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A federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to return an alleged MS-13 gang member wrongly deported to El Salvador last month ruled that she would not hold any government officials in contempt for violating her order — for now — but warned against further “gamesmanship.” US District Judge Paula Xinis said that the federal government failed to provide evidence detailing their efforts to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States by April 7 after he was shipped off to El Salvador’s hellhole lockup CECOT. “There will be no tolerance for gamesmanship or grandstanding,” she said at a...

Judge James Boasberg got gutted last night: the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can deport illegal aliens, they can invoke the Alien Enemies Act, and there’s nothing he can do to stop it. The little judge got owned, but Boasberg was mulling contempt hearings for Trump officials over the deportation flights, which is absurd. His rulings were vacated, but it seems he is hell-bent on holding this administration in contempt and beyond. The core of his argument has been smashed into dust, but one can still be held in contempt of rulings on appeal.

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg hinted at possible contempt proceedings as he grilled a government lawyer Thursday about whether the Trump administration violated his court order by failing to turn around planes carrying migrants to a Salvadoran prison. Boasberg made no decisions following a court hearing even as he otherwise pushed the administration to detail its timeline and decision-making as it loaded more than 200 migrants onto a plane amid a court battle to block the deportations. He pushed back when a Justice Department attorney said the administration followed the law and his orders. “It seems to me there’s...

DOGE chief Elon Musk appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” on Thursday. During a wide-ranging interview, Musk discussed the Russia-Ukraine conflict and how it would ultimately be resolved. Musk criticized those championing the continuation of the conflict, who were doing so as a so-called “virtue signal.” “Obviously, there are some Republicans who think supporting Ukraine is the right thing, still,” FNC host Bret Baier said. “But there is a battle back and forth about how. How do you think it comes to an end?” Musk replied, “Well, I think there will be a negotiated peace. And the thing that...

That escalated quickly. On Thursday, Federal District Court Judge James Boasberg rejected the Trump administration's Justice Department filing about the illegal alien deportation flights to our ally, El Salvador, in what's being characterized as an "angry order." He is threatening to hold them in contempt. As we previously wrote, the judge ordered the planes to turn around mid-flight: As RedState’s Ward Clark reported Saturday, the president invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua which has been terrorizing cities across the country—and then the administration sent at least one planeload of members of...

DOLTON, Ill. – Embattled Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard was found in contempt of court Friday morning in a case over her alleged refusal to sign off on promised liquor licenses. Attorneys for the owners of St. Patrick’s, a three-story restaurant and banquet hall, said the business will finally be able to open after a judge found Henyard in contempt and forced her to sign the liquor licenses she’d allegedly been stonewalling for months. “It’s been a challenge to put it mildly. It shouldn’t be so difficult. This is an ordinary event to get liquor licenses issued,” Adrian Vuckovich, an attorney...

Rudy Giuliani was held in contempt of court Monday and accused of trying to “run out the clock” to avoid paying his $148 million defamation verdict — which may now cost him his $3.5 million Florida condo. Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Liman found the former Big Apple mayor in contempt twice for blowing through deadlines and not turning over key information ahead of a Jan. 16 trial over whether he has to give up the Florida abode and his prized Yankees World Series rings. Giuliani owes the multi-million dollar tab to Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court held Monday that incorrectly dated mail ballots cannot be counted.The court held the ballots “shall not be counted for purposes of the election held” on Nov. 5. The Republican National Committee sued Thursday after several counties decided to count ballots with incorrect dates.

Manhattan’s district attorney was held in contempt by a state court for refusing to turn over plea deal documents with a doctor who was later convicted as a sexual predator. DA Alvin Bragg’s office must now comply with the subpoena to produce documents related to 2014 criminal action against perv Dr. Robert Hadden, Judge Richard G. Latin ruled last month. Attorney Anthony DiPietro, who is representing hundreds of Hadden’s victims in the civil suit, is also seeking the DA’s communications with Hadden’s longtime employer, Columbia University, in relation to Hadden’s 2016 no-jail plea deal with Bragg’s predecessor, former DA Cyrus...

White House National Security Council communications adviser John Kirby said that addressing veterans’ concerns about the botched Afghanistan withdrawal was of “no use” in a reply-all faux pas. The blunder occurred on Wednesday, the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when Fox News sought comments from the White House regarding criticism related to Afghanistan. Instead of responding solely to the White House aides who had forwarded him the email, Kirby mistakenly included everyone on the email chain, including the Fox News reporter. “Obviously no use in responding. A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe,” Kirby...

