Minnesota judge holds federal attorney in civil contempt, a first in Trump’s second term for “flagrant disobedience of court orders”

essentialsaltes said:

The contempt finding by US District Judge Laura Provinzino on Wednesday appears to mark the first time a federal attorney has faced court-ordered sanctions during President Donald Trump’s second term.

It comes as judges in the Twin Cities and elsewhere have grown increasingly impatient with the administration’s repeated violations of court orders, particularly in fast-moving immigration cases.

The appointee of former President Joe Biden said that starting Friday, the lawyer, Matthew Isihara, must pay $500 each day that the immigrant is not given back identification documents that weren’t initially returned to him when he was released last week from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, as she had ordered.

“The government’s understaffing and high caseload is a problem of its own making and absolutely does not justify flagrant disobedience of court orders,” the judge said during a hearing Wednesday, according to a transcript obtained by CNN.

DOJ found more than 50 violations of court orders in New Jersey alone​

“This falls below the relevant standards,” [A NJ Judge] wrote in an order directing the US Attorney’s Office to explain in coming days how it will work to ensure the pattern isn’t repeated. “Judicial orders should never be violated. And they very rarely are, especially not by federal officials.”

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Pommer said:

Why am I seeing a months-old “news” video in the middle of this fine post?

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