Originally published at: Federal Judges Are Slowly Realizing They Can Treat Trump Like Anyone Else - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Last week, Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor appeared before two federal district court judges and asked them to not hold the Trump administration in contempt for violating court orders. The judges, Biden appointee Jeffrey Bryan and Clinton…
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It’s taken the federal court system a long, long time to figure this out. Meanwhile, the destruction has been irreparable. Democrats (the only viable political party in this sad nation) need to be putting together plans to reform the process. Faster, smarter, less prone to pointless delays, much less deference to the wealthy and powerful.
Nice cat, by the way.
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With a DOJ that is so openly contemptuous of the judiciary, it seems only fair that their contempt be recognized and celebrated by federal judges!
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Doesn’t look to me like they’ve figured it out yet:
a federal court has had to threaten contempt—again and again and again
After the first “again” you throw the fuckers in jail or fine them personally. If you get to the second and third “again” and still haven’t done it, you haven’t figured it out.
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Oh, they know.
The MAGA majority simply chooses to treat the patient like a king, in violation of their oaths and duties.
As for the rest of the federal court system … well, what was that old line about wheels that turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine?
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Until these people start going to jail, they haven’t figured it out.
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“Stop! Or I will say “Stop!” again!”
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Funny: federal judges had no problem and wasted no time fining me and holding me in contempt for looking at them cross-eyed.
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Trump considers the entire executive branch as an instrument of his own will. Trump the man, before he became President, never in his life thought for a moment that the law was to be looked to as a guide for or a constraint on his actions. That’s how criminals look at the world and he was a criminal. He still is. Those who follow the law are losers and suckers to his lizard mind. Victims or criminality are “weak” and contemptible. The behavior of “his” DOJ is not even slightly surprising. It will stop only when the judiciary gets it together to kick back. Hard.
Look at “Goodfellas” again.