Lawyers representing President Trump and the office of the presidency have filed an urgent response motion to remove a court order by U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer that blocked the Treasury Secretary and “political appointees” from accessing Treasury Department systems. [SEE ADMINISTRATION FILING HERE]
The filing is in response to District Judge Engelmayer’s blatant effort to engage in judicial activism and violate the Article II separation of power. The Chief executive cannot be limited in scope or activity by the judicial branch, let alone a single circuit court judge within the regional judicial branch who is attempting to block the executive branch nationally.
“Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency’s work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer to the president,” Justice Department attorneys wrote in the 11-page filing, calling the order “impermissible” and “anti-constitutional.”
WASHINGTON DC – […] The attorneys are asking Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas to quickly end or modify the order to ensure Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and his top leadership can be briefed on the payment system and perform their legally required roles. (more)
From The Twitter – “Donald Trump’s actions since his inauguration have caused public discussion of some questions in Constitutional law.
I’m not a lawyer. But I have more than a passing acquaintance with Constitutional law – I’ve been studying it ever since I was an individual amicus in the Supreme Court case that struck down the Communications Decency Act back in the 1990s.
After 30 years of studying issues around the First and Second amendment and the doctrine of judicial review, I have some thoughts.
There are several intermingled issues here.
First: when JD Vance says that the courts do not have the authority to intervene in the administration of the executive branch, he is probably correct.
The judicial review power is generally considered to extend modifying or striking down laws, not to allowing any judge to interfere in the president’s administrative authority over the executive branch.
Second, any judge that rules that the Treasury of the Secretary may not have unlimited access to Treasury department data is setting himself up for reversal. This has never been litigated because it’s a ridiculous overreach that has never been attempted before.
Third, there are serious questions about the authority of federal judges below the level of the Supreme Court (what the Constitution explicitly calls “inferior” courts) that may now be forced to a resolution.
For purposes of separation of powers, only the Supreme Court itself is considered co-equal to the executive and legislative branches. Inferior judges are not.
One question, therefore, is whether the President may assert separation of powers as a defense against rulings of an inferior judge. Certainly, invoking separation of powers against a ruling of the Supreme Court itself would trigger a constitutional crisis, but that’s not the situation we’re talking about here.
This has not been litigated, but I think the President is likely to prevail on the question.
The fourth question is about the authority of federal circuit court judges to issue injunctions with nationwide effects outside the circuit where they have formal authority.
Until very recently, federal judges were so reluctant to raise this Constitutional issue that they almost never issued such injunctions. They issued injunctions only for their own circuits and left it to the Supreme Court to resolve questions about nationwide application.
But nationwide injunctions in contentious cases have become more common recently, and it is likely that the Supreme Court will be forced to address whether inferior-court federal judges do in fact have nationwide authority.
I think it is quite unlikely that the Supreme Court will affirm this.
I am not addressing here the question of whether I think Trump and DOGE’s authority to block Treasury payments should prevail. I am predicting that it almost certainly will prevail.” ~Eric S Raymond
Why can’t President Trump order the arrest of this judge to force the US Supreme Court to move and resolve this constitutional crisis? Activist judges need to fear violating the Constitution.
That is authority the Potus doesnt have.
That being said, the judge has no authority, as Potus stated, no authority over Exec branch.
POTUS has every Constitutional authority to have AG Bondi bring obstruction of Justice charges against, and arrest, anyone in the country, should he and she {AG Bondi} deem it necessary.
We The People are the sovereign power tasked with upholding the Constitution in the United States of America and We have chosen to have President Donald J Trump serve US.
I say bring it…
Pick up Newsome and Pritzker as well…
Trust God.
Fear not.
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congress has the power to impeach the Judge via abuse of authority. The public should pursue filing complaints against the Judge with his governing body that he’s abused his authority.
“congress has the power”……then why are they not executing that power?
I think anyone with any understanding of what goes on in DC knows why. They are all cut from the same cloth.
Because most of Congress secretly hope that Trump is stymied and they can go back to grifting full time.
Because they don’t have 2/3 rds of house and senate to impeach.
I think they will try after the 2026 elections.
If the judge purports to act nationally then we have the right to file complaints.
Thats NEVER going to happen, with just about half of Congress being Democrats and the rest being spineless Republicans.
they are NOT spineless, stupid, weak or afraid
they’re complicit
time to update the 20th century mindset
I do believe that federal obstruction of Justice qualifies as unlawful {no one is above the law, judge} and therefore does not constitute “good Behaviour”.
Trust God.
Fear not.
This does not require Congress and impeachment. This is not just an abuse of authority. They are bound by their Oath of Affirmation to support the Constitution. See Article VI Paragraph 3. They have broken their Oath. They have broken the Law. This is perjury. They lied. Charges should be brought before the Supreme Court.
Getting congress to do F in the name of efficacy, cohesion or in the best interest of those they serve, is all is wishful thinking.
