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LegalEagle
@legaleagle.tv

I'll be the first to admit it's a real failure of the judiciary that after six years of the Trump Administration, Judges aren't moving straight to contempt hearings.

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com

UPDATE: The Trump administration apologized to a judge after DHS’ taxpayer-funded Trump ads aired in hundreds of ad spots after she blocked them. The excuse: DHS’ lawyers missed the email. The judge had flagged that the $20 million for the ads was approved in under two hours.

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busillis
@busillis.bsky.social

The "I have to be very patient so when I penalize them it's clearly justified" to "I can't penalize them for this after letting it go all those other times" pipeline is both deeply predictable and, somehow, only ever applies to powerful people.

Joe Flaherty
@joef-3.bsky.social

A huge number of the lawyers who have worked for this administration need to be disbarred. The ABA and state bars need to start going after these people for the damage they’ve done to the system.

Maswartz
@maswartz.bsky.social

We really need a full cleanse at this point. Remove all those who enabled Trump by action or inaction. Every branch. Whatever it takes to punish them and prevent any future Trump.

Geoff Clarke
@geoffhasag.bsky.social

I would be interested in your take on the role of good faith in the legal context, and how its importance may be not appreciated enough. I'm not in law, but it's clear that a pattern of behaviour is very hard to deal with. Cheers.

Tom Londe
@tomlonde.bsky.social

It's baffling that the judges keep letting it slide. It obviously keeps happening because the feds know that the only consequence is going to be a public ass chewing and nothing else.

SteveMND
@stevemnd.bsky.social

Yeah, I understand that judges may not like the idea of setting precedents against the DOJ (and others may not like the idea of poking the bear), but at some point, this sort of dereliction is just complicity.

SteveMND@stevemnd.bsky.social

OH MY GOD judges, stop being fucking "furious" about these repeated violations and DO SOMETHING about it. How many times are you going to THREATEN them with repercussions yet not actually DO so? At some point, you become willing collaborators, and I think for many of these judges, that's LONG past.