BREAKING: Following today's emergency hearing, Judge Brian Murphy orders the Trump administration to "maintain custody and control of class members currently being removed to South Sudan or to any other third country," such that he could order their return if needed.
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So far, all the judges orders have been rather impotent.
Maybe should remove the “if”?
Will he hold the lawyer in contempt?
This hurts my soul.
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I HAVE CONTEMPT for this violation of basic human rights under the guise of “something-something America”
#wickedMAGAfacism
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DOJ flunky: I don't know anything, and if I did know anything, it would be classified or privileged
This drags on forever.
You need a judge with the balls to start a hearing, lock the doors, and say “We’ll all stay here till I get answers. Get your named client on the phone now.”
I wouldn’t be shocked if there were some rather interesting group chats among certain federal judges.
Maintaining control and custody is much more straightforward of an argument than “turn the planes around.”
Maintaining custody and control is a given if the plane is on U.S. soil.
What am I not seeing?
If the planes had left us airspace, the argument is that they couldn’t be turned around.
By making this a custodial issue, there’s less wiggle room. Until they are out of your control, they aren’t.