He is not going to order the arrest of this judge because he is not an idiot.
🎯
Our enemies would very much like him to.
Doesn’t need to.
Simply ignore Engelmayer
Carry on
Our enemies will then run to SCOTUS.
SCOTUS will then have NO CHOICE but to decide.
Q: Do “inferior-court” judges control the EXECUTIVE?
🤔🤔
If “inferior-court” judges are able to overrule the EXECUTIVE…
They can overrule SCOTUS
Right
today
PDJT should pre-emptively pardon himself and his family, his entire cabinet and anyone who works or will possibly work for his administration for a period beginning year 1940 to 2099
get that formality out the way now and ignore the rogue judges
this precedent was established by the prior administration
Do we really want presidents to start arresting judges with whom they disagree? That sounds great in February 2025, but what about when the socialists take back the White House?
I think this ruling by a federal judge (whose nomination was passed by unanimous vote in the Senate) will force SCOTUS to resolve the issue of what the limits of federal judges are, which is a great thing. It might actually be an unintended benefit of DOGE.
Or a deliberate intent of PDJT.
He knew Team Zero would go here.
It makes me sad that you and at least 65 others think the President can, and worse, should, arbitrarily order the immediate arrest of any American citizen. Just because…
For the Love of God, can we please set proverbial fire to the entire education system?
When is a coup attempt not a coup attempt? Just because the judge carries a title of judge does not give him authority over the executive in absence of a specified action prohibited. His talking about “risks” without specificity and evidence makes his ruling a political coup attempt IMO. Disclaimer I love the Constitution but am no expert especially in the circuitous and incestuous application of legal arguments.
The President of the United States does not have Constitutional authority to declare a federal judge needs arresting, then order his arrest.
Period. Full Stop.
Yes the federal judge is an idiot and an activist. However, we are not the USSR, and we don’t have our own Lenin.
We have the Supreme Court, such as it is I digress, which is the proper course Constitutionally.
Communism in NOT ok just because righteously indignant people want to do it.
The Judge Carmichael treatment?
Abe Lincoln’s Secretary of State William Seward ordered the US Army to arrest and jail a sitting judge. Troops dragged him out of his courtroom, pistol whipped him and took him off to jail.
Lincoln also supposedly considered arresting the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger B. Taney.
https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/war-on-the-shore/2014/11/08/lincolns-iron-hand/18740247/
Where is USAG Pam Bondi’s name on this Urgent Motion?
I that it has to change me from his direct presidential counsel, but yes she should be announcing policies and other things to clearly buttress this now!
She doesn’t even understand due process, you cant expect her to understand Constitutional separation of powers.
on what basis do you say that?
Mr. Zimmerman’s victimization.
Thank you …
Seems she is MIA
My fear from her appointment is that she will be about as effective as Jeff Sessions
I wish we had a Jeanine Pirro instead of Bondi…I think she would be very proactive. Not that she would have probably wanted the job or maybe passed hearings.
Judge Judy!!
Has she recused herself yet?
hair appt maybe? I’m sorry, I just don’t think she is a smart lawyer. We have not heard zilch from her. Merrick Garland would have been up Biden’s arse if this was happening to him
My thoughts exactly!
“Lawyers representing President Trump and the office of the presidency have filed an urgent response motion to remove a court order by U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer that blocked the Treasury Secretary and “political appointees” from accessing Treasury Department systems.”
Imho
District Judge Engelmayer took on President Trump and the office of presidency “directly”.
Also, imho
USAG Bondi is a spectator here (possibly advising).
This is a direct frontal attack on the office of the presidency. It must be answered in a specific and targeted reponse with this in mind. Leave SCOTUS no wiggle room to inject novel ideological BS into their decision.
You defend the Constitution (as written)… Or you don’t.
This court order (and the resolution thereof) will bind future Presidents and “inferior-court” federal judges wrt Congressional separation of powers.
🤔
Wonder if there will be a dissenting position taken by a member of SCOTUS?
FAFO
Agreed. All men (and women) need to be on deck to fight this.
I’m not wondering I’m sure.
There is always the possibility that SCOTUS (as individuals) are so feckless they’ll punt it back to “Inferior-court” judge Engelmayer.
Yes. There will be. Sonia Sotomayor says the Trump doesn’t have Presidential immunity.
“Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday doubled down on her opposition to last summer’s presidential immunity decision and expressed concern about public confidence in the high court.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5131656-sotomayor-hits-presidential-immunity-decision-in-first-public-comments-since-new-trump-admin/
“expressed concern about public confidence in the high court”
Pot meet kettle
Immunity from what? This outrageous order is saying that President Trump cannot serve as president!
Which is exactly what they want, and what they did to him in his first term through other devices.
The good news is, unlike wimpy Jeff Sessions, Pam Bondi will never recuse herself.
She loves the cameras too much.
Get to work, Bondi! There is a Constitutional Crisis underway. It’s SCOTUS time.
