In more than a few ways this decision is even more crazy than District Judge Beryl Howell’s prior rulings.
Judge Howell (pictured below) issued a temporary restraining order, blocking President Trump from barring the law firm of Perkins Coie from representing federal contractors.
There are a few outlines of the hearing HERE and HERE that essentially tell the story. Consider this quote:
“When you say that if the president, in his view, takes the position that an individual or an organization or a company is operating a way that is not in the nation’s interests, he can issue an executive order like this and take steps to bar that individual, that entity, that company from doing any business with the government, terminate whatever contracts they’ve got, bar them from federal buildings,” Howell said. “I mean, that’s a pretty extraordinary power for the president to exercise.”
Yes, and that’s called the power of the presidency. Apparently Judge Howell has never heard of ‘executive power’ that allows the elected President of the United States to determine what is in our nation’s best interests. Approving his ability to make these decisions, is what that whole voting thing is all about.
Howell further pressed — what would happen if Trump were to “get annoyed” by the law firm representing Perkins Coie in this lawsuit and issue a separate order targeting them?
“If he made a finding that there’s a national security risk with a particular law firm, then yes,” Mizelle responded.
Chad Mizelle is not exactly the best voice to be making the DOJ argument, after all it was this knucklehead who as Rod Rosenstein’s counsel wrote the authorities for the Robert Mueller special counsel. However, on this issue Mizelle is exactly correct.
Yes, the president has the ability to make decisions about national security threats and private enterprises who the President might feel are detrimental to the national security of our nation, like Perkins Coie. Howell then went into crazyville to extend her logic.
The executive order, which Trump issued last week, “runs head on into the wall of First Amendment protections,” the judge concluded.
No. That’s not at all what the executive order does. Perkins Coie is free to talk about how terrible Donald Trump is, free to rail against him, free to take to the public square and decry his approach, free to do and say anything they want; the law firm just cannot represent federal contractors or hold security clearances granting them access to materials that are national security matters.
The core of Beryl Howell’s decision boils down to her wanting to protect the business interests of Perkins Coie. Howell/Coie want the firm to retain access to clients who are federal contractors.
Even Perkins Coie didn’t try to keep their security clearances because they know the President has absolute plenary power to issue or remove them.
[…] The executive order also stripped security clearances from lawyers at the firm, but the firm has not challenged that provision. Under Supreme Court precedent, the president has nearly unfettered discretion to grant or remove security clearances.
Dane Butswinkas, a lawyer representing Perkins Coie, described the president’s order as “like a tsunami waiting to hit the firm.”
“It truly is life-threatening. … It will spell the end of the law firm,” he said. (source)
Apparently, stopping Perkins Coie from representing federal contractors will “spell the end of the law firm.”
That’s interesting.
So, Perkins Coie’s primary business is represemting Govt. Contractors,…that IS interesting.
Well FAFO, and learn to represent another type of client,…say Drunk drivers,..
“……….learn to represent another type of client,…say Drunk drivers,..”
I think those are integral to the original business model…….
I wonder if Ted “The lion of Senate” Kennedy was a client of Perkins Coie?
Eff the Kennedy clan!
Except RFKJr.
The three branches of Govt are EQUAL in power. No one is above the other two. Therefore, the judicial branch does NOT get to tell the Executive branch how it does its job. The President can interpret the laws as he sees fit and the judicial branch can do the same. But neither gets to tell the other how to interpret any law. Imagine if Trump started reversing judicial decisions based on him interpreting the law and ultimate outcome differently. He is NOT allowed to do that and if he tried, he would run into a wall and they would simply ignore him. So, the executive gets to do the same thing and ignore whatever the judicial branch tells him. Hell, these judges are not even the final say of the judicial branch, as they are what…1 of 2,000 federal judges? Maybe…..MAYBE…SCOTUS can have a say in how the president does his job…but NOT some low level federal stooge of a judge that thinks it knows better. And talk about unelected people telling the president how to do his job. These judges are NOT elected, they are appointed. And if you ask me, if they can be appointed by a president, they should be able to be UNappointed as well.
