Census Judge Sets Contempt Hearing for Wilbur Ross, Commerce

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-29/census-judge-weighs-holding-u-s-in-contempt-for-defying-order

Census Judge Sets Contempt Hearing for Wilbur Ross, Commerce

By Joel Rosenblatt
September 29, 2020, 7:28 PM EDT
Updated on September 29, 2020, 8:59 PM EDT

A federal judge initiated contempt of court proceedings over allegations that the U.S. Commerce Department defied her order not to rush completion of the census.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said during a hearing Tuesday that Monday’s announcement that Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross is targeting Oct. 5 to wrap up the once-a-decade population count “is doing exactly” what she ordered the agency not to do last week. The judge said the proceeding could be identified by a more formal name but made clear she believes Ross violated the order.

“You don’t have to call it contempt,” she said. “You can call it something else.” The judge set a Friday hearing.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Throw his ass in jail...

It is just a bullshit delay tactic to go ahead and shut the census down and then say "sorry Judge it is already done, we misunderstood"...blah, blah...Dear Leader Trump has a divine right to ignore your orders....blah, blah.

[lagomorph777]

4. Yup.

[Iliyah]

2. Good . .

these MF's think they are above the law . . .

[getagrip_already]

3. this is a poorly calculated play....

ross gets sentenced, trump pardons ross, judge defies pardon on grounds of corrupt intent or some such, and boom, it goes to the 6-3 scotus that knocks down any pardon infringements.

Or she lets the pardon stand which means the same thing in the end.

But it ill surely blow up in their hands, electorally if not legally. A reformed scotus could just sweep away that ruling.

[triron]

5. Frog march the asshole.

[Roland99]

6. K&R

[triron]

7. knr

[crickets]

8. Good. K&R for visibility.

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. How much dirt does Trump/Putin have on Ross

to make a man in his 80s risk jail time for the freaking census count?