‘Just a Complete Destruction of This Executive Order’: Jeffrey Toobin in Awe of Judge’s Ruling Against Trump “Judge Beryl Howell called Trump’s order a ‘punishment for a singled-out entity being disloyal,'” Cooper noted. “She went on to say when ‘the Queen of Hearts yells off with their heads for her subjects that it cannot be the reality we are living under.'” Cooper then welcomed former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin, who explained why Howell’s ruling was a first for him. “You know, Anderson, I’ve heard a lot of court rulings, but I have never heard a judge declare something unconstitutional in so many different ways,” Toobin said. “She said this was a violation of the First Amendment free speech rights. She said it was a violation of the right to counsel. She said it was a violation of due process. She said it was a bill of attainder, which means it was specifically targeted against one entity, this law firm. I mean, it was just a complete destruction of this executive order – for now.” ........................................... “And the president doesn’t have to give a reason,” Toobin replied. “It can be a good reason. It can be a bad reason. And Judge Howell made a very interesting argument. She said, ‘You mean, you could go after Williams and Connolly,’ which was the law firm representing Perkins Coie. ‘You could go after them for representing Perkins Coie.’ And the Justice Department lawyer sort of danced around it, but basically said, ‘Yes, this is entirely in the discretion of the president.’ And this conflict about the scope of presidential power is what all of these conflicts are really about.”
I'm sure this will help Barrett know that what she is doing is correct. Hopefully it shows Roberts why it has to be stopped. J6 pardons paying off Justice Barrett’s sister targeted with bomb threat in South Carolina The sister of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the target of a bomb threat at her home earlier this month in Charleston, South Carolina, police said Wednesday. Charleston police responded on March 10 to a politically charged email threat sent regarding Amanda Coney Williams, according to a police report reviewed by CNN. No bomb was recovered at the home. Williams is also an attorney. “I’ve constructed a pipe bomb which I recently placed in Amy Coney Barrett’s sister’s mailbox at her home,” the email read. “The device’s detonation will be triggered as soon as the mailbox is next opened. Free Palestine!” An investigation is ongoing, Charleston police said. An initial police report said Williams herself received the email, but a subsequent report said that she never received the message. An email was sent to the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, police said.
Judge orders Trump admin to rehire thousands of fired federal workers: Live Afederal judge has ordered multiple government agencies, including Veterans Affairs, Treasury and the USDA, to rehire thousands of fired probationary workers. At least 30,000 probationary workers were fired as part of the mass government layoffs. Some have since been rehired, such as staff who worked at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains and secures the country's nuclear warheads, and outbreak specialists dealing with bird flu from the USDA. What to know: [COLOR=var(--art-text-color)]The order from Judge William Alsup, a Clinton appointee, is effective immediately [/COLOR]
time for some jail time 'I'm getting mad': Judge reams Trump lawyers and threatens mass rehiring over 'sham' docs U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup blasted attorneys for the Trump administration after he said he suspected they were lying and giving him "sham" documents. At a hearing on Thursday, Alsup became angry after acting Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Charles Ezell refused an order to testify on the Trump administration's mass firings. The case was brought in February by the American Federation of Government Employees. "You will not bring the people in here to be cross-examined. You're afraid to do so because you know cross-examination would reveal the truth," the judge told government lawyers, according to Slate's Mark Joseph Stern. "I tend to doubt that you're telling me the truth whenever we hear all the evidence eventually. Why can't you bring your people in to be cross-examined or deposed at their convenience?" he continued. "I said two hours for Mr. Ezell. A deposition at his convenience. And you withdrew his declaration rather than do that? Come on. That's a sham. It upsets me, I want you to know that." "I've been practicing in this court for over 50 years and I know how we get at the truth. And you're not helping me get at the truth. You're giving me press releases, sham documents. I'm getting mad."
