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  • Justice Clarence Thomas Destroys the Case for Nationwide Injunctions With One Devastating Question

    05/15/2025 11:22:54 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 79 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 05/15/2025 | Matt Margolis
    During Supreme Court oral arguments in the Trump v. CASA, Washington, and New Jersey cases, Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a surgical takedown of the legal rationale for nationwide injunctions, using just one line.The case centers around whether lower courts can issue sweeping injunctions that block federal policies nationwide, even when only a handful of plaintiffs are before the court. Representing the United States, Solicitor General John Sauer argued that such broad orders violate established legal norms and Supreme Court precedent.“We believe that the best reading of that is what you said in Trump against Hawaii, which is that Wirtz in...
  • Montana judge finds transgender care ban unconstitutional

    05/15/2025 5:27:41 AM PDT · by Salman · 33 replies
    AP (on their own site) ^ | May 14, 2025 | MARA SILVERS/Montana Free Press
    A state district court judge in Missoula on Tuesday ruled that a 2023 state law banning many gender transition-related medical services for transgender minors is unconstitutional, prohibiting its enforcement. The 59-page ruling from district court Judge Jason Marks found that Senate Bill 99, backed by Republicans largely along party lines during the legislative session two years ago, violates the Montana Constitution’s rights to privacy, equal protection and free speech. The law had been temporarily enjoined before it was scheduled to take effect. The Montana Supreme Court upheld that block in 2024. The court found that plaintiffs, including transgender teen Phoebe...
  • Here’s Why the Era of Lawless Leftist Judges is Likely Ending Soon

    04/20/2025 9:50:17 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 62 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 20 Apr 2025 | Matt Margolis
    The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to weigh in on one of the most significant legal power plays in recent memory: whether individual federal trial judges can continue issuing nationwide injunctions that derail national policy. The high court’s move could mark a turning point in the Trump administration’s effort to rein in what it sees as activist judges stifling the will of the elected government. John Yoo, a law professor at UC Berkeley and former Justice Department official, broke down the issue during an appearance on Fox News, where he explained the gravity of the situation and why the Supreme...
  • Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges

    03/25/2025 12:24:49 PM PDT · by DFG · 45 replies
    NBC News ^ | 03/25/2025 | Scott Wong, Melanie Zanona and Rebecca Kaplan
    Facing pressure from his right flank to take on judges who have ruled against President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Tuesday floated the possibility of Congress eliminating some federal courts. It’s the latest attack from Republicans on the federal judiciary, as courts have blocked a series of actions taken by the Trump administration. In addition to funding threats, Trump and his conservative allies have called for the impeachment of certain federal judges who have ruled against him, most notably U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who attempted to halt Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan...
  • Fed judge blocks Trump administration ban on transgender people from military service

    03/18/2025 5:45:20 PM PDT · by kevcol · 105 replies
    NY Post ^ | March 18, 2025
    WASHINGTON — A federal judge blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from military service on Tuesday, the latest in a string of legal setbacks for his sweeping agenda. US District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, DC, ruled that Trump’s order to exclude transgender troops from military service likely violates their constitutional rights. Ana Reyes, district court judge nominee, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, blocking the enforcement of a President Trump's transgender military service ban
  • Judge blocks Trump from using wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants

    03/16/2025 6:27:06 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 54 replies
    CBS News ^ | March 16, 2025 | Scott MacFarlane
    A federal judge on Saturday night temporarily blocked President Trump from removing immigrants under a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 after the president announced earlier in the day that he would enforce the law. Despite the ruling, 261 people were deported to El Salvador on Saturday, 137 of whom were removed under the Alien Enemies Act over alleged gang ties, a senior administration official said. The White House and Justice Department have said they had already been removed from the country when the judge made his ruling. The judge's ruling was in response to a...
  • Trump admin ordered to pay part of $2 billion in foreign aid by todayVideo—3 1/2 min

