Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Vendetta Against Law Firm

Originally published at: Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Vendetta Against Law Firm - TPM – Talking Points Memo

A federal judge blocked parts of Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie from the bench Wednesday, saying that aspects of it sent “little chills” down her spine.  Specifically, Judge Beryl Howell blocked the parts of the order the firm had challenged that bars its employees from federal buildings and threatens its…

Death by a thousand cuts. I’m ok with that as long as death is the outcome.

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J. Is unimpressed with the teeth of this judicial order.

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“Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.” – Alan Barth

(Trump is delusional)

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Should the Magats and the Techlords ever lose power we will need a national restoration movement that doesn’t act like the Democratic Party. Four years of taxing the rich, packing the courts to take care of the backlog of four years of lawlessness, and nationalizing every corporation and industry that supported Trump. Rebuild our government and, while we are at it, single payer healthcare.

That’s my platform. Sternwood 2028!

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Trump has been candid that his punishment of the firm stems from years-old grudges.

IMPEACH TRUMP!

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Well… I know that Trump thinks himself to be completely immune to anything that the legal system can throw at him but there is a very strong precedent suggesting that Perkins Coie could actually sue Trump for civil damages if they can demonstrate that by his actions he knew or should have known he was violating their constitutional rights. See Butz v. Economou. SCOTUS 1978

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I would rather see a law that reduces every billionaire to just 1/2 a billionaire. Take all that money and start paying living wages and NO hunger for anyone.

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Trump is such a petty fucker afraid of one student who has opinions different from his
From the Guardian…
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T"he US government is relying on a rarely used provision of the law to try to deport a prominent Palestinian activist who recently completed his graduate studies at Columbia University, where he was a leader in last year’s campus protests.

A government charging document addressed to Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent US resident and green card holder who is currently being held in a Louisiana detention center, said that secretary of state Marco Rubio “has reasonable ground to believe that your presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States”."
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Trump need a straight jacket

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There should be no such thing as a billionaire. Time to return to Eisenhower tax rates.

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1/2 a billion is $500 million

hey marco… those mariel boat lift gangsters are still very active in maimi-dade…i think they may actually be illegal.

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woo hoo back to the nixon years…where is the patriotic republican who is going to shut him down?

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