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The judges begin to remember Donald Trump and Elon Musk, doing the work that the legislative branch and the activists seem unable to bring together. The number of decisions repulsive the counting of the actions of the president continues to climb, while the courts interrupted the plans to close the agencies authorized to the congress, transfer transgender women to the penitentiary system in only male prisons and offer non -financed buyouts to millions of federal employees. The judges worked there even during the weekend, with an emergency prescription early Saturday to temporarily prevent the Elon Musk team from access to the payment system of the very sensitive Treasury department. At least 40 legal proceedings precipitate the legal system to oppose certain aspects of the efforts of the administration.
Brian Shatz was counting on all of this. The senior senator of Hawaii has become one of the most remarkable fighters of the Democrats in the first three weeks of the second Trump, thanks in part to meeting his passion on hair while emphasizing a long term . SChatz is working on a game book which assumes that the courts, redone over the past two decades to be decidedly of the grip, will stick to the law because the dominant legal community has long interpreted it.
“I am not here to suggest that people should not be alarmed,” he said The New Yorker. “I think they should be alarmed, but I also think that one of Trump’s great advantages is that he is a very effective bluffing. And most of these things will cause a ton of damage, but will end up being illegal. »»
It is lost in Washington a few that Schatz has a moment. Like many Democrats in the Congress have struggled to respond to the fire hose of disturbances – at times that seem squarely dodging in response to the potential upheaval of the constitutional order by the White House – Schatz, 53, helped his party to find their foot.
However, even Schatz understands that its form of resistance only nibbles the edges. “There is very little that we can do but to cry about it and cause delays on the sidelines,” said Shattz new York Last week. He stressed that the Democrats of the Senate recently refused to give the Republicans a unanimous green light during a procedural vote. The net cost: “in 12 minutes” late. “People must therefore understand that there is no magic button called” courageously obstructing “,” he said.
The history of Schatz as a former worker-aid in Africa is particularly appropriate for this moment, which perhaps makes it the most effective spokesperson for the decline against Trump’s assault against foreign aid , despite some eminent democrats to support that it is a struggle that their party should concede. Even then, SChatz stresses that the center will be held thanks to the resilience of the courts.
“A stable world means a stable America,” said Schatz a week ago in front of the American agency for international development, making its best to go up suddenly locked up from their office.
It was last Monday. Friday, workers rolling from a cherry picker deleted the signaling outside the American aid in the precise place where SChatz had delivered his speech of encouragement. They also put a large black ribbon on the name of US AID on the signaling panels around the head office, disappearing it effectively from the card. And then this afternoon, a district judge appointed by Trump in 2019, blocked the administration’s plan to put 2,200 American assistance employees on administrative leave and to withdraw almost all workers from the agency of the ‘stranger. The decision was to allow the court to hear arguments of the administration and unions representing numerous workers of the agency on the legality of the closure of an agency authorized by the congress.
However, even if Trump does not accept, like Musk, was nourished, “Usaid in the wooden shredder”, the work and reputation of the agency have always been damaged. And the fact that food and desperately necessary medicine have been transformed into political football said as much at the time as everything.
And of course, it’s worth remembering, it’s only three weeks.
This is why so many Washington consider the courts as the bulwark against the total domination of Trumpism. But assuming that the judiciary reverses the most disruptive efforts of the administration – no sure thing – there is always the fear that Trump can move forward with what a judge expressly told him that he could not do. At this point, the debate on the question of whether we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis completed. Thus, for the moment, the trendy DC players are looking at a coalition distant from anti-top forces seem to obstruct as a tool but not as an answer, and keep the conviction that judges can limit most of the surface of the president.
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