just keeps happening..maybe they should stop breaking the law Donald Trump Suffers Triple Blow in Courts President Donald Trump had three major setbacks in the federal courts on Wednesday and Thursday. Two of his latest rulings concern his layoff of thousands of federal workers. That, in turn, could have a major effect on the shape of the federal government. The third ruling could have major implications for January 6 defendants who face charges unrelated to the riot at the Capitol. ................. Bredar stopped Trump's sacking of probationary employees at 18 federal agencies, including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Labor, State, Transportation and Treasury. He ruled that the Trump administration had laid off new workers, still on employment probation, without using Reductions In Force [RIFs] legislation that prevents the immediate mass sacking of federal workers. ................ Although it didn't cover as many government agencies as the Maryland case, San Francisco judge Alsup strongly denounced Trump's sacking of probationary workers. He ruled that the Defense, Treasury, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs departments should "immediately" rehire thousands of probationary employees. .................... Friedrich said on Thursday that she wants answers about the "extraordinary" broad pardon that the Trump administration is now offering January 6 rioters. She was told three weeks ago that Kentucky electrician Dan Wilson was pardoned for any crimes he committed at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 but he was not pardoned for illegally storing guns at his home.
now openly attacking judges from the WH press room. really hope this makes the judicial branch bow up. If Roberts has a spine, now would be a good time to find it White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Rips ‘Low-Level Judges’ Blocking Bureaucrat Firings White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday criticized court rulings blocking President Donald Trump from dismissing probationary workers at multiple federal agencies. United States District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to re-hire thousands of workers who were dismissed while on probationary status. ................................................... “This injunction is unconstitutional,” Leavitt told reporters in response to a question. “And it is for anybody who has a basic understanding of the law. You cannot have a low-level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive authority of the president of the United States. That is completely absurd.”
stay denied..what now this is typical trump, do what i want, stall the courts until it doesn't matter anymore 'Irreparable injuries flowing': Judge slams Trump DOJ for refusing to ‘make any further effort to get at the truth’ in probationary firings case, denies motion for stay A federal judge has denied a request by the Trump administration for a stay on an order he issued last week — declaring the president’s firing of tens of thousands of probationary employees over the past two months as “unlawful” and choosing to reinstate the workers — in what he now fears could be a lost cause due to efforts by the government to “stonewall” him. “A stay would further injure plaintiffs because reinstatement becomes more difficult with every passing day,” U.S. District Judge William Alsup, a Bill Clinton appointee, wrote on Saturday in an order denying the motion to stay from Trump’s Justice Department. “Terminated probationers are moving on with their lives, as they must,” Alsup said. “Fewer will be available to redress the harms suffered by the organizational plaintiffs tomorrow than there are today. And, the government has wholly failed to argue there is any other way to avoid the irreparable injuries flowing from the unlawful terminations except to reinstate the employees.” On Thursday, Alsup tore into the Trump administration for its mass firings of probationary employees — calling it a “sad day” when the government would terminate “good” workers supposedly on the basis of performance knowing “good and well that’s a lie,” the judge said as he ordered agencies to “immediately” rehire those who have been booted.
another day, another loss Judge finds Musk and DOGE's shutdown of USAID likely unconstitutional A federal judge on Tuesday found that Elon Musk and the White House's Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution when they unilaterally acted to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of a group of more than two dozen unnamed current and former USAID employees and contractors who had challenged the efforts to shutter USAID, which were mounted by DOGE and Musk, a senior White House adviser who President Trump has said is the leader of the task force. Chuang granted in part their request for a preliminary injunction and said in a 68-page decision that DOGE and Musk likely violated the Constitution's Appointments Clause and separation of powers. He ordered Musk and task force employees to reinstate access to email, payment and other electronic systems to all current USAID employees and personal services contractors. The judge also prevented DOGE and Musk from taking any action relating to the shutdown of USAID, including placing employees on administrative leave, firing USAID workers, closing its buildings, bureaus or offices, and deleting the contents of its websites or collections.
