Efforts to undermine the #judiciary come at the same time the #Trump admin has moved to fire lawyers inside the #DOJ & the #Pentagon, penalize private law firms who represented clients Trump does not like, & to back away from participation in the activities of the #ABA.
Federal #judges who have ruled against the #Trump admin this year are confronting a wave of threats, compromising their safety & the #independence of the #judiciary.
The sister of #SCOTUS Justice #AmyConeyBarrett received a bomb threat earlier this month, & lower court judges who paused some of Trump's efforts to dismantle #FederalAgencies & programs have been targeted.
#law #StochasticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #DomesticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #MAGA
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5316340/threats-judges-trump
Thousands of fired federal workers must be offered reinstatement
Judge Alsup:
"It was a sham"
"I tend to doubt that you're telling me the truth."
"[downsizing] can be done, if it's in accordance with the law."
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325959/federal-employees-court-firing
IANAL in NY but, for those who are, what's yr reading of NY RPCs 8.3 [Reporting Professional Misconduct] and 3.8 [Special Responsibilities of Prosecutors and Other Government Lawyers] for this situation?
#ethics #rpcs #law #lawyers #legal #professionalrules #judiciary
https://nysba.org/attorney-resources/professional-standards/
#Destroying the #judiciary - The entire Phoenix field office of #GSA has been fired, according to federal #court administrator. The field office "was the subject of #RIF reduction in force," said district court executive, clerk of court for US District Court for the District of #Arizona. Firings included people who operated and maintained the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in downtown Phoenix, Lucas said. #coup #fascism #dictator #democracy #constitution https://www.yahoo.com/news/entire-phoenix-field-office-general-210120998.html #FreeAmerica
#Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of #Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate. In email obtained by TPM, #WhiteHouse claims that Trump can appoint whoever he wants – absent #congress #ruleoflaw #legislative branch #judiciary #executive Say it out loud - #constitutionalcrisis #FreeAmerica #democracy is dying in full view of the American people. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusive-trump-makes-aggressive-new-claim-of-executive-power-to-circumvent-the-senate
…Federal courts are hearing >100 lawsuits challenging the admin’s initiatives, many of them focused on efforts driven by #Musk & his team at #DOGE to purge hundreds of thousands of #FederalWorkers & dramatically scale back govt #aid & #regulatory programs.
#Trump & his WH press sec also have criticized judges they describe as activists who have issued orders that slowed or blocked some of those efforts.
Reuters interviews w/11 federal judges in multiple districts revealed mounting alarm over their physical #security &, in some cases, a rise in #violent #threats in recent weeks. Most spoke on condition of anonymity & said they did not want to further inflame the situation or make comments that could be interpreted as conflicting w/their duties of impartiality.…
#Musk, the world's richest person, has lambasted judges in more than 30 posts since the end of Jan on his social media site, calling them “corrupt,” “radical,” “evil” & deriding the "TYRANNY of the JUDICIARY" after judges blocked parts of the federal downsizing that he’s led. Musk has also reposted nearly two dozen tweets by others attacking judges.
In recent weeks, #Musk, congressional #Republicans & other top allies of Trump have called for the impeachment of some federal judges or attacked their integrity in response to court rulings that have slowed the #Trump admin's moves to dismantle entire government agencies & fire tens of thousands of workers.
Exclusive: Judges face rise in #threats as #Musk blasts them over rulings
#USMarshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech #billionaire #ElonMusk & other #Trump admin allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash federal jobs & programs, said several judges with knowledge of the warnings.
#law #JudicialIndependence #judiciary #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/judges-face-rise-threats-musk-blasts-them-over-rulings-2025-03-05/
The so called "independent" branch of ruling class thuggery aka "Judicial" goons are invited to listen to transient Emperor of Empire.
Its a big club thats there to fool all morons in society that they need to fight each other instead of these thugs at the top who are in this room & fighting against the parasitic existence of these liars, thieves, thugs & gangster club.
Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments
Ruling suggests plaintiffs are likely to succeed in overturning 15% cap on indirect costs
In other words, Justices Samuel #Alito, #ClarenceThomas, #NeilGorsuch & #BrettKavanaugh don’t believe in the power of the #judiciary, their own power, or the #SeparationOfPowers.
They believe that the president is in fact above the #law — as long as that president is #Trump.
Here is the order, Alito’s self sabotaging dissent starts on page 2.
If this is not a #judiciary #coup .. aka a XXI st century coup ..
Then what is it ?
“'There’s a great fear among many people — academics & people in the #legal profession – as to whether or not this president would defy a court order, which basically would put him above the #law, at least in his own eyes,' said the panel’s top Democrat, Illinois Sen. #DickDurbin.
“#Sauer rejoined, 'I’ve represented President #Trump for the better part of 2 years, & I just think that that’s not a plausible scenario.'”
say what now?
“'There are some instances in which he or she may lawfully be bound & other instances in which he or she may not lawfully be bound,' Reitz added.
“Reitz appeared alongside D.John #Sauer, #Trump’s fmr personal atty, nominated to be the #SolicitorGeneral, the govt’s top atty before the #SupremeCourt. Some of the tensest exchanges between Sauer & #Judiciary Cmte #Democrats were over Sauer’s defense of Trump’s claim of #immunity that went to the high court last year.”
#law
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/politics/justice-trump-court-orders-sauer-reitz/index.html
“An overriding question of the #Trump admin, already facing a raft of litigation against the president’s #ExecutiveOrders, is whether it would abide by court decisions. Trump & some of his top advisers have suggested they might not….
“‘There is no hard & fast rule about whether in every instance a public ofcl is bound by a court decision,’ Aaron Reitz, who has been tapped to serve as head of #DOJ’s Office of #Legal Policy,…[responded] to repeated questioning from the #Senate #Judiciary Cmte.”
#Trump’s nominee for U.S. #SolicitorGeneral, D. John Sauer, is the atty who argued it would be legal for the president to order #SealTeam6 to assassinate a political opponent.
From CNN:
“2 of President Donald Trump’s nominees for snr #Justice Dept positions – including his fmr personal atty [#Sauer] – deflected questions Wed from senators on whether they would adhere to all court orders against the administration.”
With all eyes on the passage of the House Republicans budget resolution, this flew under the radar:
At a #Senate hearing, #DOJ nominees equivocated on whether they’d follow court orders – including #Trump’s nominee for U.S. #SolicitorGeneral, the 4th-highest-ranking official in the US Dept of #Justice & the atty who represents the federal govt in cases before #SCOTUS.
#SupremeCourt ruling? Eh, optional.