    03/10/2025 10:08:43 AM PDT · by Phoenix8 · 57 replies
    FOX ^ | 3/10/2025 | Fox and Friends
    Trump admin ordered to pay part of $2 billion in foreign aid by today Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett argues district court Judge Amir Ali is acting as a 'super president' by setting foreign policy and discusses a judge's decision not to charge a 14-year-old alleged cop killer as an adult.
  • Trump Should Ignore A Supreme Court That Won’t Defend The Constitution

    03/07/2025 12:30:55 PM PST · by Dr. Marten · 46 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 03/07/2025 | Curtis Hill
    On March 5 in a narrow 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld a lower-court order compelling the Trump administration to disburse nearly $2 billion in foreign subsidies through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department. This ruling forces the executive branch to pay out taxpayer funds against its policy priorities. It is not just a setback for President Trump’s “America First” agenda, it’s a glaring example of judicial overreach that threatens the constitutional balance of power.The Supreme Court’s majority has effectively handed a single district judge the unchecked authority to dictate executive action, a move that...
  • US judge halts Trump administration's calls for mass firings at agencies

    02/27/2025 7:06:56 PM PST · by kevcol · 126 replies
    YahooNews ^ | February 27, 2025 | Dan Levine and Daniel Wiessner
    In his ruling, Alsup ordered OPM to rescind a January 20 memo and a February 14 email directing agencies to identify probationary employees who are not "mission-critical" and terminate them... "Probationary employees are the lifeblood of our government. They come in at a low level and work their way up. That's how we renew ourselves," said Alsup, an appointee of Democratic former President Bill Clinton.
  • DOJ Files Misconduct Complaint Against Hostile and Biased Judge Overseeing the Military Transgender Case

    02/21/2025 4:01:43 PM PST · by kevcol · 28 replies
    RedState ^ | February 21, 2025 | streiff
    The Justice Department filed charges of judicial misconduct against Biden-appointed District Judge Ana C. Reyes for overt hostility toward the government in Thursday's hearing on President Trump's Executive Order barring transgender applicants from joining the military. Attorney General Pam Bondi's chief of staff accused Reyes of engaging in "hostile and egregious misconduct" during the hearing
  • Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Order on Transgender Inmate

    02/21/2025 4:14:41 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 24 replies
    The (Raleigh) News & Observer ^ | Feb 20, 2025 | John Baker
    President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 20 mandating the housing of transgender women in men’s prisons and halting federal funding for gender-affirming care. A federal judge has since blocked the transfer of transgender inmate “Maria Moe” to a men’s prison and the denial of Moe’s care. The lawsuit challenges Trump’s order and prevents the transfer. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) reclassified Moe from “female” to “male” and planned to transfer her to a men’s facility, threatening Moe’s access to hormone therapy. U.S. District Judge George O’Toole issued a temporary restraining order on January 26, preventing Moe’s transfer...
  • Opinion: Trump's 'lawfare' attack on the courts could backfire on the Constitution

    02/14/2025 7:31:54 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 50 replies
    MSNBC ^ | February 14, 2025 | By Symone D. Sanders-Townsend
    President Donald Trump loves to take a phrase and drain it of all meaning. In his first term, he transformed the term "fake news" from describing a specific problem with a type of misinformation into an attack on any journalist he didn't like or a piece of journalism that made him look bad. Now he's doing the same to the word "lawfare," and the stakes are even higher — including, potentially, the guardrails of our democracy. Coined in 2001, "lawfare" refers to the use of courts and other legal systems to damage or delegitimize a political opponent. After Trump left...
  • We Are Totally Going to Crush the Democrats' Puny Lawfare Offensive

