Enforcement

During the pre-trial investigations and during the trial, the Tribunal may issue orders. Sometimes those orders will be ignored in full or in part.

After the Tribunal renders its judgements, comes the time for appeals and, ultimately, enforcement of those judgements.

Some parties and defendants may acquiesce with grace. Others may not.

It is more than likely that there will be difficulties. At those times the court must have means to enforce its orders and judgements.

Enforcement will often be a difficult and messy process. Reluctance, even physical (or in some cases armed) resistance, can be anticipated.

It may come to pass that in some cases legitimate force may be needed to coerce compliance.

Our standard legal systems have several means to coerce compliance with judgments. And although unlikely that all cases seeking remedies to the TME (Trump/MAGA Era) will be handled by the existing Federal and State civil and criminal courts, one can learn much from the methods available to those courts.

• Courts have recourse to both civil and criminal contempt.
• Monetary damages (including liquidated damages)
• Specific performance
• Injunctions
• Putting assets into trusts.
• Liens and forced sales of assets
• Transfers of ownership title
• Incarceration
• Deportation
• Revocation or cancellation of Citizenship, Visas, or other rights and privileges
• etc
• Death (I hope that is off the table in our efforts to redress Trump/MAGA harms.)

Neither our Congress nor our Courts have much power to enforce conformance to their legislative acts or judgments.

It may be prudent and necessary to establish coercive forces - such as a Congressional police force - to compel adherence to legislative acts or judicial decisions.