🚨🚨🚨Sneaky little bastards Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the GOP’s multitrillion-dollar budget bill is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-c... - ThreadSky

rachelbitecofer.bsky.social • 9 days ago

🚨🚨🚨Sneaky little bastards

Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the GOP’s multitrillion-dollar budget bill is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-clash-courts-raises-prospect-114510780.html

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claireaj.bsky.social•9 days ago

"We should be vocally angry with our news media for wooing us into complacency in the face of political evil, and for using paralysing both-sidesism to divert us from the abuses being conducted by malevolent leaders." Please read article & share. Thank you.

https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/its-not-about-right-vs-left-anymore-moral-truths-film-and-dumping-buckets/

jeffmccurry.bsky.social•9 days ago

I want to know who thinks

NO TAXES ON SILENCERS

is what the majority of Americans want in a budget bill?

cakekk.bsky.social•9 days ago

FDT is he dead yet ?

rnbwdvr.bsky.social•9 days ago

When the bullet hits the bone

usmcwizard.bsky.social•9 days ago

And, BTW, felon47-in-chief's administration agreed on Friday to permit the sale of a device that allows for semi-automatic rifles to be fired quicker. Because, of course, we need to be able to kill MORE people FASTER, right? FUCK THEM! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

jaydeedouble.bsky.social•9 days ago

“Republicans added a paragraph to the bill, that would allow them the ability to loot my home… Legal experts raise their eyebrows and will discuss their differing opinions on this” - Some news company being weak & feckless

epona99.bsky.social•9 days ago

isn't that the sort of thing that doesn't belong in a reconciliation bill?

gilliancarrin.bsky.social•9 days ago

@jjgass.bsky.social

jjgass.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yes. This is an absolute no-go. The Dems have to fight it with everything they've got as the minority.

gilliancarrin.bsky.social•9 days ago

I need to read in a little. Infuriatingly 🤧. They can make a finding of contempt but not enforce it?🥴

gilliancarrin.bsky.social•9 days ago

I mean, that's the proposed legislation?

jjgass.bsky.social•9 days ago

I think they're trying to dance around vague but serious potential constitutional issues, if the Supreme Court should find that the contempt power is inherent to the Article III courts. I don't know if it works. But I think if this can be filibustered under Senate rules, it must be.

gilliancarrin.bsky.social•9 days ago

Even an ambiguous clause would be a win for the govt, right? Anything that casts doubt.

drdavegoldberg.bsky.social•9 days ago

How is that remotely allowed under reconciliation?

adventurer27.bsky.social•9 days ago

Fuck all of them. Forever.

concerned2.bsky.social•9 days ago

CALL your elected representatives

CALLING works

STOP this horrible budget

sharjan33.bsky.social•9 days ago

Some of the same people who came up with Project 2025 are working with Congress to screw us. Wake up.

fishheadfool.bsky.social•9 days ago

🤬

idoamir.bsky.social•9 days ago

You mean "Sneaky little TRAITORS".

We HAVE to finally start USING THE RIGHT WORDS to describe what Trump and Republicans TRULY ARE.

They are *not* 'bastards', who need to be "reeducated".

They are CRIMINAL TRAITORS who must be PROSECUTED for violating the constitution to end American democracy.

patrickhenry48.bsky.social•9 days ago

We left Constitutional crisis in the rear view mirror some time ago. What comes next will challenge everyone who cares about keeping what’s left of our republic.

drgeophysics.bsky.social•9 days ago

Of course. So, who, exactly, inserted this into the bill?

mdenger15.bsky.social•9 days ago

Doesn't a reconciliation bill have to only involve budgetary elements?

citizen190.bsky.social•9 days ago

Call your Senators now and tell them how you feel.
(202) 224-3121
The budget bill is now with the Senate.
Republicans want to limit the authority of judges, slash programs that Americans depend (including public schools, Medicaid and SNAP), and give huge tax breaks to the wealthy.

citizen190.bsky.social•9 days ago

Senate Republicans say the House-drafted bill to enact President Trump’s legislative agenda has “problems” and are taking a second look at breaking it up into smaller pieces
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5304984-trump-agenda-stalled-senate-considering-split/