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Ford_Prefect

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3. I don't know all the mechanisms to enforce compliance. I have no doubt that Judge Sullivan does.
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 12:10 AM
Nov 2020

I doubt that Louis DeJoy and USPS can avoid the Judge's orders without consequence. Sullivan has far too much experience on this particular bench. If he got the Department of Homeland Security to follow his orders I suspect the functionaries at USPS will comply.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a woman and her child fled domestic abuse in El Salvador to seek asylum in the U.S. However, the mother was removed from her detention facility and likely put on a plane on August 9, 2018, despite Justice Department promises that she and others would not be deported before the judge could rule on their cases. Sullivan demanded, "Turn that plane around." He threatened to hold those responsible for the removal in contempt of court, starting with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, if the situation was not rectified. A Department of Homeland Security official stated, "We are complying with the court's requests...the plaintiffs will not disembark and will be promptly returned to the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_G._Sullivan
See Also: https://www.wkrg.com/local-news/judge-threatens-to-hold-jeff-sessions-in-contempt/

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