{"id":1585,"date":"2025-09-08T05:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2025-09-08T05:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:03:55","slug":"lets-review-trumps-week-of-massive-legal-losses-shall-we-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Review Trump\u2019s Week of Massive Legal Losses, Shall We? \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1157824\">\n<article class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"hero is-image \">\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-caption\">It has been a week of extensive legal losses for Trump.<\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">Alex Brandon\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mj-text-cta\">Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"NewsletterPromoCovid\" data-ga-action=\"click|https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_Support\">Sign up for the free <em>Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"section-lead\">It was a <\/span>week of so much losing. <\/p>\n<p>Over the past week, President Donald Trump and his authoritarian agenda have sustained one loss after another in the courts. Putting all of them together reveals a stunning legal rebuke, and unsurprisingly, Trump World has been erupting with anger and petulance. Let\u2019s review:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Last Friday, a federal appeals court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/08\/trumps-tariffs-are-basically-all-illegal-federal-appeals-court-rules\/\">ruled<\/a> that Trump\u2019s reciprocal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/04\/donald-trump-tariffs-corruption\/\">tariffs<\/a> were basically illegal, as my colleague Inae Oh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/08\/trumps-tariffs-are-basically-all-illegal-federal-appeals-court-rules\/\">covered<\/a>. (On Truth Social, Trump alleged the court was \u201cHighly Partisan,\u201d adding, \u201cIf these Tariffs ever went away, it would be a total disaster for the Country.\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>The same day, a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.276674\/gov.uscourts.dcd.276674.64.0.pdf\">ruled<\/a> that the administration could not fast-track deportations of people detained far from the southern border. (White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephenM\/status\/1961811131237900541\">called<\/a> the ruling a \u201cjudicial coup.\u201d) <\/li>\n<li>Last Sunday, a federal judge temporarily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/press\/nilc-statement-on-federal-court-order-blocking-the-trump-administrations-attempt-to-unlawfully-remove-guatemalan-children\/\">blocked<\/a> the administration from deporting hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children. (Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephenM\/status\/1962265343679717528\">alleged<\/a> the \u201cBiden judge\u201d was \u201ceffectively kidnapping these migrant children.\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>On Tuesday, an appeals court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26080986-slaughtertrumpcadcord090225\/\">upheld<\/a> a lower court\u2019s ruling requiring Trump to rehire fired Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. That prompted the administration to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/trump-ftc-commissioner-fired-rcna229174\">ask the Supreme Court<\/a> to allow the firing to proceed.<\/li>\n<li>The same day, a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-newsom-los-angeles-national-guard-d6c8450a3ac2de34e669ef0836d22cbc\">ruled<\/a> that Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/06\/los-angeles-protest-ice-trump-national-guard-legal-theory-slavery\/\">deployment<\/a> of the National Guard to Los Angeles was illegal, alleging that the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are \u201ccreating a national police force with the President as its chief.\u201d (White House spokesperson Anna Kelly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/judge-rules-trump-illegally-deployed-national-guard-l-rcna224779\">characterized<\/a> the ruling as \u201ca rogue judge\u2026trying to usurp the authority of the commander in chief to protect American cities from violence and destruction.\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>On Wednesday, a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/federal-lawsuits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/09\/gov.uscourts.mad_.283718.238.0_1.pdf\">ruled<\/a> that the administration broke the law when it froze billions of dollars in research funds to Harvard. (White House spokesperson Liz Huston <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/03\/us\/harvard-trump-funding-ruling.html\">called<\/a> the decision \u201cegregious.\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>On Thursday, an appeals court <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2025cv0402-139\">ruled<\/a> that Trump could not cancel billions of dollars in foreign aid without getting approval from Congress. (The administration already <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-foreign-aid-freeze-congress-65ad0226d069bf6b6716a0c93aa249e0\">appealed<\/a> the decision.)<\/li>\n<li>And on Friday, a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.444868\/gov.uscourts.cand.444868.279.0_1.pdf\">blocked<\/a> Trump from revoking the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Venezuelan immigrants. (A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dhs-fires-back-activist-judges-blocking-temporary-protected-status-crackdown\">said<\/a> the ruling \u201cdelays justice,\u201d adding, \u201cunelected activist judges cannot stop the will of the American people for a safe and secure homeland.\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On top of all this, as my colleague James West <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/09\/nbc-poll-trump-vaccines-immigration-trade-approval\/\">covered<\/a>, a new NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration\/poll-trumps-job-ratings-stay-negative-americans-express-strong-support-rcna228110\">poll<\/a> out today shows that the majority of Americans\u201457 percent\u2014disapprove of the job Trump is doing. <\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/05\/supreme-court-wilcox-harris-humphrey-executor-ignore-roberts-trump\/\">may not be able to rely on the Supreme Court<\/a> to keep Trump in check, but based on the last week or so, it seems we can trust the lower courts to step in where the high court will not. <\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/09\/legal-defeats-trump-admin-agenda-courts-history\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a week of extensive legal losses for Trump.Alex Brandon\/AP Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It was a week of so much losing. 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