The Trump administration has not fully complied with a court order pausing the freezing of foreign assistance grants and contracts, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali last week ordered the administration to allow the disbursement of U.S. foreign assistance after hearing claims from federal contractors challenging an executive order signed by President Donald Trump pausing nearly all foreign assistance.
Trump may be “off limits” according to SCOTUS but the people that carry out his illegal orders are not.
Remember, he is only immune for official acts. And the courts reserved the right to determine if an act is official. I think they could easily say that openly defying the courts ruling is not an official act. They will wait for something bigger I suspect, but the supreme court judges love power just as much as trump. They are probably excited by the prospect of expanding thier power by giving trump the boot.
This is the point. Anyone not complying with the actual court orders should get contempt. Trump can’t pardon them out of shit.
President does have the power to pardon someone for a federal contempt charge. So we’ll get into a wierd situation of perpetual pardons and contempts at some point. We can only pray that that level of recursion breaks the simulation and we can all leave this hell cape.
That may not be the case. I have read that the President’s pardon abilities only cover criminal offenses, and contempt of court that stems from ignoring a ruling is considered a civil offense.
Pdf link warning: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10186
This is something I had found the other week that led me to beleive that he probably could
Are PDF links especially perilous? I thought most PDF viewers that are JS-capable disable it by default?
I guess nowadays, it’s not the biggest deal but it’s just an old internet habit was to not break people’s browsers
Ah right! Been a little while but I remember. Thank you