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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Go on then, go on, what's the goddamned holdup?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Patience young padwan, they need to do this right and carefully, so it fucking sticks in their eye

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I fell for it again with Chutkan and then again with Merchan. People need to go to prison.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The longer it takes the more opportunity Trump has to commit more heinous human rights abuses

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Bongo_Stryker 1 points 3 days ago

I seem to remember hearing that for a period of four years, interspersed with "Oh they've got him now!"

Pardon me if I don't believe it will amount to anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Patience young padwan, they need to do this right and carefully

This was the line for four years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Amazing how Trump can get what he wants right away, but to get Trump under anything took us years, and didn't have him rot in jail. Weird how the "justice" system works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

That's how it goes. Turns out you can destroy things a lot faster than you can build them. And you can build things poorly faster than you can build them right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's always easy to tear things down, it's hard to do things right

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's easy to make up excuses for shit you don't want to do.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

So what are you doing bedside bitching in a community forum in a far darkened corner of the Internet where no one is who they say they are, and there’s no one around that would care if they were.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Just skip to the bit where you start screaming "genocide" because I voted for harris like you wanted me to.

That's where all our conversations end up anyway because it's what you do when you have nothing worthwhile to say.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

Just skip to the bit where you start screaming "genocide" because I voted for harris

Hmmm…. that sure sounds a lot like someone else I’ve seen around here. Can’t quite place who though.