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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)
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)
#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
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…
#NPR & #PublicRadio stations sue #Trump over funding ban
NPR & 3 #Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tues in federal court against the admin over the #ExecutiveOrder purportedly barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for #NPR & #PBS.
"It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the #FirstAmendment. 'But this wolf comes as a wolf,'" states the #legal brief….
#law #Congress #SeparationOfPowers
npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-54130…
"…Trump will have crowned himself king. No Congress and no court could stop him. Even if a future Congress were to try to stop him, it could not do so without the power of the courts to enforce their hearings, investigations, subpoenas, and laws.
What can you do? To begin with, call your members of Congress and tell them not to pass Trump’s One Big Ugly Bill."
robertreich.substack.com/p/the…
via @rbreich
#USpol #courts #SeparationOfPowers #SeparateButEqual #democracy #law
Judge #BerylHowell rules that #Trump / #DOGE's *entire takeover* of the U.S. Institute of Peace #USIP was unlawful—including the removal of board members & termination of programs.
Her order is very long—she not only reinstates the true board members but also boots DOGE's imposter board members & nullifies all of the illegal actions they took during their illegitimate takeover of the Institute of Peace.
#law #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #Musk
storage.courtlistener.com/reca…
![DECLARED that the resolution adopted by 2 ex officio Directors of USIP's Board purportedly appointing Adam Amar as president of the Endowment of the USIP Fund & authorizing & instructing him to transfer any & all of the Endowment's assets to USIP was invalid, null, void, & w/o any legal effect; …plaintiff Board members duly appointed under 22 USC §2605(b)(4) shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4605(e) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out their duties…; …USIP Acting President Amb. Moose shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4606(a) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out his duties…; …defendants, except for the ex officio members of USIP's Board of Directors to the extent their official positions allow, are ENJOINED from further trespass against the real & personal property belonging to the Institute & its employees, contractors, agents, & other representatives; …[&] are ENJOINED from maintaining, retaining, gaining, or exercising any access or control over the Institute's offices, facilities, computer systems, or any other records, files, or resources, & from acting or purporting to act in the name of Institute, & from using the Institute's name, emblem, badge, seal & any other mark of recognition of the Institute; it is further](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/4921448 "DECLARED that the resolution adopted by 2 ex officio Directors of USIP's Board purportedly appointing Adam Amar as president of the Endowment of the USIP Fund & authorizing & instructing him to transfer any & all of the Endowment's assets to USIP was invalid, null, void, & w/o any legal effect; …plaintiff Board members duly appointed under 22 USC §2605(b)(4) shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4605(e) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out their duties…; …USIP Acting President Amb. Moose shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4606(a) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out his duties…; …defendants, except for the ex officio members of USIP's Board of Directors to the extent their official positions allow, are ENJOINED from further trespass against the real & personal property belonging to the Institute & its employees, contractors, agents, & other representatives; …[&] are ENJOINED from maintaining, retaining, gaining, or exercising any access or control over the Institute's offices, facilities, computer systems, or any other records, files, or resources, & from acting or purporting to act in the name of Institute, & from using the Institute's name, emblem, badge, seal & any other mark of recognition of the Institute; it is further")
#DOGE has turned its attention to small, #independent entities
NPR has identified close to 40 entities — inside, adjacent to & OUTSIDE of the #government — where DOGE & the #Trump admin have turned their attention in recent weeks.
It's the latest example of how DOGE is attempting to expand its reach beyond high-profile Cabinet agencies, & in some cases far beyond the #ExecutiveBranch & the #FederalGovernment entirely.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #AmericanAutocracy
npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-54013…
#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…
