When Hillary was in the Obama Admin, they invented one of the most radical powers in US history: to drone-assassinate US-born citizens with no due process.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 24, 2025
It not only claimed that right but carried it out, murdering al-Awlaki in Yemen and, 2 weeks later, his 16-year-old son. https://t.co/cATkAIQI8D
Welcome to 15 years ago, dumdum. https://t.co/QGKdV82EUG pic.twitter.com/YUf0EUIX0O
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 24, 2025
This is your daily reminder that 75% of removals under Obama were non judicial removals. As in no due process. That’s not me saying it, that’s the ACLU.
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) April 23, 2025
will25u said:🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: District court enters injunction "effective immediately" barring Trump Administration's implementation of Dept of Ed. efforts to combat DEI. LOL $50 bond!!! 1/ pic.twitter.com/FGC4ToBYow
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 24, 20253/3 Here is district court's full order. https://t.co/HXL0nahpRk
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 24, 2025Not only has SCOTUS, as noted below, stayed a similar injunction from a different court, that court is in the same circuit as this court. So this judge is ignoring an order whose blocking by SCOTUS her own appeals court will have to apply to her. SCOTUS needs to crack down ASAP. https://t.co/B7eLmCsllt
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) April 24, 2025
2/2 Here's link to appeal: https://t.co/M5qVKUjoEI
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 25, 2025
🚨Trump Administration appeal of district court injunction entered in late February to reinstate open grants docketed. Unclear why the delay in appealing but possibly because injunction allowed for individualized decisions so no real harm. 1/
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 25, 2025
3/3 I want to say there are about a dozen appeals with motions to stay pending in the federal appellate courts right now, not to mention a couple in SCOTUS.
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 25, 2025
JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the administration from enforcing President Trump‘s executive order aimed at gutting federal sector employee unions. pic.twitter.com/JpOpCPAnZM
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 25, 2025
D.C. judgewill25u said:
Anything Trump says or does gets insta-TRO'dJUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the administration from enforcing President Trump‘s executive order aimed at gutting federal sector employee unions. pic.twitter.com/JpOpCPAnZM
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 25, 2025
At least it's a PI so it's immediately appealable.will25u said:
Anything Trump says or does gets insta-TRO'dJUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the administration from enforcing President Trump‘s executive order aimed at gutting federal sector employee unions. pic.twitter.com/JpOpCPAnZM
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 25, 2025
5/5 Trump hasn't executed on his decision yet, waiting to get a court order saying that no longer bound by CBAs, so this decision is a first step to get resolution.
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 25, 2025
Michelle Obama on her podcast this week: “Black women are silenced in this country”
— Arynne Wexler (@ArynneWexler) April 25, 2025
Also: pic.twitter.com/z5lhzWggJU
Ellis Wyatt said:
Michelle Hussein Obama is a nasty, entitled *****.
The 5 women on the bench sure do talk a lot...Stat Monitor Repairman said:Michelle Obama on her podcast this week: “Black women are silenced in this country”
— Arynne Wexler (@ArynneWexler) April 25, 2025
Also: pic.twitter.com/z5lhzWggJU
Also consider that each supreme court justice comprises 0.111 of the power within an entire branch of government and are appointed for life with 5 of 9 demonstrating jell-o for brains.
Incentivize the whistle blowers!Quote:
To its credit, the Trump administration is employing a wide array of sanctions on such recalcitrant schools. Billions in federal funding are being frozen or withdrawn, revocation of schools' tax exempt status is being considered, and even their eligibility to enroll foreign students may be yanked.
Yet the Trump administration has yet to use one of the most potent weapons in its arsenal one that, if deployed, could represent an existential economic threat to all but the wealthiest universities that insist on continuing their discriminatory practices.
This weapon is the federal False Claims Act, and it is time to unleash it on woke academia.
The False Claims Act
The False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. 3730; the "FCA") was passed over 150 years ago to address a seemingly intractable problem: widespread fraud by defense contractors during the Civil War. Under the FCA, a person who knowingly submits a false claim to the government is liable for three times the government's damages plus additional penalties. For example, a hospital that knowingly obtains $10 million from the federal government on bogus Medicare invoices would be liable to the government for over $30 million.
But while the government can bring such claims itself, the FCA has another important component: the ability for whistleblowers (i.e., people with inside information of the fraud) to bring FCA suits in the government's name, and receive a reward of up to 30% the funds recovered. Such private prosecutions are known as qui tam actions, and the vast majority of the billions recovered annually under the FCA arise from them.
For example, suppose you are an employee of the hospital in the foregoing hypothetical, and you discover that it is fraudulently billing Medicare for MRI's that never occurred. You find a lawyer who specializes in FCA qui tam cases, who then prepares and files the qui tam action in federal court under seal, and serves the Department of Justice a copy of the complaint and a comprehensive memorandum explaining the claim and the evidence that the whistleblower has. The Department of Justice can then choose to intervene in the case and thereafter prosecute it, or it can decline to do so and allow you to do so. Either way, if the FCA qui tam suit is successful, the whistleblower receives a reward of up to 30% of the funds recovered (typically, 15-20% where the government takes over the case).
