Pretty much this is what I’m worried about. Hopefully the government record keeping laws are robust enough that they can eke out a real answer about responsibility by threatening additional charges over failure to document those.

I’m not sure you can easily turn contempt of court into a criminal conspiracy charge.

swiftly identify the officials who violated his orders

I think this is likely to be the hangup. Everything with this administration is so chaotic and ad-hoc that it might be hard to pin it on a single person or group. If they don’t have beyond-reasonable-doubt certainty that the person they’re holding in contempt is responsible, it’ll probably just get overturned, weakening the bigger Trump v Courts battle.

Not sure if meme piracy or new meme…

Being a billionaire is bad for your brain. Stands to reason the richest guy would be the worst affected.

I already never go there, but now I can have a chip on my shoulder about it.

Every major institution across the country should be ignoring Trump administration orders until the Trump administration stops ignoring court orders.

The working and middle classes are effectively in a permanent recession now, anyway.

Do you want optimism or honesty?

“Sure, all the valid evidence outright disproves a link between autism and vaccines, but have you ever considered lying?”

As embarrassing as this is, if this bit of appeasement even slightly diminishes the damage they’re going to do to the SSA then I’m okay with it.

Given that they admitted he was detained by mistake in the first place, I think “evil” is the word I’d use.

Non-citizens pay into social security without receiving any benefits. There is no positive to doing this.

Unfortunately, his dumb fuck followers, some of whom might have broken with him over everything getting way more expensive, will totally buy that it worked.

• Climate change isn’t real
• Climate change is real, but man isn’t contributing to it.
• Man is contributing to it, but it’s too late to do anything about it.
• Don’t try to do anything about it or we will fuck you up <- We are here. How the fuck did we get here?

Can’t the Supreme Court overrule lower courts any fasterrrrrr?

He does have a lot of experience running failures further into the ground.

Alternate title: Christian “Theobros” are Building Communal Petri Dishes for New Diseases to Evolve in.

I guess the best we can hope for is that all the children survive with no lasting effects and all their parents get a big enough dose of terror to break through their antivax brainrot.

I’m doubt that will be the case for long. Can’t have the DoJ doing its job, now.