The background here is interesting. Late last night, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan called for an unusual hearing on a federal holiday to hear the arguments of 14 states who are seeking a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Elon Musk and the Dept of Govt Efficiency (DOGE).
It’s interesting because Judge Chutkan called for the hearing today just 45 minutes after Trump’s U.S Solicitor General asked the Supreme Court to intervene on the matter of judicial TRO’s issued against President Trump’s Title II authority. Last night in another case, Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris filed an “APPLICATION TO VACATE THE ORDER ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND REQUEST FOR AN IMMEDIATE ADMINISTRATIVE STAY” with the Supreme Court. [pdf HERE] 45 minutes later Chutkan called for today’s TRO hearing.
District Judge Chutkan refused to issue the TRO today, saying she would take up the matter later.
(Via Politico) – […] the judge said granting the temporary restraining order sought as part of a lawsuit brought by Democratic attorneys general required much clearer evidence that DOGE’s actions were causing grave, permanent damage. Instead, she said, states had relied primarily on news reports that speculated about the risks of Musk and DOGE’s actions, some of which she said could potentially be remedied in further litigation.
“I’m not seeing it so far. … It’s sort of like a prophylactic TRO and that’s not allowed,” Chutkan said, adding that she hoped to issue a ruling within 24 hours. “The courts can’t act based on media reports. We can’t do that.”
[…] Chutkan’s skepticism of their position follows another judge’s rejection of a restraining order on DOGE’s efforts to access databases within a handful of federal departments. Chutkan repeatedly cited the decision by U.S. District Judge John Bates as she noted her skepticism. (more)
Over the weekend, the Trump administration, in the application to the Supreme Court, outlined the series of Lawfare tactics the president has faced, telling the high court that lower court rulings “irreparably harm the Presidency by curtailing the President’s ability to manage the Executive Branch in the earliest days of his Administration.”
“The district court’s order exemplifies a broader, weeks-long trend in which plaintiffs challenging President Trump’s initiatives have persuaded district courts to issue TROs that intrude upon a host of the President’s Article II powers,” wrote Solicitor General Sarah Harris.
Judge John Bates support for President Trump, ruling discussion on CTH HERE.
Judge Gregory Katsas support for President Trump, ruling discussion on CTH HERE.
The state AG’s case is pretty flimsy. I’d be embarrassed if I were them. Soros hasn’t picked very good attorneys.
What happened when the Texas AG sued for the rampant election fraud???
No standing!!!
JB. Williams
According to democrat politicians, judges, lawyers, and the news media, “there was no election fraud in 2020.” This claim is made entirely on the basis that no court in the country has agreed to review any evidence of the fraud in their courtrooms. Every court has taken the Sergeant Shultz “I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing” position, as if ignoring the evidence somehow discredits the evidence, or makes it vanish.
What the courts have actually done is deny due process of law on the most critical case of political corruption in our 244-years. They have violated their oaths, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and every legal American and in so doing, they have all but guaranteed the total collapse of the USA.
The courts, all the way to and including the U.S. Supreme Court, have eliminated themselves from the equation. They are no longer a legitimate active part of our constitutional form of government. They have removed themselves from the process of justice and placed justice in the hands of the American people. The Article III branch of the Federal government (the Judiciary) no longer holds any constitutional authority over anything! They have totally abdicated any lawful authority over anything at this point.
So far as I am concerned , everyone of those judges are guilty of Dereliction of Duty.
It’s much worse than that. They’re deliberately abusing their positions, using them for political opposition. They don’t even pretend at impartiality anymore.
Are you sure that it’s not more like treason, purposely providing comfort to the enemy (CCP)?
Unfortunately, you are correct. My wife and I stayed glued to “War Room / Pandemic” with Steve Bannon and his cadre of reporters who showed with video all the thefts that were going on.
The steal was real, we witnessed it, and the courts as well as the “Republican” Election Commision of Maricopa County couldn’t find a thing! If it weren’t for Philadelphia and Ramsey County, Maricopa would be the most corrupt County in the US!
