The judge threatened to sanction the IG lawyers if they didn’t immediately rescind the request for an emergency hearing because she’s so busy with other cases caused by Trump.
The judge threatened to sanction the IG lawyers if they didn’t immediately rescind the request for an emergency hearing because she’s so busy with other cases caused by Trump.
Part of the judge’s issue was that the court has bigger attacks to deal with than Trump firing these guys faster than he was supposed to.
That isn’t actual a legal argument. If a certain recourse is legal, then it is legal no matter how busy the courts may be.
A court saying they are too busy to enforce the law is declaring themselves useless.
Damage is being done every single day this continues, but the judge berated and threatened those asking for the law to be enforced, because they are busy
She declined to fast track the case like the IGs wanted. It will still be handled in due time. Trump fired the IGs without the required 30 day noticed, and if they were reinstated there’d be nothing to stop him from firing them properly, so fast tracking the case wouldn’t really accomplish much.
Justice delayed is justice denied
She said she was too busy to sanction the lawyer who wasted her time. Not too busy to enforce the law.
Fair enough to the judge, then.
“We have bigger things to deal with” is not why the judge ruled as she did.
“We have bigger things to deal with” is why she decided not to punish the lawyer who waited three weeks to ask for a TRO.