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Donald Trump Is Not A Threat To Democracy — Those Shredding Article II Are
The Federalist ^ | 2/11/25 | Margot Cleveland

Posted on 02/11/2025 1:34:58 PM PST by CFW

For a solid week, blue states, labor unions, and non-profit organizations have descended on federal courts up and down the East Coast seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s agenda. And they have found receptive partners in a handful of federal judges willing to enter temporary restraining orders, or TROs, to immediately — and sometimes without any notice — prohibit the normal functioning of the executive branch.

To be clear, the TROs entered are not addressing specific disputes between Trump and the litigants, where the plaintiffs allege a particular action injures them in some concrete way. Rather, the country is seeing large coalitions of plaintiffs who oppose the president’s agenda filing lawsuits challenging the broad policies and the management of the executive branch.

Consider, for instance the lawsuit more than twenty states, led by New York, filed in a federal court in Rhode Island: In that case, New York v. Trump, the states initially challenged an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Directive to agencies to temporarily pause activities and disbursement of federal funds that conflict with various executive orders. The OMB later rescinded that directive. Yet federal judge John J. McConnell, Jr., a Barack Obama appointee, entered a TRO ordering the President of the United States not to “pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate” federal financial assistance to the states.

The Trump Administration read that TRO as only prohibiting the freezing or canceling of grants based on the challenged OMB Directive or the president’s various executive orders. Surely the federal agencies could continue to review various grants as is always the executive’s prerogative?

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: article2; articleii; democrats; interference; judges; judicialcoup; judicialmisconduct; noauthority; nojurisdiction; obstruction; sabotage; tros; trump
This is a good overview of the activist judge's unconstitutional actions by Margot Cleveland.
1 posted on 02/11/2025 1:34:58 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Donald Trump is a threat to bureaucracy.


2 posted on 02/11/2025 1:38:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: CFW

BTTT


3 posted on 02/11/2025 1:43:26 PM PST by nopardons
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Time to push back.


4 posted on 02/11/2025 1:46:40 PM PST by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers

Judge - he’s read your book


5 posted on 02/11/2025 1:55:45 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

Note to self ... watch the movie “Star Chamber” this weekend.


6 posted on 02/11/2025 1:55:47 PM PST by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: CFW

Republic, not a democracy. But then, a liberal education ...


7 posted on 02/11/2025 1:56:28 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Time to push back.


8 posted on 02/11/2025 2:04:26 PM PST by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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The government tit is getting a mastectomy.


9 posted on 02/11/2025 3:06:06 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: CFW

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10 posted on 02/11/2025 3:48:31 PM PST by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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