Fulton County, JawGA got em beat for corruption. Fani Fani & her sycophants ….
also
GA rinoRats aiding and abetting the 2020 sElection Steal
In those cases, the plaintiffs actually did have standing.
In these ridiculous cases against President Trumps and DOGE the plaintiffs actually do NOT have standing. They cannot prove they have been harmed.
It really is amazing and hammers down the reason why Democrats confirmed so many radical judges in the final days of the FJB Administration.
An impeachment of one wayward District Judge would cause the others to wet their pants- they probably don’t even need a conviction. But the typical Republican lawmaker is afraid if losing their own gravy train.
Their objective is not to win the case by legal matters, but to slow or obstruct by any means necessary the advancement of the Trump agenda.
This corrupt judge is merely waiting a few days to see which way the wind is blowing.
If she feels safe she can rule against Trump 2 or 3 days from now.
She doesn’t want to risk her abities to block something more important later.
Fabius The Delayer was a successful Roman general. He won campaigns by bobbing-weaving, evading, and of course, delaying. To exhaust the opponent.
They are unable to be “embarrassed”. They fully know that they are throwing whatever they can at the system for the singular purpose of obstructing what President Trump is doing.
Have dealt with these lawyers in court many times and they are incapable of being embarrassed no matter how hard you humiliate them in front of the judge, jury and their own client.
Don’t think Soros goes for quality but quantity.
District Attorneys from Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, & Austin, TX are Soros puppets.
“Remember the Alamo” movement incoming. Substitute globalists for Santa Anna.
I hope you are right. I am like Sam Houston’s troops begging him to hurry up and engage the enemy, what are we waiting for?!? Pent-up frustration in troops is powerful – when and if it’s finally released.
Not quality or quantity, but corruptability and compliance.
and their willingness to take orders.. I suppose he pays them well w/our money.
It is disputed, but Stalin is thought to have coined the phrase, “quantity has its own quality”
Don’t encourage him to pick better ones.
Now that we know that our tax dollars via USAID was also funding those AG elections and President Trump has halted that funding perhaps he will cease and desist.
Sounds like Chutkan is using this tactic to keep it from getting to the SC.
It’s a stall play. That is all. She essentially said, “Come back when you have a better refined argument”.
For Soros, they don’t have to be good, just Leftist activists.
Soros hasn’t picked very good attorneys.
See! DEI is a thing!
“Sounds like Chutkan is using this tactic to keep it from getting to the SC.”
She knows the SC will slap her from here to eternity.
Maybe
He picked leftist hacks with a law degree.
Soros is vetting candidates for their ideology, not competence.
You don’t need to be good when the people who rule are themselves as deeply compromised as you are.
Soros doesn’t want good attorneys. He wants controlled attorneys who are willing to degrade themselves by pushing preposterous lies.
The Dems can put lipstick on their motion to usurp the Presidents powers all day long, but it’s still a pig. (Ha!)
lawyers probably under great pressure to do something…..so they went w/what they could cobble together in a short time period; also by rejecting news media evidence she requires lawyers provide real evidence of damages which may entail getting witnesses, documents, etc they don’t have
Sort of like prophylactic pardons.
That prophylactic might have a hole in it.
So, if she refuses to order the restraining order, does that mean that the Supreme Court has nothing to consider anymore.
Why did she do this?
If she refuses their request there is nothing to appeal unless they appeal. However, the other appeal by President Trump will continue.
Julie Kelly indicates she may considering it as a violation of appointments clause. She was very insistent on getting the plaintiff to get numbers on total layoff numbers in an apparent need to establish irreparable harm. This would be much stronger finding that would need to be resolved at SCOTUS.
Life is like a Media/lawfare shit sandwich Lefties….
The more the crooked media/Lawfare does you bidding
the less shit America has to eat
I wonder if the DOGE team has ready tracked the laundered money and they have the evidence and have passed it over to Pam?
