'Hidden' Provision in Trump's Big Bill Could Disarm SCOTUS

Thursday, May 22, 2025

A provision "hidden" in the sweeping budget bill that passed the U.S. House on Thursday seeks to limit the ability of courts -- including the U.S. Supreme Court -- from enforcing their orders.

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[1/2] Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's recent article about a provision in the House budget bill that would limit federal courts' contempt power featured in the ABA Journal Read the Journal's article, by Debra Cassens Weiss: www.abajournal.com/news/article ...

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"No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued,"

JeffJ will be along shortly to explain how this is what the Founders intended when they wrote Separation of Powers into the Constitution.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 12:41 PM | Reply

... Pres Trump continues his apparent quest to avoid accountability for his actions.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-22 12:48 PM | Reply

This saves on bullets, I suppose.

#3 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-22 04:16 PM | Reply

"JD Vance Lashes Out at Profoundly Wrong' Supreme Court Chief Justice"

www.axios.com

A war is brewing between the corrupt and the more corrupt!

I'm stocking up on popcorn!

#4 | Posted by danni at 2025-05-22 04:16 PM | Reply

"Of course due process makes it harder for the government to do what it wants. That's the whole point " to make sure that the government is acting in accord with the law."

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the Berkeley School of Law

#5 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-05-22 06:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

A few short years ago I never would have thought it possible that a branch of government would become so subservient to another branch of government that it would unconstitutionally attempt to limit the power of a co-equal branch of government just to placate a POTUS that would have been, according to them, their worst nightmare.

But here they cheer and go along with it.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-22 06:06 PM | Reply