And since we are all talking about term limits on politicians, same for judges. They should not have a job for life just because they got appointed to do a job years if not decades ago. How about this…if a judge is overturned by the appeals court or the supreme court more than three times, they get fired. I mean, if they are overturned, it means they don’t know how to do their job, and hence…FIRED. Or at least some punishment. Their pay is decreased by $10k everytime they are overturned. After so many times, they lose their pensions and are fired. After all, they are NOT service We The People if they are getting it wrong over and over. And by hindering the president from doing his job, and later found to have been wrong, then they hit the bricks. How much harm is done by having to cater to their every ruling, only to find out months later, after so much money and time wasted, they were wrong and overturned. This way, judges better make damned sure their rulings are correct, or there will be consequences. There must be a downside to being an activist judge. Abuse your position, and lose it, along with your pension. Go find a job in the private sector and be held accountable for your mistakes…like the rest of us have to do.
The judicial branch is the Supreme Court. Only.
Federal district courts were created by Crap Weasel CONgress, and federal judges are subject to impeachment by the same.
The Crap Weasels are the ones who need to act, but alas, all 535 are happy to let President Trump get fukked every week by a new judge.
While they fly to codels, cash donor checks, and fundraise off the travesty they ALL allow.
I hope and pray for the day when Musk will DOGE Congress. What a treasure tove of waste, fraud, abuse, and self righteous piety. Most of our problems arise from the ineptitude and cowardliness of Congress.
Exactly as you say about the branches.
Not only that, but each branch has Constitutional authority to determine Constitutionality and check the other branches unconstitutional actions.
It is an egregious error that we allow courts alone to decide what’s Constitutional or not.
Hamilton, in the Federalist Papers, explained that the judiciary is the weakest branch. It doesn’t have the power of the purse or the sword. He said the judiciary can be said to have neither force nor will only judgement. They have no power to compel obedience to their opinions and rely on the other two branches. The judiciary cannot make law. The executive branch must, on its own, agree with the judiciary, obey and enforce judicial opinions. Congress, also, on its own, must agree when the judiciary says a law is unconstitutional and take steps to correct the law.
Congress’ checks on the judiciary are impeachment, power over the inferior courts, legislation, and the authority to ignore their opinions.
Congress’ checks on the Executive are impeachment, veto over-ride, and legislation.
The Executive’s checks on Congress are the veto and refusal to enforce/execute unconstitutional legislation. The Executive’s checks on the judiciary are refusing to enforce/execute unconstitutional opinions.
The Constitution delegates authority to the Executive to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. The Executive also has the power to execute/enforce the laws, but — per the Supremacy Clause — only laws which carry out a Constitutionally delegated power or duty.
The judiciary has NO Constitutionally delegated authority to be the final arbiter on Constitutionality. No part of the federal government is the final arbiter on Constitutionality.
The Constitution is the written compact between the states which creates the Constitution. The Constitution is the creature, the Constitution is the creator. The states are the parties to the compact, the federal government is the product of the compact. The product has no authority to define the compact, it can only obey the terms of the compact. The creature has no power to define its creator.
It is the People via their states who are the final arbiters on Constitutionality. Only the People can alter the Constitution. Only the People can elect our representatives.
Actually, not the Federal District Courts since they are created at the will of Congress, who controls their jurisdictions. This means, Congress could pass a Resolution commanding the District Courts to stay out of the issue of the granting of security clearances. Don’t even have to impeach them.
Can we pass this law with our current numbers in house and senate?
Great, let’s add an amendment to term limit judges. Congress too.
They added an amendment after 150 years to limit the executive. Time to limit the other two branches, to rebalance things.
