GOP Provision That Makes Trump A King Breaks Senate Rules, Says Parliamentarian

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Jun 22, 2025, 10:18 AM EDT | Updated 28 minutes ago


WASHINGTON ― A provision in the GOP’s tax-and-spending bill that would make it nearly impossible for anyone to sue the Trump administration for breaking laws is on track to be stripped from the bill after the Senate parliamentarian said it violates the chamber’s rules.

This provision, which is in Senate Republicans’ version of the One Big Beautiful Act, would require anyone seeking an emergency court order ― that is, a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction ― against the federal government to first post a bond that covers all the costs and damages that would be sustained to the federal government.

Judges grant emergency orders to temporarily halt actions like deportations, bans or drilling, while a case is being decided. They typically waive bonds in public interest cases, but under the Senate GOP’s bill, public interest groups, or even individual plaintiffs, would have to cough up millions if not billions of dollars in order to seek an emergency court order against the Trump administration ― money they definitely don’t have. In short, this provision would allow Trump to serve as a king, free to ignore the courts amid his lawlessness.

The Senate parliamentarian, the chamber’s nonpartisan adviser on Senate rules, determined Saturday that this provision is not related to budget matters. Republicans are using a process called budget reconciliation to expedite passage of their tax bill, which allows them to advance it with 51 votes instead of 60. But this process is only for budget-related bills, so any language in the bill that the parliamentarian flags as unrelated to budgets is subject to 60 votes.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-tax-bill-courts-bonds-trump-senate-rules_n_685806dee4b05236097fb6ac

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This is new.

Items stripped last Thursday (Agriculture Committee, advisory sent Friday night, reported Saturday) - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143482891

Items apparently stripped last Friday (Banking, Environmental, Armed Services Committees, reported Friday) - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143482360

This OP's strip just happened yesterday (Saturday) (related to the Judiciary Committee, reported today (Sunday)).

[surfered]

1. Sounds like good news.

[underpants]

2. Some good news. Thanks.

[Karasu]

3. They had already been doing this for months before writing a fucking provision for that sole purpose.

Putting this "Fuck the courts, Trump is God" provision into a fucking budget bill (let alone daring to create it in the first place) is such a massive overstep that it can't be stated enough.

[onenote]

4. Who had been doing it? Examples?

[Karasu]

5. Trying to make him a king? See the way they've been functioning since Day One. The entire

purpose of their "government by executive order" is to bypass Congress and consolidate all power into the executive branch, while doing their damnedest to ignore the courts (the one remaining "check" on their power).

We'd be here all day if I tried to get into every single example.

[onenote]

8. I thanks for the clarification

[GiqueCee]

6. The obscene corruption...

... of Der Republican Party cannot be refuted by even the oiliest apologist, and yet there are those who still dare to call themselves Americans, and are just fine with it. "Ennathin' to git over on dem libtards, amiright?"
But now, more than a few of 'em are blinking wide-eyed and whining, "Wait a minnit! Y'all ain't spozed ta do alla dat shit ta ME! Just ta DEM... y'know... ummm... well... people that ain't white 'Murrikins!"
The GOP has stepped in it once too often, and now they're gonna find out what FAFO really means.
Buh-bye, mothafuckahs. Send us a postcard from political Siberia. If there's still a Post Office when you're frog-marched out of DC in 'cuffs.

[Buttoneer]

7. LOL! You think the GOP gives a s#it about what the Parliamentarian says? It's going to pass with the King Trump

provision.

[kimbutgar]

9. I bet the senate magaloons will sneak it back in!