Ryan Brooks (@blueresolute.bsky.social)

Of all the horrible things in the Big Bullshit Bill, this issue needs more attention. It effectively prohibits judges from holding the Trump administration in contempt for failing to follow an injunction or direct order from the court.

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Proposal to limit courts' contempt power, part of spending bill, is 'terrible idea,' Chemerinsky says A budget bill by the U.S. House of Representatives contains a “stunning” provision that would limit federal courts’ ability to hold government officials and other litigants in contempt for disobeying their orders, according to Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/proposal-to-limit-courts-contempt-power-part-of-spending-bill-is-terrible-idea-chemerinsky-says