Luke Broadwater
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94 appearances
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3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 22 May
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And I think at that point in time, he's going to have to care a lot about what John Roberts thinks.
Sure. Well, if the judge decides that, then he could issue penalties against the administration. He could order them to try to undo some of the things they've done. You could even see a scenario where he tried to order them to bring back the migrants from El Salvador and see how they would respond to those statements. But I think the bigger...
picture you're getting at here is this may have been one of the biggest examples of the trump administration defying a judge's order and yes they sort of did it with legalistic language and they came with arguments to ignore the order to turn the planes around but they did it anyway and
And what happens if they eventually stop coming up with the legalistic arguments and they just start defying judges' orders and they keep doing it? And by the way, this is not the only case where a judge is telling the Trump administration they have to halt or stop or change anything. some of the very rapid overhauls they are making of the federal government.
By my count, there's at least 15 orders from federal judges that have blocked major actions by the Trump administration. Those orders span all sorts of actions, freezing foreign aid, declaring birthright citizenship illegal. So there's no shortage of dramatic actions the Trump administration has
But at many steps, the only people that have been stepping up and successful at all in stopping some of these things have been federal judges.
Well, that's the constitutional crisis that all these legal scholars keep talking about. The courts themselves don't have a military. They don't have a police force. They are reliant on the executive branch to enforce their orders. The Justice Department reports to Donald Trump and the president under Trump.
his new leadership team has taken multiple steps to remove the Justice Department's independence and to make sure that it would be his Justice Department and not an independent wing of government. And so what happens if a court orders the Justice Department to carry out some sort of order or discipline against the executive branch, and they decide not to follow it.
Well, now the courts don't have any enforcement power, and that is the constitutional crisis.
Right. Under past administrations, you wouldn't think twice about that. You would think, of course, they would. But if there's a pattern developing where judges' orders are ignored, well, now that becomes a real open question.
Yeah, I mean, in the current political environment, there is essentially no chance of the Republican House and Senate impeaching and convicting Donald Trump.
That might have been possible under earlier iterations of the American government. You know, it certainly was possible a few decades ago when Congress was about to impeach Richard Nixon. Right. But Donald Trump has completely co-opted the Republicans in Congress. There is no independence there anymore. There is no appetite to stand up to him on any measure.
And so if you are looking for a check on President Trump, it will not come from Congress. And the last place it can come from is the federal courts. And so that's why so many people are watching this case and and trying to figure out what exactly will happen if the Trump administration, in fact, defies a court order.
Well, the American system of government, our democracy, is set up to have three co-equal branches. And if two of the branches have become subservient to the executive branch, well, then I do think you really need to question whether we are, in fact, the kind of democracy, the kind of government that our founders intended.
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