Summary
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars in blocked foreign aid within 48 hours, citing noncompliance with a 13-day-old court order.
The freeze, imposed by Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order, halted funding for USAID and State Department programs, affecting hundreds of millions of dollars owed to nonprofits and businesses.
The cutoff forced tens of thousands of layoffs and jeopardized critical aid projects. Despite the Feb. 13 ruling, no payments resumed.
This follows another case where a judge found the administration failed to unfreeze trillions in domestic grants and loans.
Or what? The judge doesn’t have the power to enforce it. The president has greater power than the judge. The judge shouldn’t even be involved to begin with. The executive order trumps the judges order.
you’re wrong and let me explain why.
a judge rules with the force of laws. this is because they work within the judicial branch. these laws are written, voted, and accepted as truth. laws are practically stricken in stone.
executive orders are orders given to how the government should operate, not how they will operate. without laws to back the EO the order is worth as much as an Arby’s receipt. they are not royal proclamations because America does not have a king.
Trump and his bastards have broken several hundred if not thousands of laws all under the guise of executive privilege which has ZERO legal standing in court. and before you bring scotus into this, they don’t make the laws they merely interpret them and how they should be interpreted. it’s up to the lower courts and judges to apply or ignore laws as they have been interpreted.
so to recap: executive orders are not laws, they cannot be interpreted by scotus and thus can be ignored or even challenged by the lower courts.
as for what the judges can do, they can hold him in contempt, arrest him, and place him in custody for not complying with the law.
hopefully you’ve learned something and can be less ignorant about a subject you seem so passionate about.
I’m just going to mark this comment for reference next week.
Who’s going to be doing the arresting after he’s held in contempt?
the US Marshals.
before you even say it,
get a new message, troll. there’s still Americans that are willing to protect the constitution.
The judge can say whatever he wants. Do you think the secret service will allow anyone to arrest the President?
sure they won’t, then the marshals will arrest them for impediment the law.
then we’ll truly and publicly be in a constitutional crisis.
no one is above the law, NO ONE.
In theory. In practice, it seems that certain people are, in fact, above the law.
It needs to be made so.
Call your representatives and literally yell at them for not doing more on Trump.