Summary
Three federal judges dealt legal setbacks to Trump’s early second-term controversial policies in a 90-minute span.
In DC, Judge AliKhan indefinitely blocked a federal funding freeze, calling it “irrational, imprudent and precipitated a nationwide crisis.”
Also in DC, Judge Amir Ali ordered the administration to pay pay foreign aid-related money owed to government contractors and nonprofit groups.
In Seattle, Judge Whitehead halted Trump’s executive order suspending refugee admissions, arguing it “amounts to an effective nullification of congressional will.”
Cool, now who enforces? crickets
It can even be enforced, but it doesn’t matter, because there’s no real drawback from these rulings. He can sign 100 executive orders a day, and that will go to 100 courtrooms and take them weeks or more to sort out.
He can just keep pumping these out all day, it’s a “throw as much shit at the wall as possible” situation, some of it is going to stick.