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A federal judge criticized a Trump administration Justice Department lawyer who claimed they didn't have to follow the judge's oral order blocking deportations to El Salvador because it wasn't in writing.

Judge Boasberg questioned why the administration ignored his directive to return immigrants to the US. The DOJ lawyer repeatedly refused to provide information about the deportations, citing "national security concerns."

Frustrated, Boasberg ordered sworn declarations explaining what happened, quipping that he would issue a written order "since apparently my verbal orders don't seem to carry much weight."

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 43 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

He shouldn't be letting those attorneys leave the courtroom free men. Hold them in contempt and issue bench warrants for administration officials and anyone carrying out these illegal orders.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This is the only correct response, any other response means that the federal government does not in practice have checks and balances

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 15 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It also forces Trump's hand. Either publicly reveal, right now that he is an all-out dictator instead of slow-rolling it, or fold and lose any momentum he has.

If a violent revolution is needed to take him down, the sooner everyone knows about it, the better.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 minutes ago

Yeah, slow nibbling at fascism is how the world got Hitler. Out the despot now.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

I believe they thought they could ignore the order because they could ignore the order.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 38 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

A federal judge criticized a Trump administration Justice Department lawyer

If this is the only consequence of having done it- I’d say they didn’t think they could, they knew they could.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Note Rubio saying they aren't going to stop, when explicitly told to by a judge. That's called sedition last I knew.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And if there’s no one willing to stop them, it may as well be legal.

[–] Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The US is in a constitutional crisis with situations like this, and so many people just don't seem to care or want to acknowledge that it's at that point.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago

I think the seeds for this were sown in the post 9/11 secret court system, in which the US govt authorized itself to break national and international law.

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 37 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

So what is the judge going to do? Admonish them?

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 16 points 2 hours ago

At the end of Inglorious Basterds, Aldo Raines has his man kill Hans Landa's assistant. Landa screams "You'll be shot for that!" and Aldo says:

"Shot? I don't think so, more like chewed out. I been chewed out before."

During the first administration KellyAnne "SkankySkag" Conway received numerous fines for her near constant violations of the Hatch Act, eventually reaching $100,000, which she never paid. When asked about it, she casually dismissed it, saying "Let me know when they start talking about jail time."

Things like censure, polls, stern warnings, appeals to morality, etc. Mean less than nothing to these traitors. They are determined to destroy America, and nothing less than harsh imprisonment will get through to them. If we get through this, we need to viciously purge MAGA from society and prohibit it's existence.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Asking respectively. What else can this judge do in the USA? Law is being blatantly ignored. This is dictatorship.

[–] witten@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

He can have members of the Trump administration dragged into court by U.S. Marshalls. And then if necessary, held in contempt of court and imprisoned.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Well, he criticized them… so. Lesson learned, right?

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 31 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Judge Boasberg does have one other card he can play, according to FRCJ Rule 4.1(b). If the US Marshal service is unable or unwilling to carry out a federal court order, the Judge who issued the order can deputize individuals to carry it out.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago

Sounds like a "well-ordered militia" is called for.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Could they deputize, say, the military?

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Not just the military. I draw your attention to this, emphasis mine

(a) In General. Process—other than a summons under Rule 4 or a subpoena under Rule 45 —must be served by a United States marshal or deputy marshal or by a person specially appointed for that purpose.

Section (b) says:

Enforcing Orders: Committing for Civil Contempt. An order committing a person for civil contempt of a decree or injunction issued to enforce federal law may be served and enforced in any district. Any other order in a civil-contempt proceeding may be served only in the state where the issuing court is located or elsewhere in the United States within 100 miles from where the order was issued.

The line:

a person specially appointed for that purpose.

is interesting because it does not specify who is qualified to be appointed. Now, I am concerned that this language means that Judge Boasberg may only appoint one person, but if he seems it necessary, he could probably get away with appointing more.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Could he appoint one person who then assembles a "task force" of individuals who support them? Or do they have to be each appointed by the judge himself for that specific task?I think one guy isn't going to cut it, but if 500 guys show up on the WH lawn to enforce the court order it might have some weight.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

He'll move up to SLAMS next

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Slamming the meat on the grill!

