Getty ImagesIn the first weeks of his second term, President Donald Trump has not wasted any time to soften his political muscles. This is very clear.
Since taking power in January, he has ordered the suspension of all new asylum claims, re -resettling refugees, hiring frozen government services and spending, Gatted agencies established by Congress, sex for teenagers. Transfer care has been banned and offered a purchase agreement for hundreds of thousands. Activist
The whirlwind of unilateral action on the promises of his election campaign has advanced the boundaries of presidential power – and has led to the legal challenges of Democrats, unions and legal groups. So far, federal courts have been the only major road block for Trump’s agenda, as judges have temporarily suspended some of the most controversial proposals, including the elimination of automatic citizenship for everyone born on the US soil. –
But Trump is putting pressure. This week, a judge on the Rhod Island said that the Trump administration is Clearly and openly to eliminate billions of their judicial order in federal funds. The White House replied that the “every action” had made the president “completely lawful”.
If Trump’s orders reach the US Supreme Court, then six of the nine judges there – including Trump’s three appointed in his first term, are conservative. Just in the last period, the court issued a decision to hold Trump, and all future presidents, who are in office, are protected from widespread legal action for government operations.
At that time, it was a historical extension of the Presidential Authority. But some observers have suggested that Trump’s latest move could be part of a strategy to further enhance his powers. If the high courts agree to maintain some of their executive orders, it can strengthen their ability to change the policy without the help of Congress.
And even if the courts rule against the president, the constitutional expert at the Manhattan Institute, Elias Shopero, says these legal defeats can be politically beneficial.
“There can be political benefits to challenging court and then losing in court because then you can run against the judges and make it a political grass.”
However, there is another scene. Trump can easily refuse to comply with any court that tries to stop the use of his unprecedented presidential power.
In the Oval Office comments on Tuesday, the president indicated that this could be an option in general, in a sharp way.
“We want to end corruption,” said Trump. And it seems difficult to believe that a judge can say that we don’t want you to do so. “
“Maybe we have to see the judges,” he added. “I think this is a very serious violation.”
On Sunday, Trump’s Vice President, JD Venice, was even more twice.
He posted on the social media site X, “Judges are not allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” This theory was just like Venice appearing in a podcast of 2021, when he said that if Trump returned to power, he refused to comply. With any court order that prevented him from dismissing federal workers.
However, directly denying a judicial decision, will reduce a constitutional crisis for the centuries of US history and in opening clashes that prepare the president to establish and translate land law against the government branch. Have gone
Fred Smith said, “My study is that President Trump is examining external boundaries what he can run away, do many things that are clearly against the law and maybe some things that close to the line Yes, “Fred Smith said,” A professor at the Emory School of Law.
“They are breaking many principles,” Smith added about the newborn Trump administration. “Why is he doing this, he only knows fully. But he’s doing it.”
Getty ImagesSo far, Trump and his allies have made aggressive comments about judicial decisions in the public and legal jurisdiction, but cannot be approved for disobedience to the court yet. When Trump was subjected to numerous legalization in the last four years, he often questioned the justification of the presidency judges, but his room court lawyers followed the law and the legal procedure.
The Federal Judge in Rhod Island, who had temporarily arrested on another Trump order to freeze some federal spending, filed a court on Monday that the administration ordered his temporary prevention. Is violating but did not refrain from finding them in humiliation.
Conservative legal scholar Ed Willen wrote on X that it would be “very serious” for the Trump administration to deny the federal court order.
“I am open to the argument that the refusal of a really extraordinary circumstances (the formation of wild hypothetical ideas) can be justified,” Mr. Wellen wrote. “But in our constitutional system, the federal court orders should be a great speculation in favor of compliance with the Executive Branch.”
Some legal experts say that when Trump is disobedient, and for that reason, the courts can come back to cut it when the president comes time to enforce his own lawful agenda. For example, democratic states like California may be inclined to ignore the White House directs and federal laws they do not like – and Trump will be pressured to bring the courts to the heel to heel. Use for.
“If the executive decides that he will comply with some judicial orders but not others, he will find that he will not receive a judicial order,” said Philipbutt, a constitutional scholar at Columbia University Law School. Want to do. ” “I just don’t think they have thought so.”
When Donald Trump re -prepared the Oval Office in January, he re -installed the image of President Andrew Jackson, who was hanging on the wall from the Resolute Desk in his first term.
The seventh US president is remembered for an important moment of denial against the United States Supreme Court. When the judges decided to dispute between the state Georgia and the Cherokee Indian governments in 1832, Jackson was not interested in following his directive.
Jackson allegedly said of the Chief Justice’s decision, “John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it!”
About 200 years later, Trump himself found himself on his confrontation course with the US judiciary.
