Summary
A federal judge criticized a Trump administration Justice Department lawyer who claimed they didn’t have to follow the judge’s oral order blocking deportations to El Salvador because it wasn’t in writing.
Judge Boasberg questioned why the administration ignored his directive to return immigrants to the US. The DOJ lawyer repeatedly refused to provide information about the deportations, citing “national security concerns.”
Frustrated, Boasberg ordered sworn declarations explaining what happened, quipping that he would issue a written order “since apparently my verbal orders don’t seem to carry much weight.”
No single thing is going to fix this. It’s going to take a concerted effort of protests and economic boycotts and judges doing their job and elected officials doing their job and the fucking media doing their job and public sentiment souring further on Trump and people refusing to follow unlawful orders and yes maybe even a little direct action. Not all of it is going to work and not all of it has to work. My only point here is we can’t just think there’s a single silver bullet (pun intended) because that breeds inaction for all other forms of resistance. We each need to find a way to resist and do that instead of waiting for somebody who isn’t coming to save the day.
Okay so literally nothing. Just lots of “resist” with no actual directions or suggestions. You can see we’re fucked, you just don’t want to admit it because you’re not the violent kind (not a bad thing under normal circumstances, I’m not insulting).
But you’ve really just outlined my whole problem. If the pacifists can’t actually announce a believable plan, this time they need to step aside.
If you think that list of ways to resist are “nothing,” then there’s nothing more I can tell you. Good luck with your sitting around and waiting for violent revolution.
And I never said I was a pacifist. I said it takes multiple types of resistance to effectively counter fascism.