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...
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.
And this guys proposal isn’t to punish the administration. It’s to make the administration ineffectual by having judges ignore cases brought forward by the administration until the administration complies with other court orders.
For instance. Trump tries to fire a guy. Guy says “no you don’t have the authority.” Trump says “yes I do. I’ll go to the courts and get them to prove you wrong.” Courts go “don’t care. You’re ignoring [some other court order against trump]. We wont hear this case until you comply with the previous order.” The result would be that the guy keeps his job despite whether or not Trump can or can’t fire him. At least that’s this guy’s idea to my understanding.
I’m also not trying to say it would be effective or even remotely doable. Just pointing out that criticizing the plan for something it’s not attempting to do doesn’t make any sense.
What I am trying to explain to you is that he doesn’t care what happens in court, he’s an autocrat he’ll do it anyway.
He can’t just “do it anyway” if people refuse to comply with his orders and the courts refuse to back him up. What do you think Trump is going to do? Walk over to somebody’s desk, pick them up out of their chair, and physically throw them out the building himself?