The provision was aimed at curbing nationwide injunctions imposed by judges that have blocked some high-profile Trump administration policies.
Senate Democrats forced the removal of a provision in Republicans’ sweeping domestic policy bill that sought to restrict the power of courts to block federal government policies with injunctions or restraining orders.
Democrats are challenging a broad range of provisions in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” for compliance with Senate budget rules that Republicans are relying on to bypass the 60-vote hurdle in the chamber to advance most legislation.
A Democratic aide on the Senate Budget Committee confirmed that Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, the in-house referee, ruled the provision did not comply with the “Byrd rule,” which says provisions must be directly related to taxes or spending.
I commend the Dems for accomplishing something, but I feel like it will matter little for the near future. They’ve already been successfully dodging the courts or just not complying with almost no recourse.
There has been a ton done by this administration that was successfully and rightfully blocked by the courts. What have they been able to dodge? There was the Kilmar Abrego Garcia situation which they dragged their feet on, but that was eventually resolved too.
Well they’re still sending folks to CECOT, bringing us into yet another Middle East conflict, deploying state level military into their own state to run security for the feds, denying folks their rights all over the place, running illegal crypto scams, selling bribes, illegally firing federal workers, defunding Congress level agencies, the list goes on and on and on and on… The fact that the courts can just be ignored shows they have no real power and can be stepped on as Trump pleases.