The massive thousand-page long budget bill (long title, “To provide fir reconcilation pursuant to title II of the Concurrent resolution of the Budget for the fiscal year 2025, House of Congress Resolution, or OBBA, “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) that just narrowly passed through the US House of Representatives and now up for debate in the Senate after days of contentious negotiation and garnering scepticism from economists and the stock markets as insoluble and untenable, extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts set to expire with the fiscal year and solidifying his domestic agenda, contains a provision buried deep within the legislative language that would in effect render judicial purview unenforceable—making the second prong on the assault against the courts after trying to undermine “advocate judges” and halt universal injunctions against the administration with a Supreme Court hearing ostensibly disguised as judgment on birthright citizenship. 
With the potential to make most mandates in antitrust, police reform and desegregation cases impossible to compel or constrain, the provision states that no court may make use of appropriated funds to enforce a citation of contempt for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary stay unless security, collateral was given at the time of issuance—in other words and a situation brought up in the above case by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson where everyone would be expected to lawyer-up unless a bond was paid up front by the plaintiff, something that does not happen in a suit against the government and an unfair requirement for judgment. Not only do parties seeking relief from unlawful acts have a high bar to access the courts (retroactively applied), the courts themselves would be rendered powerless when it comes to litigants contemning (the verb form of committing contempt) and ignoring their orders, downgraded to recommendations to take into advisement.
synchronoptica
one year ago: godfather of anime Osamu Tezuka (with synchronoptica), the patron saint of home economics plus the invention of the accordion
seven years ago: the designs of Raymond Loewy plus assorted links worth revisiting
eight years ago: lamenting the transformation of eBay, vintage bowling alleys, losing the ability to face the next pandemic, a closed-captioning mix-up plus energetic revolutions
nine years ago: wine without grapes plus Simpsons’ couch gag as an IKEA manual
twelve years ago: a visit to the Wiesbaden museum
