2026 Judicial Rulings Thread

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Will they use it to investigate illegal employers?

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Federal appeals court rejects DOJ's push to delay start of tariff refund process

The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clears the way for the lower court, the U.S. Court of International Trade, to begin the process of crafting relief for the small businesses that successfully challenged Mr. Trump's global tariffs.

The Trump administration had said it would issue refunds if the duties targeting nearly every U.S. trading partner around the world were ultimately found unlawful by the Supreme Court. The high court ruled in a 6-3 decision that a federal emergency powers law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, did not give the president the authority to impose tariffs.

But on Friday, the Trump administration asked the Federal Circuit to wait 90 days before issuing its mandate "to allow the political branches an opportunity to consider options," after the Supreme Court's decision. The high court did not address the issue of refunds in its ruling, which dismantled a cornerstone of Mr. Trump's economic agenda.

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Boom!

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Federal Appeals Court — Including 5 Trump Nominees — Unanimously Rejects Trump’s Appeal in His ‘Big Lie’ Suit vs. CNN

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Judge sides with New York Times in challenge to policy limiting reporters’ access to Pentagon

“Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech. That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years. It must not be abandoned now,” the judge wrote.

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Trump scores 'massive court victory' with appellate ruling on ICE detention
The Eighth Circuit reversed a Minnesota district court ruling in a 2-1 decision, aligning with a similar Fifth Circuit ruling last month
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump- ... -detention

CAN be detained without bond during removal proceedings

This deals another devastating blow to leftist judges' attempt to force DHS into simply unleashing invaders into the country only to commit more crimes.

LFG.

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Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Domestic Terrorists

The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of domestic terrorist group leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the radical, far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in office over five years ago.

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Justice Department moves to toss rarely used Civil War era seditious conspiracy convictions in case of Biden DOJ judicial overreach against conservatives groups.

The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of conservative group leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading conservative groups on J6, many of whom weren’t even at the U.S. Capitol.

FIFY.

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Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Domestic Terrorists

The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of domestic terrorist group leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the radical, far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in office over five years ago.

It’s nice when self identified insurrectionists are defended by the DOJ

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Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Domestic Terrorists

The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of domestic terrorist group leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the radical, far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in office over five years ago.

It’s nice when self identified insurrectionists are defended by the DOJ

Whatever accusations MAQA yahoos make against immigration protesters apply 100x more to the January 6 seditious rioters.

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‘Wrong’: Fox’s Andy McCarthy Rejects Trump’s Cope on Thrown-Out Wall Street Journal Lawsuit

“This is wrong. Judge Gayles did not ask that the president refile the suit,” the former federal prosecutor wrote of Trump’s post. “First, the judge found that, because Trump failed to establish actual malice, it would be premature to address the WSJ’s factual claims that the statements in the article are true and, as a matter of law, not defamatory. Those claims are likely to be revisited.”

“Furthermore, after dismantling the president’s paltry, ‘implausible’ showing on actual malice, Gayles heeded precedent holding that a dismissal based on a failure to plead adequate facts ‘should be without prejudice,’ such that the plaintiff has an opportunity to amend the complaint with supplemental facts,” he continued. “Gayles was not asking Trump to supplement his allegations; he was merely stating the unremarkable principle that if Trump has additional facts at his disposal that could establish actual malice, the law gives him the opportunity to try to do that.”

“We will see if the president tries to amend his complaint by pleading facts that truly indicate actual malice. If Trump’s lawyers were aware of such facts, it’s difficult to understand how those facts were not included in the original complaint,” concluded McCarthy. “After all, without them, there’s no prayer of a successful defamation case.”

Why does the trump regime insist on making stuff up?

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Trump flouts lower court rulings in unprecedented display of executive power

When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the president's mass deportation effort.

Instead, a top Justice Department official insisted the ruling wasn't binding, and the administration continued denying detainees around the country a chance for release.

By February, the district court judge, Sunshine Sykes, was fed up. Sykes, a nominee of President Joe Biden, accused Trump officials in a ruling that month of seeking “to erode any semblance of separation of powers,” adding that they could “only do so in a world where the Constitution does not exist.”
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In the second Trump administration’s first 15 months in office, district court judges ruled it was violating an order in at least 31 lawsuits over a wide range of issues, including mass layoffs, deportations, spending cuts and immigration practices, the AP’s review of court records found. That’s about one out of every eight lawsuits in which courts have at least temporarily blocked the administration’s actions.
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The Trump administration violations in the 31 lawsuits are in addition to more than 250 instances of noncompliance judges have recently highlighted in individual immigration petitions — from failing to return property to keeping immigrants locked up past court-ordered release dates.

Legal scholars and former federal judges said they could recall at most a few violations of court rulings over the full four-year terms of other recent presidential administrations, including Trump's first time in office. They also noted previous administrations were generally apologetic when confronted by judges; the Trump administration's Justice Department has been outright combative in some cases.

“What the court system is experiencing in the last year and a half is just qualitatively completely different from anything that’s preceded it,” said Ryan Goodman, a law professor at New York University who studies federal courts and is tracking litigation against the Trump administration.

Why isn't the trump regime following judicial rulings?

You can't argue that people should just follow LEO's instructions and then talk out of the other side of your mouth and say that the trump regime doesn't have to follow judicial rulings. They're all part of the system.

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Trump flouts lower court rulings in unprecedented display of executive power

When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the president's mass deportation effort.

Instead, a top Justice Department official insisted the ruling wasn't binding, and the administration continued denying detainees around the country a chance for release.

By February, the district court judge, Sunshine Sykes, was fed up. Sykes, a nominee of President Joe Biden, accused Trump officials in a ruling that month of seeking “to erode any semblance of separation of powers,” adding that they could “only do so in a world where the Constitution does not exist.”
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‘Sunshine’ made that ruling in Dec. And the article saying it was over holding immigrants without bond is FAKE News. It was over holding illegal aliens.