Because this isn’t under the domain of the Attorney General’s office.
It’s under the domain of the Solicitor General’s office.
And of course they’re hitting the President and The Office of the President hard before his Solicitor General nomination, Dean Sauer, even gets out of committee.
I hope Eastman is somewhere in the background giving advice.
She’s bleaching her locks.
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”
US Constitution, Article 1, Section 9
The judge is interfering with the constitutional duties of the executive branch. Nothing in the constitution implies that this information is private or secret.
Bad wording in Constitution right there > who is to draw money for appropriations made by law?
face it =
It is the responsibility of the Executive to “Faithfully execute the Laws.”
How more plain can that be?
Congress is duty-bound to pass an appropriations bill for spending, and to maintain a regular budget.
Article II covers the Executive branch responsibilities from there.
and “time to time” is way too vague
The progressive left/Democrats will stop at nothing to put a spoke in President Trump’s wheels. This more than likely is evidence of massive fraud/corruption/malfeasance within the Treasury. It gives the perception that they are buying time to make sure all records pertaining to fraud are deleted from the archives.
I am pleased to see that President Trump and his team were ready to strike back. This ”lawfare” will continue until arrests are made and those responsible are incarcerated.
I wonder if he’s saving the arrests for later, or if he knows something we don’t.
They won’t get away with that as that too is recorded in the digital history. It’s not a cellphone that can be hammered.
Does NSA have every keystroke made at Treasury? Can POTUS access that information, or can DOGE?
I amnotconvinced they can simply make all evidence of the many frauds disappear with a keystroke; its too emdemic too engrained.
You erase the data with fraud taint, and theres no data left.
They are simply responding, like a digestive system that keeps churming out crap, after the host is brain dead.
“By the book”
Can Judges be charged with insurrection?
Inquiring minds want to know….
NO MERCY!
Time for EXAMPLES!
is it possible that PT is forcing lawfare, inc. to expend time, money, and manpower
on what PT knows will ultimately be losing legal actions?
i’m good with bankrupting the lot of them.
Bankrupting lawfare here is only helpful as long as bad actors are cut off from access to Treasury.
This has all the hallmarks of a stalling operation to allow the derps to clean up with no outside interference or oversight.
Freeze access, nothing in and nothing out, to preserve current state of information, although I have a feeling Musk’s whiz kids could track any alterations…
You are spot on.
Compare what they knew before the court order to what is available after.
The differences will be obvious and the reason for the court order revealed.
Imho
It is not data, per se, but
NAMES
Who ends up paying the costs? We do.
I agree with Brother Raymond’s commentary above that NO circuit judge should be able to block nationwide a policy from POTUS
And I think what’s worse is the circumstances. An ex parte motion filed at 9pm on a Friday which was granted at 1am on Saturday morning — outside the normal court operating hours.
I said it when it originally happened: they may have “won” the battle but they will lose the war big time. They aren’t gaining anything and the Order from SCOTUS rejecting this will be the law of the land and will be a thorn in any future attempt.
Obama asked his appointed judge for a favor
Obama needs to be cast out and given proper punishment, his very image is one of destruction and evil
He’s in process I think. Problem is time. He needs a nudge.
He’s one of the ugliest men ever – underdeveloped, scrawny body, hideous face. I’m amazed he never had that ugly mole removed. Yet he seems to think he’s really something.
Obama needs an old fashioned ass beatin’.
Not the kind he enjoys, either.
the judge is a tyrannical POS that needs to be removed from the bench….you know dam well the dems wouldn’t vote for impeachment, unless the shoe was on the other foot. Hypocrite POSs.
Impeachments should be a more regular occurrence for Federal judges.
Namely, for judicial misbehavior.
Oppression under color of law.
Dismiss the worst 5% (based on Constitutionality of decisions) every year.
I agree
There has been 15 judges impeached and the last one was in 2010. I would love the number of judges impeached to be around 30 by 2028 and a couple sent to prison just for an eye opener.
I don’t think that’s as good an idea as it seems. First time the Dems are in a majority Alito and Thomas would be out for “misbehavior”. It’s too vague and once you start that it’s an absolute given they’d use it.
I see another WIN for the American People. All this winning has etched a permanent grin on my face!
Someone on the judiciary committee in the House of Representatives should file an impeachment action against this judge and subpoena him to testify. Even if it ultimately goes nowhere, it might inhibit other activist judges if they kn0w there are unpleasant consequences for their knowing overreach.
I agree make him the hill to die on, also Congress should file complaints with the Judge’s governing body– he does have a code of conduct to maintain?
They want a delay on everything that PDJT does.
Next they’ll be pushing for a 4 year investigation so they can say, “we can’t comment on an ongoing investigation.”
They’re old, it may be be their last chance at notoriety.
House Republicans have no hair on their private parts or asses.
They will do NOTHING.
