Federal courts are the front line for those who oppose Trump’s decrees

More than 40 legal proceedings filed in recent days by the attorneys general, unions and non -profit organizations are looking to erect a rampart in federal courts against the Blitzkrieg of the executive actions of President Trump who have turned a large part of the federal government and challenged the system of checks and equities of the Constitution.

Unlike the opening of Mr. Trump’s first mandate in 2017, little significant resistance to his second mandate appeared in the streets, the Congress rooms or within his own republican party. For the moment, at least, according to lawyers, the judicial branch may be that.

“The courts are really the front line,” said Skye Perryman, director general of democracy Forward, who has deposited nine prosecutions and won four judicial orders against the Trump administration.

The legal repression with several components has already given rapid results – if they are potentially ephemeral. The judicial orders in nine cases of the Federal Court will, for a certain time, partially the hands of the administration on its objectives. These include the end of automatic citizenship for babies born of undocumented immigrants on American soil; Transfer transgender detainees to only male prisons; Potentially expose the identity of FBI staff who investigated the attack of January 6, 2021 against the Capitol; Cajolate federal workers to accept the “deferred resignation” within a tight period; And freeze up to 3 billions of dollars in domestic expenditure.

The response of the legal power to legal challenges is continuing throughout the weekend. Friday afternoon, judge Carl Nichols, a district judge appointed by Mr. Trump. said that he would make a temporary ban order interrupting administrative leave of 2,200 employees to the American agency for international development and the imminent withdrawal of almost all agency workers abroad.

Friday evening, judge John D. Bates, a candidate of President George W. Bush, rejected a request for a coalition of unions for an emergency prescription blocking the Elon Musk team to access data from the department work. Although this case is underway, the decision of judge Bates was the first victory of Mr. Trump’s new administration before the Federal Court. In the first hours of Saturday, the American district judge Paul A. Engelmayer, one of the candidates of President Obama, the access limited by the Musk government’s efficiency program to the payment and data systems of Department of the Treasury, claiming that access would risk “irreparable damage”.