There’s a serious chance they’ll have the guy killed to get the judge off their back without having to be seen backing down, and to show judges what happens when they try to challenge the regime on a deportation case.
Which would definitely be contempt of court when the whole thing leaks because they added another goddamned reporter to the signal conversation about it
And then we get to watch Fox News talk about how brilliant and righteous the regime is
Because they made the poor and uneducated afraid. That’s why all the guns. Fear of that which they do not understand. They were fed endless propaganda about how Trump cares for the working class. Republican Corporate media let them keep their guns as long as they had an enemy to point them at that wasn’t them. Keep them scared and afraid of their allies, their fellow working class.
- Dude’s dead and has been
Court: issues order
Trump Admin: flat out says they will not follow the orders
Court: I don’t think the admin is following my orders.
They obviously aren’t, and have defied every court at every turn when presented with lawful orders in this matter.
I’ve got an idea! Let’s sit around jerking each other off for two weeks while we build a case that Trump will just ignore anyways! Who’s with me (besides the Court)???
Contempt of court when?
Doesn’t matter, they’ll ignore that too.
They need to have the bailiff already standing behind the regime lawyers right when it’s declared.
No shit?
Give them two weeks to do something. We’ll see, then what if they don’t provide? Another 2 weeks? They will just say he is dead or died in transit and it’s out of their hands. Then what happens? Let me guess.
Fucking nothing.
the courts need to form a militaristic arm to carry out their needs.
They have the Marshals, and the judge could indeed order a government official arrested.
In sane times, yes. But US Marshals are a part of the Dept of Justice, which answers to the Executive. So I’ll let you guess how that would play out if they were ordered to arrest Trump or anyone else in his circle.
The Orange Turd is a criminal. I would expect nothing less from him.
