Morphic Tide
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The Federal "contempt of court" statute, at cursory searches, appears to be the following:It is technically fully within the right of these liberal activst judges to imprison trump for "not respecting me" and "ignoring my blatantly illegal orders".
Though I've not checked with any case law and I am not a lawyer, I think that the first is proximate disorder that could be made slightly more precise, the second is limited to only Judiciary staff, and the third is already limited to lawful orders.A court of the United States shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment, or both, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority, and none other, as—
(1)
Misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice;
(2)
Misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions;
(3)
Disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.
Limiting the first to court premises, the court arguing contempt to merely charging, and defining that prosecution must determine the order is lawful before considering whether it was disobeyed or resisted sufficiently as to constitute criminal contempt would seem to fix the problem.
More broadly, a bill establishing that nothing a court does may take effect outside its jurisdiction, expanding as higher courts affirm it, would shut down such shenanigans more generally. Edit: The "cost" that any judgements restricting activity are limited to that jurisdiction is fine. Anyone big enough to move meaningful assets to another jurisdiction already tends to fight through appeals all the way up anyways, might as well light a fire under the appellate courts' asses to wrap that up in a timely manner so the punishment can actually take effect nationwide.