CapnMac
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Contempt of a local court is enforceable by issuance of Bench Warrants through the Bailiff.Is contempt of court not a crime? I would assume that contempt of the supreme court to be viewed as a bit more serious.
Appellate courts technically only "rule" over their 'subservient' Courts.
In the present case(s) the Legislatures are acting pre-emptively, they are creating new legislation "on the fly" as it were, rather than enforcing the bills found Unconstitutional. It's sort of an "end around." It's entirely foolish, and largely for the "theater" of it. Many of these new actions are flagrantly in violation of the Court's stated opinions (including the Concurrences in several cases). And, by all appearances, the parties involved just Don't Care. They are embracing Expediency. The presumption that they will be safely out of office by the time these new diktats are found to be specious and void.
"They" have had "there way" for so long, "they" refuse to believe it can be any other way. And, this could tumble down around them in ways they cannot presently imagine. Like if the NFA is found wanting. Like where Ninth Circus is like to find itself with all the CA laws gutted. Which ought make Inslee sweat a bit, too. HI is talking about making OC legal, with a permit, to be in compliance. Which could make "barbecue guns" the new HI hipness. We just don't know right now.