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If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal,
The President's powers in the realm of foreign affairs are generally vast and unreviewable,
government lawyers argued The broad categorical and sweeping freeze of federal funds is, as the Court found, likely unconstitutional, ... and has caused and continues to cause irreparable harm to a vast portion of this country."
Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency's work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer to the President,
Billions of Dollars of FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE, has already been found in the investigation of our incompetently run Government,
Trump wrote on TRUTH Social on Tuesday My read is that President Trump is testing the outer boundaries of what he might be able to get away with, doing a lot of things that are blatantly against the law and maybe some things that are closer to the line,
said Fred Smith, a professor at the Emory School of Law If the executive decides it will obey some court orders but not others, it will find it won't get any court orders that it wishes to obey,
said Philip Bobbitt, a constitutional scholar at Columbia University Law School I'm open to the argument that truly extraordinary circumstances (the makings of a wild hypothetical) might justify defiance,
They are breaking a lot of norms,
Smith added of the nascent Trump administration John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"
Jackson allegedly said of the Chief Justice's ruling Maybe we have to look at the judges,
We want to weed out the corruption,
Judges are very leery of using that – and maybe appropriately so – because it’s such a hammer. The threat of sending somebody to jail is sort of a last resort,
said Carl Tobias, a constitutional law professor at the University of Richmond School of Law If the president were to defy an order, it would cause a political firestorm,
So you fine whoever the relevant defendant is, whether it’s secretary of the Treasury or some other official, and the fines escalate (as the non-compliance continues),
said Michael Dorf, a constitutional law professor at Cornell Law School The response, ... would be to punish the Republican Party.”
Well, I always abide by the courts, and then I’ll have to appeal it – but then what he’s done is he’s slowed down the momentum, and it gives crooked people more time to cover up the books,
If they’ve been willing to defy the order in the first place, they might be willing to defy the sanctions order,
Rest assured, these cases will work their way up to the Supreme Court, and there, the conservative majority will determine one way or another, whether this is lawful or not,
A temporary restraining order doesn’t necessarily mean that Trump and the government lose. It just maintains the status quo."
Speaking to LiveNOW with Fox’s Andrew Craft, Rahmani stated
