2026-10-19T22:11:53.656Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/politics/trump-flouting-court-orders
周一，一名联邦法官就涉及唐纳德·特朗普总统政府计划翻修华盛顿特区一处公共高尔夫球场的案件严厉斥责了该政府。
在政府未经适当通知美国地区法官安娜·雷耶斯就砍伐了430多棵树木后，她上周表示自己“极为愤怒”，并发布法院命令叫停了该行动。
随后，尽管有法官的禁令，特朗普周日仍表示将“立即”启动施工，雷耶斯遂迫使官员们周一出庭作证，并试图凸显司法部律师显然不愿在法庭上为政府的主张作证。
这一切发生之际，政府指责该法官行为“恶劣”，并试图将她从本案中除名。
场面一度十分混乱。但这一切其实早已酝酿良久。
雷耶斯的愤怒表态此前已有一系列类似先例：政府公然藐视甚至违反法院命令。
据美联社今年5月的一项调查显示，在15个月内，像雷耶斯这样的地区法官在至少31起诉讼中裁定政府违反了法院命令。此外，法官们还在移民案件中发现了超过250起不遵守法庭命令的案例。
而作出这些违规裁定的法官往往是由共和党提名的。
这些案例中的任何一起都可能被理解为失误或意外。但此类事件数量不断增加——加上特朗普及其亲信经常公开谈论违反法院命令，正如特朗普周日所做的那样——表明背后另有隐情。（去年一名举报人还声称，一名司法部高级官员曾明确讨论过可能需要无视法院命令。）
与此同时，似乎没有任何问责措施能促使政府改变其行事方式。因为此类事件仍在持续发生。
让我们回顾几起政府藐视或违反法院命令的知名案例，以及后续处理结果。
就在特朗普第二个任期开始仅数周时，罗德岛州一名联邦法官发现，政府未能解除他下令解冻的许多被其冻结的联邦拨款，这违反了法院命令。
处理结果： 法官选择不裁定政府藐视法庭，但发出了警告。他援引了1975年最高法院的一项裁决称：“那些自行认定法律、拒绝执行法院命令的人，通常会面临刑事藐视法庭的风险，即便该命令最终被裁定有误。”
美国地区法官詹姆斯·博阿斯伯格下令政府将根据《敌国外侨法》将移民驱逐到萨尔瓦多一所臭名昭著监狱的飞机掉头。但航班仍继续飞行。
处理结果： 博阿斯伯格启动了藐视法庭听证会，称“有合理理由认定政府存在刑事藐视法庭行为”。但在经历了漫长的、多次中断的程序后，由特朗普提名的两名法官在上诉法院以分歧投票结束了调查，称这是“明显滥用自由裁量权”。
美国地区法官宝拉·辛尼斯发现，政府在处理基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚的驱逐案件时“故意且蓄意不遵守”她的命令。政府曾错误地将阿布雷戈·加西亚驱逐到萨尔瓦多，随后对其提起刑事指控，并试图再次将其驱逐。
处理结果： 辛尼斯也曾多次考虑启动藐视法庭程序。但最终，尽管政府此前声称没有能力做到，阿布雷戈·加西亚还是在2025年6月被遣返。
大约同一时间，美国马萨诸塞州地区法官布莱恩·墨菲表示，尽管他下达了禁令，政府仍快速将移民递解到第三国，这“毫无疑问违反了本法院的命令”。他还指责政府制造混乱，试图规避法院命令。
处理结果： 墨菲表示将把藐视法庭的问题“留待日后处理”，并未启动相关调查程序。
其他法官还发现移民当局有数百起违反移民相关法院命令的案例。明尼苏达州由共和党提名的美国地区法院首席法官帕特里克·希尔茨表示，他发现了200多起此类事件。
处理结果： 希尔茨曾采取非同寻常的步骤，传唤时任美国移民及海关执法局代理局长托德·莱昂斯，并以藐视法庭相威胁。但在移民海关总署遵守命令释放了一名被错误拘留的厄瓜多尔男子后，希尔茨取消了藐视法庭听证会。
尽管有法院命令禁止特朗普将其不喜欢的媒体机构（包括CNN）排除在白宫场地之外，但这些记者最初仍无法进入场地。此后，特朗普还禁止CNN搭乘他的空军一号专机。
处理结果： 随着诉讼程序推进，白宫场地的准入权限很快恢复。空军一号的准入问题并未在法院命令中明确提及，白宫仍继续在指定的泳池报道日阻止CNN登机。
尽管另一名联邦法官裁定政府必须停播所有未来由纳税人资助的特朗普有争议的政治广告，但政府再次迟迟未予遵守。据CNN上周报道，这些广告又被播出了数百次。
处理结果： 一名司法部律师“向法院和原告致歉”，未采取进一步法律行动。
由特朗普任命的马里兰州美国地区法官斯蒂芬妮·加拉格尔发现，移民海关总署错误地驱逐了50多名拥有全面法院驱逐禁令的无人陪伴未成年人。在另一起案件中，她发现政府两次错误地将一名寻求庇护者驱逐到萨尔瓦多，违反了三项法院命令。
处理结果： 这两起案例似乎是仅有的法官裁定政府藐视法庭的情况。据Law360报道，加拉格尔在今年8月就第一起案件裁定政府藐视法庭，几周前又就第二起案件作出了同样裁定。
尽管有这两项裁决，自那以来，政府仍在另外三起案件中藐视或拖延遵守法院命令——媒体禁令案、政治广告案，以及如今的高尔夫球场案。
The Trump team’s disdain for court orders is blowing up in court. Accountability has been slow in coming
2026-10-19T22:11:53.656Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/politics/trump-flouting-court-orders
A federal judge raked President Donald Trump’s administration over the coals on Monday in a case involving his plans to renovate a public golf course in Washington, DC.
