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The Administration Has Defied Courts 31 Times. Nobody Has Stopped It.
A new review finds the Trump administration has violated federal court orders at least 31 times. The question is no longer whether the rule of law is being broken. It is whether anyone with the power to enforce it will.
Trump Has Defied 31 Court Orders. The Courts Have Not Stopped Him.
An AP review found an extraordinary pattern of non-compliance with lower court rulings. The more interesting question is why the enforcement mechanism has not worked.
Trump Owes $159 Billion in Tariff Refunds. He Is Telling Companies Not to Collect.
The Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs, CBP opened a refund portal, and Trump responded by publicly threatening companies that use it. The rule of law is now a political risk calculation.
The DOJ Is Asking Courts to Erase the Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy Convictions. That Is Not Forgiveness. It Is Revision.
Jeanine Pirro's filing doesn't argue the defendants are innocent. It argues that erasing their convictions is 'in the interests of justice.' The two things are not the same, and the courts are being asked to pretend they are.
The Justice Who Said What the Court Won't
Ketanji Brown Jackson's Yale speech against the shadow docket is not just dissent: it is a warning about what the Court has already become.