'Trump Keeps Leaving The Judicial Branch In His Dust'

[sop]

"Rule By Fait Accompli"

"The speed with which the Trump administration is moving to break laws, erode the powers of the legislative branch, and execute the most aggressive elements of its agenda is outpacing the judicial branch in case after case, effectively mooting efforts to secure due process, judicial review, and remedy the legal wrongs."

"In Washington, D.C. yesterday, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell dismissed a motion by remnant elements of the U.S. Institute of Peace that sought to block the transfer of its privately owned headquarters to the federal government. Howell’s reasoning? The property had already been transferred on Saturday. Too bad for you."

"In the case of the visa revocation of Rumeysa Ozturk, the pro-Palestinian Turkish national who is a student at Tufts University, a new government filing yesterday revealed that in the first 24 hours after her detention in suburban Boston she’d been moved through New Hampshire and Vermont before being flown to Louisiana. The law requires that a writ of habeas corpus to secure her release must be filed where she is physically held in detention at the time of the filing. Her swift movement through four different judicial districts left her lawyers guessing as to which court to go to try to secure her release and gave the government the chance to pick its preferred jurisdiction, far from where Ozturk lived and studied."

"Surveying the wreckage of the last two months – the mass purges of federal workers, the shuttering of entire agencies and departments, the impoundment of hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding – the same pattern emerges. Judges are slowly awakening to it. At the margins, they may be able to counteract some it on a piecemeal basis. But for the most part, the courts are left to sift through the rubble after the fact. It’s why the judicial branch alone can’t save us. An independent judiciary is a necessary but insufficient bulwark against an authoritarian like Donald Trump."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-keeps-leaving-the-judicial-branch-in-his-dust

[Frasier Balzov]

1. Is he faster than a speeding bullet though?

[hlthe2b]

2. Thank you, David Kurz/Josh Marshall. Not to be snide, but anyone paying attention knows this.

What the hell do we do about it? Might there be even a single sentence on what or who might be able to address this and how best to do so?

[sop]

3. Normally, this would be where the second of our three branches of government would check and balance things.

[kacekwl]

4. So now we have only one branch of

government correct ? This question should be asked of every Republican Congress member.