This is precisely what contempt is for.
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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.
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.
"Way ahead of you, boss."
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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...
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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.
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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 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.
1a. Judge goes on a Holiday in Cambodia, so to speak, and is replaced. See option 1.
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.
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- Admin complies
- Abrego suddenly ends up dead during that time. Essentially means admin would be complying.
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
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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.
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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.
They obviously aren't, and have defied every court at every turn when presented with lawful orders in this matter.
The article is actually really badly written because it completely ignores a key point. The Supreme court itself said that the government needed to act internationally. It's there in the text of the decision.
In other words, this isn't the government against some low-level judge. It's Trump telling the Supreme Court to go to hell. I hope some judges somewhere will actually stand up and lock people up for depriving people of their civil rights, but so far it doesn't look like any of them have the courage to do so.
That's the thing though, the judiciary has never had real power. The best they can do is issue decisions which are promptly ignored.
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Not only is there no evidence they're following her order, there is proactive evidence of them defying her order.
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)???
This guy’s already dead.
This is when the judge issues an arrest warrant for Trump/Elon and then deputizes everyone who is willing to try to take him in.
Then they is arrested and we start adding years to their prison sentences for every obstruction.
Criminal contempt can be pardoned by the president.
Civil contempt cannot.
Charge them each a million dollars a day.
Try $1B/day. A million to Trump is like an ok steak dinner, while to Musk, it’s like the dollar menu.
Do it to the Ice agents, attorneys, anyone involved.
Make it financial suicide to carry out their orders.
There isn't going to be a legal way to hold them accountable.
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Unfortunately the only way to arrest a president is the impeachment process. Which wont happen with a republican super majority. Unless you can get Republicans to grow a spine there is no other legal process to hold the President accountable.
However I'm not sure about those employed by in his administration. But then again if he's willing to pardon Jan 6th rioters he will definitely pardon people in his administration...
Actually the only way to arrest anyone is with physical restraints. Trump can blather all he wants once the cuffs are on, but hogtied is hogtied no matter how you slice him.
Idk if those rules apply anymore.
It doesn't seem like rules apply in this country anymore, and whoever wins the current war will decide what was legal retroactively.
I mean I think at least in theory the court has the ability to use the US Marshalls to enforce a court order. And I also believe they can deputize others to enforce those orders instead in case the Marshalls end up answering to the DoJ instead of the judges.
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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.
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.
Trump is a criminal, no one should be surprised that he is ignoring the rule of law.
OK, now what?
The Orange Turd is a criminal. I would expect nothing less from him.
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