Trump looks to Supreme Court to stop judges who interfere with his policies

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

The Trump administration is looking for ways to deal with a recurring frustration: individual federal judges who have put the brakes on one major administration policy after another.

The administration is telling the Supreme Court in a case about President Trump's travel ban that judges are increasingly using what are called nationwide injunctions to stop "a federal policy everywhere." The Justice Department says the high court should "reject the deeply misguided practice," which has also been used against the administration's crackdown on "sanctuary cities," President Donald Trump's announced ban on transgender military service members and, most recently, the effort to end legal protections for young immigrants.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has become the administration's leading critic of the injunctions. Sessions said Tuesday they have been used 20 times in Trump's first year in office, "as many as President Obama had in eight years." But Sessions didn't object to the practice in his prior life as a senator from Alabama. He had praised a single judge from Texas who put a nationwide block on an Obama immigration policy. The more common practice is for a judge to issue an order that gives only the people who sued what they want.

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But Sessions has taken a dim view of the judges who ruled against the administration over the travel ban. Speaking of that matter, Sessions said this week that "one judge blocked the entire federal government from carrying out its lawful duty." Last year, he referred to a federal judge in Hawaii who prevented the enforcement of the travel restrictions as a "judge sitting on an island in the Pacific."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-looks-to-supreme-court-to-stop-judges-who-interfere-with-his-policies/

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Poor wittle Donnie isn't getting everything he wants.

[dalton99a]

1. "Gorsuch, you gotta tell them to stop

I was very nice to you and I made you a Supreme Court judge"

[redstatebluegirl]

2. But now he is there for life, nothing Donnie can threaten him with.

Hopefully he will not do something stupid, but I doubt it.

[Stuart G]

7. Yes, indeed..."..but I doubt it" great view of history..

Trump is incredibly good at doing something ..."stupid" Or ...saying... "something stupid"

Like, some of these "tweets".....It seems that Trump is too stupid to know that the tweets are "stupid"
It would be easy to stop ...tweeting...but he isn't that smart.., because most of us believe that tweeting is hurting him as a leader. (actually most of us know that)

but he hasn't figured that out..yet...why?.....because he is .too stupid, too arrogant

[grumpyduck]

3. I'm not surprised DT is doing that

but I have to believe that it comes from refusing to understand or accept that judges, for the most part, go with the law and not with somebody's (in this case a dictator wanna-be's) personal whims. That's what judges are in office for and what we expect of them.

But so far the system seems to be working most of the time. If a federal judge rules on something, and SCOTUS sees it differently, they'll overturn the decision.

Yeah, is right.

[BobTheSubgenius]

4. Ol' Beau ought to know about a "judge sitting on an island in the Pacific."

He's a relic sitting on an anachronism.

[duforsure]

5. Tump wants absolute power

He wants the Department of tump justice. All corrupt dictators do that so they can be as corrupt as they want, and as we're now seeing in this country. He wants to be the judge, the jury, and the executioner. He has to always have it all his way, or else.

[MFM008]

6. He better get used

To NOT getting his way.

[still_one]

8. those arrogant self-absorded idiots who refused to vote for the Democratic nominee because they

believed the bullshit that there was no difference between republicans and Democrats

helped bring us to where we are today

[getagrip_already]

9. judges rule on questions of the law....

If you keep pushing policies that violate the law, judges will keep stopping you.

It's usually rare for a federal judge to stop a presidential policy. Unless it's trump's policy.

There is a reason for that.