If this new Lawfare isn’t immediately brought to the Supreme Court and acted upon, PDJT’s last four years will be tied up in court.
Good luck with that. Those on the Judiciary committee are most likely staying quiet for a reason. They too have committed Dereliction of Duty.
I think it’s important to the remind the shrieking harpies that you might see on the news today or this week that they are supposed to be COEQUAL branches of government. These kind of rulings should get you disbarred considering the level of their absurdity.
Inferior Courts aren’t co-equal.
From SD ⬆️
“One question, therefore, is whether the President may assert separation of powers as a defense against rulings of an inferior judge.
Certainly, invoking separation of powers against a ruling of the Supreme Court itself would trigger a constitutional crisis, but that’s not the situation we’re talking about here.”
Genau!
If the President doesn’t prevail on the question, we will know who the sovereign is, and it ain’t us.
As I mentioned elsewhere, addressing these myriad activist judges at the district level with these sorts of local motions and approaches is a slow walk solution. Perhaps by resistance DOJ embed design. It will take weeks, if not months to push this back, and it will go on again and again.
It is death by a thousand activist judge cuts.
It is a carefully orchestrated Constitutional Crisis by a thousand rogue Orders.
It will not stop, only continue.
And the process chosen by the Administration to combat them is playing into these corrupt courts, and dragging it out. It lacks the force and focus of the First 20 Days.
This all falls on Pam Bondi. It is now happening on her watch.
All of these rogue actions and orders are an attack on Article II powers.
All these rogue federal decisions, in NYS, in the DC Circuit, in Oregon, in Massachusetts, and elsewhere, consequently demand a centralized Bruen or Chevron Deference level decision by SCOTUS that ends the future judge shopping by every butt hurt blue state, NGO and public sector union.
That is accomplished by consolidating all these TROs and Orders into an emergency Petition to SCOTUS requesting an expedited decision, setting forth with clarity the scope of the reasonable plenary powers of the Executive to manage his own Branch under Article II, the requisite standing to challenge such Powers, and the limits on federal district courts to intervene and disrupt those reasonable powers on a National scope.
This craven method, of Motions to reconsider filed to corrupt courts that issued the underlying rogue order, is wasting precious time.
Go for the head, not the tentacles. Enough with the judicial whack-a-mole.
” This all falls on Pam Bondi ” I agree and I’m not impressed with her so far. She should be vocal on this instead of crickets.
She’s weak. Corrupt and toothless. She was a big mistake IMO.
Was she just hired because she is pretty?
Give her more than a couple of days before passing judgement.
This is not a criminal law matter; therefore it is not under the domain of the Attorney General’s Office. It is under the domain of the Solicitor General’s Office.
Sort of. The SG supports the AG on matters brought before SCOTUS, but is still under the DOJ in doing so.
While the SG is the laboring oar, Bondi is still piloting the vessel.
This is an attack on the office of the presidency.
The fancy pants and shiny shoe folks tasked with the protection thereof are the only voices needed.
The response must leave no doubt to the “gravity” of the matter.
Remarks from the peanut gallery will only muddy the waters and provide “media” with the means to formulate alternative scenarios to “splain” it to their audience.
Our enemies are going for the throat!
Let the man in the ring throw the punches!
Thank You.
Easy solution.
Just refuse to comply with these unconstitutional rulings while the courts take them up. Announcement compliance only if and when SCOTUS rules.
The first mistake (in removing constitutional conventions) was when Bush 41 persisted in using EO’s instead of legislation, and that has resulted in the necessity for this, in this way.
It’s frankly tragic.
It has fractured your system of governance such that none will trust future decisions therefrom.
Apart of course from your sycophants.
Which to my regret include my own country.
Democrat rot and phony republicans. A few decades of that and IMO the cia now runs the show.
A few centuries. The people who run the CIA didn’t start work in 1947…
The US is merely a colonial tool, but if Americans ever started thinking that, well…
There’s a reason why Sundance keeps showing you the picture of the British aristocrats looking shocked and horrified…
So, we were wondering how long it would take Trump’s team to respond.
First thing Monday, having considered exact terms of leftist judge’s injunction, prepare brief requesting removal of injunction, 2nd thing, file brief requesting removal of injunction.
Sounds pretty quick to me. Let’s hope the court this is being filed in does not attempt to stall around.
Time to get out the popcorn.
Unless I’m mistaken, this will go to Judge Vargas….harvard and a biden appointee.
Correct. This is a weak sauce motion, playing in their rancid sandbox.
Meanwhile, a judicial activist judge in RI just threatened PDJT with criminal contempt on another rogue injunction.
All of this could be fast tracked to SCOTUS, today.
Pam Bondi, get to work!
Bondi will never be up to
The task that lies ahead
As long as they refuse to comply while the litigation proceeds…..
Can we wave pitchforks, wield torches and eat popcorn at the same time? I hope so. Why not make some well placed phone calls, emails, posters, join marches and send faxes to make the congress aware of how mad we are?!! Imagine the ludicrous narcissism and gall in that judge who is telling President Trump he has to obey an INFERIOR judge?
