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Judge orders Trump administration to explain why order to restore Voice of America wasn’t followed (www.denverpost.com)

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U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth of the District of Columbia gave the administration until Aug. 13 to explain how it will get VOA working again. The outlet that dates back to World War II has been largely dark since March.

Lamberth said the administration needs to show what it is doing with the $260 million Congress appropriated for VOA’s operations this year.

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[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are technically mechanisms for courts to enforce their orders, starting with the US Marshalls, but continuing to judges having the power to deputize anyone to go enforce their orders including with force.

For lots of reasons they're reluctant to do such things. For most of American history they haven't needed to, because everyone was working cooperatively and respecting institutions even if they disagreed with the outcomes.

So I'm guessing Trump, MAGA, and a lot of Republicans have mistaken the absence of direct enforcement by the courts for the inability to directly enforce.

We'll see if some judge or justice gets fed up enough with Republican shenanigans and starts with civil and criminal contempt findings with fines and jail time escalating to issuing warrants and calling up Marshalls or deputizing officers...

At some point I do expect things to go "too far" for the remaining pre-MAGA Republicans to keep going along. I could be mistaken.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The US Marshalls are executive branch.

That does not take the ability away from courts to deputize as they need to to see orders carried out.

[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They definitely are but they're also the group I'd expect to be most likely to honor a lawful court order even if someone in their chain of command didn't want them to.

One way we're a bit lucky even today is that it takes time to train high level law enforcement people (so not ICE) and we're only 6 months into Trump 2 (ugh).

That is even more the case for the high echelons of career (not appointed) law enforcement like FBI and Marshalls.