Trump Lawfare

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.”

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.

Democrats Turn to Legally Dubious Ruling Coauthored by DEI Activist To Protect California’s EV Mandate– freebeacon.com
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Democrats are relying on a recent memo from the Government Accountability Office to argue that President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans can’t pass a bill repealing a Biden-era waiver allowing California to mandate electric vehicles in the state. But legal experts say the memo—whose authors include a prominent DEI activist—isn’t legally binding and relies on dubious reasoning.

The Government Accountability Office—which conducts audits and analyses for Congress but has minimal legislative authority—published the memo earlier this month just two weeks after Democratic senators Adam Schiff (Calif.), Alex Padilla (Calif.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) asked it to investigate the issue. Media outlets then reported that the memo determined a bill to reverse the Biden-era action is “illegal” and that the office, therefore, “blocks” such a bill.

The office’s memo presents a potential roadblock to Trump’s energy agenda, a key tenet of which involves revoking electric vehicle mandates. Democrats, who cheered the opinion immediately after it was published, may request that the Senate parliamentarian weigh in on the issue and consult the Government Accountability Office’s opinion.

 

Judge Blocks Trump From Stripping Law Firm That Peddled Russian Collusion Hoax of Its Security Clearances– townhall.com
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Katie wrote about this: the security clearances for a slew of bad actors from the deep state got revoked, including those from law firm Perkins Coie, who were one of the prime drivers of the Russian collusion hoax.

“This is an absolute honor to sign. What they’ve done is just terrible. It’s a weaponization, you could say weaponization against a political opponent, and it should never be allowed to happen again,” said President Trump last week when he signed the executive order stripping the firm of its clearance.

Insurrectionist NY Attorney General Letitia James has informed hospitals in her jurisdiction that they must follow state law, and disregard concern over the loss of federal funding so you can and WILL continue to chemically castrate, physically mutilate children in the name of the trans ideology.

Trump issued an order January 28 prohibiting federal funding for hospitals that give “gender affirming” surgery, hormone treatment to children under 18. James wrote, “Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York State laws, including those that prohibit discrimination against individuals based on their membership in a protected class, such as sex [and] gender identity or expression.”

Letitia James wants NY hospitals to continue gender ‘mutilation’ of minors, despite Trump order– www.theblaze.com
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New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) has warned hospitals in her state that they must continue providing so-called “gender affirming care” to minors, despite an executive order from President Donald Trump, or risk possible repercussions for engaging in “discrimination.”

On January 28, Trump issued an executive order prohibiting federal funding for medical facilities that supposedly help a child 18 years old or younger “‘transition’ … from one sex to another.” The order described such procedures as “chemical and surgical mutilation” and noted they often result in permanent reproductive damage.

“Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding. Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization,” the executive order explained.

A Crime Without a Criminal Act. A Sentence Without a Punishment. – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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Donald Trump will not go to jail or be put on probation for being convicted of 34 charges that never should have been brought against him by a prosecutor who could never articulate the criminal conduct that led to those charges and sentenced by a judge who claimed that Trump’s election put him above the law.

 

Partisan hatred and revenge drove this prosecution. Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, brought charges against Trump for falsifying his business records to hide payments made to pornstar Stormy Daniels.

Falsifying business records is a misdemeanor. But in order to bump the charges up to a felony, Bragg claimed that the records were altered for political purposes and that Trump tried to hide the payments because they would have damaged him so severely that he would have lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Trump Receives No Penalties in New York Hush Money Case– freebeacon.com
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President-elect Donald Trump will face no jail time or financial penalties in his New York hush money case, as the judge presiding over the trial issued an unconditional discharge on Friday.

“The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt,” Trump posted on Truth Social after attending the 40-minute, virtual sentencing. “Today’s event was a despicable charade, and now that it is over, we will appeal this Hoax, which has no merit, and restore the trust of Americans in our once great System of Justice.”

Judge Juan Merchan’s ruling of an unconditional discharge, a move that carries no punishment, follows months-long speculation over the implications of convicting a former or incoming president. The judge pushed back the sentencing date for months as he weighed whether a conviction would withstand the Supreme Court’s ruling last summer on broad presidential immunity.

Trump Sentenced to Unconditional Discharge in New York Hush Money Case– legalinsurrection.com
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Judge Juan Merchan sentenced President-elect Donald Trump to unconditional discharge.

In New York, an unconditional discharge means the court found someone committed the crime but thinks a punishment doesn’t serve a purpose.

That means Trump won’t serve prison time, fine, or probation supervision.

The sentencing means Trump is a felon. None of us are stupid. We all know the whole point of this circus was to slap Trump with the felon label.

Trump To Be America’s First Felon President As SCOTUS Humiliates Him While Denying Sentencing Delay– www.politicususa.com
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President-Elect Donald Trump frantically appealed to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to get sentencing for 34 felonies in the state of New York delayed. Not even a conversation with Justice Samuel Alito that came under scrutiny could sway the court.

 

In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled:

The application for stay presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is denied for, inter alia, the following reasons.

First, the alleged evidentiary violations at President-Elect Trump’s state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal.

Second, the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of “unconditional discharge” after a brief virtual hearing.

