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Comment · 1 year ago
Should be interesting to see the DOJ's response. Considering the wagons have been circled since day one, we may see an independent prosecutor execute this referral. If so, discovery might have some fun details about the early days of the deportation campaign.

The administration has been flaunting the fact that judges can't easily police their bad faith actions ("oops, too late", "ms13 is an invading military"). Here Boasberg has found a low threshold for holding the administration accountable.

Comment · 1 year ago
> “The Court ultimately determines that the Government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt,” Boasberg wrote in a 46-page ruling detailing his decision.

The title correctly states that Boasberg found cause to hold the government in criminal contempt. It correctly did not state that Boasberg did not hold the government in civil contempt, yet.

Comment · 1 year ago
Political? This is law and crime. It's also relevant to someone, such as yourself, who occasionally comments on civil liberties.
Comment · 1 year ago
Please do enough reading to realize this is a different case.
Comment · 1 year ago
Surely the Eric Adams thing was an isolated incident!
Comment · 1 year ago
Trump v. United States. He could theoretically be impeached but if Congress wasn't going to it after he kinetically attacked them, it's not going to happen.

Others: pardon power.

Comment · 1 year ago
Might be what they used prior to taking office, having not spent a career using systems approved for classified information.
Comment · 1 year ago
Say what you will about his funding methods but the wall solved immigration as promised. Never heard about illegal border crossings again after it was built.
Comment · 1 year ago
You post something and based on its content you assume someone from an ideological group flagged it. And for that reason you flag and opinion of someone you assume is from that group?

What a way to live.

Comment · 1 year ago
I stand corrected. Please flag anything you disagree with.
Comment · 1 year ago
This seems like an advertisement.
Comment · 1 year ago
Lol in consecutive comments you claim the whistleblower made it up and NPR made it up. Take a break.
Comment · 1 year ago
The "looking at" process is still subject to federal law.
Comment · 1 year ago
"People don't like my opinions therefore I am going to sabotage the discussion from obscurity."

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