A federal judge found probable cause that the Trump administration acted with contempt of court in violating his order to immediately halt deportations of Venezuelans suspected of being gang members.

US District Judge James Boasberg issued an order Wednesday saying that officials acted in “willful disregard” of his verbal order on March 15 to turn around planes carrying Venezuelans now held in a notorious prison in El Salvador. Boasberg said at a court hearing on April 3 that “the government acted in bad faith throughout that day.”

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    3 days ago

    How does one judge what is false hope in a struggle that never ends?

    When people are celebrating an action that will accomplish absolutely nothing so that they can continue to “get on with their lives”?

    And that applies to the rest of your rant. If an action doesn’t move the needle in the slightest and just highlights how little hope there is then it is pointless. Unless you somehow believe that enough court orders will pile up that the guy who engaged in a little violent insurrection last time is going to say “You know what? I get that I am not wanted. I’ll abdicate power peacefully”. Especially when he only failed last time because he acted “too soon” and has been speed running making sure that he controls every gun in the government for this time.

    We literally did exactly this last week. People were terrified of what would happen with the tariffs. trump “backed down” and… still bumped up the percentage against basically every country and is still doing everything he can to make xi jinping notice him. But people have “false hope” and are now happy and going back to their days.