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.”

  • @[email protected]
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    514 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      1114 days ago

      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]
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        213 days ago

        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]
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          213 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

        • @[email protected]
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          313 days ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            313 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

      • ddh
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        313 days ago

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

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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      513 days ago

      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]
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        513 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]
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            12 days ago

            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.

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              12 days ago

              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.

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                112 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 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]
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      413 days ago

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

      This was the line for four years.