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'Vexatious litigant’: Lawyer devises 'radical' plan that could stop Trump in his tracks

www.rawstory.com 'Vexatious litigant’: Lawyer devises 'radical' plan that could stop Trump in his tracks

A Dallas lawyer has come up with a unique way that courts could stop President Donald Trump’s whirlwind of executive action.David Coale wrote in Salon Saturday that judges buried under multiple court orders challenging a flood of legally dubious executive actions could take a tactic usually reserved...

Intriguing

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He's already defied court orders. The rubicon has been crossed
- Every time someone says this I can only only think of that tasty sugary drink.

"The functional equivalent of a “judicial strike” is a radical idea without precedent,” he wrote.
“But so is an administration openly contemplating the defiance of court orders. … If court orders can be ignored without meaningful consequence, then courts will be losing cases anyway — and the most impactful ones, where the Constitution’s limits on executive power are at issue.”
Ah, now you've got it, Mr. Coale. Refusing to hear the Executive branch's lawyers isn't gonna do much if they ignore your orders anyway. That's just a fast-track to the courts effectively being meaningless and Trump just dictating what the law is to the Federal Marshalls and local cops. Sure, he'll lose the FBI, he can afford to lose the FBI. He'll probably turn loose all the FBI's tools into the hands of local cops. In fact I'm pretty sure that part was in Project 2025. Giving the local cops massive surveillance powers because they know the 90%+ of local cops are violent pro-MAGA thugs who would gladly murder half of the communities they work in (that they conveniently don't live in).
- Psst.
  The article itself shows how the administration uses the courts to ensure they get paid.
  Their desire to tax us normies harder so they can get richer is gonna be a challenge if they aren't getting paid.

Courts can’t do anything when no one enforces the law
- Did you even read the article?
  
  Judges can do whatever they want, Trump will just ignore them because it’s not possible for him to break the law anymore

Lol it's a good shower thought. It's not going to happen though.

Trump deserves to get hammered over hard for the nonesense he’s pulling.

These plans only work against targets that obey the rule of law.
- The whole point of the plan, if you were to read the article, is to deal with an administration not obeying the rule of law.
  
  I don't think you get what I meant, there's no way to punish or school this administration because they are trying to be autocrats. The courts don't matter because they have no way of enforcing their rulings without the DOJ (department of justice) which Trump has captured.

Before I read this, I thought maybe the proposal would be to stop hearing cases—period. General strike of the judiciary. Shut down all criminal and civil hearings in protest of the government ignoring its orders.
It's still fantasy, but it would be way more effective.

I prefer a Writ of Outlawry instead.

'Rogue activist judges' was a rallying call for this faction. This is a faction that hates unions and strikes and loves scabs and loves privatization to bypass restrictions applied for the public good.
It'd be a tactic, for sure, but probably not an effective one without such an interpretation being shared by SCOTUS. Which is comically not the case.

Pie in the sky speculation that ain't gonna happen.

this is a great idea!

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