After the administration cut down more than 430 trees without properly notifying US District Judge Ana Reyes, she said last week she was “furious” and issued a court order to stop it.
Then, after Trump on Sunday said construction would begin “immediately” despite the judge’s order, she forced officials to testify on Monday and sought to highlight the apparent unwillingness of Justice Department lawyers to vouch for the administration’s claims in court.
All of this comes as the administration accuses the judge of “egregious” behavior and seeks to remove her from the case.
It’s been quite the scene. But it’s also been a long time coming.
Reyes’ exasperated displays come after a series of similar examples of the administration flouting and even violating court orders.
District judges like Reyes ruled that the administration had violated court orders in at least 31 lawsuits over 15 months, according to an Associated Press investigation in May. That’s in addition to more than 250 other examples of noncompliance that judges have found related to immigration cases.
And the judges finding these violations are often Republican-nominated ones.
Any one of these examples could be understood as a mistake or a mishap. But the growing volume of them — along with Trump and those around him often speaking openly about violating court orders, as Trump did Sunday — suggest there’s something more going on. (A whistleblower last year also claimed that a top DOJ official explicitly spoke about the possible need to ignore court orders.)
At the same time, there’s been no accountability that is seeming to make the administration change its approach. Because this just keeps happening.
Let’s recap some of the high-profile examples of the administration flouting or violating court orders, and what became of them.
Mere weeks into Trump’s second term, a federal judge in Rhode Island found the administration had violated a court order by failing to un-freeze many of the federal grants it blocked after he ordered it to do so.
The conclusion: The judge opted not to hold the administration in contempt of court, but he did issue a warning. He quoted from a 1975 Supreme Court ruling that said: “Persons who make private determinations of the law and refuse to obey an order generally risk criminal contempt even if the order is ultimately ruled incorrect.”
US District Judge James Boasberg ordered the administration to turn around planes that were deporting migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act. But the flights continued.
The conclusion: Boasberg initiated contempt hearings, saying that “probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.” But after a lengthy process that included plenty of stops and starts, two Trump-nominated judges on a divided appeals court ended the inquiry and called it a “clear abuse of discretion.”
US District Judge Paula Xinis found the administration had engaged in “willful and intentional noncompliance” with her orders related to the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the administration wrongfully deported to El Salvador, later charged criminally and tried to deport again.
The conclusion: Xinis also repeatedly floated possible contempt. But eventually, in June 2025, Abrego Garcia was returned, despite the administration having previously claimed it didn’t have the power to make that happen.
Around the same time, US District Judge Brian Murphy of Massachusetts said that the administration’s rapid third-country deportations of migrants despite his injunction were “unquestionably violative of this court’s order.” He also accused the administration of manufacturing chaos and trying to evade court orders.
The conclusion: Murphy said he would leave the contempt question “for another day,” but he didn’t proceed with such an inquiry.
Other judges have found hundreds of instances of immigration authorities failing to comply with immigration-related court orders. Patrick Schiltz, the GOP-nominated chief US district judge in Minnesota, said he found more than 200 such instances.
The conclusion: Schiltz at one point took the extraordinary step of summoning Todd Lyons, then the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and threatening him with contempt. But Schiltz canceled the contempt hearing after ICE complied with an order to release a wrongly detained man from Ecuador.
Despite a court order blocking Trump from barring media outlets whose coverage he didn’t like, including CNN, from the White House grounds, those journalists were initially unable to access the grounds. And Trump has since then barred CNN from traveling with him on Air Force One.
The conclusion: The access to the grounds was soon restored as the case proceeds. The access on Air Force One wasn’t explicitly mentioned in the court order, and the White House has continued to block CNN from boarding on its assigned pool days.
Despite another federal judge ruling that the administration had to cancel all future airings of Trump’s controversial taxpayer-funded political ads, the administration was again slow to comply. The ads aired hundreds more times, CNN reported last week.
The conclusion: A Justice Department lawyer apologized “to the court and the plaintiffs,” and no further legal action has been taken.
Trump-appointed US District Judge Stephanie Gallagher of Maryland has found that ICE wrongfully deported more than 50 unaccompanied minors who had blanket court orders barring their removal. And in a separate case, she found it twice wrongfully deported an asylum-seeker to El Salvador, in violation of three court orders.
The conclusion: These two examples appear to be the only ones in which a judge has found the administration in contempt. Gallagher held the administration in contempt for the first one in August, according to Law360, and for the second one a few weeks ago.
Despite those two rulings, the administration has flouted or delayed complying with court orders in three other cases — the media ban, the political ads and now the golf course — since then.
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