Originally published at: ‘Woefully Insufficient’: Trump DOJ Keeps Giving Alien Enemies Act Judge The Runaround - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The federal judge overseeing the Alien Enemies Act case is growing increasingly irate over the Trump administration’s refusal to provide details about the removal of hundreds of people from the country last week. He called the government’s responses to his orders “woefully inadequate” in a Thursday order, and demanded that the administration explain why its…
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“Now, Boasberg is demanding that by Friday at 10:00 a.m“
I’m warning you, this time I really mean it, has never worked. You want results, send a few people to the slammer and tell the rest to bring you the information by the end of business that day. Then again, in Trump’s Lord of the Flies kingdom, this may be viewed as a chance for advancement by those on the outside.
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It’s amazing just how much rope the judge has handed these people, but I think it’s the smart money. Make this case unappealable. And don’t send Elon, Steven Miller will do.
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Arabic proverb: “They asked the pharaoh, what made you a tyrant? He said, No one stopped me.”
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Let’s hope the contempt-meter gets turned up to 11 tomorrow.
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If any of us defied a court like this, we would all be in prison for contempt of court. It’s time for these officials and the DOJ lawyers defending them to go to prison.
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And what if they don’t?
I mean, really, what if they don’t?
The goalposts have been moved again.
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Another extension. I mean, Trump & Co act like petulant children. That doesn’t mean that the courts should treat them as such, like parents who keep saying, ‘I really mean it, next time, I am out of patience, one more chance . . .’ This situation has become laughable, not in a funny way, more in a horrified shriek way.
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Maybe good timing: someone can spend the weekend in jail for contempt while the sack of shit plays golf.
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How soon before Trump goes all Andrew Jackson on the judge? “Let him enforce it.”
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You keep jailing people up the food chain until someone complies. The fact that the judge didn’t start doing that with todays missed deadline is judicial malpractice.
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Exactly. None of the bad actors in this environment have even been threatened with jail, so I am not sure if that is in the playbook.
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Judges tend to give litigants narrowing leeway before a drastic enforcement response. Showing that they gave multiple opportunities to correct the deficiency.
Trust me, he’s not going to do the ‘okay, one more time’ thing indefinitely. This is to document and paper the file.
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The old joke comes to mind about British cops who don’t carry guns saying this:
STOP! Or I’ll say STOP again!
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