I hope there is a remedy to rein this in.
Frivolous lawsuits is how they hounded Palin out of office as Governor of Alaska.
Valuation of injunction bonds? That looks like a Leticia James thing? She’s great at valuations of financial instruments. /s.
Let it be so
Bond would need to be a minimum of the amount of fraud and abuse DOGE is uncovering each day. Current DOGE clock shows $84B identified, and 22 days since Exec Order Created Doge. Effectively, 21 days, which is an even $4B/day.
So Judgey Poo ... you want a TRO for a week, that would require a $28B bond.
If it’s up to the judge to set the bonds I don’t see how this will work. These Leftist judges are not going to play along.
The thought that any of these communist thugs think that laws apply to them. They’ve been laughing in our faces for years about this.
Simply enforce the existing laws.
They cross the line, cuff ‘em and stuff’em.
They think they’re untouchable. They’re not.
They’ve ruined the lives of many on our side for much less.
You want to stop activist Judges? Suspend their paychecks.
I think this is a very good idea. Only issue is that the lawfare-supporting leftist judges who are hearing the case are also the ones who will be deciding what the bond should be. I imagine they would be very lenient with their fellow radicals, who after all, are only acting in the public interest.
A solution that I have been advocating is to change the rules of venue and jurisdication for cases against the Executive branch. This is entirely within Congress’ purview, under the constitution. I would propose a law providing that jurisdiction for lawsuits seeking a halt or change to an action taken by the President must be sent outside of DC. No place has worse federal judges than DC, not even NY (2d circuit) or California (9th Circuit). The law can say that jurisdiction for such cases shall be sent, at the discretion of the President, to any jurisdiction impacted by the president’s action. Also, that injunctions against a President’s action may be immediately appealed directly to the Supreme Court. Also that any judge whose decisions finding against the President are overturned by a higher court is henceforth disqualified from hearing any suits against the executive branch. Those simple changes will go a long way to ending lawfare and delays against what the people voted for.
Also, the system by which the various districts select which judge gets assigned to a case needs to be made transparent and open to all parties to the action. Right now, there is a supposed random assignment system in each District, and for the 3 judge panels in the Courts of Appeal. I don’t believe that this is what is happening for a second. EVERY SINGLE TIME there is one of these lawfare cases, it gets assigned to some lunatic judge who the left knows will do the deep state’s bidding. I have no doubt that the Chief Judge in those left wing districts (NY, LA, SF, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, etc.) is jimmying the system to put his/her best soldiers on the case. There’s no oversight, so no one would be able to say it wasn’t random. That’s why it needs to be transparent and open. There are lots of systems that could be designed to ensure that.
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How about any lower courts ruling against the President are automatically on hold until the Supreme Court acts?
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H.R.8771 - Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2025
118th Congress (2023-2024)
Sponsor: Rep. Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-FL-26] (Introduced 06/14/2024)
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Department Of State
migration and refugee assistance
For necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, to enable the Secretary of State to carry out the provisions of section 2(a) and (b) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601), and other activities to meet refugee and migration needs; salaries and expenses of personnel and dependents as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.); allowances as authorized by sections 5921 through 5925 of title 5, United States Code; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, $2,453,236,000 (reduced by $500,000,000), to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less than $6,500,000 shall be made available for refugees resettling in Israel
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8771/text
Love it. Bankrupt the DNC and all the unions that support blocking Trump.
There needs to be an injunction against the government funding of religious charities: Catholic, Lutheran, Muslim, Hindu, etc.
And no, I shouldn’t have to post an injunction bond for that.
I’m an attorney. It is a refreshing thought, but the text of the rule grants discretion to the Judge issuing the injunction:
“No restraining order or preliminary injunction shall issue except upon the giving of security by the applicant, in such sum as the court deems proper, for the payment of such costs and damages as may be incurred or suffered by any party who is found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained..”
...”as the court deems proper”.