Judge Paul Engelmayer, at an ongoing hearing, has given the Trump administration four weeks to process and produce the OLC memo detailing the legal rationale for lethal military strikes on civilian boats in the Caribbean and related docs.

February 12, 2026 - 21:23 UTC

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Arrest hegseth now. He's a flight risk
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Time for judges to start holding lawyers in contempt.
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[Four weeks from now]

DOJ (without producing any OLC opinion):
“What we *should* be talking about, your honor, is that the DOW is over $50,000!”
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Might not be by then
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About time!!!
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Engelmayer sounded skeptical about how long it’s taken the agencies that contributed to the memo to determine what’s classified. (The plaintiffs—ACLU & others—first sought the info in a FOIA request ~4 months ago.)

“What I’m trying to do is light a fire under the agencies to complete a review.”
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The gov must file a status report in 2 weeks, which may say it can’t meet the 4-week deadline.

AUSA Peter Aronoff represented that he was largely in the dark and hadn’t personally seen the docs. He said a limited # of people were going through them line by line, juggling w their regular duties.
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And four weeks will pass and he won’t.
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Why so long? They have them or they don’t assuming there have been versions superseding whatever they had for the first strike.
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Why do they need four weeks? Two weeks should be ample.
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4 weeks? To produce one simple document they could email to the court in 5 minutes after a quick phone call? Fucking clown.
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