I like your idea on dealing with appointed judges, but we all know this will never happen. The camel is in the tent my friend and there is no way to get rid of it unless we burn it all down and start over.
learn to code
Or a few banks trying to collect on defaulted mortgages in DC. Haha
This firm does what the Gov’t can’t legally do – their dirty work.
Maybe they can learn to code?
To Democrats, the Constitution is a fluid thing. They make it up as they go along to fit whatever suits their fancy.
A LiViNg DoCuMeNt
Everyday, the Judicial Branch loses more credibility. This will be John Roberts’ legacy.
Roberts said that ACA is a tax. Why doesn’t this capitation tax require an amendment? Hmm?
Real Americans ignore John Roberts.
Loser ass Republicans “comply” with this BS. REAL Americans laugh at Roberts, Johnson, et al.
GOP has no idea how done they are. Trump dragged their carcass across the finish line, and they stab him in the back with CRs that – promise – we cut in the fall. And we’ll give a “security guarantee” to Ukraine. God Damn the GOP.
With each passing oddity, our high court Chief Justice looks more and more conflicted and compromised. The man is desperately provincial. This is not likely to end well for anybody.
God bless him, PDJT has them painted into a corner.
Do nothing, and Trump wins.
Fight back, and they only expose themselves as defenders of corruption, if not outright participants of same.
Damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.
Either way, Trump wins.
“Do nothing, and Trump wins. Fight back, and they only expose themselves”.
That has been Trump’s superpower.
President Trump is essentially channeling Andy Jackson in his response to the Marshall court, “he has ruled, let’s see him enforce it!”
The moonbats are swinging and missing
This Judge is a well known Democrat operative/activist/fixer.
Laws? What Laws? She has made her own for a very long time. 0 consequences.
D.C. court needs to be dismantled. Stat!
No kidding
I assume this would need to pass House and need 60 Senate votes?
corner lot
rock garden
BLM placard
rainbow flag
subie wagon
If she looses this job, she can move to the 30033 zipcode of Decatur.
You’ve just described every 4th-5th home in numerous subdivisions.
A few still have Stacey Abrams signs in their yards. AND you have to
do a forensic audit to find anybody that’s actually minority (besides
asian) in these enclaves of understanding.
Add:
Vegan
Yoga
WHICH PRIVATE LAW FIRM IS ENTITLED TO HAVE SECURITY CLEARANCES?
IMO
only the WH Council
Keep in mind it’s been decades since an elected president is an actual man.
The klepotocratic form of governance is so entrenched that the judiciary has no reference point that an elected CEO is in charge, not the agencies and his puppet handlers.
We are witnessing the 2nd American Revolution. Trump must not let up the pressure on the permanent government, and eliminate every agency possible.
Like any cancer, the agencies when trimmed, will come back later. Cut them out by the roots and cauterize the infection.
I especially like the cutting out and cauterization 😅
Salt, lots of salt.
I would personally support mass public hangings of the aforementioned “kleptocrats”.
Would bring new meaning to the old term
“hanging judge”.
The granting an/or revocation of security clearances is an Executive function, not a Judicial function.
Nothing changes until judges are impeached, disbarred, and impoverished.
I especially like the impoverished part.
The removal of all these hacks source of income is paramount to throwing them into the dust bin of history.
Me also. For people like this, poverty is the ultimate disgrace. They disdain the poor.
Would like to see arrests for “Obstruction of Justice.” This could be an effective way to impoverish. Use the courts in the fashion the left does. Force expenses for legal counsel, trials, bonds, etc.
The judiciary is so far outside its separation of poweres boundries.
One thing is always ignored – the nation is supposed to established and decided by “WE THE PEOPLE.”
