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The Chilling Republican Plan to Slam Shut the Courthouse Doors on Average Americans -- Thom Hartmann
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-chilling-republican-plan-to-slam-7a7A sinister Republican bond scheme could price you out of justice — forever...
Right now, the only thing that’s preventing Trump from going full dictator is the federal court system and our ability to challenge his unlawful, unconstitutional behavior in it.
Republicans in the Senate think they have a fix for that, though. It’s a good-news, bad-news scenario, although the bad is far worse than anything most of us could have imagined.
The good news is that Republicans in the Senate have removed the provision in their Kill Medicaid To Pay For Tax Cuts For Billionaires (“Big Beautiful Bill”) legislation that would have prevented courts from being able to hold Trump’s people from being held in contempt of court when they refuse to follow court orders.
The bad news is that they’ve replaced it with a provision in Section 70302 of the bill that will make it all but impossible for anybody — other than billionaires and giant corporations — to sue the Trump administration for dictatorial behavior (or anything else) in federal court.
This may have something to do with the fact that over 300 lawsuits have been filed against Trump and his goons, and federal courts have blocked Trump in at least 187 of them, as of this week. Trump has outright won only 7.1 percent of the cases where he or his administration have been sued.
The system Republican senators have inserted to keep you and me — and nonprofit public interest groups and Blue state governors — from suing Trump is pretty straightforward; instead of just filing the lawsuit and paying the typically small fees associated with those filings, you’ll now have to post a bond that could run into the millions or even billions of dollars before your filing can be accepted by the court.
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Republicans in the Senate think they have a fix for that, though. It’s a good-news, bad-news scenario, although the bad is far worse than anything most of us could have imagined.
The good news is that Republicans in the Senate have removed the provision in their Kill Medicaid To Pay For Tax Cuts For Billionaires (“Big Beautiful Bill”) legislation that would have prevented courts from being able to hold Trump’s people from being held in contempt of court when they refuse to follow court orders.
The bad news is that they’ve replaced it with a provision in Section 70302 of the bill that will make it all but impossible for anybody — other than billionaires and giant corporations — to sue the Trump administration for dictatorial behavior (or anything else) in federal court.
This may have something to do with the fact that over 300 lawsuits have been filed against Trump and his goons, and federal courts have blocked Trump in at least 187 of them, as of this week. Trump has outright won only 7.1 percent of the cases where he or his administration have been sued.
The system Republican senators have inserted to keep you and me — and nonprofit public interest groups and Blue state governors — from suing Trump is pretty straightforward; instead of just filing the lawsuit and paying the typically small fees associated with those filings, you’ll now have to post a bond that could run into the millions or even billions of dollars before your filing can be accepted by the court.
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