You can do that but it could backfire on you and the next thing you know the staffers inside your senate, congressperson and governors offices turn you and your name into a pop cultural meme. On the upside it could result in those staffers trying so hard to prove you and your viewpoint on culture and government as being old fashion and outdated they accidently get President Trump elected.
Trump could (and many of us would like him to) pull a Jackson or a Lincoln and ignore the ruling. I’m thinking he wants this first one to go the distance (by the book……or constitution) and get it resolved once and for all so he can then run the table without constant badgering. The result of this Treasury thing could probably also be applied to the birthright citizenship one. That one judge’s ruling should only apply to his jurisdiction, not nationally.
Exactly right! President Trump must issue a televised statement, with Speaker Johnson by his side, announcing two things:
1. The executive branch, headed by President Trump and pursuant to the president’s plenary powers given to him by the Constitution, will ignore the judge’s decision and proceed with the auditing,
2. The House of Representatives, under the leadership of the Speaker, will immediately move to impeach the judge.
3. Announce that any and all Representatives and Senators who attempt to obstruct the these moves will suffer political punishment during their next primary. This includes Senators who don’t support removing the judge.
This is a war for the restoration of our constitutional republic, and it should be treated as such.
You are correct, this IS a war and the leftists are all in on winning.
These next 18 months are, imo, the last chance to peacefully save the Republic.
I agree.
If you could actually get all 53 Republican senators to vote Yea on impeachment — Which 14 of the 45 Democrat Senators and 2 “Independent” Senators do you think will vote to impeach any woke/liberal/Democrat/uni-party judge.
Why is it most Federal judges only seemed to be interested in limiting Constitutional powers when those powers are being exercised against the Federal government itself?
Could it possibly have something to do with a world view identifying the bureaucratic state as the sovereign and not the People?
Most federal judges are card carrying members of the UniParty. They can be relied upon to issue rulings that are faithful to the UniParty Code of Conduct.
Additionally, many federal judges are corrupt deviants. It’s easy for the Deep State to blackmail such people.
Exactly. How does anybody think they were confirmed in the first place?
Its THEIR Club and We The People are PNG.
A wallaby judge in his kangaroo court.
It seems to me that the President, should directly appeal to the USSC. Bypass inferior courts. This is a constitutional crisis.
I don’t have any confidence in the Supreme Court to act with integrity in this case.
John Roberts has made it abundantly clear that he is compromised. Kavenaugh and Barrett are 50-50 at best and Gorsuch is maybe 60-40. The Woke Communist Functionaries on the Court are 100% guaranteed to vote against President Trump.
That leaves Thomas and Alito as our only sure votes. I would hate to bet the future of our constitutional republic on the off chance that the members of the Milquetoast Brigade might possibly get their minds right on this issue.
Ignore it all. Why bother playing games and/or asking permission or seeking approval for POTUS to do his job as enumerated in the Constitution and affirmed recently in Trump vs United States.
At some point in time petulant children need to be told NO.
Judge Paul Engelmayer, must have some filthy and or disgusting images of himself engaging in things that have severely compromised his integrity as a human being.
When the swamp dictates Judge Paul Engelmayer, jump he responds with how hi and what hoops do I need to go thru.
That Judge needs to be censured, or rather disbarred / impeached. It’s a clear violation of his duties under oath of Constitution.
He needs to be made an extreme example to flush out or tame these activist judges abroad.
Censuring this judge won’t accomplish anything but he absolutely must be impeached. This is the first big test for Speaker Johnson and the House GOP. Will they do the right thing and stand up for our President?
I like to think of myself as a hopeful, positive person, but I confess I won’t be holding my breath.
You don’t believe musk and his people know how to retrieve “deleted” data?
I would bet they already have copies of everything they want.
In the World of Musk, first rule of combat, copy first, then hunt.
Don’t you think they made mirror images of those of whatever data they wanted they slaved whatever computers they wanted and they dealt with it two weeks ago probably
I admit I am not a lawyer and certainly not a Constitutional scholar, but I have some thoughts and feelings anyway on this:
What frustrates me is that democrat judges and democrat government officials have no problem lying and committing crimes to achieve their goals. They lie, they cover up, they cover up the cover up, etc.
It’s not as if there is any kind of equivalence here: Republicans and conservatives stand for the Constitution and rule of law. Democrats don’t care about the Constitution and in fact have been steadily working to dismantle every part of it. True there are RINOS who are very much a part of the criminal actions against the taxpayers.
Criminals put the law abiding at a disadvantage at various points in time. That is not an excuse to break the law like they do. It just means we conservatives have to find remedies that prevent the lawlessness from occurring from within the various branches of government.
