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Suppose two presidents exercise the powers of the executive branch. One does so under an explicit statutory grant during a time of declared emergency. The other acts pursuant to administrative discretion in the face of record-breaking border incursions. Now suppose that federal judges enjoin both policies. What happens next? If the president is a Democrat, the Supreme Court stays the injunction. It instructs the lower courts to stay their hand, warning that questions of immigration policy lie chiefly with the political branches. It urges patience, careful deliberation, and above all, continuity of government operations while the matter is litigated. If...

This morning at 10:00, the Supreme Court will be releasing Opinions from cases from the October 2024 term.A list of those cases can be found here: October 2024 casesScotusblog will be live-blogging the opinion release and we will be following along.

“Due process is when only one side has to follow the law and if you point out that this is a suicidal standard you’re a fascist” — Auron MacIntyre A great consternation boils and bubbles across the land as the sinister forces of Jacobin lawfare keep up their legalistic battery against the nation. You better believe that the country will not stand for much more of this lunatic judicial coup aimed at wrecking the authority of law itself, and with that, any chance for sane management of our affairs. On Saturday, the activist org Indivisible, sponsored by Linked-In billionaire Reid...

Watch VideoFox News host Mark Levin gives his take on the judicial branch’s role on ‘Life, Liberty & Levin.’

This morning at 10:00, the Supreme Court will be releasing Opinions on cases from the October 2024 term. A list of those cases can be found here:October 2024 termOpinions for all cases from the October sitting have been issued and there are only a couple remaining from the November sitting. Of interest from the December sitting is: U.S. v. Skrmetti, No. 23-477 [Arg: 12.4.2024] Issue(s): Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1, which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow “a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex” or to treat “purported discomfort or...

California Democrat Rep. Laura Friedman has admitted House Democrats are coordinating every single week with far-left state attorneys general to weaponize the justice system against President Trump and his America First agenda. Speaking to voters, Friedman bragged that House Democrats have established a so-called “litigation working group,” aka “shadow government,” comprised of approximately 75 sitting members of Congress who gather behind closed doors every week to craft legal strategies in conjunction with state AGs — the same AGs who have brought politically motivated lawsuits and investigations against Trump, his businesses, his allies, and his policies. “Every single week, we have...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government, in a move that could have far-reaching repercussions for immigrants across the country. In a ruling Thursday, Judge Trevor Neil McFadden sided with the administration, which had argued that they were simply enforcing an already existing requirement for everyone in the country who wasn’t an American citizen to register with the government. [snip] Federal immigration law has long required that people who aren’t American citizens and live in the U.S., including...

Overview: Gwynne Wilcox (a member of the National Labor Relations Board) sued President Donald Trump challenging her removal from the National Labor Relations Board as a violation of the National Labor Relations Act, claiming that Trump did not meet the standard required for Wilcox’s removal under federal law and that Wilcox was not given notice and a hearing to contest her removal. Judge Beryl Howell ruled in favor of Wilcox, holding she was unlawfully removed from office. The Trump administration appealed and the case is now being heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.Order: UPON CONSIDERATION...

He told the court a drug expert was 's*** at his job' and said: 'If they were worth that amount I would be rich'A drug dealer who was said to have been found in possession of more than £10,000 worth of drugs argued with a judge about their valuation. He was found to be involved in the sale of heroin and cocaine and had £4,000 in cash. Adam Pritchard, 32, was found to be in possession of a drugs line phone which was registered to him and police attended his home in Cardiff to arrest him. He was asked if...

The Supreme Court will be issuing Opinions today beginning at 10:00 a.m.Scotusblog will be live blogging the opinions Here and we will be following along.Here is a list of the cases for the October 2024 term.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) and his unmatched ability to dismantle weak arguments with his signature Southern wit. On Monday, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, he was at the top of his game, systematically exposing the complete lack of legal authority for district judges to issue universal injunctions — a favorite tactic of the left to block Trump’s agenda. Questioning Assistant Attorney General nominee Brett Shumate, Kennedy systematically dismantled any justification for these sweeping judicial orders. "Mr. Shumate, what's a universal injunction?" Kennedy asked. Shumate explained, "Senator, a universal injunction is an order from a court enjoining the government in...

