4 for Friday. Judges rule POTUS doing more illegal stuff

Maine wins one. Donald Trump hit by legal setback in transgender athletes fight

On Friday, District Judge John Woodcock Jr. imposed a temporary restraining order banning the Department of Agriculture from "freezing, terminating, or otherwise interfering with the state of Maine's future federal funding for alleged violations of Title IX."

 

Judge permitted the process to move forward. The same Louisiana Judge that DOJ has been shopping all their ICE cases to.

NJ Judge still has hold on any deportation

Now about those other 3k being held without due process..next

Judge deals Mahmoud Khalil major setback in deportation fight
Despite the judge's ruling, Khalil's habeas case in New Jersey continues, with the judge there ordering a prompt conference to discuss Friday's decision. Khalil is seeking release from jail, to continue to fight his deportation from home alongside his wife.

 

So even though Rubio admits he didn't break any laws the backwater jr immigration judge that the admin judge shopped these cases to by illegally transferring people to that jurisdiction said he could be deported anyway.

Sounds like Cannon found her huckleberry.

Now you understand why they transport everyone down there and why they fight so hard to have cases heard there, to get that "judge"

Trump admin admits green card holder Mahmoud Khalil's actions were "lawful"

a memo that detained former Columbia graduate student and Palestinian protester Mahmoud Khalil's campus activities were "otherwise lawful," but noted that Khalil's deportation is necessary to avoid undermining U.S. foreign policy.

 

But Elon supporting right wing extremists around the globe

Supports US policy?

 

so good you had to say it twice...I spent a handful of years in the swamps of south Louisiana (south of NO), I know how backwater it is. his decision confirms his heritage. no legal reason, just said it was the right thing to do. good people, loyal people, just easily misled when emotions get involved. it's the french blood, makes the wimmin hot too.

how do you feel about potus ignoring a 9-0 supreme court decision and failing to return the person they illegally deported?

edit..but you are correct, I shouldn't result to ridicule, the reasoning by the decision was enough to establish their bonafides. I edited the post to better reflect the inequalities being a advanced by the admin by judge shopping to a jr immigration maga judge in the backwaters of louisiana

or the WH ignoring a judge's order and refusing to credential the AP?

'Lawless': Trump reamed for defying another court order

"NEW: An AP journalist was denied access to an Oval Office event with Donald Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, despite a ruling by a federal judge last week ordering the WH to restore The Associated Press’s full access to cover presidential events on First Amendment grounds," wrote the Republicans Against Trump account, adding that Trump is "the most lawless president in modern American history."

 

Boasberg has had enough, skipped right past civil contempt to criminal contempt.

will we find out again that just following orders is not a lawful defense?

gives them an out that I doubt they will take..identify who authorized the flights to leave after the verbal order was given not to

'Willful disregard': Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold Trump admin in criminal contempt - Alternet.org

Citing a “willful disregard,” Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has found probable cause that the Trump administration could be held in criminal contempt of court after officials defied his order to not remove Venezuelan migrants from the country based on a centuries-old wartime law.

Boasberg, first appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush, on Wednesday “said he would launch proceedings to determine whether to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt,” The Washington Post reported.

Pointing to the “broader showdown between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary,” the Post reported that Boasberg “[said] the Trump administration’s actions on March 15, as the removal flights proceeded despite his order to the contrary, ‘demonstrate a willful disregard … sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.'”

The judge wrote: “The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions. None of their responses has been satisfactory.”

 

and if one loss a day isn't enough

this one should set precedent to erase all that other doge bs cancelling of contracts mid contract and pulling of grants, etc for no viable reason.

Judge rules against Trump admin after it couldn’t find evidence of fraud in clean energy program

A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration in the case that alleged fraud in a Biden-era, clean-energy program, unfreezing roughly $20 billion in funding meant to support projects like new solar energy arrays and efficiency upgrades for small businesses.

Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday ruled in favor of the eight nonprofits that sued Citibank and the Trump administration, finding that the Environmental Protection Agency unlawfully terminated the program. Chutkan ordered the funds to be unfrozen at 2 p.m. Thursday and distributed to the nonprofits they were originally intended for.

Citibank — which holds several nonprofits’ funds — said in an April 2 hearing that it would unfreeze the accounts if Chutkan issued such an order.

During that hearing, Chutkan pressed DOJ attorneys on whether the federal government had found any evidence of widespread waste, fraud, or abuse in the program, as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has alleged. DOJ attorney Marc Sacks said the government had not gathered new evidence to that effect.

 

another smackdown, triple header today

trump will be claiming he scored a hat trick in the stanley cup finals by himself w=now that he has three in a day again

has a potus ever lost this many lawsuits?

Firm Behind Fox News Lawsuit Lands Big Win in Battle Against Trump

A judge handed President Donald Trump a fresh loss by blocking most of his executive order against yet another big law firm he tried to push around.

