Cross-posted from “A Federal Judge Is on the Brink of Criminally Prosecuting Trump Officials for Contempt” 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 “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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So what? Do it. Nothing will come of it. Congress sure as hell won’t impeach and remove. Certainly no one will be put in any type of custody.

Sure. Do it for the record. Unfortunately it’s meaningless for the foreseeable future.

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If members of his administration are convicted of crimes for following his orders, their replacements may not be as willing to overstep the law.

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Dunno if anything will shake up the nut house.

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Oh Congress will absolutely impeach and remove…

The judge… :(

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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

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Oh yeah? What’s 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?

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as someone who stood guard for drag nights back before fascists forgot about drag, yeah i could do that

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I can’t believe people still believe in the courts. It’s insane to watch from the outside. You enshrined a dictator who has proven many times in the past that he has no regard for the courts at all.

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It can be pardoned too. Congress is the only entity that can stop this bullshit but it won’t.

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