There is lawlessness and lying in Congress, we are seeing the degree to which every agency in the federal government is full of criminal acts such as fraud against the taxpayers and cover ups of their crimes, and it is up to us and the Trump Administration now to clean up what we have left of our government and put in place mechanisms to prevent or seriously deter individuals from lying and committing crimes within the government itself.
If any judge can just send out an ex parte order that would prevent the executive branch from functioning, THAT WOULD BE A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS because there is no provision in the Constitution for judges (other than SCOTUS) to decide what they like and don’t like that any Presidential administration is doing.
Aside from Trump simply ingoring the
corrupt hack“Judge,” whose ruling appears to be a national security threat itself by allowing an unelected bureaucrat hiding behind a black robe to illegally usurp power from the Executive Branch with no checks and balances, this is clearly how the Left is going to fight Trump.The Left and the Machine are lining up their judges to block everything Trump is trying to accomplish. Just today, another judicial hack blocked Trump from sending certain illegal alien gang members to Guantanamo, and another judicial hack indefinetly blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship E.O. with no legal rationale (just a blanket ruling with no thoughtful jurisprudence behind it other than the standard taglines.)
While Trump might be able to power through this and simply ignore the judges as a last resort, that will create follow-on issues.
To any judges and attorneys on this board, how can Trump deal with an out-of-control Judicial Branch and clearly certain out-of-control judges? Impeachment won’t work with too many corrupt RINOs who will not support impeachment. I believe this judicial clown stopping DOGE at the US Treasury was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, i.e., RINOs supporting a radical leftist “judge.”
I don’t have a basis for this, but if somehow Trump could take control of the Washington DC bar through an action of the US Justice Department, then Trump could staff the “new” Washington DC bar with people he trusts and begin to disbar these fools. Same with the NY bar. These criminals hiding behind their high legal positions need to be disbarred. Or, someone needs to find out how they are getting paid off / bribed and disclose that to the American people to support an impeachment proceeding.
This is an all-out political war, and the Left / Establishment / Globalists are prepared to stop at nothing to win and to keep their money flowing. Trump must respond in kind.
The Empire Strikes Back.
“Third, there are serious questions about the authority of federal judges below the level of the Supreme Court (what the Constitution explicitly calls “inferior” courts) that may now be forced to a resolution.” In order for the NY Judge’s injunction to prevail, the Supreme Court would literally have to strip itself of its constitutionally mandated supremacy.
What standing does the US District Court of Southern NY have? Who exactly is being hurt in their district and how?
All very expected. The judge would have known this wouldn’t stay for any amount of time… doesn’t matter how clouded their minds are with the leftist mind virus. The judge knows. What did they expect to get from this?
#1 a news story and something for the left to cheer for and later something to “scream at the sky” over.
These Marxist-Communist circuit court judges think Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts is a complete chump and a wuss. The USSC should be stomping the guts out of these out of control inferior judges but Roberts just let them run amok with no repercussions.
👉Maybe John Roberts is as you describe. In his prior actions/ rulings and current demi-judicial/executive National security “FISA” powers, it would seem he sees 👀 himself as an overseer of bureaucracies rather than a Constitutional Republic Supreme Court Judge that recognizes the Constitution as Supreme.👈
Been wondering about him.
At some point there must be some redress to these judges who are obviously ruling due to politics, rather than law.
Trump just needs to hire Musk and team formally as “civil servants” of the US government. If that’s an appointee then have OMB or Treasury hire them as employees. In fact, each agency Musk reviews should hire them with a job description that covers everything and allows the team to be employees of multiple agencies.
And if you really get picky, isn’t every government employee a “political appointee” by someone?
Perform a work-around solution. Have the Treasury hire the DOGE guys to work in the IT departement under a new team tasked with doing what they were doing for DOGE. When they are done, they can quit and get hired for another agency’s IT department. Repeat as many times as necessary.
I read that two of the famous four are actually employees of the Treasury Department anyway.
the usds(united states digital service) was set up AND funded when obama was president to deal with the obamacare website.BUT it also gave them the authority to investigate and operate the tech backends of all federal departments and agencies.all trump did was change the name to united states doge service.so it is an official gov department so i don’t see this order having any merit whatsoever.i doubt musk and team have stopped or destroyed anything,and pdjt just wants to put the screws to these challenges.
I believe it was SD who said it was the deep state’s “Hail Mary” pass. Result: FAIL.
Why do I get the feeling this urgent response missile was sitting in the launch tube, just waiting to have the appropriate home on Lawfare ‘warhead’ fitted. If this missile hits home, which it should do, it will establish a legal precedent that should allow the continued, and now uninterrupted, destruction of the DS. Which is after all what the planned end state of this move/counter-move was gamed out to be.
If I was in the higher echelons of the DS, I’d be nervously eyeing the lifeboats and calculating just how much time I had to run to one and get in, before Trumpzilla capsized the Ship of State that I’d helped hijack.
