Judgefare

Trump’s Justice Department Just Told a Federal Judge to Pound Sand Over Deportation Flights– townhall.com

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Trump’s Justice Department Just Told a Federal Judge to Pound Sand Over Deportation Flights– townhall.com
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 A federal judge is trying to interfere with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and the Justice Department isn’t having it.

This could become the start of one of the Trump administration’s most significant legal battles.

 

Ron DeSantis Proposes Solution to Stop the ‘Sabotaging of President Trump’s Agenda’ by Federal Judges– www.westernjournal.com

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Ron DeSantis Proposes Solution to Stop the ‘Sabotaging of President Trump’s Agenda’ by Federal Judges– www.westernjournal.com
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Article III of the United States Constitution makes one remedy for judicial tyranny as plain as language can make it.

“The judicial Power of the United States,” Section I of Article III begins, “shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”

With that plain language undoubtedly in mind, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida took to the social media platform X Wednesday morning to offer a historically plausible solution to the problem of inferior federal judges who have insisted upon “sabotaging” President Donald Trump’s popular agenda.

White House avoiding ‘iffy territory’ by pausing deportation flights: Byron York– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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White House avoiding ‘iffy territory’ by pausing deportation flights: Byron York– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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Byron York suggested that the Trump administration is possibly seeking to avoid legal trouble by pausing its deportation flights after a recent court order was issued.

The White House confirmed on Wednesday that it is currently not planning further deportation flights for the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. This comes after Chief Judge James Boasberg in Washington’s district court ordered a two-week halt of the deportations on Saturday.

In the wake of this news, York noted how Trump himself has said that his administration will not defy a court order, and the White House’s move is due to the administration seeking to stay out of “iffy territory” amid litigation.

“I thought an important point in the briefing was Karoline Leavitt trying to place all of the lawsuits that the Trump Administration is facing, I don’t know how many there are right now, she tried to place them all as a continuation of the lawfare that President Trump experienced both when he was in office the first time, his four years out of office, and now as president again,” York, the Washington Examiner’s chief political correspondent, said on Fox News’s America Reports.

Number of injunctions halting Trump policies trounces predecessors by double – Fox News

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Number of injunctions halting Trump policies trounces predecessors by double – Fox News
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Nationwide injunctions ordered against the first Trump administration account for more than half of the total injunctions ordered against the federal government since 1963, data show.

Nationwide injunctions are court orders that prevent the federal government from implementing a policy or law that has a cascading effect impacting the entire country, not just the parties involved in the court case.

Trump’s first administration faced 64 injunctions out of the total 127 nationwide injunctions issued since 1963. There were 32 injunctions issued against the Bush, Obama and Biden administrations collectively since 2001, meaning the first Trump administration was on the receiving end of double the amount of nationwide injunctions than his two predecessors and successor combined, according to the April 2024 edition of the Harvard Law Review.

Trump Is Trying to Create His Own Personal Legal Strike Force – The Nation– news.google.com

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Trump Is Trying to Create His Own Personal Legal Strike Force – The Nation
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Late last week, Donald Trump went to the Department of Justice and, once again, threatened his political enemies with unlawful prosecutions. Referring to himself as “the chief law enforcement officer in our country,” he called for the agency to prosecute everybody from former special counsel Jack Smith to MSNBC and CNN to (apparently) anybody who writes or says mean things about him or his pet judge, Aileen Cannon. Even lawyer Norm Eisen, cofounder of The Contrarian (a freaking Substack), was singled out as a potential target.

Venezuelan deportation judge "beating a dead horse," DOJ says in scathing reply – Axios

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Venezuelan deportation judge “beating a dead horse,” DOJ says in scathing reply – Axios
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The Department of Justice continued Wednesday to push back against a federal judge’s request for information about Venezuelan migrant deportations and whether it defied a court order, saying the request is “continuing to beat a dead horse.”

