A showdown may be imminent at the Supreme Court now that the Justice Department has hedged again.
A federal judge denied the Justice Department’s request for more time on Friday to explain its plans for returning a man to the U.S. after the government deported him to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued a two-page order Friday after Justice Department prosecutors cited a need for a “reasonable period of time to review the Supreme Court’s order,” issued late Thursday that ordered the government to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S…
Start sending US Marshals to the DOJ to arrest a few higher ups for contempt of court and remind them that the judiciary has a branch of law enforcement too.
The US Marshals are actually organized under the DOJ. Meaning they’ll just fire any Marshal that obeys that order.
They teach in school that the court’s weakness is that it lacks an enforcement mechanism. It seems that the founding fathers believed that broken judiciaries are balanced by the common person’s conscience. This is back when people like Benjamin Franklin was able to influence thousands of literate, land owning Americans through his periodicals.
They did not anticipate that eventually the Russians and oligarchs would create mass influence disinfo campaigns using cable news, email, and social media.
The US Marshals are the enforcement mechanism
Controlled by the DOJ and Executive Branch.
https://theharvardpoliticalreview.com/supreme-court-reform-judicial-power-accountability/
They are powerful because the various branches of government follow their rulings. But if the executive doesn’t then we have a problem.