ACLU: There is case law requiring someone to follow the spirit of the judicial order.
Judge: I'm interested in your request to have her transferred back to this district. You make almost a totality-of-circumstances argument: because you have strong case, only evidence is op-ed, need her nearby
Judge: I'm interested in your request to have her transferred back to this district. You make almost a totality-of-circumstances argument: because you have strong case, only evidence is op-ed, need her nearby
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And she should not be in Louisiana given that the government violated a judicial order.
Judge: So there is a memorandum in the govt's possession that has not been produced to you?
ACLU: Yes. And we believe there are two of them.
At a certain point these judges need to stop looking for technicalities to excuse civil rights violations.