Today's ruling from Boasberg is a lawful order and sets a process in motion. Compliance is expected.

Anything less than that is abnormal and must be treated as such — from the courts, from Congress, from other officials, and ultimately from the people.

Don't say he won't comply. Say he must.

The logical and inevitable end of a system that worships at the altar of the "rule of law," where if you break the law you deserve what you get so it's okay to make prisons and jails as cruel as possible, is that the people in power will simply define certain people as breaking the law by existing.

Judge: I hope you will in good faith comply and we'll take it from there. But I know I want daily updates until this is resolved. Do you have any alternative suggestions for me, Mr. Ensign?

Ensign wants a declaration due by Monday close of business, not daily.

Judge: My order is daily updates

It's not that we struggle more it is that we increasingly struggle needlessly. We are not at the frontier of possibility.