And we’re finding a lot of them have ties to NGOs who WERE getting big federal $$. Whether it be related to climate change, the environment, social injustice, DEI, etc., these are things that are going to lose federal funding. Whatever will these corrupt judges do? Hoping this biased judge gets exposed for her links to Perkins Coie, their partners & DC politicians who use Perkins Coie. As to companies using Perkins Coie, gee maybe you won’t be getting government contracts using their influence.
not “good behavior”
s/b impeached
clown car (GOP) will do nothing
Time for President Trump to play the same game that Bidone did and just ignore these so called “judges”.
And it’s high time the House Republicans get off their butts and start impeaching these political hacks who wear black robes.
The abuse of their judicial authority is seditious and an affront to the Constitution.
They probably don’t even know they have that duty. If they do know, they are afraid of repercussions. Talk about a civil war in Congress that our side isn’t participating in.
They are not going to get a 2/3 majority in the Senate.
The list of judges needing to be impeached is expanding. But don’t count on Congress to get after it.
What law is being interpreted by this red diaper baby black cloaked imbecile? The law of the lawfare jungle?
I feel I don’t like it that the President of the USA whom I disagree with has so much power….
There needs to be an example set of utter ridicule and public disdain. Put her in the stocks on the public square and place baskets of overripe tomatoes nearby.
It would be a shame if those anti-American judges got doxed,swatted at 3am and had a unexpected fire at their homes after a new Antifa,BLM,FREE Palestine paint job. Just for clarification this is just a dream NOT A THREAT for the sue happy leftists.
Where the heck is the check on the judiciary’s power grab? These appointed judges are operating as if they are the ones who are running things and making policy in the U.S. It’s getting crazier by the day.
Call me crazy,,, but does this creature resemble a youngish Killary Klinton?
Is it possible to remove this stagnant, overpaid judge?
She certainly doesn’t understand the three separate and equal branches of government…the Presidency (ONE PERSON), the judiciary and the Legislative branch.
Read elsewhere that Trump just signed an EO stating he will ignore lower court rulings until the Supreme Court rules on judges attempting to hijack executive power.
A follow-up on that story – the site in question apparently got it from a satire site. Oh, well. It would have been nice if Trump stopped getting dragged into the legal version of whack-a-mole.
This Judge is yet another unattractive ugly liberal woman.
I’ve never seen a cute one! Ever.
AOC is hot, but I wouldn’t touch her with somebody else’s ten-foot pole.
Somebody isn’t getting the message. I still say the “Secure Work Area” in that law office is a SCIF. I don’t know what else it would be. A President has the ability to give “thumb up” or “thumb down” about who will be entrusted with that level of secure information. Those people messed with Trump when he was President, abusing their position of trust. They should lose it.
All of these liberal activist Leftist judges remind me of the game “Wack-A-Mole”.
One of ’em sticks his/her head up, wreaks their havoc, only to have their decision stricken down (whacked) when appealed.
No the whack doesn’t always happen (yet), but that is when the counter-lawfare measures (i.e. impeachment), another “hammer” if you will, need be be brought to the fore by Congress.
I understand that impeachment papers have already been filed on 2 of these Liber judge moles, & it is now high time to file some more impeachment papers of Beryl “Ding Dong Bell” & Howell, Tanya Futkan, Sparkle Snookanananan, and “Bone” Ana Reyes.
Yeah, it is a lot of work to do, a lotta heavy, but necessary heavy lifting that MUST be done to send a message to these Leftist clowns.
SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, & STAY IN YOUR JUDICIAL LANE!!
If they don’t incur sanctions, maybe they at least incur sufficient shame/embarassment to take the hints!!
SCOTUS already ruled last year {Trump v. U.S.} that POTUS is immune to the courts…
Judges, however are not immune to Justice…
And obstructing an official act of POTUS is the epitome of the Obstruction of Justice.
POTUS is the executor of the will of The People and Federal law…
There is no greater authority among men on the face of the Earth.
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
So, at least thus far, it appears that Trump’s second term will be muddied by these Lawfare lawsuits, rather than ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’. No one needs to define the responsibilities or powers of the legislature or judiciary, but it appears that the powers of the president is open to interpretation, depending on your politics.
