No, no he can't. That's why there are appeals. Which is what Apple is doing.
“Ah. So a Judge can declare anything, and it is so.”
In this particular case, yes. yes they can.
“No, no he can’t. That’s why there are appeals. Which is what Apple is doing.”
Well, you just said that the court can’t just compel them to appear. If they don’t need to appear, why is there an appeal? A loser, by the way, that appeal. There is no defense against this. I think even a liberal Supreme Court has to side with the Feds, no matter how much they hate America. You don’t use “I don’t want to” as a reason for not complying with a Federal investigation of terrorists that have committed a mass murderer and accept that as an answer. Unless you are fool or a liberal. Pardon my redundancy, as W.C. Fields use to say.