Late Thurs, Sen. #ChuckGrassley (R-Iowa), the chair of the #Senate #Judiciary Cmte, released the panel’s proposed text for the #GOP’s so-called #BigBeautifulBill. The House passed its version of the bill last month, so now the Senate is making its changes. Each cmte is tasked with putting together language for its relevant section in the #legislation.

grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/…

#Trump #NoKings #AbuseOfPower #ExecutiveOverreach #law #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

Translated, this provision would restrict the ability of any #court, including #SCOTUS, to enforce #compliance with its orders by holding people in #contempt. Contempt citations are an essential tool for the #courts; they allow #judges to threaten #fines, #sanctions or even #jail if people disobey their orders.

#Trump #NoKings #AbuseOfPower #ExecutiveOverreach #law #BigBeautifulBill #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #judiciary

The provision in the #House #GOP’s bill also would apply retroactively to all temporary restraining orders & preliminary injunctions, leaving courts with no real way of enforcing orders they’ve already handed down. [all while #Trump is facing a slew of TROs & PIs]

#NoKings #AbuseOfPower #ExecutiveOverreach #law #BigBeautifulBill #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #judiciary

Among those orders? The 184 court rulings that have temporarily halted unlawful actions taken by the #Trump admin. And Trump has already been ignoring #CourtOrders from #judges to stop deporting #immigrants without… #DueProcess.

EVERY #House #Republican voted for this provision when they voted to pass the One #BigBeautifulBill Act. Even if [as some has claimed] they didn’t know it.

#law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower #ExecutiveOverreach

#Senate #Republicans almost certainly knew this when they stripped it from the bill. Leaving it in could lead to problems for passing the broader bill, which is #Trump’s signature domestic policy legislation ― a package that slashes nearly $1 trillion from #Medicaid & #FoodAssistance programs to pay for a massive #TaxCut for #rich people.

#law #Trump #NoKings #AbuseOfPower #ExecutiveOverreach #BigBeautifulBill #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary

Hold the phone…

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick flagged in the newly released text of the #BigBeautifulBill, #Senate #Republicans replaced section 70302 with section 203 — something which is arguably worse; a requirement that basically every plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction against the federal government pay millions or billions of dollars in "security" to pay for "costs" to the federal government if they later win.

#Trump #law #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary #AbuseOfPower #ExecutiveOverreach

#Judge blocks #Trump’s election #ExecutiveOrder, siding with #Democrats who called it overreach

A federal judge on Friday blocked Trump’s attempt to overhaul #elections in the US, siding with a group of Democratic #state attorneys general who challenged the effort as #unconstitutional.

#law #ElectionLaw #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower #VoterSuppression #VoteNullification #democracy
apnews.com/article/trump-elect…

Well done.

#Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing #Trump Aides of #PoliticalInterference

The board of the prestigious program told the #State Department it had no right to cancel #scholarships for nearly 200 American #professors & #researchers.

#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/poli…

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference

The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

^{Edward Wong (The New York Times)}

Call it the 911 presidency.

Despite insisting that the #US is rebounding from calamity under his watch, #Trump is harnessing #EmergencyPowers unlike any of his predecessors.

Whether it’s leveling punishing #tariffs, deploying #troops to the #border or sidelining #EnvironmentalRegulations, Trump has relied on rules & laws intended only for use in extraordinary circumstances like #war & #invasion.

#USpol #law #ExecutivePower #AbuseOfPower
apnews.com/article/trump-emerg…

#Trump cannot proceed with gutting US #Education Department, court rules

A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to lift a judge's order blocking Trump's admin from carrying out his #ExecutiveOrder to dismantle the US Department of Education & requiring it to reinstate employees who were terminated in a mass layoff.

#law #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower #AmericanAutocracy
reuters.com/world/us/trump-can…

“Young, an 84-year-old jurist appointed by Ronald Reagan, said that the manner of #RumeysaOzturk’s arrest seemed unusual to him.

“‘I’m not accustomed to … law enforcement officers without identification, approaching individuals masked and you know, not having a warrant…’”

#law #immigration #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #AbuseOfPower
allrisenews.com/p/aaup-rubio-t…

BREAKING: Trump admin can't avoid First Amendment trial on student protesters

A federal judge kept a trial on track for July to determine whether he will block the Trump administration from retaliating against students based on speech.

^{Adam Klasfeld (All Rise News)}

#KilmarAbregoGarcia's latest legal brief roasts #Trump's "shocking proposition" that officers can "snatch residents of this country & deposit them in foreign prisons in admitted violation of federal law" — & no US court can do anything about it.

storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower

This is crazy.

#DHS agents invade a congressman's offices & #arrest a staffer who tried to stop them.

In a dramatic incident captured on video, DHS police Wednesday handcuffed one of Rep #JerryNadler’s aides in his Manhattan office, which is in the same federal office building as an #immigration #courthouse.

#law #AbuseOfPower #Trump #Gestapo
gothamist.com/news/homeland-se…

Homeland Security cops handcuff one of Rep. Nadler's aides in chaotic day at NY fed building

Two dozen demonstrators were later arrested outside the building in Lower Manhattan.

^{Arya Sundaram (Gothamist)}

Breaking: judge rules raid of pro-Palestinian journalist Winstanley’s home was unlawful, return devices

#PoliceState #AbuseOfPower #UK

skwawkbox.org/2025/05/27/break…

Breaking: judge rules raid of pro-Palestinian journalist Winstanley’s home was unlawful, return devices

Police case falls apart as judge refuses ‘production order’ Asa Winstanley (image: Skwawkbox) A court has ruled that the Starmer regime’s dawn raid last October by the Metropolita…

^SKWAWKBOX

#Trump admin halts scheduling of ALL new #StudentVisa appointments

Trump ordered US #missions abroad to stop scheduling new appointments for student & #exchange visitor #visa applicants as the #State Dept prepares to expand #socialmedia vetting of all #ForeignStudents, acc/to an internal cable seen by Reuters on Tues.

#law #AbuseOfPower #immigration #surveillance #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #tyranny #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
reuters.com/world/us/trump-adm…

#HarvardUniversity sued the #Trump admin on Friday, <24hrs after #DHS said it would block #international #students from attending the nation’s oldest #university & one of its most prestigious.

#InternationalStudents #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/harv…