And once this done, all the other District court judges who have done this will also be gobsmacked.
i almost wished bessent would have come right out and said the treasury is part of the executive branch so we will not comply with this order.what would the judge do??he’s in ny.
And i have to agree when this does hit the SC that they also address these judge shoppers,and make all challenges to the executive petition the SC
You take jurisdiction away from Engelmayer by giving it to some other judge. He can’t claim it, if by administration or legislation that responsibility is designated elsewhere, in a friendly judge.
This is what you have to put up with when the CIA doesn’t approve of your presidency.
Another clue was the kangaroo sitting at the bench.
The Constitutional problems with these judicial attempts to hamstring the Trump Administration are obvious and clear.
So clear, in fact, that the Administration should simply declare that they will totally ignore these unconstitutional rulings while they are being litigated. To do their wise is to hand the corrupt Lawfare operatives an ability to obstruct constitutional activities by tne Executive Branch via “the process”.
Besides…these corrupt judges have no enforcement capability.
Seeing the squealing of the Baptist pastor in Tennessee this afternoon, it looks as though Clyburn is going to have a real problem. Anyone?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/alert-fbi-pastor-tennessee-issues-sick-call-violence/
The pastor is a Prince Hall Mason, and Devine Nine Fraternity member (Alpha Kappa Phi). He is associated with a couple of do good groups, STEP and PEACE. I wonder how much USAID money they got?
Wolf in clothing’s clothing
Your company is hemorrhaging money and you suspect employee theft so you hire auditors. A traffic court judge says only the employees have the right to examine the books.
Is that about right?
If I don’t pay my taxes does this mean the IRS cannot audit me and only I can examine my books?
I sense a pattern here?
A traffic court judge four states away, but yes you’ve got it.
Perfection. I am all in. I’ll let you know next Monday.
Attorney Bill Shipley:
@shipwreckedcrew
“Update on SDNY Case where Judge Englemayer at 1:00 am on Saturday morning issued a TRO prohibiting access to certain Department of Treasury databases by a whole range of Trump Admin. officials.
“The request for a TRO was filed on Friday night at 9:30 pm. A copy was sent via email to an attorney at the U.S. Attorneys’ Office in the SDNY, and to an attorney at the Civil Division Program Branch at DOJ in Washington.
“At 9:30 pm on a Friday night.
“Based on the allegations made by the Plaintiffs — a collection of blue State Attorneys General — at 1:00 am the Judge entered the TRO without giving the Govt any opportunity to respond.
“The case was assigned to a different SDNY judge.
“Late today the Trump DOJ filed an emergency motion to dissolve the TRO.
“After it was filed, the Judge directed the two sides to “meet and confer” tomorrow to see if any agreement could be reached or if the grounds of dispute could be narrowed.
“If not, the Plaintff’s response to the motion to dissolve the TRO is due at 5:00 pm tomorrow, and the Govt reply is due at 11:00 pm tomorrow.
“This does not seem like a TRO that is likely to last beyond Tuesday.”
The ‘meet and confer’ order looks to me like the judge is hoping for a way to get this hot potato off his desk.
If more people who seem to think that the American Globalist are honest and truthful don’t wake up then they are not only dooming themselves but are braindead.
Nothing says you are hiding information or guilt like preemptive pardons and not giving the new bosses access to the information. If the American Globalist have nothing to hide or fear from the American people seeing and knowing the truth, then why all the preventive measures to cover up the truth and protect the guilty ones.
Anyone here able to confirm what this guy is saying?
About 1/3 or more of America’s SS monies are going to people who are not alive, not Americans or people who committed identity fraud. Actually all 3 can be bunched in together due to all the illegals who have fake IDs.
Crazy as it sounds there are politicians that feel it is alright for illegals to steal American SS #s. The worse part about identity fraud is many of the illegals don’t just use it just to be able to work in America. Many Illegals guilty of identity fraud use it for credit until that SS number’s credit is too screwed up and then they get another number.
Is that true? Wow.
After my sister in law graduated college in her mid 30s & had her job for about 2 years her husband and her decided it was time to look into buy a home.
Turned out she already had a home with montage several cars and a few credit cards in her name. A few months after discovering this they apparently caught the thief, she flew out to LA to testify. Well, in between her getting to LA & the trail the thief got bailed out and fled. They think south of the border.
Took her around 5 years and a few thousand dollars in lawyers she was finally able to think about buying a home again.
Blanche and this are only a few of the cases of identity thief committed on American, not all by illegals, but a good percentage are.
Listen to Kevin De Leon giving a speech in which is says using illegals SS numbers even stolen one are excuses.
California State Senate Leader ‘Half My Family’ Here Illegally
2006/2007 my middle daughter was apply to colleges and filing for FASA we received a letter from FASA asking for more information because there was a discrepancy in the financial numbers. After contacting the rep and telling them they had all our information. We went back and forth and my daughter gave up. She got lucky and after HS graduation she got a job with an eye doctor who was opening his own practice. He gave her the opportunity to have a career without the college debt.
