Ed Martin wanted a grand jury to investigate Chuck Schumer; DOJ attorneys say they're too swamped to do everything judges want; a New Jersey political boss is vindicated.
Josh was asking Ken about the hypothetical scenario where the court orders the government to do something and they don't comply not out of defiance but because they simply can't due to their own self-inflicted incompetence. I am pretty sure this is what happened in Trump's first term with the child separations, isn't it? The court ordered the government to reunite children with their families and the Trump junta simply could not becasue they did not bother to keep track of whose lives they were tearing apart.
What was the legal outcome in that instance? If memory serves "sorry, I ate those cookies already, can't give them back to you" was an effective legal strategy. I fear many, many of the current lawsuits will be similar. Okay, you win but too late now.
It's been interesting to me to see the evolution of this show to meet the moment. When I started, it felt a little tongue-in-cheek and light-hearted, like "look at these criminous oafs", and often they seemed to smack straight into a judge like Wile E. Coyote. But underlining it all were asides about the dire nature of the judicial system and prisons, especially for defendants who aren't wealthy. It's easy to forget that we have put millions of people in prison.
Now, though, I'm worried that we are the ones in Serious Trouble. I'm wondering how many times I see a thing and think "this is not normal", and how we might build a judiciary that delivers justice for the first time.
Aside from any mootness issues, a US court doesn't actually have the power to help you in your Brazilian legal disputes, right? Like, they can't send the US Marshals overseas to arrest a foreign judge, or compel a Brazilian bank to freeze assets, or tell Brazilian ISPs not to comply with a block.
My understanding is that if you want the US government to help you in your overseas legal disputes, you have to talk to the State Department, or maybe Commerce.
Josh was asking Ken about the hypothetical scenario where the court orders the government to do something and they don't comply not out of defiance but because they simply can't due to their own self-inflicted incompetence. I am pretty sure this is what happened in Trump's first term with the child separations, isn't it? The court ordered the government to reunite children with their families and the Trump junta simply could not becasue they did not bother to keep track of whose lives they were tearing apart.
What was the legal outcome in that instance? If memory serves "sorry, I ate those cookies already, can't give them back to you" was an effective legal strategy. I fear many, many of the current lawsuits will be similar. Okay, you win but too late now.
What options will plaintifs have?
they've been doing the same thing with fired feds, pretending not to have a way to contact them.
It's been interesting to me to see the evolution of this show to meet the moment. When I started, it felt a little tongue-in-cheek and light-hearted, like "look at these criminous oafs", and often they seemed to smack straight into a judge like Wile E. Coyote. But underlining it all were asides about the dire nature of the judicial system and prisons, especially for defendants who aren't wealthy. It's easy to forget that we have put millions of people in prison.
Now, though, I'm worried that we are the ones in Serious Trouble. I'm wondering how many times I see a thing and think "this is not normal", and how we might build a judiciary that delivers justice for the first time.
Aside from any mootness issues, a US court doesn't actually have the power to help you in your Brazilian legal disputes, right? Like, they can't send the US Marshals overseas to arrest a foreign judge, or compel a Brazilian bank to freeze assets, or tell Brazilian ISPs not to comply with a block.
My understanding is that if you want the US government to help you in your overseas legal disputes, you have to talk to the State Department, or maybe Commerce.