r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 1d ago

Soft Paywall The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order | It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193650/trump-administration-just-violated-another-court-order
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u/travio Washington 1d ago

Lock them up! The courts need to use contempt against these people. Put them in jail until they comply.

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows Montana 1d ago

Unfortunately, criminal contempt is going to be tricky, even if the courts have the balls.

First, it’s enforced by the Federal Marshals, who are under the control of Trump’s DoJ. Although it may be possible to deputize someone else to enforce it, it’s dicey.

Second, criminal contempt can be pardoned by the President.

Civil contempt might work, though, although it obviously wouldn’t be as satisfying.

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u/gumgajua Canada 1d ago

The more I hear about how your government truly works, the more I'm not so sure the FF's were against the idea of having a king, because Trump sure does seem like it.

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u/tapdancingtoes 1d ago

Jefferson tried to warn us.

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u/Grubsex 1d ago

He said things about a certain tree that were true.

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u/HotmailsInYourArea 1d ago

🎶 Are you, are you, coming to the tree? 🎶🔥

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u/snail-the-sage 1d ago

I'm curious to what you are referring.

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u/yosemighty_sam 1d ago

Jefferson was and still is one of the biggest voices against too much executive power. As I recall he wanted the chief executive to be more of a chief diplomat, and warned that giving any individual too much power would inevitably lead to tyranny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Ove4_JsCM

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky 22h ago

Trying to understand Jefferson’s personal politics through my modern political lense always interests me.

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u/RoboOverlord 1d ago

https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/tree-liberty-quotation/

This, they are referring to this, but they are afraid reddit will ban them for posting it. So here is a scholarly article, with the actual hand written words so you can judge for yourself.