Ouch. I'm glad judges are pushing, but at some point they need to get over their habitual deference to the government and handle this as they would most cases, to wit:
"Counsel, step outside the courtroom, get on your phone, and bring someone here who can answer my questions. You have one hour."
"Counsel, step outside the courtroom, get on your phone, and bring someone here who can answer my questions. You have one hour."
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Kyle Cheney
Judge: "I don’t know why I can’t get a straight answer from you. Are you aware of an unfreezing of the disbursement of funds for those contracts and agreements that were frozen before Feb. 13?"
DOJ lawyer: "I’m not in a position to answer that."
DOJ lawyer: "I’m not in a position to answer that."
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“I’m sorry. I’m afraid I can’t do that. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."?
It’s the AI’s, HAL’s, response to Dave’s order to open the pod bay doors.
The serious point was who could enforce a contempt order.
Why weren’t they held in contempt for not being able to answer the basic expected questions?
It’s only govt attorneys who get away time and time again
Period.
We're gonna need an old Carter/Reagan appointee with no fucks left to give
Hold them in contempt. Sanction the lawyers.
Something.
The judge was impressed.
The attorney’s mom was in the gallery.
Mostly joking
https://go.bsky.app/6dCw92a
This is their job, this is what they fucking signed up for
What then?
Unless judges are willing to start incarcerating people, we already live under a dictatorship.
while they evade and dispense with all norms
The Slumbering Giant is getting his face eaten
Wake the Fuck Up
I agree re deference, presumption of regularity should be long gone already
shouldn't the "United States" lose immediately? with possible contempt proceedings to follow? summary justice seems appropriate here
We now have two choices. Live free or kneel to your MAGA king like a slave.
Color? Gender? Race? Immigrant? Rural? Urban? Worker? Boss? Poor? Rich? Red? Blue? Your flag is one of these.
I know which one is mine.