The court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again —
Stop threatening and do it
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Reminder that Federal judges can deputize citizens to enforce their rulings. There were something like 80K park rangers that were fired from the National Park Service They already have most of the necessary training & certainly have more training than ICE goons.
There's the problem. You've threatened again and again and again. Do it, cowards.
Even if they wanted to, they rely on Executive branch enforcement.
The US Marshalls need to be moved under the authority of the Judicial branch.
Force their hand. Either they enforce contempt charges or there's a wide open constitutional crisis.
Let me break the news for you bud. We're already facing a wide open constitutional crisis. The 1st amendment has been broken in hundreds of instances along with the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th. Alex Pretti was murdered for exercising his 2nd amendment. Ordering federal enforcement agencies into specific states/cities breaks the 10th. Trying to end birth right citizenship broke the 14th. He's currently planning to break the 15th with a federal seizure of voting processes via a drafted executive order declaring a national state of emergency. The 19th is under attack by proof of identity voting laws that deny some women the right to vote based on mismatched identification between their birth certificate and state IDs with name changes from marriage. Its an open secret that he will push for a third term which would break the 20th and 22nd in addition to already attempting to break the 20th on Jan 6, 2020. And Voter ID laws constitute breaking the 24th.
So to summarize, that's 9 that he's already broken by my count and 4 he's actively trying to break. That's 13 of 27 and 7 of the original 10.
1 (broken) 2 (broken) 4 (broken) 5 (broken) 6 (broken) 8 (broken) 10 (broken) 14 (broken) 15 19 20 (broken) 22 24
Oh I know all that. I've been calling fascism for years and catching a lot of shit for it early on.
But federal courts charging contempt and DoJ not enforcing it is much harder to ignore. That's why I modified it with "open".
Don't judges have jurisdiction over the bailiffs in their courts? Issue a warrant, order them to organize a posse and haul them in to face consequences aka jail time.
Yep. Deputize ME and let ME deal with this as The Law.
'Another' being the guillotine?
ya sure.. when
This is what failing to enforce their orders has wrought for the judicial branch. ICE will continue ignoring them until judges start ordering their bailiffs to take these scumbags straight to jail from the courtroom.
Threatening it and not doing it is arguably worse than the crime itself. You are an accomplice until you do your fucking duty.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, we have to start protesting these judges for not doing anything. Feet to the fire. They're on the right track, but nothing is still fucking nothing.
The fuck it will. Until you grow a god damn spine and actually issue contempt charges (and have them enforced), ICE is going to continue to wipe their asses with your 'orders' and the US Constitution.
Patrick Joseph Schiltz (born July 6, 1960) is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2022 as the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. He was appointed to the Minnesota federal district court in 2006 by President George W. Bush.
Spine.... Found
ICE will comply with this court’s orders
"make me"
They won’t.
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