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Sometimes they're capable of not saying the quiet part out loud. If they called him the Secretary of keeping people well enough to work but sick enough to prevent revolt, it would be giving the whole game away
He can try, but previous supreme courts have said civil contempt isn't pardonable.
I think It would be civil as opposed to criminal contempt because the court wants to force the agencies to comply with their orders, not as punishment for defying orders.
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