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Showing posts with label separation of powers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label separation of powers. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2026
How Trump’s justice department is testing separation of powers
From the attorney general stumping for Republican candidates to federal agents raiding the home of a Democratic congresswoman up for re-election, the department is violating long-standing norms…
Monday, August 31, 2026
Friday, May 8, 2026
MI Supreme Court hears case on whether House must send 9 bills to governor's desk
“If the House’s anti-majoritarian tactic is allowed to succeed, it will unilaterally and drastically change Michigan’s bicameral legislature, its separation of powers, our checks and balances, and the majoritarian principles which underlie everything we do in state and local government in this state,” the Senate Democrats’ attorney Mark Brewer told the court. He said no legislative leader should have unilateral power to stop a bill once it has been approved by both the House and Senate...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Historians sue DOJ over presidential records opinion : NPR
"This latest case is just another example of the utter contempt with which they hold not just history but the rights of their fellow citizens to hold them to account," he said, about the current administration...
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/20/g-s1-117887/trump-justice-department-presidential-records-lawsuit
Monday, February 2, 2026
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Trump BLOWS IT ALL at SCOTUS with FATAL BLUNDER?!?
Did Trump's DOJ just make a major blunder in his written submission to the Supreme Court, leading to Trump's Solicitor General LYING in his attempts to save Trump's Tariff scheme during this week's oral argument? And will the lie, which everyone caught, doom the tariff plan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKIAcy9w3gs
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Trump administration appeals Jenner & Block win over executive order
U.S. District Judge John Bates, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, slammed Trump's order against Jenner & Block as an effort to "chill legal representation the administration doesn't like" in his ruling finding the directive unlawful.
He said such efforts insulate the executive branch from checks by the judiciary, which he called "fundamental" to the separation of powers...
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Trump's Subpoena Refusals Unprecedented: Frank Bowman | Law & Crime
President Donald Trump’s legal defense against impeachment isn’t really legal at all, according to a constitutional scholar who has been observing the Senate trial in person. ...
https://lawandcrime.com/impeachment/constitutional-law-scholar-trumps-blanket-refusal-to-comply-with-subpoenas-is-without-precedent-or-legal-justification/
https://lawandcrime.com/impeachment/constitutional-law-scholar-trumps-blanket-refusal-to-comply-with-subpoenas-is-without-precedent-or-legal-justification/
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Trump fails to produce required report on Khashoggi murder, claims 'right to refuse' following law - Daily Kos
Congressional Republicans are worried that Donald Trump might overreach his authority by misusing the National Emergency Act to steal billions for his wall, but that's not the only sign that Trump is simply done even pretending about this separation of powers thing. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1834249
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1834249
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