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Summary
Trump’s administration is escalating confrontations with federal judges, most recently by ignoring a judge’s order to halt Venezuelan deportations.
The White House claims Judge Boasberg lacked authority, with border czar Tom Homan stating, “I don’t care what the judges think.”
This is part of a pattern where the administration has defied court orders on funding freezes and immigration policies.
Trump allies have called for impeaching judges who rule against him. Legal experts warn this threatens constitutional checks and balances, with one professor stating: “If the executive can defy court orders whenever they feel like it, they are essentially not constrained by the Constitution.”
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Checks and balances when? What happens when 2 branches are neutered?
Start ordering contempt of court and put the low-level enforcers behind bars.
The constitution doesn’t really matter when it is not enforced.
See Yeltsin (Russia’s Trump) making the Parliament more transparent by shelling holes into it or Zelenskyy for more details.
Exactly. The problem is he ignores the court orders and literally nothing happens. They’re completely toothless. I’m not seeing a way this ends that doesn’t trigger a constitutional crisis one way or another. Either Federal Marshals trigger a showdown by chucking officials into jail for violating orders, Trump triggers a showdown by having somebody arrest the judges, or judges keep issuing increasingly pointless rulings proving that the checks and balances were never real.
In a sane timeline the moment Trump violated the first court order he would have been impeached and summarily convicted. With the Republicans in control though they’re not going to act either at all or until it’s far far too late and Trump has successfully transitioned fully into the dictator he dreams of being.
In a sane timeline, people would realize the coup has already happened. The US already has a dictator. This is the night of long knives portion of the slow moving coup.
Its more of a shakedown than a showdown. Trump commands the branch of government that has the overwhelmingly majority of armed personelle as well as a cult behind him. What do the judges have?
It would be up to the DoJ to enforce the court’s orders. The DoJ that’s run by Trump…
Caesar only got popularised as a tyrant after his death. Trumpy-boy is getting ahead of himself.
