Summary
Federal Judge Amir Ali sharply criticized the Trump administration during a Tuesday hearing for failing to comply with his 12-day-old restraining order to unfreeze USAID contract funding.
“I don’t know why I can’t get a straight answer from you,” the judge demanded, asking if funds had been unfrozen. The government lawyer responded: “I’m not in a position to answer that.”
Ali ordered USAID to pay all invoices for work performed before February 13 by midnight tomorrow and required the administration to identify officials who can testify under oath about compliance disputes.
Then it still comes down to whether the cops will actually do their job and arrest said person or not. If they will, then that person rots in prison for contempt of court, which isn’t something Trump can pardon
Until he does anyway and the Supreme Court says he can.
Your statement assumes that prior laws and norms still matter when the person you’re talking about is actively shitting on those laws to the thunderous applause of the other branches of government.
And if nobody was willing to arrest Trump when he was a private citizen committing crimes on the daily, what makes you think they’re going to do it to one of Trump’s lapdogs when the man is literally the President of the United States and the Supreme Court has already said he can pretty much do what he wants?