    02/14/2025 2:39:11 AM PST · by kevcol · 105 replies
    Townhall ^ | February 14, 2025 | Kurt Schlichter
    Everybody needs to calm down and take a deep breath – the DOGE revolution is not in danger because a bunch of obscure district court judges in blue jurisdictions have signed ridiculous temporary orders purporting to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to actually be president. Don’t listen to the black pill battalion. We’re not losing this fight. We’re going to win it. Listen to the vice president – JD Vance has gotten a lot of heat because he pointed out that this is a legal farce. As usual, he’s right. And, to the extent there is a constitutional crisis –...
  • Sotomayor Says Presidents Are Not Monarchs and Must Obey Rulings

    02/12/2025 2:19:28 PM PST · by kevcol · 118 replies
    NYT ^ | February 11, 2025 | Adam Liptak
    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.”
  • Trump dismisses constitutional crisis panic: ‘I always abide by the courts’

    02/12/2025 10:24:12 AM PST · by kevcol · 27 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | February 12, 2025 | Emily Hallas
    While Trump reiterated he would always abide by the courts, he expressed concern that decisions undermining DOGE’s authority would allow bureaucracies to get away with kickbacks and other forms of corruption. “But appeals take a long time, and I would hope that a judge, if you go to a judge and you show them, ‘Here’s a corrupt situation. We have a check to be sent, but we found it to be corrupt. Do you want us to send this corrupt check to a person, or do you want us not to give it and give it back to the taxpayer?’...
  • Judge Who Blocked Trump’s Spending Freeze Under Fire for Controversial Remarks on Race and Diversity

    02/12/2025 8:22:32 AM PST · by george76 · 17 replies
    your NEWS Media ^ | Feb 12, 2025
    Newly resurfaced footage from 2021 reveals controversial statements by U.S. District Judge John McConnell, who recently blocked President Donald Trump’s spending freeze. U.S. District Judge John McConnell, an Obama appointee who recently blocked President Donald Trump’s efforts to freeze federal spending, is facing renewed scrutiny following the resurfacing of a 2021 video interview where he described racism as a “white people problem” and called for diversity-focused reforms in the judiciary. In the interview, published on Helen Cooke’s YouTube channel and uncovered by Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon’s War Room, McConnell advocated for identity-based sentencing considerations and criticized the lack...
  • No, Trump Does Not Have to Abide by a Mythical 'Judicial Supremacy'

    02/12/2025 8:23:26 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 32 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 02/12/2025 | Selwyn Duke
    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...
  • Judge Orders Trump to Restore Deleted HSS, CDC, FDA Webpages on Transgenderism

    02/11/2025 5:58:06 PM PST · by kevcol · 101 replies
    Twitchy ^ | February 11, 2025 | Brett T
    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.
  • 𝐏𝐨𝐩-𝐔𝐩 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬© - #JudgeWatch Permanent Thread. Tracking lawless and overreaching judges.

    02/11/2025 11:36:55 AM PST · by Lazamataz · 106 replies
    Permanent Thread | 2/11/2025 | by Laz A, Mataz
    Hello fellow Freepers. This is the "𝐏𝐨𝐩-𝐔𝐩 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬© - #JudgeWatch Permanent Thread". It will differ from a standard ping list. Ping lists, when a new article is posted that is in the ping list's interest, you'd be pinged to the article. This is different. It will serve as a one-stop shop to identify reckless and out-of-control members of the judiciary. You will also find links to articles about their overreaching actions. The first Judge that really caught my eye was Judge Paul Engelmayer, who ruled that no member of DOGE -- or even the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent,...
  • BREAKING: Biden Judge Revises Restrictions on Access to Treasury Payment System – Keeps Ban on DOGE in Place; Treasury Leadership Exempted

    02/11/2025 1:32:50 PM PST · by kevcol · 75 replies
    GP ^ | February 11, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    The Trump Admin argued in their motion papers that “the TRO contravenes Article II of the Constitution to the extent it applies to political appointees, in particular the Secretary of Treasury and other senior Treasury leadership.” Judge Vargas kept most of the restrictions in place, but she allowed Secretary Bessent and other in Treasury leadership to access the payment system.