Federal judge threatens Trump administration with contempt charges
Here & Now Anytime
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
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| 0:30.1 | Just because you win on the merits of the case doesn't mean you are forgiven for all the sins you may have committed during the course of it. |
| 0:35.0 | Many find the Trump administration's deportations to El Salvador contemptible. |
| 0:37.0 | That can be shrugged off. But a judge finding you in contempt, |
| 0:40.4 | that's a whole different thing. It's Thursday, April 17th, and this is here and now anytime. |
| 0:47.4 | From NPR and WBUR. I'm Chris Bentley. |
| 0:54.4 | Today on the show, Paul Simon once said there are angels in the architecture. |
| 0:59.8 | A lot of people have felt that sense of wonder visiting La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, |
| 1:05.0 | even though the famous church still isn't finished 143 years after its groundbreaking. |
| 1:12.1 | We'll hear how its architect, |
| 1:18.3 | Antoni Gaudi, could become a saint in the Catholic Church. And unless you have the patience of a saint, work life might be stressing you out. Many people are reporting feeling paralyzed |
| 1:24.9 | by anxiety at work, becoming victims of burnout. |
| 1:29.5 | We think, okay, if I just get through this day, it'll be okay. And then you realize, |
| 1:35.3 | oh my goodness, I got to get through every day feeling like this. |
| 1:39.6 | Hang in there. Tips for dealing with burnout coming up at about 15 minutes. But first, the Trump administration |
| 1:47.8 | has until Wednesday to show it did not violate a federal judge's order last month when it sent |
| 1:54.0 | roughly 130 Venezuelan migrants to a maximum security prison in El Salvador. Yesterday, Judge James Bosberg said, quote, |
| 2:02.5 | the Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders, |
| 2:08.0 | end quote, and threatened to hold members of the White House in criminal contempt. |
| 2:12.3 | Barbara McQuaid is a former federal prosecutor, now a law professor at the University of Michigan, |
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