While everyone was talking about taxes and Medicaid cuts. around midnight MAGA snuck in provisions to cut funding for enforcing contempt of court violations and district courts’ ability to issue judgements with national effect. Add in Trumps’sunlimited ability to pardon, a cowardly Congress and what guard rails are left? Not the filibuster which is about to go the way of the dodo as MAGA ignores the Senate Parliamentarian.
What guardrails?
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Curious….the district judge on the case will be the one to issue the contempt citation. Usually resulting in a fine or brief jail time. What aspect of these orders and enforcement are being cut off?
Aren't you supposed to be busy being livid that your caucus just voted to substantially increase the deficit and did nothing to actually tackle rising debt servicing costs? Certainly would have been if Democrats did the same thing.
Did you miss in the other thread where I called out the increase in the deficit and discussed the dire situation we’re facing regarding debt service costs ? I’ll say it again…any bill which increases the deficit is not only a bad bill but a fiscal disaster. We don’t have the luxury of time. Our debt will continue to grow. Neither party has any interest in fiscal responsibility. It’s only a matter of time until our house of cars come crashing down.
Now back to my question regarding contempt citations .
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Remember back during the election season when I told you that a split government where the parties couldn’t do anything stupid was preferable to handing all of the government to people who don’t know (or don’t care about) what they’re doing because they would inevitable do something stupid?
Instead of digesting that, we were busy giving Trump the benefit of the doubt that he “knew nothing about project 2025” despite it being written by his entire previous administration staff.
The amount of societal damage done by this administration in 5 months has been more than any in US history… barring maybe Buchanan.
The neither party obfuscation is tiresome. Dems try to address the income side. Even Biden did but that’s there Republican red line. This budget bill idea a disaster as all it does is borrow money to give to the wealthy and cut the safety net for the poor while undermining the US dollar. And weakening the judiciary while it is at it.
