Posted on 07/08/2025 6:31:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
Well, it certainly hasn't taken long for leftist judges to ignore the stern scolding from the United States Supreme Court and get back to the important business of standing in the way of everything President Donald Trump does, as a federal judge just blocked the defunding of Planned Parenthood in the "Big, Beautiful Bill."
It was less than two weeks ago that SCOTUS handed down a ruling that said federal judges handing down nationwide injunctions "likely" constituted an overreach of their authority.
That apparently didn't matter to a district court judge in Massachusetts, who, as reported by Just the News, went back to the tried and true method of just nullifying large chunks of Trump's agenda.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, issued the temporary restraining order.
The ruling comes in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that dramatically limited the scope of nationwide injunctions by lower court judges and is sure to lead to a legal fight with the administration.
Except this is not just a random executive order, but a bill passed by both chambers of Congress and signed into law by the president.
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It passed the house.
It passed the Senate.
It passed the house again. It passed Trump’s desk.
Stopped by a single judge.
8:51 PM · Jul 7, 2025
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Talwani's temporary order, which prevents the BBB from imposing a year-long ban on state Medicaid programs from providing payments to Planned Parenthood, lasts for two weeks, at which point she will determine whether to issue a longer injunction.
(Leftist judges do love their abortion funding!)
The Department of Justice has a week to respond to the temporary ruling.
One can guess what the response will be.
What TRO?
This is the perfect case for the Trump Administration to simply say that they aren’t obeying the court. That would ratchet up the pressure on the Supreme Court to stop this nonsense for good if they want to maintain any respect for the federal courts.
So Presidents do not have line item veto powers but judges do? Yeah, no.
The Constitution gives Congress 100% authority on how much to spend and what to spend it on. Nowhere does it say that they have to get approval from a judge to do it.
Hopefully the Congress just ignores this judge who has zero authority to interfere with legislation.
I have a book coming out in SEP. That quotation is in the book.
Wait a minute.
Isn’t this what courts are supposed to do?
Someone takes issue with a law (not an EO, a law) and decides to test the degree to which it is Constitutional. The process is lawsuit to stop it happening and judges make an evaluation on the merits of the case. Then the process begins up the chain of appeals.
Isn’t this exactly what was done to try to stop Obamacare? We brought various lawsuits challenging its adherence to the Constitution. We lost, but we pursued that process.
This is normal procedure. Why are we either surprised or angry?
Another foreign skank in our weaponized “judiciary”. Why? Did we run out of Americans?
She doesn’t have any standing. Throw her butt out!
Another great speech about government spending:
https://eurofolkradio.com/2015/11/17/davy-crocketts-famous-speech-against-the-welfare-state/
So who exactly are the Plaintiff’s?
Or did she just throw up a roadblock on her own?
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This order must be defied — openly in front of everyone.
Really the only solution to the lawlessness of judges and democrats demanding Republicans be shot on site by them is for Trump to declare martial law and remain president until the left can be brought under control.
Ignore? No, the judge/tyrant needs to be removed at the least.
It’s an injection. A “ruling.” There is no lawsuit.
Yes, one can sort of see how the executive orders could be challenged, but acts of congress?!
This is just ridiculous!
There is nothing in the Constitution, that says the Parent Parenthood must be funded!
Because a basic reading of the constitution tells you all spending authorization starts in The House of Representatives. That is why Biden’s student loan forgiveness was unconstitutional. The money was not appropriated for that purpose. There are guard rails in the constitution and authorization for spending is one of them.
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