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.
Whatcha gonna do, judge? Ask again? Wait until deadlines pass? Delay has always been Trumpy Dumpty’s strategy to maximize harm. No conquences means nothing to lose.
But instead of poking a dictator who doesn’t GAF, how about holding congress Republicans accountable since, you know, they “control” finances. You start dragging them out in cuffs, I betcha it will get someone’s attention, fast!
The next step is the DoJ sends the US Marshalls to arrest the President for failure to comply with a federal court order. Let’s hope they follow through.
Congress is not withholding the funds, so they are not committing a crime. That’s part of the reason for the accountability executive order, obscuring responsibility.
The DoJ is an executive agency, under the President, currently run by Pam Bondi and Emil Bove. Anyone in that organization who moves against the President is getting fired, whether or not that is legal.
Importantly, as of a few days ago any agency in the executive branch has to defer to the president and attorney general for interpretation of the laws, so if the president says the court order is illegal then the DoJ doesn’t have to do anything.
After that
- marshalls will tell Trump he is wanted in court.
- Trump gets to carry on as usual
- Court finds trump guilty of 29 federal crimes, treason and corruption
- Trump will carry out the rest of his term guilty of those crimes.
- Trump will carry out as many terms as he wants guilty of those crimes.
The next step is the DoJ sends the US Marshalls to arrest the President
The DoJ is owned by Trump, so I don’t think they’ll be doing that.
You’re probably right, but our failing system is still intact. Once a constitutional crisis occurs, our system will be definitively proven to be a failure, and will require revision or replacement.
Is it intact?
Technically, yes. The unconstitutional actions taken by the executive branch have been challenged by the judiciary branch. If the executive branch does not comply, the next step is pressing charges. Failure to do so would be a constitutional crisis.
This is far from the first time that a president overstepped their authority. Trump was checked in his last term over the Muslim ban, for example. Even Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus without authority.
This would be the first time in US history that the president is not held accountable for failing to comply with a federal court order.
If the executive branch does not comply, the next step is pressing charges. Failure to do so would be a constitutional crisis.
They already have refused to abide by the orders… And then all we got was “Well, we’ll check back later, and see if you complied yet”.
He didn’t openly reject the order. He is appealing.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/nx-s1-5293132/trump-vance-constitutional-crisis-court-rulings
And just like that, Trump fires the US Marshalls.
This is the interesting bit - he might try that. As far as I know, something changed in 1969 about the structure of the federal marshals, and the courts no longer hire their own marshals. A comment from an American well versed in law would help clear things up.
Interesting. I suppose it being an executive order does keep it to the executive branch. It’s late over here and the brain hurts.
Too bad there isn’t a law that requires the legislative brance to exercise powers of checks and balances. Maybe that’s something to note for America 2.0.
The federal courts took the first step, ruling the action unconstitutional. We’ll see if the DoJ dispatches the US Marshalls with a warrant for failure to comply. If not, they will be complicit.
The courts can directly order the Marshalls to enforce their rulings. But yes,the Marshalls do roll up under the DOJ. So what happens when the courts give the order is anyone’s guess.
Failure would result in a constitutional crisis.
Another one? Toss it on the pile.
There hasn’t been one yet. It’s defined as a situation in which a major political dispute cannot be clearly resolved on the basis of the particular government’s constitution or established practice. All steps must be taken until our system has been proven to fail.
The ordinary response:
- find the defendant in contempt
- send US marshals to carry out the court order
- alternatively, send them to jail the person who held the court in contempt
Trump gonna slap 25% tariffs on the judges. That’ll teach them, MAGA!
Too bad our SCOTUS is corrupt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/trump-usaid-foreign-aid.html
What are they gonna do? Prosecute him? Impeach him? Hold him in contempt?
Dudes been stealing from everyone for his whole life and doesn’t give a fuck what a judge thinks.
Ha! We both said the same thing.
First bump
First bump
I knew what you meant. Autocorrect do be an asshole.
I seriously don’t think I’ve ever encountered another person to get into so much shite and face zero consequences.
OR ELSE!
C’mon America.
It’s called impeachment.
Traditions don’t work with bullies. Trump is exposing every weakness in the US institutions.
What is the date and time required by the judge? That is PROTEST O’CLOCK, my people.
Cheer Justice Roberts stayed this order
or what? Until the courts actually start doing things and not just talk about them, they will always be just so much fetid air
Is this the same one that SCOTUS just overruled the other night?
Ah yes this is gonna be awesome
Not only fuck around with the will of the voters.
But actively messing with the execution of presumably why they were voted in the first place.
Yeah this is seriously gonna make the people who voted him don’t think about how the judges want to limit the will of the people AT ALL
Yeah because you see, you might have voted for this guy. Thinking your vote matters
But the one controlling the country, deciding its fate and yours , is us in here, not you
And you will never have a way to stop us
Yeah this is surely a winning non alienating strategy. Props to whoever thought of it this will get the Dems soooooo many votes man, like, you wouldn’t believe it
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.
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Who’s going to be doing the arresting after he’s held in contempt?
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We’ll see. Congress and the majority of the Executive Branch seem to be goose stepping right along with Trump. The Supreme Court is iffy.
As for the accusation of trolling, you can fuck off. That was a serious question. On the off chance you haven’t been paying attention, there’s serious concern that the loyalty of most of our government may be to Trump and not to the Constitution.
I’m just going to mark this comment for reference next week.
Hi, imma let you finish but just real quick. Laws are laws only if they are enforced. Alrite, take care fella.
The judge can say whatever he wants. Do you think the secret service will allow anyone to arrest the President?
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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.
Have you been paying attention at all for the last 5 years?
Do you think anyone that matters will do anything to stop him?
