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(DIR) Post #AwMS5oKG5WfSTu6yrA by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T14:43:01Z
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#GiftArticle#Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 #judges who ruled against him
A comprehensive analysis of hundreds of lawsuits against Trump policies shows dozens of examples of defiance, delay & dishonesty, which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the #US #legal system.#law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower https://wapo.st/4eVMYP0
(DIR) Post #AwMSNIaioZvlGs9R0y by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-07-21T14:46:09Z
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@Nonilex SCOTUS has his back....those fuckers should be impeached right along with him.
(DIR) Post #AwMSPx3RLQLfLQqgXw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T14:46:42Z
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#Trump & his appointees have been accused of flouting #courts in a THIRD of the >160 lawsuits against the admin in which a judge has issued a substantive ruling…suggesting widespread noncompliance w/ America’s #legal system.
Plaintiffs say #DOJ lawyers & the agencies they represent are snubbing rulings, providing false information, failing to turn over evidence, quietly working around court orders & inventing pretexts to carry out actions that have been blocked.
#law #judiciary #Constitution
(DIR) Post #AwMSVI76TUxA6e6mi8 by alex_p_roe@mastodon.world
2025-07-21T14:47:36Z
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@Nonilex #Rip the #RepublicanParty of “law and order”.
(DIR) Post #AwMSaJBRvKDisBX9A8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T14:48:33Z
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#Judges appointed by presidents of both parties have often agreed. None have taken punitive action to try to force #compliance, however, allowing the admin’s defiance of orders to go on for weeks or even months in some instances.Outside #legal analysts say #courts typically are slow to begin #contempt proceedings for #noncompliance,especially while their rulings are under appeal.#Trump #law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMSewjko7Buhgn5yi by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T14:49:23Z
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#Judges also are likely to be concerned, analysts say, that the US #Marshals Service — whose director is appointed by the president — might not serve subpoenas or take recalcitrant govt ofcls into custody if ordered to by the courts.#Trump #law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMSpmcCmQRYUsQYVc by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T14:51:21Z
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The allegations against the admin are crystallized in a #whistleblower complaint filed to #Congress late last month that accused #DOJ ofcls of ignoring court orders in #immigration cases, presenting #legal arguments with no basis in the #law & misrepresenting facts. #SCOTUS Justice Sonia #Sotomayor also chided the admin, writing that #Trump ofcls had “openly flouted” a judge’s order not to deport migrants to a country where they did not have citizenship.#judiciary #democracy #Autocracy
(DIR) Post #AwMSx0e90iBk2cmQjI by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T14:52:39Z
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The Post examined 337 lawsuits filed against the admin since #Trump returned to the White House & began a rapid-fire effort to reshape government programs & policy. As of mid-July, #courts had ruled against the admin in 165 of the lawsuits. The Post found that the admin is accused of defying or frustrating court oversight in 57 of those cases — almost 35%.#law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMT7JebCFEbt4uJea by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T14:54:29Z
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#Legal experts said the pattern of conduct is unprecedented for any presidential admin & threatens to undermine the #judiciary’s role as a check on an #ExecutiveBranch asserting vast #powers that test the boundaries of the #law & #Constitution. #Immigration cases have emerged as the biggest flash point, but the admin has also been repeatedly accused of failing to comply in lawsuits involving cuts to federal #funding & the #workforce.#Trump #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMTDoqa8LH8Mwc4mW by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T14:55:42Z
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#Trump officials deny defying court orders, even as they accuse those who have issued them of “judicial tyranny.” When #SCOTUS in June restricted the circumstances under which presidential policies could be halted nationwide while they are challenged in court, Trump hailed the ruling as halting a “colossal abuse of power.”#law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMTSyZkFIL4svxu2i by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T14:58:26Z
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…Retired federal judge & fmr #Watergate special prosecutor Paul Michel compared the situation to the summer of 1974, when #SCOTUS ordered President #Nixon to turn over Oval Office recordings as part of the Watergate investigation. Nixon initially refused, prompting fears of a #ConstitutionalCrisis, but ultimately complied.
“The current challenge is even bigger & more complicated because it involves hundreds of actions, not one subpoena for a set of tapes. We’re in new territory.”#Trump #law
(DIR) Post #AwMUN1nNSf1n5W4MF6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T15:08:32Z
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…“The #courts can’t enforce their own rulings — that has to be done by the executive branch,” said Michel, the fmr judge & Watergate special prosecutor.
