So many judges, so many losses - Criminal Contempt Hearings incoming

Maine wins one. Donald Trump hit by legal setback in transgender athletes fight

On Friday, District Judge John Woodcock Jr. imposed a temporary restraining order banning the Department of Agriculture from "freezing, terminating, or otherwise interfering with the state of Maine's future federal funding for alleged violations of Title IX."

 

Judge permitted the process to move forward. The same Louisiana Judge that DOJ has been shopping all their ICE cases to.

NJ Judge still has hold on any deportation

Now about those other 3k being held without due process..next

Judge deals Mahmoud Khalil major setback in deportation fight
Despite the judge's ruling, Khalil's habeas case in New Jersey continues, with the judge there ordering a prompt conference to discuss Friday's decision. Khalil is seeking release from jail, to continue to fight his deportation from home alongside his wife.

 

So even though Rubio admits he didn't break any laws the backwater jr immigration judge that the admin judge shopped these cases to by illegally transferring people to that jurisdiction said he could be deported anyway.

Sounds like Cannon found her huckleberry.

Now you understand why they transport everyone down there and why they fight so hard to have cases heard there, to get that "judge"

Trump admin admits green card holder Mahmoud Khalil's actions were "lawful"

a memo that detained former Columbia graduate student and Palestinian protester Mahmoud Khalil's campus activities were "otherwise lawful," but noted that Khalil's deportation is necessary to avoid undermining U.S. foreign policy.

 

But Elon supporting right wing extremists around the globe

Supports US policy?

 

so good you had to say it twice...I spent a handful of years in the swamps of south Louisiana (south of NO), I know how backwater it is. his decision confirms his heritage. no legal reason, just said it was the right thing to do. good people, loyal people, just easily misled when emotions get involved. it's the french blood, makes the wimmin hot too.

how do you feel about potus ignoring a 9-0 supreme court decision and failing to return the person they illegally deported?

edit..but you are correct, I shouldn't result to ridicule, the reasoning by the decision was enough to establish their bonafides. I edited the post to better reflect the inequalities being a advanced by the admin by judge shopping to a jr immigration maga judge in the backwaters of louisiana

or the WH ignoring a judge's order and refusing to credential the AP?

'Lawless': Trump reamed for defying another court order

"NEW: An AP journalist was denied access to an Oval Office event with Donald Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, despite a ruling by a federal judge last week ordering the WH to restore The Associated Press’s full access to cover presidential events on First Amendment grounds," wrote the Republicans Against Trump account, adding that Trump is "the most lawless president in modern American history."

 

Boasberg has had enough, skipped right past civil contempt to criminal contempt.

will we find out again that just following orders is not a lawful defense?

gives them an out that I doubt they will take..identify who authorized the flights to leave after the verbal order was given not to

'Willful disregard': Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold Trump admin in criminal contempt - Alternet.org

Citing a “willful disregard,” Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has found probable cause that the Trump administration could be held in criminal contempt of court after officials defied his order to not remove Venezuelan migrants from the country based on a centuries-old wartime law.

Boasberg, first appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush, on Wednesday “said he would launch proceedings to determine whether to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt,” The Washington Post reported.

Pointing to the “broader showdown between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary,” the Post reported that Boasberg “[said] the Trump administration’s actions on March 15, as the removal flights proceeded despite his order to the contrary, ‘demonstrate a willful disregard … sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.'”

The judge wrote: “The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions. None of their responses has been satisfactory.”

 

and if one loss a day isn't enough

this one should set precedent to erase all that other doge bs cancelling of contracts mid contract and pulling of grants, etc for no viable reason.

Judge rules against Trump admin after it couldn’t find evidence of fraud in clean energy program

A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration in the case that alleged fraud in a Biden-era, clean-energy program, unfreezing roughly $20 billion in funding meant to support projects like new solar energy arrays and efficiency upgrades for small businesses.

Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday ruled in favor of the eight nonprofits that sued Citibank and the Trump administration, finding that the Environmental Protection Agency unlawfully terminated the program. Chutkan ordered the funds to be unfrozen at 2 p.m. Thursday and distributed to the nonprofits they were originally intended for.

Citibank — which holds several nonprofits’ funds — said in an April 2 hearing that it would unfreeze the accounts if Chutkan issued such an order.

During that hearing, Chutkan pressed DOJ attorneys on whether the federal government had found any evidence of widespread waste, fraud, or abuse in the program, as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has alleged. DOJ attorney Marc Sacks said the government had not gathered new evidence to that effect.

 

another smackdown, triple header today

trump will be claiming he scored a hat trick in the stanley cup finals by himself w=now that he has three in a day again

has a potus ever lost this many lawsuits?

Firm Behind Fox News Lawsuit Lands Big Win in Battle Against Trump

A judge handed President Donald Trump a fresh loss by blocking most of his executive order against yet another big law firm he tried to push around.

Susman Godfrey, the firm behind a successful $787 million defamation lawsuit against Fox News, was granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan.

 

Do three Ls in a single day from three different judges and criminal contempt hearings scheduled count as a smack down? Still trying to get the definition refined.

 

seems like they are pretty united in their rather pointed opinion..good

does this qualify as a smackdown?

Trump officials' defiance over Abrego Garcia's deportation is 'shocking,' appeals court says

The Trump administration’s claim that it can't do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shocking,” a federal appeals court said Thursday in a blistering order that ratchets up the escalating conflict between the government's executive and judicial branches. A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously refused to suspend a judge's decision to order sworn testimony by Trump administration officials to determine if they complied with her instruction to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return.

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who was nominated by Republican President Ronald Reagan, wrote that he and his two colleagues “cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos.” “This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time,” Wilkinson wrote.
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The seven-page order amounts to an extraordinary condemnation of the administration’s position in Abrego Garcia’s case and also an ominous warning of the dangers of an escalating conflict between the judiciary and executive branches the court said threatens to “diminish both.” It says the judiciary will be hurt by the “constant intimations of its illegitimacy” while the executive branch “will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness.”