The Trump administration has been found in violation of court rulings in an extraordinary number of lawsuits on a broad set of issues.

When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the president’s mass deportation effort.

Instead, a top Justice Department official insisted the ruling wasn’t binding, and the administration continued denying detainees around the country a chance for release.

By February, the district court judge, Sunshine Sykes, was fed up. Sykes, a nominee of President Joe Biden, accused Trump officials in a ruling that month of seeking “to erode any semblance of separation of powers,” adding that they could “only do so in a world where the Constitution does not exist.”

Hardly isolated, the case illustrates a broader pattern of defiance of lower court decisions in Donald Trump’s second term.

  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
    32·
    14 hours ago

    This is a great example of modern journalism failing.

    For example:

    The Republican administration’s power struggle with federal courts — which is testing basic tenets of U.S. democracy — reflects an expansive view of executive authority that has also challenged the independence of federal agencies, a president’s ethical obligations, and the U.S.’s role in the international order.

    The AP doesn’t want to appear to be picking sides, so it reports on Trump’s actions, but calls them a “display of executive power” and that his actions are a “power struggle” with the Courts.

    No, he is violating constitutional separation of powers. He has broken his oath of office. He is breaking the most binding law in our country. If the Constitution does not regulate the executive branch’s action, we are no longer in a constitutional government.

    By waffling and timidly refusing to call this what it is, the AP tries to stay “objective,” but all it in fact is doing is normalizing anticonstitutional law-breaking, which means even citizens who read the news (to say nothing of those who don’t) will feel this is some uncomfortable gray area instead of the actual constitutional crisis it is.

    This is why we’re never going to have overwhelming public support for impeachment until Congressional democrats actually file and litigate articles of impeachment - because the fourth estate has already abandoned their independent ability to report on reality, and with it, any responsibility they have to sustain democracy.

  • zd9@lemmy.world
    23·
    17 hours ago

    Then fucking enforce it with the State’s monopoly on violence that you always parade about. The Courts are pussies that need to send in armed police/soldiers/whatever the official title is, to forcibly abduct or compel a tyrannical dictator to comply.