Washington (AP) – In the weeks since Donald Trump returned to office, Democrats and Legalists have warned that he has provoked a constitutional crisis by trying to expand his power and ignore laws that stand in the way.
On Wednesday the White House had a up-to-date answer. It is not the president that causes the problem, said press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. It is the judges who block part of his agenda by saying that it is illegal.
“We believe that these judges act as justice activists rather than an honest referee of the law,” Leavitt told reporters. It insisted that “the true constitutional crisis takes place in our judicial department”.
The denunciation, which was delivered from the Redner Prize in the Briefing Room of the White House, was the latest example of an escalating attack on Trump’s court system and its allies. Followers have spread pictures of judges online, claimed claims about their families and suggested that the Republican President simply ignore their commands.
Senator Mike Lee, a Republican in Utah, said he is working on the legislation to limit the ability of lower judges to issue nationwide blocks for presidential actions.
Elon Musk, Trump’s most powerful consultant, has used his social media platform X to strengthen attacks.
“This evil judge must be released,” he wrote about a member of the bank who ordered the Trump government to restore health-related websites and data records, including reports on HIV prevention and guidance for reproductive health care.
Rhetoric has alerted legal experts who say that the basic concept of judicial review – that the courts interpret the law and serve as a review of the other branches of government – is threatened.
“According to our system, it has always been understood that it is the courts that decide whether the executive authority is legitimate or not,” said Jeremy Paul, a legal professor at Northeastern University. Trump is far from it, the only president who slows down his agenda by the dishes.
In view of the congress controlled by Republicans, which provides almost no resistance to the President, the dishes have developed as the only clear guardrail of the White House. At least temporarily, the judges have blocked Trump’s efforts to end citizenship and enable the Musk Department of Government to access the payment system of the US Ministry of Finance.
One of the judges who ruled against the Trump government was appointed by the President during his first term. Ronald Reagan placed two more on the bench, and two more by George W. Bush, both Republicans.
In other cases, some judges have occasionally joined the administration and refused to issue direct blocks in response to the challenges of Doge’s access to the Ministry of Labor, allegations that Musks team a private e -mail server and the dissolution of the CBP One -app used for asylum seekers.
On Wednesday, a judge in Boston Trump’s plan allowed to reduce the federal workforce after he had initially blocked it. Trump and Musk wanted to offer government employees financial incentives to terminate their work.
The president did not say that he would oppose a court decision -making check, although a judge has accused his administration to do this exactly by not providing federal financing.
“I follow the dishes. I have to follow the law. It only means that we make an appeal, ”he said on Wednesday in the Oval Office.
The day before, Trump said that the judges prevented his government from stopping fraudulent government spending.
“We want to find corruption, and it seems difficult to believe that a judge could say that we don’t want them to do that,” he said. “Maybe we have to look at the judges because I think it is a very serious injury.”
The legal professor of the University of Pennsylvania, Claire Finkelstein, said: “There was a concerted effort to try to fill judges as an enemy.”
“The idea that he can start to remove judges is imaginative, but he can make your life so difficult that you may resign. I think that’s part of the experiment here, ”she said.
Musk, the richest person in the world that Trump has received far -reaching powers to reduce the federal government, has published on social media that judges who rule against the administration were to be charged.
“A corrupt judge who protects corruption. He must now be charged! “Musk wrote about the judge in the case of the Ministry of Finance.
Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday on X: “When a judge tried to tell a general how to carry out a military operation, that would be illegal. When a judge tried to order the Attorney General as he used his discretion as a prosecutor, this is also illegal. The judges must not control the legitimate power of the manager. “
House’s spokesman, Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said he agreed with Vance “with all my heart”.
“The courts should take a step back and allow these processes to play,” he said.
When asked on Wednesday whether the White House believes that the courts have the authority to issue nationwide orders from Trump’s orders, Leavitt said that the decisions “had no basis in the law” and “no reasons”. She said the white house would adhere to the courts, but the government believed that “ultimately confirmed”.
Since taking office on January 20, at least 60 lawsuits have been submitted for Trump’s actions, which reminds of how the presidencies in legal disputes have often been stated, regardless of the party.
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