The Trump administration has not fully complied with a court order pausing the freezing of foreign assistance grants and contracts, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali last week ordered the administration to allow the disbursement of U.S. foreign assistance after hearing claims from federal contractors challenging an executive order signed by President Donald Trump pausing nearly all foreign assistance.
Bring specific people into court, and hold them in contempt.
If they refuse to appear, assume judgement, and seize assets.
You don’t need a fucking army if you can force all their assets to be frozen. Worked for Russia, worked in the Red Scare, and it’ll work now.
Contempt needs to happen, like tomorrow. The longer these folks feel above any law the worse our chances of recovery from this get.
Trump may be “off limits” according to SCOTUS but the people that carry out his illegal orders are not.
This is the point. Anyone not complying with the actual court orders should get contempt. Trump can’t pardon them out of shit.
President does have the power to pardon someone for a federal contempt charge. So we’ll get into a wierd situation of perpetual pardons and contempts at some point. We can only pray that that level of recursion breaks the simulation and we can all leave this hell cape.
That may not be the case. I have read that the President’s pardon abilities only cover criminal offenses, and contempt of court that stems from ignoring a ruling is considered a civil offense.
So, when a judge orders you to refrain from doing what you planned cause it’s against the law, and then you do it anyway, aren’t there usually consequences?
yes, congress can do something about it…
Love it when those supposed checks and balances work out 🫠