Judge says dismantling of USAID was unconstitutional Elon Musk's attempt to unilaterally dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the United States Constitution, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ordered Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to immediately give USAID employees access to their "email, payment, security notification, and all other electronic systems," and ordered a pause on any efforts to shut down USAID. Judge Chuang wrote that Musk's takeover "usurped the authority of the public's elected representatives in Congress to make decisions on whether, when, and how to eliminate a federal government agency, and of Officers of the United States duly appointed under the Constitution to exercise the authority entrusted to them." While Judge Chuang rebuked Musk's role within the Trump administration, the exact implications of the decision on the operations of USAID are unclear.
and here is the doubleheader Donald Trump Handed Legal Loss as Judge Blocks Transgender Military Ban Federal Judge Ana Reyes on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender individuals from military service. Newsweek reached out to the Department of Defense (DOD) via email for comment Tuesday night.
Conservative former federal judge says Trump has ‘declared war’ on US rule of law | Donald Trump | The Guardian Trump has “declared war on the rule of law in America” and is pitching the country into a constitutional crisis, a prominent former conservative federal judge said.“The president of the United States has essentially declared war on the rule of law in America,” J Michael Luttig told MSNBC. “In the past few weeks … the president himself has led a full-frontal assault on the constitution, the rule of law, the federal judiciary, the American justice system and the nation’s legal profession. “When the president of the United States wages a war on the rule of law and the federal judiciary alley, America is in a constitutional crisis. The constitutional role of the president is to faithfully execute the laws. Needless to say, the president is doing anything but that at the moment. Most constitutional scholars have long agreed that a constitutional crisis exists at least when the president defies a court order. That’s essentially what the president is doing today and what it appears he intends to do in the future.” ........................................ Luttig, 70, was long thought a possible supreme court nominee himself. A mentor to the hard-right Texas senator Ted Cruz, he was an ally of Clarence Thomas, a hard-right justice still on the supreme court, during his confirmation in 1991. But Luttig has emerged as a prominent Trump opponent, giving memorable testimony to the House January 6 committee, which investigated the attack on Congress that Trump incited in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election. On Wednesday, he doubled down on his remarks to MSNBC, in which he said: “No president of the United States, in the country’s almost 250-year history, has defied a federal court order … If this president defies a federal court order, the country will be in a constitutional crisis. How does that crisis end? We don’t know, because it’s never happened before.”
Court blocked DOGE’s access to social security data today, citing privacy concerns. Interestingly, the court pointed out that DOGE refuses to provide the names of their agents who have already accessed the data, citing THEIR OWN privacy as the reason…. So some non government people have accessed the data already and we are not allowed to know who… this is what America voted for…
'Intemperate and disrespectful language': Federal judge fed-up with tone of Trump admin filings, promises 'consequences' for officials who violated deportation order A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday, took the Trump administration to task over its use of an 18th-century wartime power to summarily deport more than 100 alleged Venezuelan gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador without due process. The case quickly became a legal tinderbox, beginning when the administration allegedly ignored a court order directing it to have two planes full of migrants immediately returned to the country. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wasted no time in calling out Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign over the Justice Department’s conduct in connection with the case, particularly highlighting the tone and tenor the government has employed in recent court filings. The judge said the filings contained “the kind of intemperate and disrespectful language that I am not used to hearing from the United States.” Boasberg also repeatedly indicated that he was skeptical that President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 could be used during peacetime and against a nebulously defined “enemy” — in this case the Venezuelan gang Tran de Aragua (TdA) — as opposed to a foreign government.
there is going to be a decision made as to whether this act can be used 1) when nt in a declared war 2) against non-conventional groups not affiliated with war time enemies ie, it doesn't pass the straight face test, just like lil marco's attempt this is all that weasel Miller bs using every obscure/arcane law they can dredge out and try and find a way to allow it to be used to give authoritarian power to his dear leader so he can whisper sweet nothings in his ear about how powerful he would look if he did X. meanwhile trummp just extorted $40M in probono legal services in exchange for security clearances being reinstated to support Miller's million case plan to judge shopping of any obscure law he can find to get that power. literally used security clearances to extort pro-bono legal services to advance a far right radical agenda
