[U] In Which AG Sessions And Sec'y. Nielsen Are BOTH Threatened With A Contempt Of Court Jailing, Personally, In DC

UPDATED @ 5 PM EDT 08.10.2018: The able judge has ordered a full Monday morning report, as to how exactly it came to be that there was an attempted thwarting -- of his earlier explicit order:

". . . .MINUTE ORDER directing defendants to file a comprehensive report to the Court explaining the circumstances surrounding the removal of plaintiffs on the morning of August 9, 2018, notwithstanding the representations from the attorney for the defendants that the government would not remove the plaintiffs prior to 11:59 pm that day. The report shall be supported by declarations of appropriate officials. Defendants shall file the report by no later than 5:00 pm August 13, 2018. Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 8/10/2018. . . ." This my friends is an invitation to go to jail, if one word of it is less than 100 per cent truthful. [End, updated portion.]

It is not just every day that the US Attorney General ignores an explicit order of a sitting US federal District Court Judge, in a life or death case.

But it happened today; and the able Judge Emmet G. Sullivan just ordered a US transport plane. . . turned around -- in mid-air. He will decide later what else to do about Beauregard's insolence. Here's the three page order, and the operative bit:

. . . .[The Trump administration lawyers] specifically represented to the Court that “Carmen” and her daughter would not be removed prior to that time. Based on that representation, the Court set an expedited briefing schedule to be completed by 1:00 am Thursday, August 9, 2018, and set a hearing on the motion for that same morning.

After hearing argument on the emergency motion, and following a Court recess, Plaintiffs’ counsel informed the Court that, despite the representations made by Defendants, Plaintiffs “Carmen” and her daughter had been removed from their place of detention and could be in the process of being removed from the United States. In an email to this Court’s Courtroom Deputy following the hearing, government counsel confirmed that “Carmen” and her daughter were, in fact, on an airplane while the Court was hearing argument on Plaintiffs’ Emergency Motion.

Upon learning in open Court that “Carmen” and her daughter had been removed from their place of detention and could be in the process of being removed from the country, the Court issued an oral Order requiring the Defendants to return “Carmen” and her daughter to the United States FORTHWITH.

The Court informed government counsel that it would neither tolerate nor excuse any delay with compliance with this Order. The Court also stated that it would enter a written Order memorializing its oral Order. . . .

FURTHER ORDERED that in the event that the Defendants do not fully comply with this Order, Defendants Attorney General Jefferson Sessions, III; Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service Director Lee Francis Cissna; and Executive Office of Immigration Review Director James McHenry, preferably accompanied by their attorneys, shall be ORDERED to appear in Court to SHOW CAUSE why they should not be held in CONTEMPT OF COURT. . . .

It is hard to imagine a more feckless, inept and reckless set of scallywags. Donald Trump leads from the bottom, as to all his troops. Ugly.

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