How is this remotely newsworthy? Trump has been openly defying court orders since the start of his 2nd term. Heck, they testified in front of the Supreme Court that they intended to defy court orders they didn’t like. They’ve said it during press briefings. At this point, they might as well start selling T-shirts.
Anyone planning on doing anything about it? No? DIdn’t think so.
Well. They didn’t though. In court they say that they don’t, they wouldn’t, and would never dream of defying court orders.
It’s just, you know, the Trump DOJ lies to the court. And, some judges are okay with the legal system lying about stuff. It’s a weird position to take, to say, “sure, you planted some evidence, but he was guilty anyway, so it doesn’t really matter.” Most judges, classically, have been in favor of something called the rule of law. Tump doesn’t like the rule of law, the Trump DOJ doesn’t like the rule of law, and now Trump is putting judges on the federal circuit who don’t like the rule of law. It’s not entirely clear that even the SCOTUS cares that much about rule of law right now. As they say “stare decisis is for suckers” or “we don’t care how the law worked yesterday day, we don’t care how the law works tomorrow, this is what we want to happen right now, we put it to a vote, and it’s totally what is going to happen.”
Well. They didn’t though. In court they say that they don’t, they wouldn’t, and would never dream of defying court orders.
I’m not sure exactly what the rest of your stream of consciousness was supposed to say, but they absolutely did testify in front of the Supreme Court that they would defy court orders that they didn’t like.
It’s relatively common for lawyers to say something like “we would never do X, but even if we did X, that would not have been illegal”. In this case X is deporting Abrego García against a court order. You will note that the DOJ also claimed to be unable to bring him back, yet, somehow, magically, after they are threatened with sanctions they were able to bring him back. Weird how that happens.
So it is obvious to anyone that the DOJ is lying. It should be obvious to the SCOTUS that the DOJ is lying, but, and this is in a case unrelated to Abrego García, Gorsuch and Roberts get all testy when you say that the Solicitor General, who is lying, happens to be lying. As I said, rule of law isn’t doing well right now.
They also lied and said they didn’t defy a court order. Did you miss that part?
Lying about lying about lying about…
