A federal judge found probable cause that the Trump administration acted with contempt of court in violating his order to immediately halt deportations of Venezuelans suspected of being gang members.
US District Judge James Boasberg issued an order Wednesday saying that officials acted in “willful disregard” of his verbal order on March 15 to turn around planes carrying Venezuelans now held in a notorious prison in El Salvador. Boasberg said at a court hearing on April 3 that “the government acted in bad faith throughout that day.”
I read your other reply to this thread and appreciated it.
It gets frustrating to see people say “well just do the questionable things they do back to them and ignore the rules like they do.” I get the desire to give them a taste of their own medicine, but building a lefty authoritarian regime isn’t any more desirable to me than a righty one.
We don’t all need to become radicals, but we don’t need to roll out the carpet to those trying to twist the legal and political systems for corrupt purposes.
Exactly. I’m gonna do the lawful good thing on my end, and work my hardest to protect the actual institutions that still have power to provide some checks on the government currently in the hands of a wannabe dictator.
Give 'em hell! 🔥
Thank you for what you do.
Ha I should be clear, in my normal day to day responsibilities I mainly sue over money, which tends not to involve political considerations at all. That being said, the arbitrary way that the Trump admin has canceled contracts, yanked grants, canceled things that others have had to rush in and fill the vacuum on (including spending their own money), I might very well end up with a politically charged case at some point.
And maybe there’s something to be said to committing some time or effort or money to public interest and public impact litigation for the types of cases not typically in my wheelhouse.
No matter what it is you’re doing, I’m sure it’s important to your clients. With the news this week that all the government data is going over Starlink and likely collected by Russia, I’m waiting for a waterfall of things like identity theft and all sorts of scams and who knows what else, you may be even more important. You’re still in a position to help people, and that’s something very important in unsure times.