President Donald Trump’s administration’s response to a judicial request for more details on timing of deportation flights carrying hundreds of Venezuelan migrants was “woefully insufficient,” a judge said on Thursday, accusing officials of evading their responsibilities under an order he issued.
Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is weighing whether administration officials violated his March 15 order intended to temporarily block the expulsions. In a new order on Thursday, the judge told Justice Department officials to explain by next Tuesday why the administration’s failure to bring the deported migrants back to the United States did not violate his order.
Boasberg’s order on Thursday escalates his dispute with the administration that has raised concerns among Trump critics and some legal experts about a potentially looming constitutional crisis if the administration defies judicial decisions.
Sure. What?
I’d like to know what the courts can do.
Seriously.
Or even Congress.
The whole system is predicated on the idea that the executive follows the rule of law, as they are entrusted by us to execute the law.
If the executive fails to do their job, it’s on Congress to impeach.
Congress should work in good faith too…but if they are complicit with the executive?
Judicials job isn’t to write law or police the president. Judicials job is to make sure that the laws are, themselves, legal, and to extract the nuance out of the law and apply it to the context of the situation.
The judicial has no teeth. Nor are they supposed to. Congress makes the laws, executive enforces, and judicial essentially mediates. That’s it.
Turns out the entire system goes tits up if one branch decides “I don’t wanna” and the ones that are supposed to give him the boot are instead giving him applause.
They order those in charge to bring the detainees back immediately, and if they don’t do it, the judges dispatch the US Marshalls to arrest them.
US Marshal Office is part of DoJ that runs under executive.
They gonna arrest their bosses boss? Or even defy orders from their own chain-of-command? How do you think that will turn out?
If the U.S. Marshals won’t do it, then deputize someone who will.
Do you know what a deputy is?
Deputies cannot have any more authority than their deputor…depututor …deputizer…you know what I’m trying to say.
Sherrifs and bailiffs authority outside the courtroom is essentially no more than serving papers, which will immediately be tossed.
That’s the question. That’s when we find out whether a constitutional crisis is the order of the day.
to arrest whom?