Comment by wredcoll
9 days ago
Good point, we'll just have to wait and see if the people with the proven history of bad faith and process subversion will subvert it this time, too bad there's no way to know ahead of time!
9 days ago
Good point, we'll just have to wait and see if the people with the proven history of bad faith and process subversion will subvert it this time, too bad there's no way to know ahead of time!
No. I know this is an emotionally satisfying thing to say, but, again, my point is that a federal judge administers the consent decree, so the White House can't simply go back and say "gotcha, we meant XYZ, not ABC" a year after agreement is struck.
The administration also doesn't generally get to pick the judge. Given where Columbia is, it would presumably be a random SDNY judge.