So how does the american court system work? A judge gives an order, but can be overruled if at least to other judges order against it?
So if the judge who gave the first order finds at least three other judges ...
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That's the beauty. It works and it doesn't. Just depends on how much you are worth.
So a court has told another court to stop looking into court cases (and the people not following court orders) and let people not follow court orders.
So court orders are meaningless.
Court orders that the regime doesn't like are meaningless.
Not quite. This is a panel decision from two Trump appointees and the respondents have said they will ask the full DC Circuit Court to hear the case. It may be that the initial decision was a lucky draw for Trump and the full circuit will reverse.
Hey America, when is the revolution you needed your guns for?
The revolution will not be televised. It won't be on Lemmy either.
Last year, before the continuing consolidation of power.
The best time to water a tree was last year. The second best time is now.
This three judge panel has been quasi-overruled by the en banc court on this case and issue once before. So it seems reasonable to think that might happen again.
There are still a bunch of hurdles to getting close to any kind of real contempt finding, even if that happens. There's a real argument that the most Boasberg can do with criminal contempt is make a referral to the DOJ for prosecution. And just imagine how much action this DOJ would take on such a referral...
Edit: apparently this is a different three judge panel than the first, but Judge Rao was randomly assigned to both panels.
But now, a pair of Trump appointees on the appellate court has decided to fully stamp out Boasberg’s plans, saying in a sharply worded opinion that his contempt probe represented “a clear abuse” of power given that the administration had previously identified then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as the official responsible for deciding to allow the deportations in question to continue.
Yeah, but, see, Kamala wasn’t a literal Jesus figure so we didn’t vote
The Democrat candidate has to be spick-and-span perfect, didn't you know?
Maybe next time he jails the people first so they don't violate court orders again.
WTF