This article explores the legal ramifications of the Trump administration's resistance to court orders. It examines the potential for courts to hold officials in contempt, the limitations of those powers, and the controversial possibility of presidential pardons being used to circumvent judicial authority.
The legal counteroffensive against the Trump –Musk deconstruction of the federal government has begun. State attorneys general, unions, and other groups have already obtained multiple restraining orders and injunctions commanding that illegally frozen funds flow and illegally suspended. However, the Trump administration has, predictably, proved reluctant to comply. Indeed, in some instances, it is simply defying court orders .
Still, even in ordinary times, there will be cases when those subject to court orders refuse obedience. The courts’ primary remedy in such instances is to find the defiant litigant in contempt of court.with a court order. A court may impose fines or command disobedient subjects to be jailed until they comply. Because the point of civil contempt is to coerce obedience, the fines may be remitted, and contemners must be released once they have complied with the order.
The looming obstacle to deployment of civil contempt against Trump’s merry band of constitutional arsonists is the reality that judges do not arrest or imprison people themselves. Nor does the judicial branch have its own armed employees to arrest those who defy its orders or its own jails in which to hold prisoners. Those jobs are performed by the… which are both components of the DOJ and are thus subordinate to the attorney general, who is subordinate to Trump.
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