He was referring to US #Marshals, the #ExecutiveBranch law enforcement personnel who carry out court orders related to #contempt proceedings, whether that is serving subpoenas or arresting officials whom a judge has ordered jailed for not complying.#Trump #law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMUSi1js9fTVzUnUu by nonproductive@mastodon.social
2025-07-21T15:09:32Z
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@Nonilex And they report to Pam Bondi… so… ☹️
(DIR) Post #AwMUTBYi4eGz6e92Po by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T15:09:41Z
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Former #judges & other #legal experts said judges might be calculating that a confrontation over #contempt proceedings could result in the administration ordering #marshals to defy the #courts. That type of standoff could significantly undermine the #authority of judges.#Trump #law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMUbrl33xoSIi3ULA by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T15:11:14Z
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The #SCOTUS June decision to scale back the ability of lower #courts to issue #NationwideInjunctions, & the administration’s success at persuading the justices to overturn about a dozen temporary blocks on its agenda in recent months, might only embolden #Trump officials to defy lower courts, several #legal experts said.#law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMUkCNWHRBUZS1Uwa by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T15:12:44Z
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Justice #Sotomayor echoed that concern in a recent dissent when she accused #SCOTUS of “rewarding lawlessness” by allowing #Trump officials to deport immigrants to countries that are not their homelands. The conservative majority gave the green light, she noted, after Trump officials twice carried out deportations despite lower court orders blocking the moves.#law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMUts6wUMQwbmsjPE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T15:14:28Z
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“This is not the first time the court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last,” #Sotomayor wrote. “Yet each time this court rewards noncompliance with discretionary relief, it further erodes respect for #courts & for the rule of #law.”#Trump #law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMUvAnEVxnSq7HdQm by Thomas_Wassermann@mastodon.social
2025-07-21T15:14:42Z
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@Nonilex So it escalates further to civil war...
(DIR) Post #AwMV71tLR4PShunOV6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T15:16:52Z
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2 months after a federal court temporarily blocked Trump’s freeze on billions in congressionally approved #ForeignAid, an attorney for relief orgas said the govt had taken “literally zero steps to allocate this money.”Judge Amir Ali, a Biden appointee, has ordered the admin to explain what it is doing to comply w/the order. #Trump ofcls have said they will eventually release the funds, but #aid groups worry the admin is simply trying to delay until the allocations expire in the fall.#law
(DIR) Post #AwMVDlRSzeThiUy252 by Lizette603_23@mastodon.social
2025-07-21T15:18:03Z
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@Nonilex that's exactly what they're doing. Just like they're going to bring back people illegally relocated, but they're gonna wait til they're "expired", too
(DIR) Post #AwMVFeBCxtzZlxGCTw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T15:18:26Z
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Meanwhile, about 66,000 tons of #food #aid is in danger of rotting in warehouses, #AIDS cases are forecast to spike in #Africa & the government projected the cuts would result in 200,000 more cases of paralysis caused by #polio each year. Already, children are dying unnecessarily in #Sudan.#Trump #law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMVSAJBKzSKtOxWe8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T15:20:42Z
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Such situations have prompted some former #judges to do something most generally do not—speak out. More than two dozen retired judges appointed by Republican & Democratic presidents have formed the #ArticleIII Coalition to push back on attacks & #disinformation about the #courts.#Trump #law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMVTp0HWGXRObuNzE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-21T15:20:58Z
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Robert J. Cindrich, who helped found the group, said the country is not yet in a #ConstitutionalCrisis [really?] but that the strain on the courts is immense. Citing the admin’s response to orders, as well as its attacks on judges & law firms, Cindrich said, “The judiciary is being put under siege.”#Trump #law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
(DIR) Post #AwMXAzWeNGV4R5CIds by quixote@mastodon.nz
2025-07-21T15:39:40Z
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@Nonilex "which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the #US #legal system"I'm the opposite of any kind of legal expert, but may I say ........ DUUUH.(Sorry for the outburst. Him leading the law around by the nose for forty goddamn years by now makes me scream.)
(DIR) Post #AwMYU4vcbwQkeGXizI by Star12Mt@masto.nyc
2025-07-21T15:54:34Z
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@Nonilex Then Cindrich is not worth listening to, he still isn't living in reality
(DIR) Post #AwMatj28q0TGBEwwG8 by CharmingMalcontent@mastodon.social
2025-07-21T16:21:38Z
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@Nonilex DISTRACT MUCH FAT MAN??!!#GOPedo #ClownShow #TACOpedo #FuckedCountry
(DIR) Post #AwMfRNc3NyoPPK3BZI by crdfilm@mastodon.social
2025-07-21T17:12:32Z
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@Nonilex Oh girl, the ship as sailed on respect for the courts.
(DIR) Post #AwMfkbgtGgwkZVTsbA by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-07-21T17:16:01Z
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@Nonilex No shit sherlock.....delay x 250
(DIR) Post #AwMg2BZp68x6nEYcue by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-07-21T17:19:13Z
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@Nonilex They need to stop saying all the time and start doing .Name namesContempt chargesThe list goes on.
(DIR) Post #AwMlaDCy2SaBT9uYdM by mast0d0nphan@mastodon.social
2025-07-21T18:21:22Z
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@Nonilex So tired of just screaming into the void "PUNISH THEM!!!!"
(DIR) Post #AwMn08ReTEDYBDhkoK by knutson_brain@sfba.social
2025-07-21T18:36:14Z
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@Nonilex Then they should go to prison.