I predict that the govt is going to use the excuse that it hasn't yet officially made an "appearance" in the court / filing system, so it isn't getting electronic updates—but whose fault is that
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The judge needs to put Ensign in a holding cell with his phone and laptop until he can produce visual evidence that the children are still in the US.
aug 31, 2025, 9:51 pm • 9 0 • view
Bondi etc wouldn’t care. They’d leave him there forever if it suited them.
aug 31, 2025, 9:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Fine! The next AG might think twice before lying to a judge.
aug 31, 2025, 9:53 pm • 6 0 • view
That’d make a nice change
aug 31, 2025, 9:53 pm • 2 0 • view
If that happened nobody work under her because it's too perilous.
aug 31, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
UPDATE: Drew Ensign just filed a notice of appearance in the case, so I suspect we'll get that status update momentarily.
aug 31, 2025, 10:28 pm • 110 12 • view
In fairness, given the number of other horrible immigration cases Ensign is fighting for them this is probably what his desk looks like rn:
aug 31, 2025, 10:34 pm • 10 0 • view
In fairness, his enthusiastic work avoiding court review of death flights deserves little sympathy.
aug 31, 2025, 10:36 pm • 18 1 • view
Yep! I have little sympathy for his complaints that he got, “hauled into court on Saturday/Sunday/holiday,” to answer for this government’s failure to provide due process.
aug 31, 2025, 10:40 pm • 7 1 • view
Yep. Exactly what you predicted.
aug 31, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Judge’s are continually sounding like John Cleese questioning the DOJ’s Michael Palin in the Cheese Shop sketch.
aug 31, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view
There's always chamber copies via email.
aug 31, 2025, 9:48 pm • 7 0 • view
I’m not an attorney, let alone a judge, but I would be sorely tempted to instruct the bailiff to staple my orders to counsel’s tie
aug 31, 2025, 10:03 pm • 7 0 • view
Or his forehead.
aug 31, 2025, 10:09 pm • 5 0 • view
Body attachment
aug 31, 2025, 10:16 pm • 3 0 • view
as a former assistant state ag, i can say that almost any time a government defendant plays peek-a-boo like, that it ends poorly
aug 31, 2025, 10:06 pm • 9 0 • view
* like that,
aug 31, 2025, 10:06 pm • 5 0 • view
Seems like Ensign blew the 3pm deadline spectacularly but was a full 10 minutes early for the 6:30 follow-up deadline How might this proceed? Seriously, it seems like they should find a way of informing him that involves some type of physical humiliation
aug 31, 2025, 10:29 pm • 1 0 • view
You’ve probably seen this, but just in case bsky.app/profile/jjin...
aug 31, 2025, 9:51 pm • 4 1 • view
Omfg
aug 31, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 1 • view
I predict that they were scrambling to get the kids to Guatemala technically before the orders and didn't manage to do it, and they have Starnes, Bondi et al trying to square the circle and failing.
aug 31, 2025, 9:49 pm • 14 2 • view
Ensign just entered an appearance so that’s definitely what the excuse will be. Real question is whether the delay was deplaning some kids in Guatemala.
aug 31, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view