Nothing would please most everyday Americans more than if some DC politicians and possibly even some judges end up getting indicted.
Norm Eisen needs to have his law license revoked! He is behind all of this!
Remember, DOGE is simply a new name applied to the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), originally created in 2014 under President Obama.
And it’s delicious reading, ain’t it.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1887038847629877714.html
Always “black” representatives against Trump…They keep the hatred and divide alive!
Judicial misconduct by these AGs frivolous lawsuits and activist judges.
It’s sort of like a prophylactic TRO and that’s not allowed,
Is that sort of like a pre-emptive pardon for the family and co-conspirators of a former president?
This doesn’t get the monster in a black robe off the hook.
Retribution is coming real soon Tanya.
It has been suggested that Chutkin is gearing up to judge Musk’s appointment unconstitutional
i don’t see where she has standing to do that.musk was appointed by trump.and all he is doing is finding waste and fraud and reporting to the dept heads as to what he found.it is the dept heads that are cutting funding and employees.
Whether or not she has standing won’t make any difference, she won’t be penalized either way, and the point is to delay and interrupt Trump, and give the anti-Trump media talking points.
Musk is in an advisory position.
He is an advisor to the President.
As such, Musk is well versed in many areas (Duh).
Distinct and Separate from DOGE.
Is it now unconstitutional for the President to have advisors?
She is no damn good. According to Julie Kelly, who was just on WarRoom, she setting up a hearing for an injunction instead.
Julie Kelly has been watching these judges for a long time. I trust her instincts.
I didn’t elect an inferior court Judge to be my President. And, the US Constitution contemplates nothing of the sort. However, long ago, Thomas Jefferson warned that Courts would seek power “surreptitiously.” He said this after the Supreme Court “decided” that it simply had a power that the Constitution never granted to it.
Now, these politically-driven hacks are declaring that they are the de-facto “President,” and that their “decisions” have nationwide weight.
Many years ago, several Justices openly said that these so-called “powers” would have to be checked if they continued to be abused. It is now very obvious that this is the case.
The Framers deliberately contemplated three very-separated Branches of Government and, with a few very-specified exceptions, gave each one of them discretion. They specifically did not grant the power of “review and approval” to inferior-court Judges!
This frodian slip comment sums it up:
Rep. Maxine Waters Slams DOGE: “We Don’t Know What All They Have On Us”
F R A U D I A N ….. slip
With Maxine, I don’t need to know about the money. I want to know how much she knew about the 1992 Rodney King fires and who set them. I think that old broad knows. She was on the radio (The Beat) at 6:30 pm after Reginald Denny was beaten to a pulp on April 29, 1992, telling young black men to stay at home, not drive anywhere in groups, and if they had to drive, drive alone. It sounded like something was up. Around this same time of night, Daryll Gates was removing police officers from South Central, leaving the field wide open.
Also, I would like for Maxine to talk about all the crack cocaine that was run through her district in the late 80s and early 90s to support Iran Contra. Her interview with the CIA went something like this:
DEI Judge?
Born in Jamaica and as of yet, no one seems to have found Chutkan’s naturalization papers.
“… Chutkan said, adding that she hoped to issue a ruling within 24 hours. “The courts can’t act based on media reports. We can’t do that.”
Oh, ok, but you can act on carefully crafted “lack-of-candor” unsubstantiated non-truths delivered by the IC. Got it.
The Wrap up Smear touted by Nancy Pelosi is exactly court action based on media reports.
So now that more level headed judges push back on the bogus charges Chutkan decides to rethink her positioning? Everyone is running scared, hahaha.
I wonder what Tanya is worth financially?
To my way of thinking, it is already too late for these judges, who have issued Restraining Orders, to be rehabilitated. They all swore an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. With their rulings, they have all tried to undermine the separation of powers of the constitution, and in so doing have left themselves open for impeachment.
that name “Chutkan” always makes me think of the Indian food flavor “chutney” and the convenience store guy on the Simpsons.
Looks like Judge Chutkan is trying to rehabilitate herself.