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An American President is not a king – not even an 'elected' one – and his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute,
U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell said earlier this month in a court order reinstating a member of the National Labor Relations Board
Here, the executive has unilaterally deemed that funds Congress appropriated for foreign aid will not be spent,
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That's his constitutional duty. And that includes weeding out waste, fraud and abuse. That’s what he's doing with Elon Musk and with DOGE,
said Davis, a former Supreme Court clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch
Judges aren't presidents."
Mike Lee, R-Utah, a frequent critic of the courts, shared Ogles' post and wrote
The courts are not supposed to rule on political issues,
Jacobson saidWe’ve seen it since the beginning of the administration, on every single executive order, certainly on immigration enforcement actions, is to go forum shopping, they look for a federal district judge that they know is going to be sympathetic to try to block an order or action from the administration,
Aguilar saidIt’s incredible that basically a rogue judge is putting our national security at risk when they block this enforcement action without any legal basis,
Alfonso Aguilar, a former chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship and the director of Hispanic engagement at the American Principles Project, told Fox News DigitalIf you send a clear message to these individuals that if you're coming here to commit crime or engage in terrorism, we will detain you. We will remove you immediately,
he saidNo question they're going to push the limits of our country's immigration laws until a judge, probably the justices of the United States Supreme Court, stops them,
Rahmani said
CBP questioned Dr. Alawieh and determined that her true intentions in the United States could not be determined,
a DOJ prosecutor wroteIt's creative, to put it mildly, maybe just blatantly unlawful,
Neama Rahmani, a former California-based federal prosecutor, told the Washington Examiner of Trump’s recent immigration enforcement movesConflating 'pro-terrorist,' 'anti-Semitic,' and 'anti-American' activity is an incredibly dangerous step to take,
he saidThis has been a habit of the Trump administration to overstate the danger of the people they've arrested,
he said
Where it gets scary and this is what was so frightening about the interview is when he starts saying ‘I don’t care what the courts say – we have the right to do it anyway’ and he wouldn’t even commit to following even a Supreme Court order’ – that’s why we are so obviously in a constitutional crisis,
Brettschneider said
The whole point of Marbury v. Madison … is that you go first to the district court for federal questions and questions of constitutional law, so he’s not understanding that, ... If you think that the Supreme Court can ultimately opine, then you think the district court can opine on these matters.”
said Corey Brettschneider, a Brown University professor and host of the podcast “The Oath and the Office.”The idea that somehow there’s a class of actions that cannot be reviewed is nonsense. Everybody who lived through the 2000s knows that the war on terror was litigated in the courts over and over.”
Williams went on
That is not something that a district court judge has any authority whatsoever to interfere with, to enjoin, to restrict, or to restrain in any way.”
Miller addedI have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president,
he said in July 2019, during his first term
This is a showdown. This is akin to inter-branch March Madness,
former Federal Judge John E. Jones III told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins
Yes, separation of powers. This is the judiciary interfering in the executive function.”
When Hunt raised the separation of powers in relation to the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants – apparently without due process – Miller replied