Judge says Trump administration can’t block child care, other program money for 5 states for now
19h 10m ago by lemmy.world/u/MicroWave in politics from www.huffpost.com
A federal judge ruled Friday that Donald Trump’s administration cannot block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting low-income families with children from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now.
The states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York argued that a policy announced Tuesday to freeze billions of dollars in funds for three grant programs is having an immediate impact on them and creating “operational chaos.” In court filings and a hearing earlier Friday, the states contended that the government did not have a legal reason for holding back the money from them.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it was pausing the funding because it had “reason to believe” the states were granting benefits to people in the country illegally, though it did not provide evidence or explain why it was targeting those states and not others.
Yeah? Who’s gonna enforce that?
He’s murdering people on the streets. This ain’t fazing him.
Trump isn't personally running the entire federal government and showing up to court to file his own motions and answer questions from judges. Trump and his inner circle may act like they're above the law, but the people who have to carry out their instructions aren't immune to consequences.
This is especially true in court. Lawyers aren't eager to throw their careers away by lying to judges, filing false statements, or openly defying court orders. That's why the administration has lost so many lawyers and says things in court that are wildly different than what they say everywhere else.
Suing this administration has been a much more effective strategy than most people seem to realize. It's often a long, drawn out process that wastes time and money, and they drag things out as much as possible. And yes the Supreme Court has been blatantly corrupt in the ways they've bailed out the Trump administration. But still, they only take on a small fraction of the total number of cases (and even then, they mostly help them stall cases with temporary orders rather than deciding actual cases).
When the Supreme Court doesn't intervene, the Trump administration loses or backs down the vast majority of the time.
Holy shit, man.
Remember Andrew Jackson? The Supreme Court also told him he couldn't do something. He did it anyway
"For now."
For now: until SCOTUS rules he can do whatever he wants as long as it's to "blue" states and doesn't affect their owners billionaires.
The supreme court: we'll put an emergency stay on this order, pending a decision two years from now, because irreparable harm could happen if we don't allow Donny to do whatever he feels like.
Trump says hold my Adderall.