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Contempt of Court for Trump's Kidnap Attorneys [1]

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Date: 2025-04-12

The administration’s attorneys are trying to delay the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who they admit they wrongfully deported. These attorneys should be ruled as being in contempt of court and imprisoned until the administration returns Garcia. The current strategy of the administration is to try to stall and stall and stall until somehow something happens that removes the illegal kidnapping of Garcia from the headlines.

Stalling has always been Trump’s favorite strategy. His legal history shows a pattern of stalling until the other side gives up or the point becomes moot. He has no doubt instructed his attorneys to stall and give non-commital answers, to be polite but do not answer and do not comply.

Judge Xinis has given the administration specific guidelines for reporting the progress being made to return Garcia, with which the attorneys have not complied. The next time they are in court and the administration’s attorneys give non-compliant answers, Judge Xinis should ask:

Did you NOT understand my instructions the last time?

Attorneys Subject to Stupid Executive Stalling (ASSES): We understood … bla-bla-bla … didn’t comply

Judge X: So you willingly disobeyed my instructions?

ASSES: bla-bla-bla

Judge X: You are close to being in contempt of court. Did YOU disregard my instructions or were you instructed to by your client to break the law?

ASSES: double-talk double-talk double-talk

Judge X: I will take your non-compliant non-informative answer as being in contempt of court. Bailiff, please remove the attorney and lock them up until they inform the court if their client instructed them to violate a court order or until the administration facilitates the return of Garcia.

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The point of this imagined dialog is that attorneys are sworn to uphold the law and face disbarment if they knowingly break (or disregard) the law, even if their client told them to do it. Judge Xinis should force the attorneys to either state that their CLIENT told them to disregard the law or that they individually decided to NOT obey the court’s order. And that deciding to disobey the court’s order brings automatic disbarment proceedings while they sit in jail.

When the administration can’t mount a defense (for lack of lawyers), there will be a summary judgement against the administration. And when the administration appeals to the Supreme Court, Judge Xinis and plaintiffs should not argue the “legal” aspects but whether or not Trump’s actions are “consistent” with the US Constitution. And if the Supreme Court rules against Trump then he might become the first president to be impeached three times and first president to be convicted and removed from office.

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