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Trump DOJ attorney held in contempt for refusing to return ICE detainee's paperwork
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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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500$/day? fuck that shit. it should be a whole fucking number % of your salary per fucking day
Never mind a fine; they should be held in custody until they comply.
Exactly, they don't care about fines that they'll never pay. Besides, his salary is chump change. The entire point is to use your office as a platform for corruption that will bring you far, far more. It's not like your boss is going to fire you for stealing.
Why not both?
Then Trump would just pardon them.
Then they could just immediately hold them in contempt again and put them right back.
More to the point, I'm pretty sure contempt is different from a "federal crime" in the sense that it is an inherent power of the court system, not a law passed by the legislature that was broken. I don't think it actually is pardonable.
I think you're getting the inherent contempt power of Congress mixed up with criminal contempt.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg72d3zpj9xo
I'm fine with it being $500/day at first. Then after a set period of noncompliance (like 1wk), it doubles each day. Even for the 1%, exponential growth is small, until it isn't.
80% for maximum insult. After taxes, you got nothing.
So, you'd like it to be (at a minimum) $552 to $1762 per day?
It's so depressing to see how cheaply these people sell out
Absolutely.
That's 182.5k a year. They'd need to be making several times the average US lawyer salary to shrug that off. Most lawyers don't make that much money post taxes.