Cross-posted from “A Federal Judge Is on the Brink of Criminally Prosecuting Trump Officials for Contempt” by @[email protected] in [email protected]
In a thundering opinion on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg announced that he had found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for defiance of his orders. It is “obvious,” Boasberg wrote, that government officials “deliberately flouted” his commands by deporting Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran prison on March 15 under President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. And now they must answer for their unlawful conduct. “The Constitution,” he declared, “does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders—especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it.”
The last time I fell for that was the Mueller report.
Show me someone slowly fighting against what is happening and I will show you someone grandstanding, on the take or an idealist out of touch with things
I fell for it again with Chutkan and then again with Merchan. People need to go to prison.
This could be another one of those, certainly. But if it’s not, then it has to be done right and that will mean slower than we want it to happen. Do it rushed and wrong, it’s going to get undone
The longer it takes the more opportunity Trump has to commit more heinous human rights abuses
She the shorter cuts that are taken will do the same. Do it right or don’t do it at all, that means it might take a while
Maybe you’re right, or maybe this is not important at all because there are no effective checks.
I’m no legal expert, and I don’t understand many things. But it seems to me if there were effective checks, then others would have applied it already.
My unjustified opinion is that this, if real, is a last gasp by a few patriots who do not see the writing on the wall, and whose actions will largely be forgotten in the chaos to come.
I hope I’m wrong