That “One Big Beautiful Bill” is supposed to be about the budget and taxes but tucked into it are a variety of dangerous items that Trump partisans hope will go unnoticed.
The most dangerous item of all undercuts the rule of law.
Liz Cheney and Adam Kinziger noticed it. They posted this warning on Twitter:
Our blog contributor called Quickwrit noticed the innocuous but dangerous insertion into the bill.
Quickwrit write here:
DANGER!!! DANGER!!! DANGER!!!
Buried at the bottom of Page 562 in the Republicans’ 1,116-page “Big Beautiful Bill” is a provision that will end all federal court challenges to anything that Trump orders and that will allow Trump to declare null and void all previous rulings against his orders.
It will be the beginning of genuine dictatorial rule.
The provision on Page 562 invokes enforcement of Federal Rules of Civil Procedures Rule 65(c) which says that a federal court can ONLY issue an injunction AFTER a plaintiff has posted a bond to cover the costs of damages that an injunction could have on the party against which the injunction was issued if subsequent appeals overturn the injunction.
Because Trump and his federal agencies could claim billions of dollars in damages if an injunction is overturned by the pro-Trump U.S. Supreme Court, there is NO ONE WHO CAN AFFORD to seek any future injunction against Trump’s orders or those of his agencies.
IN ADDITION: Rule 65(c) will be applied RETROACTIVELY to all the injunctions issued so far against Trump and his agencies, and all those injunctions will be removed because no bond was posted with any of them.
THE EFFECT WILL BE that everything that has been blocked by the federal courts will be unleashed and there will be NO FUTURE INJUNCTIONS issued against ANYTHING that Trump orders to be done.
Even if none of the many other odious things are removed from the Big Beautiful Bill, this provision to invoke Federal Court Rule 65(c) MUST BE ELIMINATED or there will be no future restraints on Trump. He will be free to dictate anything he wants with NO COURT INTERFERENCE. Rule by law will end in America.
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From the Huffington Post, today:
Someone initially put language in the bill that attempted to let Trump circumvent the nation’s courts and, essentially, serve as a king:
“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”
Translated, this provision would strip all federal courts, including the Supreme Court, of the ability to hold Trump or members of his administration in contempt of court.
Not only would this violate the Constitution, but its timing is eerie, as Trump has been flouting an order by the Supreme Court to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a legal U.S. resident who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. The administration has also been ignoring orders from lower courts to stop deporting migrants without giving them due process.
It’s not clear which Republican put this language into the bill in the first place, but it was curiously stripped out of the final bill.
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As I responded to yesterday’s comment, to truly change the relationship between the President and the Court would require a constitutional amendment. This part of this bill would be null and void just as soon as it was challenged. Still, we have a Republican Party that ignores the constitution much the same way White Supremacists ignored the constitution until World War II placed American hypocrisy in sharp relief.
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Yeah, this provision was screaming for a court challenge. It would probably have been good to have it be included and then challenged in the Supreme Court so that the court could give the morons in the Trump maladministration (excuse the redundancy) a lesson on Marbury versus Madison.
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And the various other clarifications by the Supreme Court, over the year, of the meaning of Article Six of the Constitution.
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It is important to post this warning on social media and urge everyone to call their senators and ask them to vote against this bill that destroys the rule of law.
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More on this change, which would legislate one of Trump’s illegal Executive orders, is here: https://www.commoncause.org/resources/explainer-trump-executive-order-seeking-to-suppress-lawsuits-with-the-blanket-enforcement-of-federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-rule-65-c/
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Thanks for sharing this, Leonie! I was just about to mention this. So many illegal Executive Orders are stuck under this clown prince’s nose by Stephen Goebbels Miller and their ilk, and taken together, they would basically end democracy.
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Chemerinsky wrote about this a week ago or so:
https://www.justsecurity.org/113529/terrible-idea-contempt-court/
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Thanks for the article. Better examples of the need for judicial power can be seen in the history of the Development of White Supremacy after Plessey v Ferguson. T Roosevelt first went after southern systems of legal slavery by prosecuting violations through the justice department. But as political expediency made it obvious that this would be a hard sell, and after the growing realization set in that slavery through the convict lease system was baked into the production of steel and cotton, Roosevelt backed off.
The result of this was the contradiction within progressive politics that ended in the racism of Wilson, and the comfort other leaders took in ignoring the massive destruction of civil rights of African Americans. Judicial appointments are supposed to be insulated enough from politics to prevent sliding into tyranny.
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The entire bill needs to collapse. It has one purpose. To hand the country to the oligarchs who want to own us. They already own the Republican Party and have a few Democrats for good measure. This isn’t hyperbole. The entire project from Citizens United was meant to get us here. Project 2025 has become the blunt instrument to make it happen. Some form of this bill will pass. It’s not good.
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A lot of kids and seniors will suffer horrifically because of it.
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