A showdown may be imminent at the Supreme Court now that the Justice Department has hedged again.
A federal judge denied the Justice Department’s request for more time on Friday to explain its plans for returning a man to the U.S. after the government deported him to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued a two-page order Friday after Justice Department prosecutors cited a need for a “reasonable period of time to review the Supreme Court’s order,” issued late Thursday that ordered the government to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S…
I hope that judge is pissed off enough to start jailing Administration officials for contempt.
Thanks for the laugh, I needed that.
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Not totally true. Navarro and Bannon each went to jail for 4 months for contept, for defying a subpoena from the Jan 6 committee. It also cost them a lot of money in legal fees.
If the judge thinks they are ignoring her orders, she absolutely can jail certain officials for civil contempt. Civil contempt has no set term, they simply stay in jail until the order is complied with. And since it is a civil charge, Der Gröpenfuhrer can’t pardon it.
In this case, though, the order is just to provide regular updates on the progress of the case. So an official goes to jail, and then just gets released when those updates come.
Lol he owns them and they know it.
SCOTUS is just putting on a show
Genuine question: who exactly would do that? Like I understand their are bailiffs who act as “police” in the courtroom but who would be the ones who physically arrested the Administration officials? The police or other members of the executive branch?
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Free Luigi!
I want to see Luigi run for office, since the precedent has been set that running for office is a way to escape consequences for crimes
Start sending US Marshals to the DOJ to arrest a few higher ups for contempt of court and remind them that the judiciary has a branch of law enforcement too.
The US Marshals are actually organized under the DOJ. Meaning they’ll just fire any Marshal that obeys that order.
They teach in school that the court’s weakness is that it lacks an enforcement mechanism. It seems that the founding fathers believed that broken judiciaries are balanced by the common person’s conscience. This is back when people like Benjamin Franklin was able to influence thousands of literate, land owning Americans through his periodicals.
They did not anticipate that eventually the Russians and oligarchs would create mass influence disinfo campaigns using cable news, email, and social media.
The US Marshals are the enforcement mechanism
Controlled by the DOJ and Executive Branch.
https://theharvardpoliticalreview.com/supreme-court-reform-judicial-power-accountability/
They are powerful because the various branches of government follow their rulings. But if the executive doesn’t then we have a problem.
SCrOTUS is spineless. They will kiss his slimy ass.
It’s what they were appointed to do.
When the pendulum swings back and we put the fascists to the wall we can’t forget SCOTUS
Is it time to pack it in and admit that Trump is a dictator yet?
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Uh oh! A VERY STERN LETTER is ABOUT to be MAYBE Written!
They’ll return him in a body bag.
Nah, he’ll be the next one sent to that prison and never be seen again.
They wouldnt waste money on a body bag.
