“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.
Where did I say that? I said the govt. cannot compel you to build something for them that does not exist. What has that do do with "appearing"? Compelling a 3rd party to invent something to convenience the government is not "reasonable", and so exceeds the authority of the "writ act".
When did FR get so over-run with statist toadies? You like rule by decree?