Posted on 01/09/2025 6:34:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
The incoming Trump administration scored an early but possibly illusory victory last month in its effort to reform government overreach when it successfully pressured Congress to eliminate what it termed “sweetheart provisions for government censors” from a measure to stave off a government shutdown.
Funding for the State Department’s Global Engagement Center – which Republicans had attacked as a tool of domestic censorship – was stripped from the final bill, and the center announced that it was closed for good on Dec. 23. Days later, however, reporting emerged that the State Department had devised plans to shift the center’s 51 employees and millions of dollars of funding to a separate hub purportedly to counter foreign “information manipulation and interference.”
President-elect Donald Trump has not said how he will respond to this maneuver. But in extensive public comments he has said that targeting what critics have called the Censorship Industrial Complex will be a high priority in his new administration. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to restore free expression on his platforms and join the Trump administration in its efforts to push back on global censorship, two weeks before inauguration day, indicates speech-policing forces like his may be disarming accordingly.
As the State Department’s move suggests, however, this push will likely face stiff resistance. “There will be a visceral reaction from the bureaucratic state in permanent Washington,” Sen. Eric Schmitt told RealClearInvestigations. As attorney general of Missouri, Schmitt launched the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit against federal government collusion with social media companies and nonprofits to target disfavored speech.
Trump outlined the steps he might pursue in a December 2022 video detailing his “Free Speech Policy Initiative” – a video that, ironically, received less attention originally because YouTube had banned the former president.
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The Trump video is at the article link.
From day one Trump needs to start gutting the State Department. Thanks to Supreme Court rulings on the power of the Presidency he can start mass firings and ignore the lower courts. We are in a situation where it is necessary to go full Andrew Jackson and ignore the Supreme Court if it tries to stop the firings.
Lets hope that Little Marco is up to the job.
I pray that he can get it done.
Time to let PBS and NPR know they will be unfunded.
“There will be a visceral reaction from the bureaucratic state in permanent Washington,”
So what. Trump has endured 8 years of lawfare and 2 assassination attempts.
What kind of stiff resistance could there be?
He can order his Secretary of State to fire these people for insubordination, order DOJ to investigate them for leaking classified information, demote them and send them to an office in North Dakota. So they sue the government? They’ll have to waste money on lawyers and be careful that DoJ doesn’t bring up more charges.
I’d much rather see these people tied up defending themselves in court than wreaking havoc on US foreign policy or any number of toxic leftist causes.
Its not the Supremes its those Federal circuit judges and their injunctions that Trump needs to ignore.
and if the DOJ swamprats try and prosecute people for doing their job as Trump/Department heads order their employees to do, but ignoring court rulings, then Trump can just pardon them! as long as they get the job done!
The lower federal courts are a creation of Congress so under the Constitution they cannot overrule the coequal branch of the executive, only the Supreme Court may do so. I think going forward the only way out of this tyrannical rule of federal and state courts is for the executive branch to ignore all rulings and only defer to those lower court rulings when the Supreme Court rules on the lower court decisions.
Yes I have long said the President does not have to obey these lower court injunctions. Obama ignored the lower court injunction on his drilling ban in the Gulf.
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