Summary
Federal Judge Amir Ali sharply criticized the Trump administration during a Tuesday hearing for failing to comply with his 12-day-old restraining order to unfreeze USAID contract funding.
“I don’t know why I can’t get a straight answer from you,” the judge demanded, asking if funds had been unfrozen. The government lawyer responded: “I’m not in a position to answer that.”
Ali ordered USAID to pay all invoices for work performed before February 13 by midnight tomorrow and required the administration to identify officials who can testify under oath about compliance disputes.
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the Supreme Court gave Trump all but blanket immunity
Even “better,” they gave blanket immunity to a person who has the power to give blanket immunity for federal crimes. Anything the SCROTUS is willing to consider an “official act” by the president carries no consequences whatsoever for him OR anyone doing his bidding.
While true, in theory (not practice) Congress/Senate would remove the president for not abiding the judges conclusion. The fact that they haven’t voted to remove him after 2 weeks shows the constitution (law of the land) is no more.
The state should just wrap all federal buildings in their state with crime scene tape and say it’s a state crime to cross it. 10 years in prison no exception without permission to cross!
If you live in a red state, you can call your legislators.
You can lie to them and say you’re a republican voter.
It’s not like they don’t lie to you.
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Having an out of state cell phone as your only number can’t be ruled out. They’ll ignore you anyway though.
Or what? The court issues a bench warrant and demands their presence which they can do to literally anyone who isn’t the president.
The rest is on law enforcement to have enough balls to do as their profession demands.
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Then it still comes down to whether the cops will actually do their job and arrest said person or not. If they will, then that person rots in prison for contempt of court, which isn’t something Trump can pardon
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That’s contempt and a president can’t pardon you for that. You’d be at risk for 179 days in county and huge fines that also cannot be pardoned and it goes to judicial tribunal for appeal.
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I don’t actually. I think the judiciary is quite capable of killing a presidency let alone a president.
Appeals courts have exactly zero to do with contempt the only ones who can deal with that are other judges. Again it has nothing to do with the guy and everything to do with other branches of government fighting to keep their power so they aren’t expendable.
And yet you’re knowingly basing crazy arguments of ignorance from empty words.
It’s a Federal Judge, so they can ignore the bench warrant and get a pardon.
They cannot. Us Marshalls don’t give a good goddamn about a pardon you can only get after the fact. Post facto pardons are a legal question that isn’t fully answered but most sources say it’s criminal conspiracy which no the president couldn’t be charged with but literally any and every state could charge whomever one by one at the state level.
US Marshals report to the DOJ, which is part of the executive branch, all Trump needs to do is instruct the DOJ to stand down.
A. Technically yes but in practice no. They’re enforcement specifically at the behest of the judiciary, they are wildly unconcerned about whatever bullshit any other LE agency is up to and for that matter the executive branch as a whole.
B. They’re the least political enforcement agency, they’ll tell him to fuck himself because the oath to the constitution comes first.
C. They literally swear to ignore politics and execute whatever executive process is before them.
D. They’ve had armed standoffs with other three letter agencies specifically about not doing their job, after Ruby ridge they go out of their way to not be seen as biased or political.
You know the president can literally just say: “Lol nope. Pardoned.” And that’s it, right? That’s the point, the law is meaningless if you installed a king as ruler.
I don’t know that because that isn’t thing.
Contempt is judicial and unpardonable, and preemptive pardons aren’t likely to be held as legitimate.
A King could preemptively absolve someone of a crime that isn’t however how our government is ran and it’s super duper unlikely the judicial would rule in favor of removing all their power altogether.
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Being cynical isn’t an argument.
Contempt is, as a matter of fact, not a pardonable offense. The lawyer can be taken into custody by the court staff and held, by the courts until the contempt offense is resolved.
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A judgement made by the court can be revoked and reinterpreted by the same judiciary, it’s the basis of the judicial system.
I have been, apparently that’s your best argument which is… Something I guess.
the lawyer knows he’s about to get slapped hard by the court. he also knows admitting that Trump and Co has yet to actually do anything the courts ordered is going to get him disbarred
That is something, a small something. I’m getting really skeptical over checks and balances, the constitution, fundamental corruption and graft, government by tantrum and spite …… but at least this is getting to the point of making that lawyer regret his choices. He’s likely to discover the emphasis on “loyalty” is only one way
He also probably thinks that he is going to get a cushy job for his sacrifice. Hopefully Trump refuses to pay in the end, like normal, and this guy speaks out after getting screwed.
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Speaks out to what end? It won’t change the minds of anyone still in trump’s good graces. It’ll give us something to laugh at, that’s about it.
He’ll write a book and go on tour, gotta cash in.
How does the lawyers bar status tied to a client’s compliance with a spurt order?
Essentially, if a client doesn’t follow a judges orders (the client is the US gov,) and the lawyer can’t get them to comply, they’re supposed to drop the case (and probably the client,)(in this case, that would likely mean a resignation.)
If the lawyer doesn’t…. They’re on the hook and the first step is their license to practice (yeeting that is called “disbarring”).
The reputation harm from this saga is huge- I wouldn’t want to hire a guy so blithely and publicly pissing off a judge.
The reality is he’s likely found himself between a rock and a hard place and is stuck. But lawyers who help their clients break the law …. Don’t stay lawyers. Look at nearly every lawyer who has worked for trump.
Trump not complying shouldn’t get him disbarred, but he should resign before trump does something that actually gets him disbarred.
It will if he doesn’t resign, though. And this guy is now between a rock and a hard place. I don’t know if his decisions put him there (IE he coudl be a career civil servant trying to negotiate this bullshit) but so far, it seems like he’s towing the Trump Party Line.
You have to put him in a cell
That behavior sounds very contemptuous.
Hold his ass in contempt and issue a warrant for his arrest already, you goddamn judicial muppets. It’s going to come down to that anyway - might as well yank the band-aid off before it festers.
Seriously. The judge is worried about the political fallout of doing anything as drastic as like, his job. It could be a real political rallying point, if a judge gets retaliated against. But that might make it hard for the judge to maintain his current lifestyle, and so we just make more concessions to the group committed to destroying even the illusory veil of justice and freedom.
Absolutely feckless and cowardly
Not just him, everyone that can be demonstrated as being part of this. We don’t just need to deal with Trump (we do) but there are a lot of other people involved too.
I’m not sure he can and I think the judge isn’t sure either.
I think this might be another one of those things where we were relying on the people electing someone reasonable.
What’s that thing called where the court determines you are a petty asshole and can’t file things without judicial review? Can we apply that to the government?
A vexatious litigant
Their goal isn’t to answer and prove why they need to do it, their goal is to stall as long as possible because they don’t even believe in what they’re fighting for beyond furthering Trump’s agenda
The more everyone goes at this guy, and the more he comes out unscathed, the more he seems untouchable. Blah.
Haha. The judge knows he has no power to enforce his ridiculous demands. And the Government knows it too. If the judge tries to hold the President in contempt, it won’t work, because the president trumps him. Trump can probably have the judge fired. And he should, because the judge should have refused to engage in the case to begin with, knowing that the presidents powers exceed his own.
You seem way too excited to have a king.
STF. U.
