To me as a non lawyer that reads as accessory to murder and the SCOTUS would not be able to help when impeachment begins
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Unless the DOGEbros booted them without even knowing what they did.
Which in any rational timeline would be a scenario too absurd to believe, but with this lunch of boozers (h/t classic Capitol Steps “Lirty Dies” skits of yore) it’s just another day.
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Try out this NYT article, free link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/naval-academy-banned-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E4.IZxG.D1oY4_8GO9GU&smid=url-share
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Stock market crash and constitutional crisis in one week.
Exciting times!
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Had not thought her way through the government’s willingness to obfuscate and obstruct.
I forget who it was on Bluesky who observed yesterday that a more assertive federal judge would have been like “Oh, you HAVEN’T BEEN TOLD? Well you’re not leaving here UNTIL YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD. Get me somebody with personal knowledge here RIGHT NOW.”
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I’ve been waiting for that assertive pissed off judge but seems they are an extremely rare species these days. Don’k know why that would be… unless threats have been issued to judges who have reputations for being … cranky… " comply or else…
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I have no reason to think this judge has been threatened directly or has been intimidated by the climate of threat in which judges operate these days. A chilling story:
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In the mid 90s I visited Buenos Aries. My host was an American expat. She insisted we go see the Mothers of the Disappeared as they did their weekly demonstrating. I’ll never forget seeing the mothers walking with placards of pictures of their childrennwho were whisked off the streets and never seen again. I thought of the barbarity of the people who did this. And here we are. We have become those people.
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I fear for Tucson. We are 45% Hispanic and just 50 miles north of the border.
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It wasn’t over-reliance. That meticulous record-keeping was integral to making the whole thing work. The entire Holocaust ran on IBM punch cards and Dehomag (an IBM subsidiary) machines. The places where they didn’t have records were the places where Jews ‘slipped through’ and escaped.
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If the Trump regime can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.
And U.S. citizens are next in line. They want to strip Americans of citizenship (denaturalization) and do it to them.
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Poor brown defendants go immediately, rich Repuvlicans never because lawyers (like this comnenter who fought to keep Trump from facing any consequences from the insurrection) and judges will do anything and everything to protect Republican politicians. Theres always more time, more deferrrence, more giving in and knucling under like the cowards they are.
The law is meant to protect powerful prople, and these lawyers lnow even if the letter of the law is clear, the spirit is that Republicans arent the criminals, and it would be unfair to give them swift and harsh punishment, that is for the poors.
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If the marshals at a judge’s disposal do not obey the judge, here’s what one online site claims:
A federal judge may deputize anyone as a deputy marshall, so long as they are willing and able to perform the duties required of them. This includes making arrests, serving process, and providing security in the courtroom. The deputy marshall will work closely with the U.S. Marshal to ensure that all federal laws are followed.
I’d feel more comfortable with this claim if “marshal” were spelled correctly throughout. 
But I think I have seen this claim made elsewhere. This site is just what quick googling gave me tonight. If this claim is correct, it seems to rest on the assumption that a judge might deputize a “civilian” marshal at the the request of the U.S. Marshals – say, when an extraordinary emergency or circumstances left the Marshals Service shorthanded, and the Marshal Service made a request of the judge. Anyway, I think we are still far from a context where a judge might test the waters here.
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I find it hard to believe that it hasn’t sunk in. Rather, in addition to their habit of deference to the DOJ (and to prosecutors in virtually every court in the country), judges like Xinis probably feel the the judges in the court to which their decisions will be appealed looking over their shoulders. If on appeal the record shows that they gave the DOJ every opportunity to behave properly, their decisions (these judges may be thinking) stand a better chances of fair review. Just my speculation.
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Your mentioning “the wheels of justice” and their slow but exceeding fine grinding, combined with your earlier comment about finding ashes when you dug your finger into the ground at Auschwitz or Dachau… The victims, their surviving family and friends, and all of us who care found “justice” for the victims at Nuremberg. But justice came late too late to save those who died in the camps, or even those who survived them. Justice is not fairness, at least in individual instances (6 million individuals denied fairness at Nuremberg, which could no longer be achieved for them).
My father tried to explain to me when I was a teen that justice is not fairness. I was baffled. I am still confused.
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Me too. I cannot forget that .my finger was grey from that field at Dachau. But some justice can be fair. It depends on the judge. In the case of Mr Garcia who was packed off illegally by the US government to El Salvador the judge is hung up on a single word definition. She should tell the lawyer to get Garcia back to the US by a certain date since it’s known where he is. Time to quit fucking around. Should Garcia make it back justice would be further served if Garcia sued all those who were involved in his kidnapping including trump… His government owes him And let us not forget the doxens of others illegally taken.
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Yeah, that’s a tough one. Maybe Justice is a best effort after a failure to provide Fairness? 
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Oh no, these judges would never let you or a poor minority get away with anything. The law is a weapon against US, and a shield for THEM and every judge and lawyer knows it. They go along with it because they cate more about money than justice.
Every poor person is basically forced into a guilty plea, while every rich person can afford years of delays, or just bribe an AG like Trump did with Bondi.
Let a poor black person stand in front of Boasberg or Xinis, and theyd immediately remember how to lock them up.
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