Judge Timothy Kelly, appointed by Trump in 2017, questioned whether the "plan" was implemented in "good faith" and found that one initial claim "turned out not to be true."
On one hand their reputations aren't that important given their lifetime appointments, but on the other, they're potentially putting themselves at personal risk given the violent nature of many of the trumpies.
“The Biden judge is effectively kidnapping these migrant children and refusing to let them return home to their parents in their home country,” Trump aide Stephen Miller wrote on X that day. Now that a Trump appointee called them on their deception and outright lies let's see how long it takes for them to turn on him, too. How are they going to spin that one?
More prevarications from the Trump Administration … I guess we can expect many frantic 1:00 a.m. rants against “terrible judges—who appointed these guys anyway?
The government lawyers' attempt to deny that their operation involved removal, by saying it was reunification and repatriation instead, made me snort and hoot out loud. OMG, is there nothing that these people are too embarrassed to try? Have they no shame? No concern for their professional reputations? Obviously no concern for the children, which we already know is a given, but their attempted distinction denying removal sounds like something from Gilbert and Sullivan or Monty Python. How much tolerance does a judge owe this kind of rubbish?
Assuming that U.S. lawyers work to the same principles as English ones, one of the first things you learn is that you must not mislead the court. That of course is where most of the challenges to the 2020 election results foundered because the lawyers for Trump did not have the evidence to back up the claims they had made outside court so they risked being disbarred if they misled the judge.
What is different here is that the DoJ still has a pool of compliant lawyers it can put before judges to say different things, thus protecting them to a certain extent from action being taken. But sooner or later they are going run out as defending the regime’s actions becomes impossible without risking disbarment or worse.
I’m thankful that even some Trump-appointed judges can place the rule of law above concern for their reputation!
On one hand their reputations aren't that important given their lifetime appointments, but on the other, they're potentially putting themselves at personal risk given the violent nature of many of the trumpies.
But I thought it was the trans people who were so violent! 🙄
“The Biden judge is effectively kidnapping these migrant children and refusing to let them return home to their parents in their home country,” Trump aide Stephen Miller wrote on X that day. Now that a Trump appointee called them on their deception and outright lies let's see how long it takes for them to turn on him, too. How are they going to spin that one?
I’m sure that judge will be labeled a democrat and a traitor.
More prevarications from the Trump Administration … I guess we can expect many frantic 1:00 a.m. rants against “terrible judges—who appointed these guys anyway?
The government lawyers' attempt to deny that their operation involved removal, by saying it was reunification and repatriation instead, made me snort and hoot out loud. OMG, is there nothing that these people are too embarrassed to try? Have they no shame? No concern for their professional reputations? Obviously no concern for the children, which we already know is a given, but their attempted distinction denying removal sounds like something from Gilbert and Sullivan or Monty Python. How much tolerance does a judge owe this kind of rubbish?
By now there are probably lists circulating in the courts of which DOJ officials are/aren’t trustworthy.
There are trustworthy ones?
Assuming that U.S. lawyers work to the same principles as English ones, one of the first things you learn is that you must not mislead the court. That of course is where most of the challenges to the 2020 election results foundered because the lawyers for Trump did not have the evidence to back up the claims they had made outside court so they risked being disbarred if they misled the judge.
What is different here is that the DoJ still has a pool of compliant lawyers it can put before judges to say different things, thus protecting them to a certain extent from action being taken. But sooner or later they are going run out as defending the regime’s actions becomes impossible without risking disbarment or worse.
Thank you Chris and thanks to these 2 justices for stopping this
inhumane "relocation".