James Boasberg: “The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders—especially by officials of a coordinate…”

This Court found that the subpoenas were meant to harass Powell and to pressure him to truckle to the President’s policy preferences.

Wouldn’t it have been a better course to return the planes around the United States as opposed to going forward and saying, ‘We don’t care, we’ll do what we want’?

The Trump administration’s willful and knowing actions here constitute probable cause for a finding of contempt.

The idea that because my written order was pithier it could be disregarded, that’s one heck of a stretch.