The Irish former teacher will spend Christmas Day behind bars after he was jailed in November for contempt of court. Burke was sent back to jail two weeks ago for disobeying a court order not to enter Wilson's Hospital School in County Westmeath for at least three years after routine attempts to trespass on school grounds. In 2022, Burke was suspended and subsequently fired from a teaching position at the school for aggressively confronting the head teacher,
"The foundation has no trade secrets, but they do wish to hide anything that would embarrass them or worse," Van Lent told WLRN News outside the Miami-Dade County courthouse before surrendering.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams found Uthmeier violated her temporary restraining order last month to stop enforcing a new state law that makes it a crime for undocumented immigrants to enter Florida after illegally crossing into the United States.
The provision in the House's budget bill would limit federal courts' ability to hold government officials in contempt, and is described as a ‘terrible idea’ by Chemerinsky.
Judge Boasberg indicated the potential for criminal contempt charges against Trump administration officials, emphasizing the importance of adherence to judicial orders and the Constitution.