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A federal judge on Thursday temporarily extended his restraining order blocking the Trump Admin from placing USAID workers on leave. Last week Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee said he will halt a midnight deadline for USAID to be reduced to couple hundred workers. President Trump planned to drastically reduce the USAID workforce to a few hundred workers. Thousand of workers were to be placed on administrative leave. On Thursday Judge Nichols extended his restraining order until February 21.

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Judge Brendan Hurson, appointed by Biden, has blocked President Trump’s ban on transgender surgeries for minors. These people are sick. From Nick Sortor 3:04 PM · Feb 13, 2025

Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer portrays himself as a law-and-order Democrat. But there are some laws — America’s laws against illegal immigration, for example — he refuses to enforce. “I am directing that CID (Criminal Investigation Division) staff are not to work with immigration officials to target for enforcement actions individuals not legally in our country but also not committing criminal acts,” Stollsteimer posted in a message on Facebook. “Simply put, we will not participate in ’round ups’ of people living peacefully in Delaware County.” The two-term D.A. insists his office will help Immigration and Customs Enforcement with cases...

As Democrats resist his policies, Trump is waging war on judges. Is this destroying the rule of law or saving it?

New York federal Judge Paul Engelmayer’s temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration’s access to Treasury documents happened so fast it’s unlikely he carefully read the case filings. The filings from the 19 suing Democrat state attorneys generals were so voluminous, and Engelmayer’s order was entered so quickly, that it could not possibly have been the product of reasoned judicial analysis and reflection. The stench is so bad, questions of possible corruption must be answered.Engelmayer is the first judge ever to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the president of the United States that also forbids a cabinet secretary...

Police in Dallas, Texas, will not join Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) deportation raids or arrests that have been targeting illegal immigrants across the nation in the midst of a resurgent Trump presidency. Dallas Police Department (DPD) Interim Chief Michael Igo on Wednesday told a gathering of Spanish speakers at Familia Bethel Internacional church, “The Dallas Police Department is not assisting any federal agency on detaining people that are either documented or undocumented in the city of Dallas,” Fox News reported on Thursday. His comments came amid several meetings planned to inform the community’s immigrants about the situation. Igo also...

After issuing two stays, U.S. District Judge George O'Toole has declined to block the Trump administration's deferred resignation program for federal employees. The ruling comes more than two weeks after the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent an email to more than 2 million civilian employees of the federal government with the subject line "Fork in the Road."

State governments, community groups, advocacy nonprofits and regular Americans have filed a large and growing number of federal lawsuits opposing President Donald Trump’s barrage of executive orders and policy statements. Some of his actions have been put on hold by the federal courts, at least temporarily. As a scholar of the federal courts, however, I expect the courts will be of limited help in navigating through this complicated new political landscape. One problem is that the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years has moved sharply to the right and has approved of past efforts to expand the powers of the...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, speaking at a Florida college on Tuesday, made pointed remarks about the limits of presidential power and her fear that government officials might flout court decisions. “Our founders were hellbent on ensuring that we didn’t have a monarchy,” she said, “and the first way they thought of that was to give Congress the power of the purse.”

Are federal judges allowed to be on the boards of NGOs? Can they preside over cases that impact the funding of their NGOs?

Attorney General Pam Bondi will hold a press briefing today at the Trump White House. Watch LIVE at 4 pm EST on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. The former Florida Attorney General is expected to make remarks on the judicial overreach of numerous far-left judges across the country who believe they were elected US president.

Yesterday the circus came to DC, complete with an abundant assortment of clowns. There was frivolity and there was adolescent sophomoric language. There was a lot of shouting. Emanuel "Beaver" Cleaver shouted at Trump. CRINGE: Boomer Democrat Screams Playground Insults at Elon Musk pic.twitter.com/xWZRu5SK2x — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 12, 2025They sang songs “He wants us to bow to him, but we want him in jail!” Democrats are now writing & performing songs to protest DOGE, Elon Musk, & Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/qVjcRKXqBJ— Timcast News (@TimcastNews) February 11, 2025Someone blew the dog whistle, and the dogs came running They have received...

WASHINGTON — Lawyers challenging President Donald Trump's aggressive use of executive power in the courts are turning to a familiar weapon in their armory: an obscure but routinely invoked federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act. While lawsuits challenging such provocative plans as ending birthright citizenship and dismantling federal agencies raise weighty constitutional issues, they also claim Trump failed to follow the correct procedures as required under the wonky 1946 statute. Trump fell afoul of the law in some high-profile cases that reached the Supreme Court during his first term, raising the possibility he could suffer the same fate this...

O'KEEFE INSIDE THE TREASURY: Policy Advisor at US Treasury Confesses He 'Knows a Few' Officials Who "Don't Do Their Jobs" and Are Defying @DOGE: "No One's Quitting Because Everyone's Dug in Their Feet;" Claims Layoffs Are Because "All He [Musk] Wants Is More Money" pic.twitter.com/BvHYGJpf18— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 12, 2025

Recent court orders slowing down or indefinitely blocking President Donald Trump’s policy blitz have raised the specter that the executive branch might openly flout the federal judiciary and prompted questions about how judges would respond. Any decision by the administration to defy federal courts would immediately implicate profound constitutional questions about separation of powers that have kept each branch of the government in check for centuries. That’s in large part because it would test the power of courts to enforce rulings that are supposed to be the final word. Legal experts say there are few options to force compliance with...

It’s an old story: When people are allowed to get their way for too long, when they’re never told “No!” they may get too big for their britches. They may develop a sense of entitlement and even become narcissistic. And proving that judges are no exception to this reality are a number of recent court “opinions” designed to scuttle President Trump’s agenda. One disallows DOGE from scrutinizing Treasury Department data. Another states that the Trump administration must unfreeze funding on grants and loans. A different opinion puts a freeze on Trump’s buyout offer for federal employees. And yet another ordered...

Activist judges across the nation have launched an all-out war against President Donald Trump’s constitutional authority, continuously blocking and interfering with his administration’s efforts to enhance national security and eliminate bureaucratic waste. These unelected leftist judges—many appointed by Obama, Biden and other radical Democrats—have weaponized the judiciary, twisting the Constitution to fit their anti-Trump agenda. Recently, over five federal judges issued temporary injunctions against President Trump’s executive orders, including measures to freeze government spending, dismiss ineffective civil servants, and restrict birthright citizenship. These activist judges are imposing their personal political biases over the clear mandate given to the President by...

If you go by CBS News, you'll see them reporting that HHS, the CDC, and the FDA were ordered by a D.C. judge to restore deleted webpages with "health information." As Amuse clarifies, the deleted webpages were dedicated to sex change operations and gender ideology. How a judge can demand which webpages must be included escapes us.

Meet Pitkin County, CO Sheriff Michael Buglione. He says ICE is “not welcome” in his district and he may even post on social media to warn criminal illegal aliens if ICE is in the area. He would LEAK info on ICE’s operations and raids @TheJusticeDept

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...