A provision “hidden” in the sweeping budget bill that passed the U.S. House on Thursday seeks to limit the ability of courts—including the U.S. Supreme Court—from enforcing their orders.

“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,” the provision in the bill, which is more than 1,000 pages long, says.

The provision “would make most existing injunctions—in antitrust cases, police reform cases, school desegregation cases, and others—unenforceable,” Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, told Newsweek. “It serves no purpose but to weaken the power of the federal courts.”

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    22 hours ago

    Everyone needs to have guns.

    nazis wouldn’t be so emboldened if every leftist have guns to keep them in check

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      Lol buddy, this is America. If more people having guns was the solution, we wouldn’t be here right now.

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        Problem is not enough leftists. Most democratic voters are liberals that tend to be very anti-gun

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        Only a third of people own guns. That could be basically all of MAGA and no Democrats.

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        Maybe if a certain political party hadn’t spent decades convincing its voters to disarm themselves, we wouldn’t have 90% of guns owned by fascists.

        Guns are evil until you need them.