Fast forward 2014 My son filed his first tax return and alarm bells went off. I had to take him into the city with all his documents proving he is who he is.
If we had not given up on the FASA forms we could have discovered this sooner, but whose to say , maybe the FASA people were purposely hindering the process to keep this from being discovered at the time.
When Treasury says “pay everything without question” then when a payment for SS number is used, do you think they run such payments through the Social Security Administration?
I was wondering the validity of HIS comments due to him being an ex SS manager. He’s definitely a leftie
It had better succeed
or this country is lost
I am grateful for President Trump’s efforts, but I sometimes think the country passed the point of being lost, as the Constitutional Republic we knew and loved, forty years ago.
Now I read about these ridiculous overbroad rulings by men who don’t appear to be spring chickens, and am reminded that the following generations have been taught a whole different version of the law. Which doesn’t bode well.
If it goes down, it won’t be without a fight.
The public is watching this happen. When it comes down to another election, the voters will be armed with unprecedented amounts of information.
And keep in mind, the media will NO LONGER BE PAID. Inventive to lie will no longer exist. Any remaining lies will all be based and motivated on political ideology which people are already ignoring.
I will say that many people I know are on the left don’t want to see Trump end the Income Tax simply because it would be Trump doing it…. and “change is scary!” So there will be many people saved while kicking and screaming for us to not save them.
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the DummyCrats are insufferable
Why are we still asking for permission? These people have no sense of honor, integrity, or duty that doesn’t serve their own privileges and extra-legal power. The whole point of this order is to stop President Trump for 3 years until John Roberts & friends decide he has no standing — or, like the last time, that Presidents have the power to do this, just not *this* president.
In a way, by acknowledging the authority of the judicial branch, our Chief Executive is giving the Supreme Court tools so they can begin to fight back.
Let’s see what the court does.
If by some miracle President Trump can clean out the Executive branch and get the Judicial branch to enter the fight, both parties can laser focus on getting the legislative branch to also get rid of the 4th, hidden branch that like parasites, have taken over their hosts.
They aren’t!
https://www.theblaze.com/news/judge-fed-funds-freeze-trump
FTA:
“U.S. District Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island said the administration has not followed his previous order on Jan. 31 and ruled that the administration must immediately unfreeze funding.”
LIkely ignoring all unconstitutional judicial orders at this point.
YAY!
WINNAMINS!!!
“the administration must immediately unfreeze funding”
“Hey, grossly inefficient bureaucracies are SLOW. This will take a while. Hey, Frank, did you get some kind of “order” from some judge about unfreezing funding for something? I sure didn’t. Do you know his name? Neither do I. This merits an official investigation which will take some time to set up. Time for lunch!”
Isn’t there a vacation coming up ?
I can’t do that because of national security concerns!
Astute observation! Bravo.
This is what I was thinking.
Why are we asking permission to do what we know it’s within our right to do?
AND this is all very clear too- that it’s our right to do.
By asking, the Trump team is consenting to what is going on- they are agreeing to play.
Have they not learned this game yet?
Judges think they are above the law!
Like ( I am Science ) Fauci they believe they ARE the law
Fauci is a Virus.
Either the President runs the country or the judges do. Roberts would prefer not to address the issue. If the president defies the courts, he becomes the lawless one. He can be impeached, removed, and everything he’s trying to do will be stopped. The democrats have set up a “heads we win, tails you lose” scenario. As I just said in my last post, Trump’s only solution is to shut down the treasury. That’s the only solution that the courts have left him. They are clearly ursurping executive authority.
Remember, the point of lawfare is to win via the process. In the end, they don’t care if these court injunctions are vacated, we’re not. If Trump is delayed they have won.
It is not a surprise that the democrats would use this tactic. They planned and war-gamed for this last November or even earlier. The only surprise to me is that the Trump administration, as responded so slowly. Trump absolutely should have shut down treasury the moment the judge intervened. There should be an immediate consequence that the democrats cannot afford every time they use illegal lawfare to delay trump.
“If the president defies the courts, he becomes the lawless one.”
NOT SO!!! His Oath is to support the Constitution, not court decisions!
Important note:
2A: A well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state, …
THIS is the actual design of our government with this “NECESSARY” institution currently inactive — Militia… but potentially active.
Offered for consideration:
We will need/use militia in deportation, finding missing children, and enforcing our God-given rights enumerated in 1A, 2A, 4A, 5A, and 10A or we will not have those rights nor have a soveriegn coherent republic/nation! (eventually)
Now is a good time to consider this in full and UNDERSTAND that the primary mission (in Constitution Art 1 sect 8 clause 15/16 is LAW ENFORCEMENT… it need not go beyond this area except for “enemy/opponent” driving WeThePeople to resort to force beyond arrests leading to legitimate trials (just convictions and punishment as warranted).
We do not need permission but do require clarity, will, courage and disciplined leadership.