The big picture: It’s the latest response in the back and forth between the Trump administration and U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has repeatedly requested that the government provide details on the migrant deportation flights conducted over the weekend.

  • Boasberg extended the filing deadline to Thursday from Tuesday’s initial deadline for the DOJ to answer his questions regarding flight departure times and the passengers aboard the flights.
  • When the DOJ resisted answering in its Tuesday filing citing concerns about “sensitive information bearing on foreign relations” being made public, Boasberg agreed they could do so under seal.

Ask PolitiFact: Is Tren de Aragua invading the US, as Trump says? Legal experts say no.– www.politifact.com

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Ask PolitiFact: Is Tren de Aragua invading the US, as Trump says? Legal experts say no.– www.politifact.com
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As justification for deporting some immigrants in the country illegally without due process, President Donald Trump said the U.S. is under invasion.

“Evidence irrefutably demonstrates that (Tren de Aragua) has invaded the United States,” a March 15 White House proclamation said. Tren de Aragua is a Venezuela-based gang with some U.S. presence.

The proclamation says Tren de Aragua “is a hybrid criminal state that is perpetrating an invasion of and predatory incursion into the United States,” and so any person 14 years or older who is a Tren de Aragua member and who has neither U.S. citizenship nor permanent residency can be arrested, detained and deported using the Alien Enemies Act.

Trump and his allies have referred to illegal immigration as an invasion for years, and Trump’s move to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act for deportations hinges on this characterization. To invoke the law, the U.S. has to be at war or under invasion by a foreign

Roberts’ Obsession With SCOTUS Legitimacy Has Delegitimized It– thefederalist.com

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Roberts’ Obsession With SCOTUS Legitimacy Has Delegitimized It– thefederalist.com
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The chief irony of Chief Justice John Roberts’ tenure at the Supreme Court is that the man so doggedly devoted to defending the judiciary has done so much to undermine it. In so doing, he has threatened not only the court’s legitimacy but the republic itself.

His latest such act wasn’t an abomination of a ruling on the level of Obamacare, the census citizenship question, or DACA; a faulty probe into a devastating leak; or a defense of the indefensible censorship-industrial complex. It was a terse three-line statement that may prove the most consequential — and corrosive — move of them all.

“For more than two centuries,” the chief justice wrote, “it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

Spoiler Alert — Trump Is Going to Outlast Wearisome Activist Judges – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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Spoiler Alert — Trump Is Going to Outlast Wearisome Activist Judges – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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One of the greatest political books I’ve ever read was written almost thirty years ago by the late, great Robert Bork, the brilliant jurist who was kept off the of the Supreme Court in 1987 by a couple of lying scumbag United States Senators named Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden. Yeah, that’s a painful reminder that the younger, semi-coherent (he was always a little off) Biden was just as bad for America as the drooling spaz who spent the last four years autopenning the country into oblivion.

The book was titled “Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline.” As far as prophetic political tomes written in my adult lifetime go, it was surpassed only by Mark Steyn’s “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It.”

The thing that stuck with me the most when I read “Slouching Towards Gomorrah” shortly after it was published was Bork’s warning about the growing, dangerous role that liberal activist judges would play in wreaking havoc here in the United States. There were already signs of that when the book was published in the late ’90s. However, what we’re dealing with today makes Bork look like the second coming of Nostradamus.

We’ve been subjected to the tawdry spectacle of activist judges doing whatever they wish with the law in order to keep Donald Trump from returning to the presidency. Since that didn’t work and he’s once again President Trump, the hyperactive, extrajudicial loons are throwing tantrums in an effort to thwart his agenda.

Elon Musk donates to Republican lawmakers supporting judge impeachments | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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Elon Musk donates to Republican lawmakers supporting judge impeachments | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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Musk has given the maximum amount of hard-dollar donations to the campaigns of seven Republican lawmakers who have either endorsed or called for some level of action regarding judicial impeachments.

