Republicans target unions, religious freedom, and courts that challenge Trump
Injustice for all is a weekly series on how the Trump administration is trying to arm the judicial system and those who retaliate.
Republicans are very unhappy that the lower courts continue to govern against the Trump administration. How do the courts dare to hinder President Donald Trump do what he wants?
Unfortunately for the GOP, the parliamentarian of the Senate Elizabeth Macdonough thrown The provision designed to make the complainants almost impossible to continue the federal government.
Because the conservatives no longer believe in the separation of powers, they have floating completely eliminate the lower courts and prayed The Supreme Court prevents the lower courts from issuing national injunctions.
They are furious that the courts continue to govern against Trump, and he never seems to have crossed their minds to contemplate why. He cannot be that Trump is wildly exceeding his power and destroying the government, the judges must therefore be in the dungeon to refuse Trump his legitimate authority.
GOP senators approached him in a different path – but no less anti -democratic. They tried to include a provision in the budget bill which would have Lower court barrot the issuance of a temporary ban or preliminary injunction against the federal government unless the applicants have deposited a deposit. The obligation should cover all that the federal government has declared that the costs and damage resulting from not being allowed to do what it wanted.
On the main policies, such as undressing it the citizenship of the birth law of hundreds of thousands of Americans, the government could argue that its costs and its damages run in billions Due to the counteract of its deportations. It is explicitly designed to make it more difficult for individuals and non -profit groups to continue the government or obtain help from national level.
At least for the moment, the Senate will not get its way, because Macdonough judged that this provision raped The Byrd rule, which limits the provisions in the bill of reconciliation only to those which have a budgetary effect.
But don’t fear: Republicans will continue to try to make sure that nothing is in Trump – not even the federal courts.
“Can you tell me how a bunch of allergic researchers will violate national security using their time at work for collective negotiations?”
He is the American district judge James Donato, speaking of Trump’s absurdity executive decree intended to go beyond union protections of more than a million federal employees.
The pretension that Trump had used here was to say that more than 40 agencies operated mainly as national security organizations and were therefore exempt from the Law on Labor Management Relations of Federal Services. But this list included agencies that obviously do not have national security as a main function, including the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Donato blocked The ordinance, claiming that there is a serious question on the question of whether the Trump administration violated the rights of the first amendment of federal employees by retalling against them for their protected speech.
Donato decision Stresses that Trump’s executive order literally admits this behavior. Trump complained about “hostile federal unions” who “declared war on President Trump’s agenda” and that he will not tolerate “the unions that oppose him.
Donato also noted that the order of Trump could cool the speech of federal employees, because they can “feel pressure to comply with the political opinions of the administration” or risk reprisals.
For the moment, Trump is forbidden to apply order and reduce the protections of the unions. But who knows what will happen when it eventually ends at the Supreme Court, which is busy Give Trump everything he wants by blocking lower justice decisions.
At least someone will go after SpaceX when their rockets explode
Not in the United States, however.
Texas and the federal government seem to be standing whenever one of Elon Musk’s space rockets explodes spectacularly, whatever the damage they cause.
A 2023 explosion Crop to a concrete cover cloud Isabel, Texas, a 3.5 -acted fire, and pieces of metal and concrete have lost thousands of meters from the launch site. And a 2024 launch destroyed the nests of shore birds and throws thousands of industrial wastewater gallons nearby.
The environmental destruction of SpaceX does not stop as if by magic on the border, which is why the Mexican government is considering continue a legal action For garbage, Spacex spits through the northern border of Mexico.
The explosions of SpaceX of May 27 and June 19 have dropped debris and microplastics on Tamaulipas, a northern border state in Mexico. The debris finally made its way to the marine areas, where environmental activists say He caused A death of fish, dolphins and sea turtles.
We do not know what the legal action against SpaceX would look like, although it is very clear that Musk will go from the land burned on any dispute. But at least someone will try to master it.
Trump’s DOJ intervenes on the side of children’s abuse
Appellant an “anti-Catholic law”, the Ministry of Justice heard To join the Catholic bishops in their trial against the state of Washington, which has a newly adopted law which requires the priests to disclose Childhood mistreatment even if they have learned in a confessional.
There is certainly a credible argument on the question of whether it is introduced by religious practices, but not from the Trump administration, which has been formulated as the guardian of children’s safety. In practice, it only seems to be applied to the attack on schools that do not abuse trans children sufficiently.
Indeed, the April of Trump proclamation For the national month of the prevention of children’s abuse, boasts of the way in which he protects children by “prohibiting public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology”. He also took “historical measures” to secure the southern border and put an end to the trafficking of children. But it is not at all clear how these actions really tackle the abuse of children.
In the meantime, the Trump administration withdraw financing From the survey of sexual abuse of children, internet crimes against minors and missing children’s reports. The DoJ has also deleted grant requests, despite many funds, for services such as local police assistance investigate the exploitation of children on the Internet and the payment of defenders committed by the court for mistreated children.
The GM did not intervene in this case because it is strongly devoted to child abuse. This does not even intervene really to preserve the sacred character of the confessional – although it is its ostensible reason.
The Doj is in this case because it wants to advance a theocratic vision of the world – to continue to develop protections for conservative Christians and conservative Christians alone. And, hey, if that means that children endure mistreatment because priests are silent, it’s just the cost of religious affairs.
Texas likes to adopt laws that violate the Constitution
It’s really, really.
Last week, Governor Greg Abbott signed the law requirement that each class displays a poster of at least 16 inches per 20 inch with the text of the ten commandments.
Texas knew very well that it would be disputed because it is manifestly unconstitutional. A group of religious leaders and families heard The day after the signing of Abbott, saying that she violates the separation of the church and the state.
The complainants also stressed that there are several translations and interpretations of the ten commandments, so even if we were completely broken down to force this in the classroom, there is always the problem of which version would be used.
Texas also knew very well that it would be challenged because the incredibly conservative 5th court of appeal, which includes Texas, detained That a similar law of Louisiana was unconstitutional last week.
What Texas hopes here is something like what happened with its so -called “heartbeat”, which has prohibited all abortions after a heart rate can be detected – about 6 weeks – and has created a bonus hunter system where anyone could pursue someone who “helped and encouraged” someone to make an abortion.
This law has openly raped ROE C. Wadewho judged that the government could not prohibit abortion before viability, which is around 24 weeksBut the Supreme Court allow him To take effect anyway. Then the court took Dobbs c. Jackson During the 15 -week ban on Mississippi, which also deliberately violated the requirement of viability. The court used this to overthrow Deer.
Texas plays that the Supreme Court is now filled with religious theocrats who could very well be perfectly happy to force the children to look at the ten commandments every day, while explaining that this does not in a way violate the first amendment.
It is not a bad bet for Texas, but it is terrible for the rest of us.
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