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Posted on 06/18/2025 6:21:02 AM PDT by Jacquerie
For the first time in recent history, a federal judge on Tuesday found Florida’s attorney general in contempt of court for referring to the court’s order blocking a new state immigration law as illegitimate and unlawful.
While U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’ ruling is extraordinary, she spared James Uthmeier from paying hefty fines or spending time in jail. Instead, Williams ordered the state’s chief legal officer to submit biweekly reports to ensure police don’t arrest anyone under an immigration law she blocked in April.
“Litigants cannot change the plain meaning of words as it suits them, especially when conveying a court’s clear and unambiguous order,” she wrote. “Fidelity to the rule of law can have no other meaning.”
The order followed a May 29 hearing in Miami, where Williams repeatedly locked horns with Jesse Panuccio, the prominent lawyer defending Uthmeier, during arguments about whether to hold him in contempt.
At issue in the contempt decision was a letter Uthmeier sent to law enforcement agencies, sheriffs, and police chiefs on April 23, stating that he couldn’t stop them from making arrests under SB 4C, a law making it a first-degree misdemeanor for a person to enter the state as an “unauthorized alien.”
“If being held in contempt is what it costs to defend the rule of law and stand firmly behind President Trump’s agenda on illegal immigration, so be it,” Uthmeier wrote on X.
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Overturned on appeal no doubt
Contemptuous courts need to be contemned.
She is playing a King.
Let the 4th of July Rule....
ANOTHER FEDERAL DISTRICT JUDGE JOHNSON & Company has failed to deal with. Purely political.
That little weasel Johnson and the big weasel Thune can stop this.
Which clown is actually running the country?
The FL AG just warned the Broward sheriff to cooperate with ICE Hmmm
The State and the AG are not actually parties to the lawsuit, so the AG has argued (correctly) that the judge has no authority.
The nullification movement of judges needs to be stopped. WHere is SCOTUS?
Reminds me of an old National Lampoon routine.
Florida AG: “This is the Florida Attorney General! I know I’m in there! If I don’t come out with my hands up I’m coming in after me!”
Does FL have the issue where officials in blue city counties defy the spirit and letter of law and directives from Red governors and legislatures? I’m thinking of Austin, Dallas and Houston Texas as comparable examples of this. In Michigan, for many many years when marijuana was illegal for recreational use, the liberal college-town enclaves of Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti “decriminalized” possession and use of small and personal quantities of marijuana by making it a civil infraction only and setting a very small fine and ticket only for it.
Come and get him judge. Don’t send some lackey. You made your extra judicial order, now you enforce it, personally.
So the plain language of a court’s order can’t be ignored, but the plain language of the law can.
Got it.
I was checking that pesky constitution thingie and there it was...
The fed was granted the specific right to regulate immigration..
That means that individual states cannot pass immigration laws... it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
A stooge judge maybe, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
athleen Mary Williams (born 1956) is United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida.
Williams. DEI hire before there was a DEI. There should be a “K” before the first name shown in the photo description above.
Smug left loony.
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