Trump Is a Felon, But Will Not Be Punished – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com
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Trump in Manhattan criminal court in May.Michael M. Santiago/PA Wire/Zuma

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Donald Trump’s criminal case ended with a sputter on Friday morning as a New York City judge sentenced him to no jail time and discharged his case. While the incoming president received no actual punishment for his 34 convictions for concealing hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, the sentencing did formalize his status as a felon—a first for any American president. Trump did not have to be present in court for the sentencing, but appeared by video from Mar-a-Lago, sitting next to his attorney.

“This defendant… has placed officers of the court in harm’s way.”

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Halt Sentencing in New York Hush Money Case– legalinsurrection.com
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President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to halt his Friday sentencing for the hush money case in New York City.

Trump’s lawyers wrote:

This Court should enter an immediate stay of further proceedings in the New York trial court to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government. The commencement of President Trump’s interlocutory appeal raising claims of Presidential immunity causes an automatic stay of proceedings in the trial court under Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024) (“Trump”), and related case law. This appeal will ultimately result in the dismissal of the District Attorney’s politically motivated prosecution that was flawed from the very beginning, centered around the wrongful actions and false claims of a disgraced, disbarred serial-liar former attorney, violated President Trump’s due process rights, and had no merit. In the meantime, the New York trial court lacks authority to impose sentence and judgment on President Trump—or conduct any further criminal proceedings against him—until the resolution of his underlying appeal raising substantial claims of Presidential immunity, including by review in this Court if necessary.

Fani Willis Owes Judicial Watch a Boatload of Money– townhall.com
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A Fulton County court has ordered anti-Trump DA Fani Willis to pay Judicial Watch thousands of dollars in attorney’s fees and litigation expenses for flouting the state’s public records law.

BREAKING: The Superior Court in Fulton County, GA, issued an order granting $21,578 “attorney’s fees and costs” in the open records lawsuit for communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee (1/3). https://t.co/qcVL9VTlfT

— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) January 7, 2025

In December, the same Superior Court found that the Fulton County district attorney violated Georgia’s Open Records Act (ORA) in a lawsuit brought by the government watchdog group. Under court order, Willis then confessed to wrongly withholding records that Judicial Watch had repeatedly requested.

“The ORA is not hortatory; it is mandatory,” Judge Robert McBurney declared in Friday’s five-page filing finding Willis financially liable. “Non-compliance has consequences. One of them can be [financial] liability,” McBurney chastised, like covering court costs.

Joy Reid, Adam Schiff Politicize L.A. Fires to Bash Trump– www.newsbusters.org
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Leave it to MSNBC’s Joy Reid to indulge her Trump derangement with no restraint, even in the middle of an ongoing disaster. Such was the case when she and Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) disgustingly politicized the horrific Los Angeles fires in order to score cheap dunks on President-Elect Donald Trump.

WATCH the exchange between Reid and Schiff (click “expand” to view transcript):

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Efforts by the Trump legal team to stop the pending sentencing of his felony conviction in the kangaroo court trial run by DNC activist Judge Juan Merchan were halted by the New York Court of Appeals’ Judge Ellen Gesmer, who dismissed the emergency motion. The full panel is likely to be next in line to review the emergency appeal.

US appeals court rejects Trump’s request to delay hush money sentencing – RBC-Ukraine
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The New York Court of Appeals has rejected a request to reschedule the sentencing of US President-elect Donald Trump. This concerns the case involving the alleged hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels, reports The Hill.

Judge Ellen Gesmer of the Court of Appeals dismissed Trump’s emergency motion to immediately halt the proceedings, which would solidify his status as a criminal before returning to the White House.

According to The Hill, Trump will most likely appeal to a panel of judges at the appellate court to stop the sentencing. At the same time, he will challenge two rulings by Judge Juan Merchan, which allow his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments to the adult film star to stand.

Trump Takes Aim at Kamala’s ‘Illegal’ Pre-Interview Campaign Payments to Sharpton, Potentially Spelling Trouble for Comcast’s Bid To Spin Off MSNBC– freebeacon.com
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President-elect Donald Trump accused MSNBC host Al Sharpton of taking illegal donations from the Kamala Harris campaign ahead of softball interviews with the Democrat last year, potentially spelling trouble for MSNBC and its parent company Comcast ahead of a planned corporate spinoff.

In a series of posts on Truth Social, Trump accused the Harris campaign of seeking to “illegally buy endorsements” from Sharpton and celebrities like Beyoncé Knowles and Oprah Winfrey prior to the election.

Trump’s remarks were based on a Washington Free Beacon report that the Harris campaign donated $500,000 to Sharpton’s nonprofit, the National Action Network, weeks before the activist interviewed Harris on his MSNBC show, PoliticsNation.

“Totally against the law,” Trump asserted.

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Jack Smith’s Last-Ditch Attempt to Damage Trump– www.westernjournal.com
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Federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday temporarily blocked special counsel Jack Smith from releasing his final report regarding his criminal investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.

“Trump co-defendants Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira filed an emergency motion to block the reported imminent release of Smith’s final report,” Fox News reported.

The report is expected to cover Smith’s prosecutions of Trump concerning his alleged mishandling of classified documents, which the special counsel’s office brought in Florida, and Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election, which Smith filed in Washington, D.C.

Cannon — who dismissed the classified documents case in July — said in her Tuesday order she was blocking the report from being released “to prevent irreparable harm arising from the circumstances as described in the current record in this emergency posture, and to permit an orderly and deliberative sequence of events.”