Rachel Maddow
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That ruling comes after another federal judge just blocked Trump from cutting off federal election funds to states in retaliation for them not changing their election rules.
in ways that Trump wants.
The judge said, quote,
And so Trump got blocked on that one, too.
Shall I keep going?
I could keep going.
Another federal court just blocked Trump from freezing billions of dollars for childcare and social services for kids, again, in Democratic-run states as some kind of punishment against those states for electing Democrats, punishing them for that by cutting off the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program.
Because, you know, what would Jesus do?
Trump was also just blocked from doing that by yet another federal court.
It's almost like he is losing all the time and everywhere now.
There may still be people in America who are shocked that Trump keeps breaking the law over and over again, blatantly and insistently.
The courts no longer appear to be shocked by that.
And the courts now are just telling him no, very bluntly, every single day and often multiple times a day.
And it's not even just the courts.
As I know you are aware, last week in one 48-hour stretch, we had a Senate vote for a War Powers resolution to block Trump from any further military adventurism in Venezuela.
Five Republican senators crossed over to side with Democrats to pass that War Powers resolution.
It was enough to advance that.
It's going to get another vote in the Senate this week.
That came right on the heels of 17 Republicans in the House.
breaking ranks with Trump and siding with Democrats on the Affordable Care Act to try to at least temporarily undo the disastrous decision Trump and Republicans made in their so-called Big Beautiful Bill, the decision to send tens of thousands of American families' health insurance rates through the roof.