Cavalierly Ignore the Judge at Your Peril

With bated breath, I wait for courts to respond.

Federal judges blocked the administration from shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, halted the deportation of PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, froze orders targeting a pair of law firms, stopped Trump’s attempt to shut down Voice of America, and extended the order preventing Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport people. DOJ lawyers are left to try to explain what is clearly illegal has somehow become legal. And they refuse to answer direct questions. They get to mumble:

Well, it seems like a war. We get to decide that. So we can legally snatch and deport, ignore judges’ orders, and not provide any information about any of it. Stop badgering us, your honor!

Isn’t it grand that Judge James E. Boasberg is overseeing two conflicts with the out of control Trump Administration. That would be 1) illegal use of the commercial chat app Signal, and 2) the illegal use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Thursday Judge Boasberg should find the contempt that I have seen regarding the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. I cannot imagine his ruling, but I know what I would do as long as those deported remain in an El Salvador prison. Those responsible here would be imprisoned until they force El Salvador to return all of illegally deported and imprisoned.

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This is another one that bugs me. There are new details about the case of the Tufts University student Ozturk detained by ICE. In Alabama, we don’t send 6 ICE agents to go pick up one nonviolent female. We send one female officer to do the job. Two max. This takedown is ludicrous and a waste taste of taxpayer dollars. It also reeks of Liddle Marco Rubio. A federal district judge in Massachusetts on Friday blocked the government from deporting the Tufts University doctoral program student.

Ozturk had her visa revoked, and only Liddle Marco can do this as he is the only one with carte blanche authority to pull a visa and deport.

This grad student wrote an OpEd article. Can you believe her audacity; she had an opinion and has not physically protested. I don’t much care what that opinion is or was. She has a right to speak in my house. Not in Marco’s.

Evidently Marco Rubio has a bone to pick with her. Liddle Marco is such a small person. Trump’s administration has cited the seldom-invoked statute authorizing Secretary of State Rubio to revoke visas of noncitizens who in his opinion could be considered a threat to foreign policy interests. (I suspect Liddle Marco behind the 17 most recent deportations.) That would explain the Trump Administration’s restrained commentary. Baiting the press I assume.

Looking so dangerous, Liddle Marco was frightened by Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk above. His ordered deportation has been blocked while U.S. District Judge Denise Casper determines whether she has jurisdiction over the case, according to the order.

The next morning, Oztruck was flown more than 1,500 miles away from her home to a staging facility in Alexandria, Louisiana – despite a court order about 6 hours after her arrest that Ozturk not be moved outside Massachusetts without 48 hours’ notice. Cavelierly ignoring the judge once again.

I think this judge should haul Liddle Marco in for testimony. And as soon as Liddle Marco finishes his spiel, the judge should cite him for contempt and have him whisked away to prison in Seattle until Liddle Marco’s opinion of the student’s threat to this country has normalized from its abject racism. Why Seattle? Because it is far away.

The District Judge in Massachusetts issued orders not to deport her. I feel the court being held in contempt by the administration. I wonder what the court feels.

The Road Ahead. Trump already asked our military to shoot our citizens on the streets, “Can we shoot them in the legs?”), but the military refused. Now he plans to arrest protestors. You know about how far with this that Trump will go, but no one knows what will unfold. Grab a flashlight, because we are at a dark fork on this American road.

Understanding will become a bridge. We all should have affinity with that need. Thank you for finding my voice. You have given that place and meaning by just being here. That is real, heart-felt sentiment because I am still emotionally that little boy Army brat from Dothan, Alabama. I started first grade there in 1955, (but lived in Japan, Germany, Iran, and all over the U.S.). Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to help grow HotButtons.