r/law • u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 • Feb 03 '25

Legal News DOJ Says Trump Administration Doesn’t Have to Follow Court Order Halting Funding Freeze

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-says-trump-administration-doesnt-have-to-follow-court-order-halting-funding-freeze/
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u/S0LO_Bot Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25

To give them credit, most of them try. Problem is there is only so much you can do while following all the rules with slim majorities.

Disregard the norms, bend some rules, take illegal actions, and suddenly the options expand tremendously.

But mainstay Democrats are the proponents of stability. They’ll support social justice and address inequality, but only to the extent that they can without breaking rules or overturning the stock market.

Biden, while still left of B. Clinton, was the mythical moderate that 70% of the country claims to want. Turns out things aren’t so simple because everyone has a drastically different idea of what moderate means.

We just had the most pro union president in decades (Biden) lose (through Harris) to the most openly anti-Union president in decades. Things like Teamsters refusing to endorse despite having their pension saved by Biden is indicative of a greater party failure.

Democrats have to be willing to get dirty because it’s clearly what voters want, and at this point, frankly need.

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u/fcocyclone Feb 03 '25

Like, for example Biden should have just gone ahead and pushed through loan forgiveness. Ignored SCOTUS. Pardon anyone involved from potential consequences

If Trump can do what he's doing, Biden can do what he is. The law clearly allowed what Biden was doing anyway,

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DALEKS Feb 04 '25

He should've added additional justices to the Supreme Court.

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u/sammidavisjr Feb 04 '25

That's literally all I was waiting for at the end. It would have been a perfect signal that he/they understood. Eliminate those loans and erase the evidence. The Supreme Court had already removed the consequences.

Instead Hunter got pardoned and some family members and a few other people. And I decided I'd never hold my nose to vote D again.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

the problem is that the interests of capital will never align with what the dems say they want