Susman Godfrey, the firm behind a successful $787 million defamation lawsuit against Fox News, was granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan.

 

Do three Ls in a single day from three different judges and criminal contempt hearings scheduled count as a smack down? Still trying to get the definition refined.

 

seems like they are pretty united in their rather pointed opinion..good

does this qualify as a smackdown?

Trump officials' defiance over Abrego Garcia's deportation is 'shocking,' appeals court says

The Trump administration’s claim that it can't do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shocking,” a federal appeals court said Thursday in a blistering order that ratchets up the escalating conflict between the government's executive and judicial branches. A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously refused to suspend a judge's decision to order sworn testimony by Trump administration officials to determine if they complied with her instruction to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return.

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who was nominated by Republican President Ronald Reagan, wrote that he and his two colleagues “cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos.” “This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time,” Wilkinson wrote.
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The seven-page order amounts to an extraordinary condemnation of the administration’s position in Abrego Garcia’s case and also an ominous warning of the dangers of an escalating conflict between the judiciary and executive branches the court said threatens to “diminish both.” It says the judiciary will be hurt by the “constant intimations of its illegitimacy” while the executive branch “will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness.”

 

sounds like a smackdown to me? Us, are you really asking us for relief when you know we think everything you are doing is wrong? Seriously, asking us? lol

unanimous decision from appeals court, not only do we support the decision but we think you are breaking lots of laws and a threat to democracy

'Not doing this right': Analyst says Trump admin legal move will 'come back to haunt them'

Dilanian cited conservative Appeals Court Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, who took the lead on the Thursday ruling: "He went on to sort of use this case as an argument against Trump administration's approach to judges in general, and to calls for impeachment of judges whose rulings they don't like, and to raise the specter that this is really undermining the rule of law."
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"And the Trump administration is saying to the circuit court of appeals, hey, help us out. We don't like this district court directive to provide this information. And I've got to tell you, in reading this seven-page opinion, it's as if the appeals court is saying, you're coming to us for help? We don't like anything you're doing. You came to the wrong place."

Cevallos explained that this could ultimately harm the Trump administration.

"As Ken can tell you, within that decision, they also added some other interpretation of words like 'facilitate,'" Cevallos said, recalling the words from the Supreme Court's ruling. "Remember, the government has to facilitate García's return. And almost gratuitously, the Fourth Circuit said, hey, here's what we think facilitate means. Not for nothing, as they say in New Jersey, this is what we think that word means, and what we think you should be doing. I don't think they really needed to do that. They could have just said, hey, a request for emergency help from us: denied. Go back down there to the district court and let this play out."

 

Musk's DOGE takes another loss in efforts to access millions of Americans' Social Security data

Baltimore, Maryland - A US judge ruled Thursday to restrict access to Americans' Social Security data for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency after unions raised concerns about the unelected billionaire's sweeping powers.

The order by District Judge Ellen Hollander bans DOGE staff from accessing data containing information that could personally identify Americans, such as their Social Security number, medical history, or bank records.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) can only give redacted or anonymized records to DOGE employees who have completed background checks and training on federal laws, regulations and privacy policies, Hollander ruled.

 

Hard to keep track..so many SMACKDOWN

Who do the judges think they are? Telling DJT he can't do whatever he wants. Di they know who he is? Lol...S.M.A.C.K.D.O.W.N
ICE ordered to reinstate legal status of over 100 students

 

surprise, another judge saying the potus is breaking the law..so many broken laws, so many injunctions, no wonder he ahd to blackmail so many legal firms into contributing hours after all the credible attorneys left the doj while their reputations were still intact

as so many have said

WE AINT AT WAR!!!

and

Fentanyl doesn't justify tariff power either, but the feckless pubs are too afraid to tell the orange man he has no robes. surprised the BBB doesn't have a suit pending on that to put an end to that charade too

‘The act cannot sustain the proclamation’: Judge notes ‘fundamental’ problem with Trump’s use of wartime law, becomes latest court after SCOTUS to block deportations

A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon made Colorado the latest jurisdiction to issue a ruling in the ever-expanding federal fight over due process under the law by barring the Trump administration from summarily deporting immigrants under the auspices of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA).

In doing so, the court looked askance at the invocation of the AEA on a fundamental level and found President Donald Trump’s March 15 proclamation wholly lacking — divorced from both facts and law.

Citing the original authors of several now-prominent and authoritative dictionaries, texts explaining how language was understood by the Founders, and decades of case law, U.S. District Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney, a Joe Biden appointee, determined that the U.S. is simply not in an actual war with Venezuela or a transnational gang from within its borders.

And an actual war with a “foreign nation or government” — or an “invasion or predatory incursion” carried out by such a foreign entity — is expressly necessary for invoking the AEA, the court notes.