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The Big Beautiful Authoritarian Bill
Trump has nullified the courts
Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful bill passed. And while we have all been stressing about cuts to Medicaid and the effect on the deficit of all the tax cuts contained in the bill, somebody sneaked in a sentence that basically renders the courts powerless to stop Trump.
Bet you weren’t expecting that, were you? No one was. But the bill was the perfect place to hide a little bomb like that. Here’s the sentence in question:
“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued.”
In laymen’s terms, it means that courts can’t enforce their injunctions or orders by holding anyone in contempt. Ya know, where a lawyer refuses to follow the judge’s orders so the judge holds them in contempt and throws them in jail until they come to their senses and do as the judge says.
As we all know, Trump has been ignoring any court decisions, injunctions and orders that he doesn’t like. The courts have been threatening to hold his lawyers in contempt if they don’t obey. So far, no one has gone to jail, but it could have happened.
