Court: 'Because Trump Said To' Not a Legally Valid Defense

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

On Monday, US District Court Judge Patti Saris vacated a Trump executive order that brought a halt to all offshore wind power development, as well as some projects on land.

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Some good news! Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that Trump's executive order stopping all leasing for new wind projects was "arbitrary and capricious," violating federal law. It was the dumbest EO ever. www.rawstory.com/donald-trump ...

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... Over 10 months since the relevant government agencies were ordered to start a re-evaluation of the permitting process, testimony revealed that they had barely begun to develop the concept of a review. As such, the only reason they could offer in defense of the suspension consisted of Trump's executive order and a Department of the Interior memo implementing it.

"Whatever level of explanation is required when deviating from longstanding agency practice," Judge Saris wrote, "this is not it." ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-09 02:57 PM | Reply

Not God....

Not a King.

Lock him Up.

If it's good enough for Brazil it's good enough for the "Exceptional Nation".

#2 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-09 03:20 PM | Reply

Will stinky appeal it to "his" corrupt SCOTUS?

I bet they'll side with him.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-10 08:10 AM | Reply

@#3 ... I bet they'll side with him. ...

I do not disagree.

Pres Trump seems to cast aspersions upon the local, state and appeal Courts when they do not rule in his favor.

And I remember seeing the news video of Pres Trump apparently snubbing a SCOTUS Justice, he appointed, at a social event because the Justice did not rule in his favor.

I also remember the "impeach Earl Warren" signs I saw back in the day ...

Influence Without Impeachment: How the Impeach Earl Warren Movement Began, Faltered, But Avoided Irrelevance (2022)
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... As visitors filed into the Indianapolis Speedway on Memorial Day in 1965, they were greeted by a massive billboard declaring, "Save Our Republic! Impeach Earl Warren. ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-10 09:05 PM | Reply

I prefer the look Yul Brenner gave when, as the Pharoah Rameses, he stated "So it is written, so it shall be". El Rey Dotardo II need to work on his look. (Maybe a bald noggin would be a better look than the combover of the century)...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2025-12-11 09:30 AM | Reply

Pretty silly to think that you can stop developments because you hold a grudge. Trump won't care. He'll just keep saying he put a stop to wind projects anyway.

#6 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-12-11 01:21 PM | Reply