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  • Looks like “it’s complicated”.

    https://www.lvcriminaldefense.com/usc/contempts/

    I haven’t taken a super deep dive here, but it looks like the jurisdiction at hand is the specific court issuing the contempt order. As in, the Court is provided jurisdiction to issue contempt charges, not state or federal or military. I’m sure the argument would be “But it’s a federal court, so the president can pardon the contempt charges.” Which would have to be argued about in … a federal appellate court? The same court? I don’t even know, but it would surely end up on the SCOTUS shadow docket where they’d rubber stamp it in favor of Dear Leader.

    Even if SCOTUS didn’t rubber stamp it, the troops would remain boots on the ground until they made a finding in the case. They’ll have bought months of continuing to do whatever they want at the very least.