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Division of Justice tries to make use of GOP shutdown to stall key instances

Editorial Board Published October 3, 2025
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Rapidly, the Division of Justice doesn’t wish to do its job. 

Extra precisely, the DOJ desires to make use of the continuing authorities shutdown to close down court docket proceedings, claiming that they will’t presumably work through the furlough for… causes. However judges aren’t shopping for it. 

First, the DOJ tried to get Decide Amit Mehta to comply with postpone a remaining listening to within the authorities’s antitrust case towards Google. Their movement within the Google case cited the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the federal government from accepting voluntary companies or expending funds with out an appropriation “except for emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property.”

Nah, stated the federal choose, declaring that the D.C. Circuit Court docket of Appeals stated no in an analogous case in 2019 when President Donald Trump shut the federal government down again then. 

And it’s not about being robust on Trump particularly or something like that. A concurrence in that 2019 case famous that when the federal government shut down throughout Obama’s second time period in 2013, the federal government made motions to remain oral arguments in at the very least 16 instances, all of which have been denied.

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Mehta additionally identified that the DOJ’s personal contingency plan for the shutdown says that a lot of the division’s staff aren’t topic to furlough as a result of “a significant portion of the Department’s mission relates to the safety of human life and the protection of property, and primarily for this reason, the Department has a high percentage of activities and employees that are excepted from the Antideficiency Act .”

Watching the administration abruptly faux to be involved concerning the Antideficiency Act is cute, on condition that it’s having the large regulation companies that bent the knee to Trump carry out free authorized work for the federal government, which really does violate the Act’s prohibition on accepting voluntary companies. 

The administration tried the identical argument in Washington, D.C.’s swimsuit towards the administration. Sure, the administration’s rivalry is that there’s no concern, appropriations-wise, with the pricey efforts of conserving D.C. below Trump’s thumb, however having to go to court docket about it’s a bridge too far, so the case ought to be stayed and the two,300 troops presently in D.C. should stick round till the shutdown is completed. 

That didn’t work out for the DOJ so properly, although they did handle to land a brief extension on their briefing schedule. 

The Trump administration can also be making an attempt to get a keep in wrongfully deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case, making the identical loser argument they introduced within the Google and D.C. instances. 

The DOJ pretending to be only a widdle man through the shutdown can also be ridiculous as a result of the company, general, solely furloughed 11% of its staff. Now, companies that conservatives hate, just like the Environmental Safety Company and the Departments of Labor and Training, all had over 75% of their staff slated for furlough.

It’s additionally enjoyable to look at the administration faux they abruptly care about violations of appropriations legal guidelines. Trump has illegally impounded funds as a result of why not? He’s blocked at the very least $400 billion in spending and reveals no signal of stopping.

The administration saved most DOJ staff on the rolls as a result of that company is crucial to Trump’s retaliation jamboree and use of lawfare. If the DOJ was shuttered, who would assist gin up prison prices towards Trump’s enemies?

Nevertheless, defending so many staff from furlough appears to have backfired for the DOJ. They didn’t furlough most of their staff, however then rotated and whined to the courts that the furloughs made it not possible to proceed dealing with instances. That’s patently ridiculous, and it is good that judges are calling it out. 

Trump and his minions wish to take advantage of the shutdown they induced. He and his closest advisers have used it to threaten mass layoffs and to justify canceling $8 billion of inexperienced vitality, with the latter solely taking place in Democratic states. 

They appear to have counted on with the ability to use the shutdown to grind instances to a halt, however these pesky decrease court docket judges simply received’t allow them to. So simply go to court docket and do your job.

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