[U: Hearing Tomorrow At 3 PM EDT.] Plaintiffs In Maryland Seek Emergency Conference With USDC Judge Abelson, Given Widespread Reports Of Tangerine 2.0 Appointees Telling Staff To Ignore Federal Court Orders (TROs). Wow.

Updated @ 8 pm EDT -- USDC Judge Abelson entered this full text only order:

". . .PAPERLESS ORDER: The Court will hold a telephonic status conference tomorrow, March 14, 2025 at 3:00 pm related to Plaintiffs' Emergency Motion for Status Conference Regarding Preliminary Injunction, ECF No. 68. The Court will send counsel an email with call-in details. A public access line will be made available on the court's public calendar.

Signed by Judge Adam B. Abelson on 3/13/2025. . . ."

End, update.

This is. . . indeed, very serious, and was just docketed in Baltimore's federal trial courts before Judge Abelson this afternoon.

Tangerine appointees are pressing staffers to ignore federal court orders, and thwart the preliminary injunction the capable USDC Judge Abelson in Baltimore has entered -- and even recently clarified, on the record. Shades of then GOP Gov. Geo. Wallace -- at the doors of the University of Alabama, anyone? Yep.

This is not going to end well for those ordering the obstruction, here. That's a one year felony -- for each violation, under 18 USC § 1509. The Tangerine 2.0 officials have apparently acknowleged openly that they understand the order -- and just do not intend to honor it.

Stay tuned, even as I am out of pocket all weekend on this one:

. . .[R]eports [and affidavits state] that, since the clarification order on March 10, “the administration hasn’t bothered to inform various nonprofits and grant recipients they do not currently have to comply with the president’s orders.” Id. at 2. Recipients believe that officials in the US Government “are just pretending it didn’t happen.” Id. One source told Rolling Stone that a U.S. official stated “that they knew about the court injunction and what it meant, but that the senior ranks of the Trump administration had explicitly instructed staff to enforce Trump’s executive orders, to ignore the court’s injunction, and to pressure partner organizations if need be.” Id. at 4.

Notably, the Government has seemingly not disagreed with the facts in this reporting. A White House spokesperson’s response to Rolling Stone appears to have been: “A radical district court judge is acting beyond his authority and against Supreme Court precedent to undo the results of the election from the bench.” Ex. A, at 3. . . .

[Trumpian aligned] Defendants’ counsel continue to refuse to share any information about the form of notice they provided agencies and continue to ignore the instances of violations Plaintiffs brought to their attention in February and earlier this week.

Indeed, Defendants’ counsel continue to not even acknowledge such notice. For the foregoing reasons, Plaintiffs respectfully request that this Court schedule an emergency status conference to evaluate DOJ’s efforts to ensure compliance with the Preliminary Injunction Order. . . .

I likely won't mention this again until Monday night, when flying back out of the high mountains. You'll need to check with the federal employees' and teachers' unions to stay up to date on it -- as it isn't being covered much by the MSM. Onward.

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