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Take a look at the GOP’s pathetic excuses for Trump’s lawlessness this week

Editorial Board Published February 16, 2025
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One other week of Donald Trump’s presidency is within the rearview. And like the 2 weeks earlier than it, it was full of lawless actions, lies, and ridiculous habits that Republicans lined as much as defend.

Trump threw Ukraine below the bus and seems more likely to let murderous Russian dictator Vladimir Putin seize management of the sovereign nation. He additionally fired extra unbiased watchdogs, let extra corrupt politicians off the hook, slashed grants to medical analysis, and he even mentioned he would possibly ignore court docket rulings blocking his illegal actions.

And just like the pathetic lapdogs they’re, Republicans defended each transfer.

After a number of federal judges of all ideological stripes blocked a few of Trump’s government actions, Republicans pushed the nation additional right into a constitutional disaster by backing Trump when he prompt he’ll ignore these court docket orders and do no matter he desires.

“It seems hard to believe that a judge could say, ‘We don’t want you to do that.’ So maybe we have to look at the judges. ‘Cause I think that’s a very serious violation,” Trump mentioned on Tuesday.

Trump doubtless obtained this concept from his personal vp, who wrote in an X publish on Feb. 9 that judges shouldn’t be allowed to cease the president’s government energy. 

“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” he wrote.

And different Republicans agreed with the false assertion that the courts aren’t allowed to verify the president’s energy—when that’s precisely what the Structure dictates.

Later that day, he mentioned that the courts ought to again off of Trump altogether.

“I think that the courts should take a step back and allow these processes to play out. What we’re doing is good and right for the American people,” Johnson advised reporters, particularly referring to the cuts co-President Elon Musk is making an attempt to make along with his faux company, the Division of Authorities Effectivity.


Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah

“I do not consider judges, courts have the authority or energy to stay their nostril into the constitutional authority of the president,” Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas mentioned.

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah additionally expressed settlement that courts don’t have the ability to problem Trump’s government orders.

“These judges are waging an unprecedented assault on legitimate presidential authority, all the way down to dictating what webpages the government has. This is absurd,” he wrote on X.

Rep. Darrel Issa, Republican of California, claimed that “nowhere in our Constitution is a single federal judge given absolute power over the President or the people of the United States.”

However, after all, the Supreme Courtroom dominated within the landmark 1803 Marbury v. Madison case that the judiciary has the ability to declare legal guidelines or actions unconstitutional. 

Then again, Sen. Majority Chief John Thune of South Dakota appeared to acknowledge that ignoring court docket orders is unsuitable, however he merely couldn’t carry himself to criticize Trump.

“I think what you’re seeing right now is the natural give and take between branches of the government,” he mentioned.

A handful of different Trump sycophants went a step additional, saying that they’d launch an impeachment effort in opposition to the judges who block Trump’s actions.

And Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia wrote on X that he’s backing Crane’s efforts.

“The real constitutional crisis is taking place in our judicial branch. Activist judges are weaponizing their power in an attempt to block President Trump’s agenda and obstruct the will of the American people. [Crane] and I are leading the fight to stop this insanity,” he wrote.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia referred to as for the impeachment of one other federal decide who blocked Trump’s freeze on congressionally appropriated federal funds.

“This judge is a Trump deranged Democrat activist. Below is proof he is not capable of making good decisions from the bench. He should be impeached,” Greene wrote on X.

Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio backed these efforts, saying the judges blocking Trump’s actions “should be mocked and ignored while articles of impeachment are prepared.”

“These clowns are undermining every lower court, leaving the sole burden on SCOTUS. This is not sustainable. Sadly, excesses in judicial and executive authority are a symptom of the real problem: Congress keeps failing to take action. Time for #DeedsNotWords,” he wrote on X.

In the meantime, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, as soon as a fierce defender of watchdogs, was tremendous with Trump axing the inspector basic of the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement who mentioned that Trump’s illegal shuttering of the company let lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} value of meals help go to waste. 

Grassley mentioned that he “should have been fired,” and gave Trump a workaround to make the firing authorized. 

“I’m just trying to make the president’s job easier,” Grassley mentioned, fully ditching his previous watchdog advocacy to bow all the way down to Trump.

Different GOP lawmakers selected Trump over their very own constituents, who’re being immediately harmed by the president’s actions.

Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio mentioned that Trump’s resolution to drastically in the reduction of Nationwide Institutes of Well being funding for medical analysis establishments is an effective factor, regardless that it could decimate establishments in his personal state and past.

“Well, I think what happens is the president is exactly right. I think if you ask the average American if we were spending a billion dollars to cure childhood cancer, how much of the billion dollars would go towards during childhood cancer? They’d probably say a billion. The idea that 60% goes to indirect cost and overhead is insane. And so I applaud the president,” he advised the Bulwark

And Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri mentioned that Trump’s funding freeze, which is hurting farmers who aren’t being paid for contracts, is only a “little bit disruptive.”

“But that’s what this administration promised whenever they were coming to Washington,” Smith mentioned on CNN, “is that they would be disruptive.”

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Rep. Jason Smith dismisses farmers in his state who’re getting stiffed by the US authorities not fulfilling contracts: “Right now it’s a little bit disruptive, but that’s what this administration promised whenever they were coming to Washington is that they would be disruptive.”

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-02-11T17:38:10.608Z

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