[–] RandoMcRanderton@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If that doesn't work, the judge can throw him off Hell In A Cell, and plummet 16 ft through an announcer’s table.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

don't let this man distract you

[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 hours ago

I'm expecting the Judicial will go as far as BASHED

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Like at what point does everyone else in the government finally say "ok we have to treat them as treasonous" this is a madhouse full of complacent fools.

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

At this point I don't see the politicians being the people to save us. Honestly don't know what the military would do either. They'd probably fight internally until the MAGA component wins or gets squashed.

So much can change so quickly. That's usually how the big changes go, especially when they are unfavorable.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 61 points 8 hours ago (11 children)

They feel that they can ignore it because they can ignore it. Stop letting them!

[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Well considering Republicans control every branch of government, they're assuming they can and will get away with it. Even if this goes up to SCOTUS, the conservative justices will let them do what they want. One of them will "dissent" though to try to make it seem like they don't agree. They're probably behind closed doors playing rock, paper, scissors to see who "dissents" each time a hot button topic gets up to them.

[–] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Also didn't the Supreme Court just rule that you can't charge the president for crimes made in their official capacity? He can just say it was in his official capacity to ignore the orders so tough titties.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

That doesn't mean his actions would stand, it just means he can't be prosecuted for it.

If he fires someone and it's ruled illegal, they get their job back or some very large settlement.

Deported people would be able to return etc.

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[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 68 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

'You felt you could disregard it?'

Well, given that they disregarded it and are now standing before you arguing that they had the right to disregard it, I think it's safe to say that yes, they felt they could disregard it. And given that the migrants were deported anyway, your orders were not only completely ignored, but were also being openly mocked on Twitter by Marco Rubio, and they will receive no punishment for doing so, I think it's safe to say that they were right.

Frustrated, Boasberg ordered sworn declarations explaining what happened, quipping that he would issue a written order “since apparently my verbal orders don’t seem to carry much weight.”

He's about to find out that his written orders carry even less. Remember, the Supreme Court ruled that he can't even be questioned about official acts, much less investigated. Trump could go on his Twitter knock-off tomorrow and tell this guy to go fuck himself with a chainsaw and there's fuck-all this judge can do about it.

[–] torrentialgrain@lemm.ee 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

This is kind of insane to witness unfold in real time. These fossils don’t understand that they’ve been stripped from their institutional powers. They are literally not able to understand what’s happening even if it’s totally transparent to anyone watching.

[–] kbotc@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

No, he can be questioned about official acts. The wording is that the judiciary decides what is an official act, so if they decide it is, he cannot be punished criminally for what is otherwise a criminal act. The Supreme Court did a bunch of power grabs for itself and effectively declared that Congress couldn’t do squat other than impeachment against the president and the only check on the president’s power was whether the judiciary agreed with him.

Now Trump’s attacking the judiciary and has made the chief justice have to make a statement that his challenges to his legitimacy will not stand, so I would expect to see a bunch of cases go against Trump just as a judiciary show of force, much like his citizenship emergency challenge where they told him to fuck off and they’d slow walk his case.

Trump could have ended democracy quite easily if he wasn’t in such a damn hurry to get shit done and snubbing all of the power brokers that he needs to implement his plans is forcing a bunch of needless shit. When the economy is fully in shambles in a few months and the ad spend slows down for media companies, I’d expect them to pounce on how much shit he fucked up. It’s wild seeing WSJ realizing the problem that’s coming down the pipeline and the Murdoch rag shitting on him in the editorials rather than WaPo.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 167 points 10 hours ago (14 children)

Throw. That. Lawyer. In. PRISON. There may be no way to enforce the law on Trump himself, but make lawyers afraid to do his dirty work.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one."

  • Alexander Hamilton
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago

Throw everyone who implemented it in prison. Trump may have made himself an untouchable dictator but just himself.

Remember that loyalty only goes one way, unless it’s in trumps personal interest such as profiting from it. Make him go on record as either pardoning the criminals or dropping them

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