Summary
Judges across the U.S. are blocking Trump’s aggressive executive orders, with some rulings expressing deep frustration.
A Trump-appointed judge halted his attempt to place 2,200 USAID employees on leave, while another blocked Elon Musk’s team from accessing Treasury records.
A Reagan-appointed judge condemned Trump’s disregard for the rule of law in a ruling against his birthright citizenship plan.
These legal setbacks are forcing federal agencies to reveal more details and raising concerns over Trump’s expansive use of executive power.
Nothing as far as I can tell, but the media, and even a lot of people on Lemmy still seem to think they care about the law or feel in any way obligated to abide by it. And I do not get it.
It’s not about this being some sort of firewall to stop him in his tracks or anything, the opportunity for that was last election, and we failed. It’s now about being an effective opposition, just like they try do when we win.
To paraphrase AOC, there needs to be sand in his gears. Yeah, he can push a lot of stuff through anyway, but we definitely want it to be as difficult as possible, costing them extra effort.
Here’s a kinda tired-seeming AOC chit chatting about all this stuff for 90 minutes on livestream:
https://youtu.be/CVgNJf6CsBA
Though the main battle is still over teaching logic and critical thinking to the public and individual civic dialogue imo.
Bingo. It ultimately won’t stop him, but every act of resistance will slow him down, and every act of submission will speed him up. Choose to resist.
Mario Savio
If he’s willing to weaponize the pardon power (which we already know he is), there’s no current way to stop him at all. Anything he does is protected by the ‘presidential act’ ruling, which is untested, but anything his lackeys do can just be pardoned, even pre-emptively before charges are brought. Since the pardon power is absolute and has no oversight, this would, as far as I can tell, stonewall any attempt to stop them unless that attempt is by literally barring the doors as they try to enter. The system was not designed to stand up to a bad actor of this magnitude; the recourse would be an impeachment but that’s not happening unless he oversteps so massively that his own party turns on him.
It provides cover for the resisting people in the agencies. Right now the nazis have the fig leaf of executing an EO when they enter these facilities and do their treason, and when the courts strip that it makes it legal (maybe required?) to bar physically them from the facilities
…at which point they get whichever security forces they want to physically force their way into the building. With weapons.
You’re still thinking they play by the rules when they just don’t.
Unless you’re talking about borrowing ICE, the rest of the feds are also not participating in this so far or are also suing the administration. And the DC police seem to have pretty strong opinions from what I’ve read since '21. The Trump administration has not demonstrated they have the force level to storm these facilities in the face of active opposition and are counting on people just letting them in on their fraudulent authority.
i thought the ultimate rule was to follow the Constitution … like if a tyrannical president orders the army generals to kill everybody on Earth (or similar insanity) then, those generals will refuse the order based on the Constitution … and same would go for other people in authority … ?
Turns out the Constitution is just an old piece of hemp paper.
… until the people rise to defend it … i am still hoping.
Maybe they shouldn’t be worried about defending anything if they rise up.
Even if the Trump administration is not compliant, the alternative would be approval of this coup d’etat.
Another alternative is to resist them in mass action.
But that requires effort.