Summary
Federal Judge Amir Ali sharply criticized the Trump administration during a Tuesday hearing for failing to comply with his 12-day-old restraining order to unfreeze USAID contract funding.
“I don’t know why I can’t get a straight answer from you,” the judge demanded, asking if funds had been unfrozen. The government lawyer responded: “I’m not in a position to answer that.”
Ali ordered USAID to pay all invoices for work performed before February 13 by midnight tomorrow and required the administration to identify officials who can testify under oath about compliance disputes.
They cannot. Us Marshalls don’t give a good goddamn about a pardon you can only get after the fact. Post facto pardons are a legal question that isn’t fully answered but most sources say it’s criminal conspiracy which no the president couldn’t be charged with but literally any and every state could charge whomever one by one at the state level.
US Marshals report to the DOJ, which is part of the executive branch, all Trump needs to do is instruct the DOJ to stand down.
A. Technically yes but in practice no. They’re enforcement specifically at the behest of the judiciary, they are wildly unconcerned about whatever bullshit any other LE agency is up to and for that matter the executive branch as a whole.
B. They’re the least political enforcement agency, they’ll tell him to fuck himself because the oath to the constitution comes first.
C. They literally swear to ignore politics and execute whatever executive process is before them.
D. They’ve had armed standoffs with other three letter agencies specifically about not doing their job, after Ruby ridge they go out of their way to not be seen as biased or political.