While numerous federal district court judges have issued ill-conceived restraining orders against the administration, I have long believed that it will prevail in its efforts to place control of the state in the hands of the elected executive, away from the deep state bureaucracy and its black-robed judicial allies. As the litigation of these matters proceeds, I think my belief will be justified. We will return to a constitutional republican form of government. For a day-to-day look at the progress of these multiple cases, I urge you to go to X and follow Professor Margot Cleveland, who is (bless...

Yet another Biden far left crazy Deep State woman Cathy Harris, refused to go when sacked, then sued to one of these notorious District Courts who naturally ruled for her. The Appeals Court thought otherwise and maintained she was still sacked. Pack your bags girl and don't let the door hit ya on your way out. A fair bit of legal stuff but explained in simple terms.

Use Democrat "rules" to challenge these rulings! Could also has the extra benefit of exposing Democrat "Wokeazi" hypocrisy. How 'spose they'd react?

The courts have an important constitutional role to fulfill. But it’s not to play president.On March 7, I argued in The Federalist that President Donald Trump should ignore a Supreme Court that would allow lower courts to refuse to uphold the Constitution and instead encroach on executive authority. Recent new encroachments prove my point. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has blocked the EPA from terminating $14 billion in climate grants awarded by the Biden administration, funds now sitting in a Citibank account. Judge Ana Reyes has ordered the military not to enforce Trump’s ban on trans-identifying service members. These rulings...

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he believed the courts will rule defendants should get due process before they are deported. Host Margaret Brennan said, “There are legal questions around using these authorities to send out detainees without giving them a day in court. There’s questions of how it’s being handled in regard to these individuals who were rejected by El Salvador, one for gender, one because they weren’t Venezuelan at all. Do these concerns does any of this concern you along with claims from their family members that many of these people weren’t...

The Supreme Court will release Opinions from the October 2024 at 10:00 a.m. this morning.Scotusblog will be live-blogging the opinions as they are released. You can follow that blog here.The cases for the October 2024 are listed at the link below: October 2024 termThere are two cases that remain undecided from the October sitting. Those are:Garland v. VanDerStok, No. 23-852 [Arg: 10.8.2024] Issue(s): (1) Whether “a weapon parts kit that is designed to or may readily be completed, assembled, restored, or otherwise converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive” under 27 C.F.R. § 478.11 is a...

Amid the growing battle between President Donald Trump and the courts, a once-unthinkable question is harder to shrug off: Will the administration deliberately defy federal judges if it doesn’t get what it wants? The issue has come into sharp relief in the challenge to the administration’s deportation of Venezuelan nationals under the purported authority of the Alien Enemies Act. The presiding judge — James Boasberg, chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C. — directed the government from the bench to turn the planes around carrying the deportees. That did not happen, though the administration claims it did...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin vowed he wouldn’t give up the fight to terminate grants awarded by the Biden administration to “politically connected and inexperienced nongovernmental organizations” after a federal judge blocked the move. “While the Biden EPA touted ‘tossing Gold Bars off the Titanic,’ these terminated grants, riddled with self-dealing and wasteful spending, are now frozen by court order," Zeldin said in a statement, noting billions in taxpayer money was given in a "manner that deliberately reduced the ability of EPA to conduct proper oversight.”A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in...

Many pundits, including lawyer Robert Barnes, are harping on impeachment of these rogue judges. I think that has little, if any, hope of success. Nor do I think defunding or changing the jurisdiction of the courts will work. We're easily 20 votes in the House and 20 votes in the Senate short of either of those options. But Trump is winning, and can continue to win, by other means, practical means, historically time-tested means. First understand that TIME IS ON OUR SIDE. These agencies have been closed. People have been fired. Buildings are locked up. Some are sold already. Policies...