Um, can a judge do that?
Um, can a judge do that?
Sullivan also ordered that if the two being deported were not returned, Sessions, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Lee Francis Cissna and Executive Office for Immigration Review Director James McHenry would have to appear in court and say why they should not be held in contempt.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/09/politics/judge-halts-deportations-sessions/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/09/politics/judge-halts-deportations-sessions/index.html
Sullivan also ordered that if the two being deported were not returned, Sessions, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Lee Francis Cissna and Executive Office for Immigration Review Director James McHenry would have to appear in court and say why they should not be held in contempt.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/09/politics/judge-halts-deportations-sessions/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/09/politics/judge-halts-deportations-sessions/index.html
Short answer: yes.
ReplyDeleteSlightly longer answer: if everyone believes he can.
ReplyDeleteWell, yes. Cue famous (if slightly apocryphal?) response by Andrew Jackson to an adverse ruling...
ReplyDelete(who alas, bears more than a passing resemblance to the Turd in Chief)
Trent Goulding aka the traditional bully’s response: “oh yeah? You and what army?”.
ReplyDeleteTrent Goulding Yeah, "now let him enforce it" has been one of the phrases I think about a lot lately.
ReplyDeleteJasper Janssen "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it."
ReplyDelete(Marshall was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who had just written an opinion on the states' (in this case, Georgia) relationship with Native American tribes)