English activist Tommy Robinson has been served another contempt of court notice over allegedly making false statements about a Syrian refugee. Robinson, a long-time critic of Islam and an anti-grooming gang activist, faces being sent back to prison after the Attorney General’s Office issued him with a second contempt of court notice, The Telegraph reports. He is alleged to have violated an injunction from the High Court on two occasions earlier this year, including during a protest in London’s Trafalgar Square. The court had banned Robinson from making claims about Syrian teenager Jamal Hijazi, who successfully won £100,000 in damages...

Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, declared on Wednesday that the entire Congress would vote to find U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress over his refusal to provide President Joe Biden with requested documents.

Bannon surrendered at a Connecticut federal prison to begin serving his time on contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena. The New York Times headline seemed to gloat: “Stephen Bannon Reports to Prison After One Final Podcast Episode.” “The show will be his last for four months, but the longtime adviser to Donald J. Trump has no intention of surrendering his influence,” the newspaper of record for the Democratic Party and the American left declared in its online subhead on Monday. And so the corporate media stories went, reporting on Bannon’s failed attempt to secure an 11th-hour reprieve from the...

Without these votes, Bannon would not be facing prison.Adam Kinzinger (turfed out by own party) Anthony Gonzalez (didn't run for re-election) John Katko (did not run for re-election) Nancy Mace (stiil around) Jaime Herrera Beutler (ousted in primary) Brian Fitzpatrick (still around) Fred Upton (didn't run for re-election) Peter Meijer (lost primary) Liz Cheney (kicked to the curb by Wyoming voters)

Next to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon is the leading voice in the MAGA movement. On Thursday, Steve Bannon lost his appeal to delay the July 1 start of his criminal contempt-of-Congress prison sentence starting in July. The far left US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Bannon. Bannon, the former Chief Strategist to former President Donald Trump, will likely seek the intervention of the Supreme Court. On Friday morning Jeff Clark, the Former US DOJ Double Assistant AG, posted this on Twitter. Steve Bannon has only nine days left until he will be sent to prison for the four...

One of my best friends in high school had a habit of saying "Damn, son" when he thought one of our crew did or said something particularly spectacular — by high school standards, of course. I had the same reaction to George Washington Law School professor and Fox News legal analyst, Jonathan Turley, and a new column in which he absolutely filleted embattled Attorney General Merrick Garland. That is, if one can fillet someone with a meat cleaver. In the Saturday column, titled "The Corruption of Attorney General Merrick Garland," Turley explains how he first "enthusiastically supported" Garland’s confirmation, only...

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed... On Friday, the Department of Justice advised House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) that it would not pursue prosecution of its own head honcho, Attorney General Merrick Garland, despite the House holding him in contempt for ignoring its subpoena and refusing to turn over the audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Joe Biden. In a sharply worded letter, the Department of Justice informed Speaker Mike Johnson that it would not prosecute Attorney General Merrick Garland for contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over an audio file of President Joe Biden's...

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice issued a memo Wednesday declaring that Attorney General Merrick Garland is protected from prosecution for contempt of Congress because of Biden’s use of executive privilege.The memo’s release conveniently came hours before the House of Representatives took the long-anticipated step of voting to hold Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with Congressional subpoenas for records related to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation of President Joe Biden’s willful mishandling of classified information.Republicans wanted the audio tapes of Hur’s interview with Biden, insisting written transcripts provided by Garland were insufficient after Hur revealed that...

House Republicans voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over audio recordings of special counsel Robert Hur’s October interview with President Biden related to his retention of classified documents. Lawmakers approved the contempt measure along party lines, with 216 Republicans in favor and 207 Democrats opposed. Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio) was the lone dissenting member of his party.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said she will force a vote on Merrick Garland’s arrest if the Justice Department doesn’t follow through after a contempt resolution. Last month two GOP-led House committees passed resolutions recommending US Attorney General Merrick Garland be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over audio of Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. ..... Snip..... The full House of Representatives will vote on holding Garland in contempt on Wednesday. House Oversight Chairman James Comer previously argued that Joe Biden cannot assert executive privilege over the audio of his interview with Robert Hur because the...