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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
The text that Grassley released…doesn’t include this jarring, 1-sentence provision that #House #Republicans buried in their 1,116-page bill:
“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a #contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued…, whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.”
#Trump #law #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary
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 #Democrats had been pressuring #GOP colleagues to take this out of the bill…. Not only does this provision appear to violate the constitutional #SeparationOfPowers, it also violates Senate rules. #Republicans are relying on a fast-track #legislative process known as budget #reconciliation to move the bill, which means everything in it must be related to #budget matters. Restricting #judges’ abilities to hand down #contempt orders has nothing to do w/budgets.
#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
Well that’s something anyway
#Senate #Republicans quietly stripped the provision from the #House #GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that would have allowed #Trump to circumvent the #courts & essentially serve as a #king.
#law #BigBeautifulBill #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #judiciary
huffpost.com/entry/senate-repu…
Senate GOP Strips Provision From Tax Bill That Would Let Trump Rule As A King
They removed language from the House GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that limited courts' ability to enforce contempt orders. But they added something else bad.Jennifer Bendery (HuffPost)
…Türk said he was "profoundly disturbed" by the #sanctions & called for their "prompt reconsideration & withdrawal".
The 4 judges named are ALL #women: Solomy Balungi Bossa of Uganda, Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza of Peru, Reine Adelaide Sophie Alapini Gansou of Benin, & Beti Hohler of Slovenia.
The #ICC has responded in a stmnt, saying it "deplores" the sanctions, which were "a clear attempt to undermine" its #independence.
#Trump #law #judiciary #democracy #authoritarianism #misogyny
In an attempt to circumvent the courts, #Trump Wednesday moved to block nearly all #InternationalStudents from entering the country to attend #HarvardUniversity, in his latest attack on the #school.
In an #ExecutiveOrder Trump declared that it would jeopardize *#NationalSecurity* [his ego] to allow #Harvard to continue hosting foreign students on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
#dictatorship #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #judiciary
apnews.com/article/trump-harva…
“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)
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#Trump Admin Knew Vast Majority of #Venezuelans Sent to #ElSalvador Prison Had Not Been Convicted of US Crimes
#DHS records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having NO #criminal record in the US & had only violated #immigration laws.
#law #AlienEnemiesAct #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #judiciary #FactCheck #TrumpLies #WhiteSupremacy
texastribune.org/2025/05/30/tr…
Trump admin knew most deported Venezuelans had no U.S. convictions
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees to El Salvador were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.Mica Rosenberg (The Texas Tribune)
WTF
A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed #Trump to continue collecting #tariffs under an #EmergencyPowers law for now, as his admin appeals an order striking down the bulk of his signature set of economic policies.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted an emergency motion from the Trump admin arguing a halt is “critical for the country’s national security.”[bull-fucking-shit]
#law #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #Congress #economy
apnews.com/article/trump-trade…
Democrats' bill would move #USMarshalsService out of the executive branch and into the #judiciary, where common sense would say it belongs, to insulate #security for judges from executive branch politics.
A troubling sign of the dangerous times we unfortunately find ourselves in.
npr.org/2025/05/22/g-s1-68433/…
Judge Finds #Trump Admin Violated #CourtOrder with Sudden #Deportation Flight
to Africa
Lawyers for some of the 8 immigrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to #SouthSudan. People familiar with the plane said it had landed for now in #Djibouti.
#immigration #law #rendition #judiciary
nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/sout…
#SCOTUS maintains block on #Trump #deportations under wartime #law #AlienEnemiesAct
The US #SupremeCourt on Friday kept in place its block on Trump's deportations of #Venezuelan migrants under a 1798 law historically used only in wartime after their lawyers said the government was set to remove the men without #judicial review in #violation of a prior #CourtOrder by the justices.
#immigration #DueProcess #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
reuters.com/world/us/us-suprem…