This witch’s lawfare makes my blood boil!!
Is she really that stupid or is just a bottom of the barrel shot at delaying this and causing the President to go to SCOTUS?
If President Trump cannot remove the security clearances from Perkins Coie, how did Obama and Biden give them to Perkins Coie?
OK Judge Barium Enema, how did Perkins Coie (a private lawfare firm) get a security clearance from the FBI in the first place? Sorry, ma’am, your prejudice is showing!
Quit using logic. It isn’t necessary if you’re a liberal. Obviously that’s especially true if you’re a liberal “judge”. President Trump does actually need to ignore them and force SCOTUS to act. Then fight SCOTUS in the court of public opinion when they screw up their ruling.
Better get this out of control judiciary squared away or the left wins … again.
There was one law firm or other entity that last week it was noted, 98% of their business was with the government.
Separation of Powers. She has no authority to decide how the Executive Branch operates.
The DOJ CAN charge activist judges with sedition. sedition /sĭ-dĭsh′ən/
noun
Perkins Coie = Hillary Clinton
Enough said.
I think it takes a lot of money to act that stupid, especially when almost everyone else has figured it out.
The judge says PC has a “right” to see everything, but I don’t?
Sorry, no.
Wasting away again in crazyville. Looking for my last ruling against Trump.
Some people say I will stay this way but I know it my own fault.
Another lawless yenta.
Have them arrested for overstepping their authority and it will stop.
They should consider moving out of DC to, say, Memphis.
And maybe a name change…is Bendini, Lambert & Locke available?
Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe.
That may not be how it works but it’s how it is working. At worst delay, delay, delay. At best, get Roberts and Coney Barrett to rule with her.
It depends on the GD contract! That’s one part of this.
A friggin judge has no say, zero, nada, in the determination of the status of clearances.
Tell this judge to go whatever herself.
What an ugly person in more ways that one!
Like All dems….
Can we set up a MAGA law firm with access to “research” anti American entities and assist MAGA “contractors”?
The problem with the Judiciary is there’s no oversight. Appeals take ages and the system is saturated with sycophants willing to back up her illegal opinions. For many decades the Democrats have packed the courts with activists and Republicans have allowed it. At one point GW Bush stated he was committed to keeping the “Balance” of the Supreme Court. The trick is Judges have no way to enforce their opinions.
“I am the President of the United States of America…clothed in immense power!”
– Daniel Day Lewis portraying Abraham Lincoln in the film Lincoln.
Oh, Attorney General -you hoo!
time to find a hanging judge and just hang here…..judge roy bean where are you?
Well, they can always advertise on bus stop benches. I understand folks injured in accidents sometimes need a lawyer.
You see similar things in state government contracts all the time, and by that I mean you will find a clause that a contractor hired for a state contract can’t do business with anyone involved with South Africa’s apartheid government and so forth.
State lawmakers have these things added, because thy have that authority.
Why do these women all look alike.
It’s so true that most , if not all, liberal women are positively hideous and conservative women are usually attractive.
I’m surprised USAID didn’t do some billion dollar study on that !
No one would like the results.
Libs let their inner ugly shine through.
Well Judge, if DJT ignores your ruling….what then? Meanwhile, I’ll get the popcorn.
This is the firm Obama chose to receive all federal fines issued by the EPA and fines imposed on corporations. Millions and millions that they laundered and distributed to democrat causes.
What determines Security Clearance?
Who authorizes Security Clearance?
How much longer are we going to have lower court judges trying to run the executive branch of this country?
“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps…. Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.”
T. Jefferson
The criminals are holding onto power by their fingernails. Every day there is another outrage like this.
I can either focus on being enraged or I can be grateful we have the best chance of my lifetime to turn this country around from being led by a criminal cartel to being led by We the People. I choose to feel grateful and hopeful that we will win against the corrupt criminals.