Contempt

Wasn't there a Brigitte Bardot movie by that name?

Now Judge Boasberg has further ignored the Supreme Court, e.g., that he has no jurisdiction in the case of the deportation of Abrego Garcia, and stated that the Trump administration should be prosecuted for contempt.

Reminds one of the Mae West line after she was hauled into court on obscenity charges. Her entourage accompanied her and was essentially having a party in the courtroom. The judge pounded his gavel and said, "Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?"

Whereupon Mae West batted her eyelashes and said sweetly, "Oh, no, your honor. I'm doing my best to conceal it."

So for the Trump administration.

This also reminds one of the events in New Orleans after the battle. Jackson had maintained martial law, as the British had not departed despite having been decimated in the battle. No official word of peace had arrived. Jackson refused to lift martial law until the British left the area entirely. A state senator wrote a newspaper article objecting to the continuing martial law, and Jackson arrested him for inciting mutiny. A federal judge, Dominick Hall of the New Orleans Circuit Court, demanded that the senator be released; Jackson arrested the judge and then threw the judge out of the city. When the British finally departed, and word was received of the Treaty of Ghent, Jackson lifted martial law. The senator and the judge returned to town. The judge then hauled Jackson into court on contempt charges. Jackson appeared in court and was fined $1,000 by the judge for contempt. Jackson paid the fine and walked out of the courthouse. A cheering crowd carried him on their shoulders back to his hotel.

Ultimately, in 1844, the federal government refunded the money following an act initiated by John Tyler. Jackson was criticized repeatedly for his decision to maintain martial law after the battle. He never apologized.

At least that's what I am told.

The historian James Parton once observed, "...the maintaining of martial law in New Orleans two months too long, which many condemn, and, I think, should condemn; yet most of the citizens of the United States will concur in the wish that when next a [foreign] army lands upon American soil, there may be a Jackson to meet them at the landing place...."