Last week, predicted that the next phase in Trump litigation will involve contempt proceedings:
The third phase, I predict, will be hostile contempt proceedings where district court judges try to reassert their authority over the executive branch, even in the face of SCOTUS reversals. We may not have a special counsel like Robert Mueller to launch inquisitions against the Trump Administration, but district court judges in D.C. and Maryland will gladly assume that role. Soon enough, we will be talking about "obstruction of justice" all over again. We might spend the next four years inquiring about what Trump knew about the airplanes. This very well might form the basis of future articles of impeachment. It is 2017 all over again.
And so it has come to pass. Judge Boasberg found that the Trump Administration likely engaged in criminal contempt. There will be a hearing that will likely make the judge even more angry. And he will find that criminal contempt is appropriate.
