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Judge #Boasberg …has rejected that interpretation of his orders & found probable cause to initiate #contempt proceedings over potential defiance of his rulings. That process has been halted for now by an appeals court.

The messages also revealed tension between #DOJ attorneys & their counterparts at #DHS as they sought to mount a defense of the #Trump admin’s #deportation policies in court.

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#Senate #Democrats had been pressuring #GOP colleagues to take this out of the bill…. Not only does this provision appear to violate the constitutional #SeparationOfPowers, it also violates Senate rules. #Republicans are relying on a fast-track #legislative process known as budget #reconciliation to move the bill, which means everything in it must be related to #budget matters. Restricting #judges’ abilities to hand down #contempt orders has nothing to do w/budgets.

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The text that Grassley released…doesn’t include this jarring, 1-sentence provision that #House #Republicans buried in their 1,116-page bill:

“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a #contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued…, whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.”

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The proceeding, which has been unfolding in front of Judge James E. #Boasberg, the chief judge in Federal District Court in Washington, was one of the first #deportation cases to reach the courts & remains one of the hardest fought. Judge Boasberg tried to stop the deportation flights carrying the #Venezuelans shortly after they took off, but the admin went ahead anyway, prompting him to threaten #Trump ofcls with #contempt proceedings.

⚡"Looks like (as predicted), the House's attempt to strict fed courts of power to enforce contempt of court orders is going to get stripped out thanks to the #ByrdRule."
-A Reichlin-Melnick

"Grassley tells me he had a meeting yesterday on House's contempt citation language tucked in reconciliation #bill.

"The house plan isn't Byrdable" & at very least provision will have to be "modified."

Adds he didn't hear a decision in the meeting about what'll happen."
-J Carney
#Courts #Contempt #USPol

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UPDATE:

Meanwhile, in Djibouti, the originally South Sudan-bound immigrants have the ability to contact attorneys to try to stop their transfer to the war-torn, human rights-abusing country."
-A Klasfeld

#DueProcess #Deportations #Contempt #ICE #DHS #USPol
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Please copy and paste into the forms on the websites of your Senators and share with friends.

Dear Senator --

I am thrilled that more media outlets are drawing attention to the lines in the budget bill that would strip the courts of their contempt powers. Please be diligent in getting those lines removed, as the judiciary must remain independent with the full ability to hold anyone in contempt.

I also want you to strip out the language forbidding states from regulating AI. I noted in the news stories this weekend that the AI bill has been changed such that it blocks some federal broadband funding if a state passes certain AI laws.

No one has any idea what AI will be capable of in two years, let alone ten, and if the federal government will not restrict it, the federal government must not interfere with a state's ability to regulate use in each state.

And as written, the clause would punish states trying to expand broadband into rural areas. The language in the bill must go. Rural businesses need broadband to stay competitive. No one "needs" AI.

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #hamas / #internationallaw / #contempt

(Military on both sides - brothers in spirit)

„The Israeli army said on Sunday it had retrieved the body of Hamas military chief Mohammed Sinwar in an underground tunnel beneath a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, following a targeted operation last month. (…)
Israeli forces gave a small group of foreign reporters a tour of the tunnel (…) beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis (…).“

japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/

The Japan Times · Israel says body of Sinwar's brother was found in tunnel under Gaza hospitalBy Ronen Zvulun

"Note that ICE has accomplished these "record" arrest numbers by RE-ARRESTING thousands of people who are already in the removal process, people who'd been COMPLYING with their release orders by attending court hearings and check-ins.

🚨These actions undermine the #RuleOfLaw."
-A Reichlin-Melnick

From a Fox News correspondent:
#Lawless #Contempt #Authoritarianism #DueProcess #Constitution #Immigrants #Deportations #Sadism #DHS #ICE #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #TrumpRegime #NoKings #June14 #USPol

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Last week, Rep. #MikeFlood (R-NB) admitted during a town hall in his district that he did not know that the bill would limit #judges#power to hold people in #contempt for violating court orders. He would not have voted for the measure, he said, if he had realized.

And as lawmakers returned to DC on Tues after their week off, Rep. #MarjorieTaylorGreene (R-GA) said that she had been unaware that the mega-bill she voted for would block states from regulating #AI for a decade.

"Fed law enforcement presence draws protests in south Minneapolis."

"I know the military is the military is the military—but when your federal & even local law enforcement look like this,🚨the protections of posse comitatus means just a smidge less to me."
-M Guariglia

"No name or badge numbers. Refuse to give names. At least there're other white folks recording."
-Lilith

#Deportations #DHS #ICE #Courts #Contempt #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Immigrants #Detention #USPol
mprnews.org/story/2025/06/03/f

"Trump admin must process education grants "w/o delay."

"A fed judge preserved his ability to enforce the ruling even if the Senate passes a budget bill restraining his contempt power.

The ruling marked the 2nd time US Dist Judge Edgardo Ramos ordered the Trump admin & its ED Sec McMahon to process Covid- relief funds to schools."
-A Klasfeld

#Courts #Education #Contempt #TrumpRegime #USPol
allrisenews.com/p/linda-mcmaho

All Rise News · BREAKING: Trump admin must process education grants "without delay"By Adam Klasfeld
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#Judges use #contempt to bring a party into compliance, usually by ratcheting up measures from #fines to #jail. Once the party complies, the penalties cease.

In 2022, when #Trump was out of office, he was held in contempt & fined $10k by a NY state judge for each day that he failed to produce documents that were subpoenaed in a civil probe of his private business practices that was led by the NYAG. Trump eventually complied after paying $110k.

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#FederalCourts have been a major check on #Trump in his second term, as plaintiffs in dozens of cases have gotten judges to block his policies. Bonds were not required in the vast majority of those cases, so if the #House bill provision became #law, #judges would be unable to enforce #contempt orders.

While no judge has issued a contempt order, several federal judges have said Trump admin ofcls appeared to be defying court orders & are at risk of being held in contempt.

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“No #court of the United States may enforce a #contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued," the bill says. It applies RETROACTIVELY.

"Security" refers to bonds that may be used in private litigation when one party seeks an injunction….If it turns out the injunction is reversed, the bond helps cover the defendant's losses.

But it rarely happens in cases against the govt.

#AmericanAutocracy

#Trump's sweeping tax-cut #bill includes provision to weaken #court powers

The tax-&-spending bill that would enact Trump's policy agenda includes a provision that would weaken the #power of US #judges to enforce #contempt when the #government defies court orders.

The 1-sentence provision in the 1,100-pg bill prevents #FederalCourts, including #SCOTUS, from enforcing contempt orders unless the plaintiffs have posted a monetary bond….

#law #Felon47
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