The Trump admin rightfully ignored her activist nonsensical ruling in Dec, which ignored federal law, knowing she would be overturned, which she was in March.
https://www.championshipsubdivision.com ... 7#p1492207

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Trump flouts lower court rulings in unprecedented display of executive power

‘Sunshine’ made that ruling in Dec. And the article saying it was over holding immigrants without bond is FAKE News. It was over holding illegal aliens.

The Trump admin rightfully ignored her activist nonsensical ruling in Dec, which ignored federal law, knowing she would be overturned, which she was in March.

That's one of the violations in the 31 lawsuits in addition to more than 250 instances of noncompliance.

Your MO is to take things down into the weeds and try to focus on a point or two in your favor while pretending any points not in your favor are irrelevant or don't exist.

And no, they absolutely shouldn't ignore a judicial ruling before it's overturned. That's contempt and they should be held responsible every time they show contempt for the courts. The courts are an equal branch of government, they are not subservient to the executive branch.

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‘Sunshine’ made that ruling in Dec. And the article saying it was over holding immigrants without bond is FAKE News. It was over holding illegal aliens.

The Trump admin rightfully ignored her activist nonsensical ruling in Dec, which ignored federal law, knowing she would be overturned, which she was in March.

That's one of the violations in the 31 lawsuits in addition to more than 250 instances of noncompliance.

Your MO is to take things down into the weeds and try to focus on a point or two in your favor while pretending any points not in your favor are irrelevant or don't exist.

And no, they absolutely shouldn't ignore a judicial ruling before it's overturned. That's contempt and they should be held responsible every time they show contempt for the courts. The courts are an equal branch of government, they are not subservient to the executive branch.

The lefts MO is trying to run out the clock on the Trump admin by flooding the courts with hundreds/thousands of lawsuits before selected lib activist judges district court judges (there are over 600). The lib activist district court judges then issue nationwide injunctions (a new phenomenon that use to be a rarity) to grind things to a halt until Jan 2029. The Trump admin is rightfully ignoring the most egregious of these. They make their rulings. Let them enforce it.

Lawl good luck trying to hold someone in contempt for ignoring what is deemed to be an unconstitutional ruling from an activist judge.

What has SCOTUS ruled that the Trump admin is doing is unconstitutional?

And the Trump admin hasn’t ignored any SCOTUS rulings.

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That's one of the violations in the 31 lawsuits in addition to more than 250 instances of noncompliance.

Your MO is to take things down into the weeds and try to focus on a point or two in your favor while pretending any points not in your favor are irrelevant or don't exist.

And no, they absolutely shouldn't ignore a judicial ruling before it's overturned. That's contempt and they should be held responsible every time they show contempt for the courts. The courts are an equal branch of government, they are not subservient to the executive branch.

The lefts MO is trying to run out the clock on the Trump admin by flooding the courts with hundreds/thousands of lawsuits before selected lib activist judges district court judges (there are over 600). The lib activist district court judges then issue nationwide injunctions (a new phenomenon that use to be a rarity) to grind things to a halt until Jan 2029. The Trump admin is rightfully ignoring the most egregious of these. They make their rulings. Let them enforce it.

Lawl good luck trying to hold someone in contempt for ignoring what is deemed to be an unconstitutional ruling from an activist judge.

What has SCOTUS ruled that the Trump admin is doing is unconstitutional?

And the Trump admin hasn’t ignored any SCOTUS rulings.

As opposed to the MAQA activist judges who Republicans shopped cases for while biden was POTUS (after kicking trumps ass in the 2020 election)?

Nationwide injunctions? Like the ones against mifepristone, student loan forgiveness, etc?

The trump regime is facing all of these lawsuits because they're pushing the boundaries of the US Constitution.

They are no more justified in ignoring rulings that they disagree with then states would be justified in ignoring SCOTUS rulings that they disagree with. The proper legal remedy is to appeal and request the ruling be staid during appeal.

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The lefts MO is trying to run out the clock on the Trump admin by flooding the courts with hundreds/thousands of lawsuits before selected lib activist judges district court judges (there are over 600). The lib activist district court judges then issue nationwide injunctions (a new phenomenon that use to be a rarity) to grind things to a halt until Jan 2029. The Trump admin is rightfully ignoring the most egregious of these. They make their rulings. Let them enforce it.

Lawl good luck trying to hold someone in contempt for ignoring what is deemed to be an unconstitutional ruling from an activist judge.

What has SCOTUS ruled that the Trump admin is doing is unconstitutional?

And the Trump admin hasn’t ignored any SCOTUS rulings.

As opposed to the MAQA activist judges who Republicans shopped cases for while biden was POTUS (after kicking trumps ass in the 2020 election)?

Nationwide injunctions? Like the ones against mifepristone, student loan forgiveness, etc?

The trump regime is facing all of these lawsuits because they're pushing the boundaries of the US Constitution.

They are no more justified in ignoring rulings that they disagree with then states would be justified in ignoring SCOTUS rulings that they disagree with. The proper legal remedy is to appeal and request the ruling be staid during appeal.

Like the nationwide injunctions the Biden admin ignored (Student Loan bailout), Eviction Moratorium (took TWO SCOTUS cases to stop the Biden admin).

The proper remedy is not have one of 600-700 low level district court judge shopped judges be allowed to issue a nationwide injunction as a political method to run out the clock on an admin. Their rulings should be limited to their circuit which is 1/12th of the country (are 12 circuits). Ex an east coast district court judge should not be able to issue an injunction effecting the west coast, and vice versa. Many people feel this way.