Elon Musk has donated to Republican lawmakers who support impeaching the federal judges who have blocked the Trump administration from implementing its policies, according to a report by The New York Times.

Musk has given the maximum amount of hard-dollar donations to the campaigns of seven Republican lawmakers who have either endorsed or called for some level of action regarding judicial impeachments. The combined federal limit for donations to primary and general elections is $6,600.

Tough road to impeaching judges runs through House Judiciary Committee– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Tough road to impeaching judges runs through House Judiciary Committee– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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The House Judiciary Committee will take early steps to investigate federal judges who have blocked President Donald Trump‘s executive agenda as the president and hard-line House Republicans push for impeachment.

After weeks of House GOP lawmakers and Trump blasting federal judges for blocking executive actions such as illegal immigrant deportations, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) heeded the president’s calls and filed articles of impeachment against James E. Boasberg, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

A handful of other judges face impeachment attempts from House Republicans after ruling against Trump this year, including Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York and Judges Amir Ali and John Bates out of Washington, D.C.

House Republicans could take initial steps on investigating judges as soon as next week when they return to Washington, though an exact time frame has not been established.

Judicial Coup Threatens To Kneecap Trump’s America First Agenda– thefederalist.com

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Judicial Coup Threatens To Kneecap Trump’s America First Agenda– thefederalist.com
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Since Jan. 20, several federal judges have issued orders blocking President Donald Trump from pursuing his America First policy agenda.

As Vice President JD Vance said in a post on X in February: “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” Yet, that’s exactly what is happening. The United States is facing what El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele described as a “judicial coup.”

Trump administration says it is working to reinstate more than 24,000 fired federal workers – NBC News

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Trump administration says it is working to reinstate more than 24,000 fired federal workers – NBC News
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 President Donald Trump’s administration says it is moving to reinstate more than 24,000 probationary workers it fired as part of its efforts to slash the size of the federal workforce, court documents filed Monday show.

Officials at 18 departments and agencies submitted signed declarations detailing their teams’ efforts to rehire the fired workers in order to comply with court orders. Last week two federal judges ordered the administration to temporarily reinstate thousands of probationary workers who were fired.

The documents are the first full accounting of how many people lost their jobs in the Trump administration’s mass firings of probationary workers, who have typically held their positions for less than two years and don’t have full civil service protections.

Elon Musk’s DOGE leadership likely violates constitution’s appointments clause, judge says – TechCrunch

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Elon Musk’s DOGE leadership likely violates constitution’s appointments clause, judge says – TechCrunch
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Elon Musk’s role overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is likely a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s appointments clause, a federal judge wrote Tuesday.

Theodore Chuang, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, wrote in an opinion there is more than enough evidence — mostly from statements made by Musk and Donald Trump — that shows the world’s richest man is really acting as the head of DOGE despite the government’s claim he is merely a “special advisor to the president.”

Chuang issued the opinion in a case brought against Musk and DOGE by unnamed workers at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The judge also wrote that the actions Musk has taken in that role, like shutting down USAID — which Musk said he threw into the “wood chipper” — are therefore likely unconstitutional, too.

“Musk has exerted actual authority at USAID that only a properly appointed Officer can exercise,” he wrote. (Officer of the United States is a legal distinction set out by the appointments clause.)

Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Terminating EPA ‘Gold Bars’ Grants– dailycaller.com

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Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Terminating EPA ‘Gold Bars’ Grants– dailycaller.com
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A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama ruled Tuesday evening to block the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from terminating $20 billion in grants doled out through a Biden-era program.

Federal D.C. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that the EPA could not currently revoke money that the agency parked in accounts at Citibank in the final days of the Biden administration. The judge wrote that the Trump EPA “gave no legal justification for the termination” of the agreements with the recipients while the administration “vaguely” outlined its initial concerns with the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF).

While Chutkan did temporarily block EPA from moving forward with its push to claw back the funds, she noted in her filing that the ruling does not permanently prevent the EPA from recovering the money.