update - judges strike down DEI mandate for contractors who work with govt and block dismantling CFPB

[Valcazar]

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This is a thing they did a lot of in the first administration as well - do something and talk about their reasons in public, then try to make up some other explanation when challenged in court.
They seem to be doing that again in term 2, but often with even less effort to hide their intentions.
They seem to not quite be ready to just tell the courts to fuck off, but are testing the limits wherever they can find them.

 

[Valcazar]

A US federal judge has reprimanded government lawyers as he questioned President Donald Trump's invocation of a wartime law to deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.

Trump is now saying he didn't really sign that order.

At Friday's hearing, Judge Boasberg said he agreed that the US president had "wide latitude" to enforce immigration law.
But he expressed reservations that the deported migrants had no legal remedy to contest whether they were gang members or not.
"The policy ramifications of this are incredibly troublesome and problematic and concerning," Judge Boasberg said.

Understatement.

 

[Valcazar]

It's a shotgun approach and it's everywhere. Folks are being overwhelmed. I suspect that eventually what is happening to Mush and Tesla with fire bombings and protests will start happening in the US against the Repugs and Trump. Trump will order Hegseth his army bitch to stop the unrest and Russia will be celebrating with vodka and borscht.

Trump has expressed interest in using the insurrection act before.
But yes, I anticipate protests and counter-action by the government to increase over the term.

 

[mandrill]

This is a thing they did a lot of in the first administration as well - do something and talk about their reasons in public, then try to make up some other explanation when challenged in court.
They seem to be doing that again in term 2, but often with even less effort to hide their intentions.
They seem to not quite be ready to just tell the courts to fuck off, but are testing the limits wherever they can find them.

I suggest that this is consistent with the decreased level of competence generally with this administration. They are grossly inept.

 

[mandrill]

Trump is now saying he didn't really sign that order.

Polling now suggests that most Americans believe that the government should follow judicial rulings. It's a political loser to continually attack, disobey and spar with judges. Hence the backtrack.

 

[Valcazar]

A large DC litigation firm could nuke the DoJ, if Trump lawfared it. The sheer resources at 1 of those big firms could blow the DoJ out of the water.

I suspect this is "pay-to-play" by the law firm to get a lot of government work from this administration.

Or to protect government work they already have. (Or to reassure some clients they have that the government isn't targeting them.)
It's a bribe of some kind, the question is whether it is more of an extortion type bribe or a pay to play one.

 

[mandrill]

Trump is now saying he didn't really sign that order.

The stupid part is that Trump could have set up a legitimate and reasonable government efficiency department with bilateral approval and could similarly have tightened and prioritized immigration programs and enforcement with bilateral approval.

But due to his IQ and personality limitations, he has done both in an alarming and disruptive fashion and come into conflict with the Constitution and the judiciary. These are self-inflicted wounds.

The tariffs and the cuts to social security are going to be far more damaging to his popularity with the general public.

 

[Valcazar]

We'll see. Trump could be so radioactive by the time this gets to the USSC that only the very corrupt, right wing judges - i.e. Thomas - will facilitate Trump's crazy.

He could be.
But this is the kind of thing the conservative majority generally supports.
Even if Trump is toxic, I could see them going with expanding his powers, even if they don't give him unfettered privilege.

Just not giving him everything will give the court a lot of positive press as being "moderate".

 

[mandrill]

He could be.
But this is the kind of thing the conservative majority generally supports.
Even if Trump is toxic, I could see them going with expanding his powers, even if they don't give him unfettered privilege.

Just not giving him everything will give the court a lot of positive press as being "moderate".

I think the USSC was doctrinally correct giving him immunity. I would have voted with the right wing majority on that issue.

That - and Dodds - doesn't mean the USSC is going to give him carte blanche.

 

[Valcazar]

I suggest that this is consistent with the decreased level of competence generally with this administration. They are grossly inept.

I am inclined to think it is more a reflection of their increased confidence/arrogance.

But...

 

[Valcazar]

Polling now suggests that most Americans believe that the government should follow judicial rulings. It's a political loser to continually attack, disobey and spar with judges. Hence the backtrack.

I do think they overestimated their hand with anti-judge sentiment.
Their counter argument here is, of course, that they don't intend to "continually attack, disobey and spar with judges". They expect to have won quickly enough as to no longer have to.

 

[Valcazar]

The stupid part is that Trump could have set up a legitimate and reasonable government efficiency department with bilateral approval and could similarly have tightened and prioritized immigration programs and enforcement with bilateral approval.

Of course.
But the power grab was more important than the policy goals.

But due to his IQ and personality limitations, he has done both in an alarming and disruptive fashion and come into conflict with the Constitution and the judiciary. These are self-inflicted wounds.

The tariffs and the cuts to social security are going to be far more damaging to his popularity with the general public.

The intent was to come into conflict with the Constitution and the judiciary.

 

[Valcazar]

I think the USSC was doctrinally correct giving him immunity. I would have voted with the right wing majority on that issue.

I find that genuinely surprising.

That - and Dodds - doesn't mean the USSC is going to give him carte blanche.

No. They are going to give him a lot.
The question is how much.

 

[mitchell76]

 

[mitchell76]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1903510464467747114

 

[Valcazar]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1903510464467747114

Not surprised to see them pushing the veiled threats.

 

[mandrill]

Of course.
But the power grab was more important than the policy goals.
The intent was to come into conflict with the Constitution and the judiciary.

Whose intention? The senile, self important old man who plays golf 4 days a week? Stephen Miller's and Vance's and some other fringe lunatics?

 

[Valcazar]

Whose intention? The senile, self important old man who plays golf 4 days a week? Stephen Miller's and Vance's and some other fringe lunatics?

How much of this Trump is aware of in depth is difficult to say.
He already assumes he is allowed to have all that power and people saying no are just being dicks to him.
The more specific "do it by this aggressive method and wreck the checks and balances" is in line with the Project2025 crew's approach.

 

[mandrill]

I do think they overestimated their hand with anti-judge sentiment.
Their counter argument here is, of course, that they don't intend to "continually attack, disobey and spar with judges". They expect to have won quickly enough as to no longer have to.

Neither the Dotard nor his retinue of fuckwits knew what they were getting into when they started to fight with judges. They've accumulated about 30 injunctions and restraining orders in 2 months and won only 4 appeals from those injunctions. It's about as smart as sticking their dick in a wood chipper.

 

[mandrill]

How much of this Trump is aware of in depth is difficult to say.
He already assumes he is allowed to have all that power and people saying no are just being dicks to him.
The more specific "do it by this aggressive method and wreck the checks and balances" is in line with the Project2025 crew's approach.

Uh-huh. The parade of idiots who are Project 2025 thought it was a good idea and got Trump to go along with it by nudging him while he was "winning another golf tournament" at Mar-a-Shitpile.

Just like traitors like Kevin O' Leary and Jordan Peterson told the Dotard that Canada wanted him as our president and the fat old fuck believed that shit as well.

Just like the Russians told the Dotard that Zelinsky started the Ukraine War and Putin was a victim.

Trump is this vile old King Lear figure who no longer has a working brain - if he ever did - and who jerks off imagining Putin dressed as Cordelia.