Cross-posted from âA Federal Judge Is on the Brink of Criminally Prosecuting Trump Officials for Contemptâ by @remington@beehaw.org in !politics@beehaw.org
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 âobvious,â Boasberg wrote, that government officials âdeliberately floutedâ his commands by deporting Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran prison on March 15 under President Donald Trumpâs invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. And now they must answer for their unlawful conduct. âThe Constitution,â he declared, âdoes not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial ordersâespecially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it.â
So what? Do it. Nothing will come of it. Congress sure as hell wonât impeach and remove. Certainly no one will be put in any type of custody.
Sure. Do it for the record. Unfortunately itâs meaningless for the foreseeable future.
If members of his administration are convicted of crimes for following his orders, their replacements may not be as willing to overstep the law.
So what: we have to protect this judge and act as deputies to enact his rulings or else the system collapses in favor of monarch Trump and 4chancellor Musk
Oh yeah? Whatâs your plan for that? You volunteering to stand guard at his home with enough weapons to protect him?
How will you help take those that face charges into custody?
as someone who stood guard for drag nights back before fascists forgot about drag, yeah i could do that