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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PERFECT !
That is the line.
Turn the ‘no-kings’ back on them.
No, your dishonor, I’m not showing contempt for this court.
I’m trying to hide it.
And I’m growing weary of the effort ...
No. Only *ARROGANT* @$$hole Judges can do that. I hate arrogant judges, and I want to see them thrown in prison where they belong.
I hope everyone realizes that Judges under the English Law system are stand-ins for the King.
All the terminology of the "Court" (as in the King's Court) system are derived from Monarchy.
"Bench" means "Throne." Judges "Robes" are a stand-in for King's robes. The Gavel is a stand-in for a scepter. Litigants "Plea" before a judge as they would before a King.
It's all very imperial, and it is also ill suited to a Republic. We should not have monarchist Judges in our system.
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