Injustice for all is a weekly series on how the Trump administration is trying to arm the judicial system and those who retaliate.
The judges of the lower courts prove to be not great fans of the habit of President Donald Trump to issue decrees that claim to erase any part of the government he does not like.
Earlier this week, American district judge John McConnell blocked The Trump administration to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Development Agency for Minority Business and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
Trump's attempt to dismantle these institutions is not only an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers, although this is certainly that. According to McConnell, he also violates the Administrative procedure law and the Take Care Clause. It is completely the tip of the hat!
Let's start with APA.
Despite what Trump thinks, agencies cannot just do what they want when they wish. They must provide a satisfactory explanation for their actions and show a link between the facts and the agency's decision. If they don't, the court must throw it away. Here, McConnell noted that the administration offered no reasonable explanation on how it had decided which parts of these agencies are in empty.
Now let's examine the Take Care clause.
Asset love this part of article II of the Constitution, which stipulates that “the president takes care that the laws are faithfully executed”.
He sees it as a subsidy of power: the executive power is responsible for enforcing the law and can therefore do whatever he wants. Oddly, Trump does not seem Think that the Take Care clause forces him to maintain the Constitution. The question in this case, as McConnell explained, is that federal agencies are created by law – they are literally part of the law. And Trump does not faithfully execute the law by trying to wipe it with a pen.
And finally and above all, let's talk about this annoying constitution.
McConnell said that Trump's executive decree “does not take into account the fundamental constitutional role of each of the branches of our federal government; in particular, it ignores the inexpressible principles that the Congress makes the law and appropriates funds, and the executive implements the law of the congress and expendes the appropriate congress.”
If McConnell seems exasperated, it is because he has already explained this to the Trump administration in a different case when he blocked One of the most primary and the greatest Trump funds freezes, explaining that the three branches of the government are equal and that only Congress has the power of the bag.
It must be exhausting to explain the basic civic of secondary to the President of the United States.
Juma Jamal Whitehead is fed up with the Trump administration games
Do you want to see what is happening when a judge had it here with this administration?
Meet the American district judge Jamal Whitehead. In February, Whitehead published a preliminary injunction The blocking of Trump's executive order which indefinitely suspended the entry of refugees as part of the American refugee assistance program. The executive decree functionally canceled USRAP, but USRAP was created by the Congress, so it could not be dismantled with the Trump pen.
When the administration called on the ninth circuit, this court shrinking The injunction, claiming that the Trump administration is not required to admit the refugees that have been approved by condition and had “organized organized and confirmable travel plans” by January 20.
You will not be surprised to learn that the Trump administration has played games with this order, deciding that “organized and confirmable travel plans” have somehow limited to people traveling within two weeks of January 20. It is around 160 people, against 12,000 with confirmed travel plans on subsequent dates.
But there is a small problem: there is nothing nowhere, in anything, about a limit of two weeks, and Whitehead is not happy.
“This court will not entertain the rewriting focused on the government's results of a judicial order which clearly says what it says. The government is free, of course, to seek more clarification of the ninth circuit. But the government is not free to disobey the statutory and constitutional law and he wrote.
Again, it must be exhausting to explain the basic civic of secondary to the President of the United States,
You happen well, Ed Martin
It's time to say goodbye to Trump's original candidate for the American lawyer for Washington, DC, Ed Martin.
Martin's explosive intimidation was so off -putting that the Senator of the North Carolina Gop Thom Tillis Ranks Broke To say that he would not support the appointment. Yes, it is the same man who voted to confirm Defense secretary Pete Hegseth.
With Martin Gone, who will launch nonsense electoral fraud surveys, protect members of the GOP house against be arrested for domestic violence, or threaten people to criticize Elon Musk?
Don't be afraid. Trump's new candidate, Fox News host fantastically unleashed Jeanine Pirrowill probably do all these things and more. Pirro is also large electoral negative As Martin, and she still faces $ 2.7 billion defamation trials De Smartmatic, a voting machine company that she has coated several times On Fox News. But in this administration, it is probably a badge of honor.
It turns out that the Trump administration is not good for business
It is difficult to keep track of all fantasy law firms that line up to give Trump millions of dollars in free legal services, but one thing is certain: this is not fine for these companies.
The oldest law firm in New York, Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, conclude an agreement With Trump last month, offering 100 million dollars customary in Pro Bono. What is Trump's beef with Cadwalader? They would not represent him in his criminal affairs. Todd Blanche, who was a partner there, resigned and launched his own business just to work for the worst living person.
Now Cadwalader is Hermorraging Adtorneys. People do not seem to like to work for law firms who accept unconstitutional good deals with a madman. And with the news that Trump expects these companies to represent the bad cops for free, things will only get worse.
Foreign donors for me but not for you
Trump's recent decree on higher education inserted that universities are in gold does not disclose International gifts exceeding $ 250,000 if necessary. Trump says he needs this information “Protect the market from ideas against propaganda sponsored by foreign governments, and save students and research in America against foreign exploitation.”
This is his new base for go after Harvard, and in addition to demanding all communications with foreign donors, the administration also wants recordings from any foreigner who has been in Harvard in any role since 2010. It is not clear what former foreign students and researchers at random have to do with anything, because it is unlikely that these people secretly give Harvard $ 250,000.
Compare this deep concern concerning the malignant influence of foreign money on schools with what Trump thinks of foreign money in the pockets of his family and his corrupt friends – and even himself. Foreign governments are literally Access purchase To Trump by leading millions of people to his Arcmale family of the family of the family. It is not even subtle from a distance.
The Trump administration also Pause application Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it illegal for citizens or American companies to bring foreign officials to obtain trade agreements.
In addition, it refers the application of the law on the registration of foreign agents, which obliges anyone who puts pressure on behalf of a foreign entity to register with the government and disclose its activity. But the friends of Trump Paul Manafort and Elliott Broïdy were accused of crimes related to Fara, so the solution is to make the law disappear rather than to have them followed by the law.
Trump always uses the same old game book: when he does not like a law or a government agency, he simply gets rid of it.
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