Justice Department lawyers have repeatedly delayed or rebuffed the judge’s orders, culminating in a frustrating Thursday court hearing in which an exasperated but reluctant Sullivan floated the possibility of contempt proceedings.

“I just don’t want anyone to be blindsided if we have to go down that road,” he said. “It’s not a threat. It’s a promise. I have a job to administer justice, and I take that very seriously.”

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[–] 104 points 2 months ago (17 children)

Could be? Fucking do it, cowards.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    They are playing the system. They know eventually a judge will hold them responsible. Their last move is who will enforce it... the DOJ?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Individual lawyers can have their law licenses revoked for their involvement. Not everyone is willing and able to sacrifice everything for the Orange shit gibbon

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I'd argue that by this point, any lawyers with integrity who worked there are already gone.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    More than you think. I believe the DOJ lost 70% of lawyers in 2025 alone:

    https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/g-s1-66906/trump-civil-rights-justice-exodus

    I heard later stories report 75%.

    Now, anyone they hired into the circus to try and replace them surely lacked integrity as a prerequisite.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Yeah. It's so bad that they're offering $25k signing bonuses for lawyers.

    Used to be, DOJ didn't have to do that because they had massive numbers of excessively qualified applicants climbing over each other to apply.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    A federal judge can fine every lawyer that worked on any part of this $5000 a day until they quit the DoJ or the judge has the files in hand. That's civil contempt and there isn't a fucking thing the DoJ can do about it.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Narrator: In a surprise to no one, the cowards didn't fucking do it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    No chance they do it now. They'll do it when Trump is likely already dead, if (and only if) a proper democrat and congress comes into power, and when the sentiment tides signifigantly shift. To the point where that MAGA neighbor suddenly pretends he never voted for Trump (he voted for him 3 times. maybe 4).

    Then they will probably get 1-2 lawyers on the hook, take their license, and give them a consultant role elsewhere in government as an olive branch. Justice. I sure hope to be proven wrong, but something tells me we won't learn from Reconstruction.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    “The wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine.”

    Yeah? Is that how they got the Zodiac? Is that why Mitch McConnell died with dignity?

    Fuckin’ grease ‘em with whatever lubricants you can find, you peanut buttered snails.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    The president has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing, and one’s appearance in the Epstein files does not suggest otherwise.

    What kind of bullshit cover your ass disclaimer is that? Trump has most certainly been accused of crimes in the Epstein files.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Prevents the spectre withholding under the president having absolute immunity from cropping up. Might be bullshit, but the judge probably wanted to quash that train from ever leaving the station.

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    [–] 35 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    WTF are they waiting for? It's been a year. Any justification for redacting or withholding the files was thrown out the window when they publicly released a list of all the victims.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Whoa guys, lookout! This judge "could" do it and he doesn't use the word "could" lightly.

    Extremely minor chance of minor consequences. For the biggest coverup of the biggest scandal.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Judges have repeatedly said that Trump's admin has violated their orders and they STILL haven't done anything.

    Fucking DO IT. You make yourself look useless with these empty threats.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago

    ...or else!

    *menacing gesture*

     

    Surely that'll do.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago

    Which means what? What are they going to do to the president? That man hasn't been punished for a single fucking thing in his entire life.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    What if we were immune to prosecution also, and we just haven't been breaking any laws to test it?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Just do it. It is clear that the Trump Regime is not dealing in good faith.

    While at it, the judge should offer armed deputization to close relatives of the Epstein victims, for the purposes of enforcing court orders. The executive isn't going to arrest itself.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Sure, add it to the pile (of stuff they'll never be punished for).

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Oh, could they be?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Hell yeah! Slap em with that $500/day fine the taxpayers eventually cover. That'll show them.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Sure. They could face a lot of repercussions for a lot of different bullshit.

    But will they? No, of course not. Don't be silly.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    They won’t be

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    How about we report when something ACTUALLY happens.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Disbar the lot of them. Then throw them all into a dank hole

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Oh no! Another hollow threat that carries no meaningful punitive consequences. What ever will the DOJ do?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    "I have a job to administer justice, and I take that very seriously.”

    Not seriously enough to actually do it, just serious enough to send strongly worded letters threatening to do it while being continually ignored over and over for the better part of a year.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    At some point we'll need to throw are hands in the air and admit defeat. The bad guys won. They've been winning for a long while now.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    If nothing has been done by now nothing will be done. They just keep getting away with it over and over and over again.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    Never gonna happen. This is a clickbait bullshit article.

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