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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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-- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) May 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM

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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

Such brazen corruption.

The "One Big Beautiful Bill" is over 1,000 pages.

Wonder what other authoritarian gems are hiding in there.

House Republicans narrowly pass budget bill after all-night session at 03:36 am.

WTF?? Why are they passing bills at 3:30 in the fricking morning?!! Did they think no one would notice?? Seriously??

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-22 11:44 PM | Reply

The judges need to all just start ignoring Trump and his Congress.

#8 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-05-23 07:36 AM | Reply

Seems to me that the court can act to be its own advocate to throwing the "Big Neautiful Billl" in the trash where it belongs andovernment and I would hope that the Congress would act with a resolution to support the Supteme Court declare that any bill that eliminates the power any one of the three branches of power in our government. I do tru;y suspect that the trillions of dollars of tax cuts they won't because Republicans are ALL COWARDS and I mean every Republican not just the politicians. We are in a Constitutional crisis worse than any such crisis in my lifetime!. It is the duty of every American to stand up now against this wannabe dictator! I truly believe that the trillions of dollars in tax cuts are really just bribes for rich Republicans to gain support for this bill which undermines Judicial Review which is the basic principle which limits Presidemtial Power since 1803 in Maebury v Madison. Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" seeks to end established law and I predict will be rejected with a unanimous vote in the Supreme Court which will, in effect, make John Roberts victorious in his war with the Devil! Really whodathunkit? John Roberts, who overruled democracy in 2000 would save it 25 years later?

#9 | Posted by danni at 2025-05-23 01:24 PM | Reply

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