QuoteA federal judge in the district court of South Texas has ordered top officials with the Department of Homeland Security — including Secretary Jeh Johnson — to appear in person in his court in Brownsville next month to show why they should not be held in contempt for violating an injunction issued against President Obama's executive amnesty order.

Andrew Hanen issued the rare order on Tuesday in the latest court filing for a lawsuit filed to halt President Obama's executive amnesty order. Obama announced the action on Nov. 20. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, then the state's attorney general, filed the suit on Dec. 3.


Hanen called the Obama administration's response to his Feb. 16 injunction "unacceptable" and "unprofessional." He also stated that he is "shocked and surprised at the cavalier attitude the Government has taken" towards it.

At issue is the federal government's failure to clear up why DHS issued 2,000 work permits to illegal aliens even after the injunction was in place. The Justice Department made that announcement in May, but DHS and its sub-agencies have not yet explained why applications for the permits were approved.

Hanen says that the government must answer that question to his satisfaction by the end of the month or else appear in his court on Aug. 19.

"Each individual Defendant must attend and be prepared to show why he or she should not be held in contempt of Court," Hanen ordered.

The list of defendants includes DHS' Johnson as well as the heads of Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

"In addition to the individual Defendants, the Government shall bring all relevant witnesses on this topic as the Court will not continue this matter to a later date," Hanen added.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/08/judge-says-federal-officials-must-personally-appear-in-court-for-violating-amnesty-injunction/#ixzz3fM1VT7WB

WOW!! Looks like this judge is done playing! Someone may be going to jail!!

 
Boners replacement, a man with a spine.

Claims of executive immunity are predicted. DOJ inaction, a certainty.

Quote from: quiller on July 08, 2015, 06:54:51 PM
Claims of executive immunity are predicted. DOJ inaction, a certainty.

Can they claim executive immunity in a federal court? I think the 5th circuit will back this judge again!

Quote from: redbeard on July 08, 2015, 07:10:10 PM
Can they claim executive immunity in a federal court? I think the 5th circuit will back this judge again!

Hiya, Red. Remember how Eric Holder got away after so many attempts to get HIM into court? It will take a major level documents-dump to pin anything on a cabinet official. That's what underlings are FOR. It's the Democratic Party way.

QuoteHanen says that the government must answer that question to his satisfaction by the end of the month or else appear in his court on Aug. 19.

They'll come up with some lame excuse by the end of the month.  Obama hates Texas and will not give the Judge satisfaction.

I'll bet he has Valerie Jarrett and the DOJ digging up as much dirt on this Judge as they can find.

Quote from: redbeard on July 08, 2015, 07:10:10 PM
Can they claim executive immunity in a federal court?

Not under these circumstances.  The judge isn't pursuing discovery of evidence.  He wants to know why his ruling hasn't been acted-upon. 

And so does America.

Quote from: Dori on July 08, 2015, 07:31:46 PM
They'll come up with some lame excuse by the end of the month.  Obama hates Texas and will not give the Judge satisfaction.

I'll bet he has Valerie Jarrett and the DOJ digging up as much dirt on this Judge as they can find.

A good lawyer could jerk this out of that court to a higher and more politically attuned one. Emergency appeals. Then bury it under motions and show-cause hearings and everything else designed to bleed it dry before the 2016 elections. If necessary mobilize Roberts and his gang of sybarites at the Supremes.

Obama has precedent on his side. Others have ordered amnesty, too, though not in such a stupendously-damaging way.

Quote from: Solar on July 08, 2015, 06:53:49 PM

Boners replacement, a man with a spine.

Solar it should terrify my neighbors and community, when I could do a better job representing Ohio in this district than he has. I know it does me. 

Maybe we could organize a committee of citizens-in-good-standing to slip up to the national cesspool and escort the officials in question down to this judge's court....

yeah yeah I know, but its a beautiful dream.....

Quote from: quiller on July 08, 2015, 06:54:51 PM
Claims of executive immunity are predicted. DOJ inaction, a certainty.

Concur, quill.  Who's going to enforce the judge's ruling?  The Executive Branch?  Right......

Quote from: redbeard on July 08, 2015, 07:10:10 PM
Can they claim executive immunity in a federal court? I think the 5th circuit will back this judge again!

Yes they can claim that immunity in a federal court.

So long as the President signs an E.O. authorizing/claiming it.

Quote from: bluelieu on July 09, 2015, 08:36:42 AM
Concur, quill.  Who's going to enforce the judge's ruling?  The Executive Branch?  Right......

Which raises the one question no party wants answered: who drags away a bad President?

Quote from: quiller on July 09, 2015, 10:24:55 AM
Which raises the one question no party wants answered: who drags away a bad President?

It falls to "we the people" by default. 

We MUST quit re-electing the same wimps to Congress also!

Had to search the archives for this thread to bring an update....  I am suspicious that the Administration may have found something over at NSA to blackmail this Judge.  He is relenting on making certain witnesses testify.

A federal judge who last winter ordered a halt to President Obama's de facto amnesty and then ordered federal officials to testify when they were found to be in violation of his injunction is relenting, just a little.

U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen said Tuesday he will release certain defendants from testifying, but he warned that he expects the federal government to comply with his order to stop its delayed-deportation program before an Aug. 19 hearing.

Fully.

"The court does not consider mere substantial compliance, after an order has been in place for six months, to be acceptable and neither should counsel," Hanen wrote in his newest order in a case brought by 26 states.


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/judge-tells-feds-to-stop-granting-amnesty-now/#3u3MtKhbVHDMCfYZ.99