The Trump administration has appealed a judge’s ruling finding the White House had not fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending and must release billions of dollars in funding.

U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell became the first judge to find that the administration had disobeyed a court order. Federal money for things like early childhood education, pollution reduction and HIV prevention research has remained tied up even after his Jan. 31 order blocking a planned halt on federal spending, he found.

McConnell’s temporary restraining order issued Monday also blocks the administration from cutting billions of dollars in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health.

“These pauses in funding violate the plain text of the (temporary restraining order),” McConnell wrote. “The broad categorical and sweeping freeze of federal funds is, as the Court found, likely unconstitutional and has caused and continues to cause irreparable harm to a vast portion of this country.”

    • pelespiritOPMEnglish
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      13 小时前

      I was wondering what it would take. They’re mostly republicans though, yeah?

      • Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 小时前

        They still crank Trump’s hog even though he’s a draft dodger who called fallen soldiers "suckers” and “losers”, and violated the sanctity of Arlington national cemetery for a PR stunt.

        The majority of people in the military are uneducated.

    • zib@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 小时前

      Well, according to Agent Orange, the constitution says the president is a god emperor and the military must obey his every order. /s

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
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    14 小时前

    An order of Contempt for ignoring a direct court order for the Executive branch by the Judicial branch of US government will mean it is no a Constitutional Republic of Checks and Balances

    • ziviz@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      11 小时前

      In theory the congressional branch would weigh in and be the tie breaker in the dispute. If they agree with the contempt of court, then they start an impeachment, and judicial rules on it, and if executive branch continues to not enforce the law, congress can call a militia to uphold the law. If they agree with the executive branch however, the judicial branch can only hurl more words. Words without any functional weight to them. edited: for clarity

      • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
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        11 小时前

        Only Congress can impeach and remove The President you potted plant, The Supreme Court is the head of The Judicial Branch which is the same one which would hold The Executive Branch in contempt, there is no Constitutional mechanism for The Judicial Branch to remove the head of The Executive branch, The Judicial branch is not empowered in any way by the Constitution to raise a militia or direct the Armed Forces. For fucks sake. Shut up man.

        • ziviz@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          11 小时前

          Who do you think I meant by “the third branch”? The comment I replied to mentioned Executive and Judicial… there is only one more branch left… the one with the power to impeach…