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Baron2024

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Mon Feb 10, 2025, 05:16 PM Feb 2025

Reuters Article On The Judicial Pushback Against Trump

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's furious pace of orders slashing foreign aid, sending troops to the border and pardoning violent criminals has met little resistance in Congress. Federal judges are delivering the strongest signal yet of a looming showdown -- with the rule of law.

On Saturday, a federal judge in Manhattan temporarily blocked Elon Musk and his DOGE government efficiency team from Treasury Department systems that process trillions of dollars of payments. In recent days, judges have also temporarily prevented administration policies from freezing billions of dollars in federal grants, dismantling America's foreign aid agency, altering transgender rules and adopting a plan to buy out thousands of federal workers.

Link to the entire article--

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-pushes-legal-boundaries-judges-110201680.html

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