"It isn't an accident that we're here now": How the Supreme Court encouraged Trump to defy the law [View all]
With President Donald Trump’s administration appearing to act in open defiance of court orders, even as the Justice Department insists the administration is trying to comply in good faith, and Vice President JD Vance railing against the authority of the judiciary, legal experts note that courts could still impose dramatic civil penalties on those who carry out Trump's orders, a measure courts are yet to impose.
At the same time, historians note that the Trump administration, in asserting broad executive powers unchecked by Congress or the courts, is reviving legal battles that were considered settled hundreds of years ago.
On Monday, Judge John McConnell Jr., presiding over a federal court in Rhode Island, wrote that the Trump administration was violating the “plain language” of a previous court order prohibiting “all categorical pauses or freezes” in federal spending.
The freeze has affected a wide range of programs, like early childhood education programs funded by Head Start grants, tribal governments, schools in low-income districts and rural hospitals. A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency also directed subordinates to freeze a vast assortment of grants on Monday, even after the ruling in Rhode Island.
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