Quote:Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a court-imposed midnight deadline that would have required the Trump administration to spend $2 billion in frozen foreign aid, a goal that the government has claimed it is unable to meet.

The emergency appeal marks the first time President Trump’s efforts to drastically remake the federal government – including with deep cuts across government agencies – have reached the nation’s highest court. The case appears likely to put the justices on a collision course with Trump’s sweeping efforts to consolidate power within the executive branch.

Earlier:

JUST IN: President Trump Files Emergency Appeal Asking Supreme Court to Intervene After Biden Judge Orders Admin to Pay $2 Billion in Foreign Contracts by Midnight

Ignore the Judges.

(02-26-2025 10:07 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  Ignore the Judges.

Can't do that. Gotta let it play out. Don't give the Dems an opening when they get the chance at some other time.

(02-26-2025 10:07 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  Ignore the Judges.

ignore the Supreme Court? Good luck with that strategy.

(02-27-2025 08:13 AM)TheOriginalBigApp Wrote:  

(02-26-2025 10:07 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  Ignore the Judges.

ignore the Supreme Court? Good luck with that strategy.

the only risks are adverse reactions by the Congress or the public. I really don’t believe that either of those groups are going to be that angry if more taxpayer money isn’t shipped abroad.

(02-27-2025 08:13 AM)TheOriginalBigApp Wrote:  

(02-26-2025 10:07 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  Ignore the Judges.

ignore the Supreme Court? Good luck with that strategy.

Biden did.

(02-26-2025 10:28 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(02-26-2025 10:07 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  Ignore the Judges.

Can't do that. Gotta let it play out. Don't give the Dems an opening when they get the chance at some other time.

4 presidents have ignored them

(02-27-2025 08:13 AM)TheOriginalBigApp Wrote:  

(02-26-2025 10:07 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  Ignore the Judges.

ignore the Supreme Court? Good luck with that strategy.

Been done

Andrew jackson

Co-EQUAL Branches of Government. One is not stronger than the other. A Federal Judge can't just arbitrarily tell one of the other branches how they can do their Constitutional business without an argument from both sides. If that were the case Trump can just say he will fire the Judge and cut his/her salary. Executive Branch appoints them. Besides these are just pauses. The judges know they have no power to do anything other than that. Activist judges obstructing Executive power temporarily is all this is.

Some reforms I would like to see to the judicial system:

- Only the Supreme Court can declare laws unconstitutional. Lower courts merely interpret the law as written. This is the way that France, for one, does it.
- Lower courts can only interpret laws for their area of jurisdiction. The interpretation by a district judge for, say, the Southern District of Texas, applies only in the Southern District of Texas. No lower court can issue a ruling that applies in all 50 states.
- Supreme Court expanded to 13 justices, one each drawn from the 11 numbered circuits and the DC and Federal circuits. Senior justice becomes Chief Justice, non-voting except to break a tie. Interim procedure--each major party nominates 2 justices from currently unrepresented circuits to get to 13; thereafter vacancies must be filled from unrepresented circuits until all circuits are represented. Currently all justices except one (Barrett) graduated from one of two law schools (Harvard, Yale), all justices except two (Barrett 7th, Gorsuch 10th) came from either the DC Circuit or the northeastern 1st, 2nd, or 3rd districts, and in a majority Protestant Christian country there are no Protestant justices. The Supreme Court as currently constituted does not reflect or represent the USA, and this is an attempt to address that.