'That's a lie': Judges around US calling out Trump admin for underwhelming defense

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Published 5:09 a.m. ET March 16, 2025 | Updated 4:17 p.m. ET March 16, 2025


WASHINGTON – Sham documents. Cherry-picked data. Flimsy logic. Those were the recent condemnations of three federal judges in courtrooms sprawled across the country as they separately critiqued Trump administration explanations for some of the president’s expansive efforts to remake the federal government.

Judges tasked with the initial review of the more than 100 legal challenges to those efforts are not just considering the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s actions. Some are also calling out the administration when they think government lawyers have been playing fast and loose with the facts.

Their criticism could become an issue if any of the challenges reach the Supreme Court. During the first Trump administration, the court blocked the Commerce Department from including a question about citizenship on the 2020 census after finding the agency hadn’t been forthcoming about its motivation.

“Reasoned decisionmaking under the Administrative Procedure Act calls for an explanation for agency action,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the 5-4 majority. “What was provided here was more of a distraction.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/16/judges-reactions-trump-administration-explanations/82403696007/

[Buddyzbuddy]

1. The Felon will be playing fast and loose with pardons at the end of his term

but I suspect a lot of lawyers will be losing their right to practice law AKA their license.

[MadameButterfly]

2. It helps to hear real jurist adhere to the law but It will come down to whether Justices Roberts and Barret

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want a democracy or not. It floored me to hear them named by pundits as "swing votes', but these 2 who voted for presidential immuntiy, one voted for Citizens United, they're all we've got. They are not as wing-nut as Gorsuch, Kavanaoug, Alito, and Thomas.
But THEY WILL NOT SUPPORT US IF WE DON'T RISE UP IN FORCE because they need to fear us more than they fear Trump.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Thomas has never been a swing vote

And only recently has Barrett been one, as has Kavanaugh - both on certain subjects. And generally Roberts is.

However Roberts is Dr. Frankenstein who created the monster.

[bluestarone]

5. YEP and never will

[MadameButterfly]

6. Agreed--i corrected my post

I meant Roberts, not Thomas as a swing vote. And yes, he created the monster. I wonder if it's to his liking or if he like to take it back.

[republianmushroom]

4. trump and his administration lying, who would have thunk that.

Anybody with enough sense to pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel. Jeez