So in the hypothetical set forth above, if the government immediately intervened and ultimately collected $30 million, the whistleblowing employee would collect a reward of $4.5 to $6 million (which typically would be split with his attorney, if the attorney handled the case on a contingency fee basis). These financial inducements along with provisions in the FCA (31 U.S.C. 3730(h)) imposing draconian additional penalties on employers who retaliate against FCA whistleblowers make the FCA a powerful weapon against defrauding the federal government.
Ag with kids said:The 5 women on the bench sure do talk a lot...Stat Monitor Repairman said:Michelle Obama on her podcast this week: “Black women are silenced in this country”
— Arynne Wexler (@ArynneWexler) April 25, 2025
Also: pic.twitter.com/z5lhzWggJU
Also consider that each supreme court justice comprises 0.111 of the power within an entire branch of government and are appointed for life with 5 of 9 demonstrating jell-o for brains.
BREAKING: Trump administration is suing the city of Rochester, New York, claiming its sanctuary policies have violated the Constitution and federal law.
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) April 27, 2025
President Trump will sign an executive order Monday targeting cities and states that don't fully cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The order directs the Justice Department and Homeland Security to identify "sanctuary jurisdictions" within a month, threatening them… https://t.co/UT7QC5D3C8
— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) April 28, 2025
2/2 But much more is wrong with lower court's decision. https://t.co/YM9cAyVDT6
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 27, 2025
It has been astonishing to me to watch the same court systems that were exceptionally quick to throw out election cases for lack of standing or lack of jurisdiction turn around and grant nationwide standing to classes that have not been certified and to exert power over the executive branch that is far outside of their jurisdiction.Aggie Jurist said:
We were all taught that federal courts were courts of limited jurisdiction - and traditionally those courts protected that limited jurisdiction jealously. Frankly, our system rather counts on the federal courts to act with an eye toward not asserting jurisdiction and rejecting litigants who are unable to prove their right to seek relief in those courts.
What we've witnessed over the last 8 + years is people lacking judicial temperament being placed on the lifetime federal bench, doing what humans have done over our entire history - taking power until someone stops them. That 'someone' used to be the Courts of Appeal and ultimately the USSC. Now that balance is being destroyed - thanks in large part to Dick Durbin and feckless John Roberts.
The damage being done to the legitimacy of our federal court system may ultimately be irreparable. Without a significant correction, certainly the public's trust in the relative impartiality of the federal courts will not quickly return. What's worse (to me) is the loss of confidence in the federal courts for those who actually practice in them (and their clients).
It's ironic - seemingly the only thing holding the legitimacy of the courts together is Trump's steadfast refusal to disobey these increasingly outlandish orders - instead holding to the appellate process to correct these misdeeds. Something will have to give soon.
The district courts have made us a banana republic.flown-the-coop said:
For essentially none of the election cases to be heard… even heard in the aftermath, is utterly disgusting and demoralizing.
Then it's followed up by the most insane lawfare at all
Levels against Trump and anyone who supported him, then the SCOTUS leak, now the nationwide TROs.
Add on no Epstein files, P Duffy memory holed, and judges harboring and abetting known terrorists and other criminals.
And we could sprinkle in the two tiers that of BLM protestors v Jan 6 protestors and why would anyone capable of critical thought respect or trust our legal system?
Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee on DC appellate court, had scathing words for DC District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is prohibiting the Trump adm from firing most of the employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 29, 2025
In her dissent today--the appellate court…
If DC appellate court judge Cornelia Pillard had one ounce of integrity, she would recuse from any case involving lawsuits against the Trump adm.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 29, 2025
Her husband, David Cole, last summer retired as legal director of the ACLU--which is suing the Trump adm in several jurisdictions… pic.twitter.com/mP9gxXp1fb
In a Dec 2024 interview with The Nation, David Cole already was prepping how to fight the president's potential use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegals.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 29, 2025
The ACLU was the first to file a lawsuit attempting to ban the use of the AEA, which the president had signed on… pic.twitter.com/h9as0Q37CV
🚨🚨🚨Tenth Circuit side-steps clear problems with lower court's Temporary Restraining Order that bars Trump Administration for removing aliens under Alien Enemies Act. Fundamental issue with TRO is that named plaintiffs are NOT subject to Proclamation or removal under AEA. 1/
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 29, 2025
3/ BUT if SCOTUS removed stay tomorrow, Trump Administration could remove those who had not yet sought habeas relief, so that rationale is suspect. Tenth Circuit clearly figured no harm so no need to wade into issue.
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 29, 2025
5/5 Failure of appellate courts to check lower courts, here on standing and certification of class action, is emboldening them. 10th Circuit should have halted case now. https://t.co/AnYRkB0pQg
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 29, 2025
Federal judge orders Border Patrol *not* to arrest illegal aliens without a warrant—even though federal law specifically authorizes them to do so
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) April 30, 2025
My fellow Americans, we have a problem
It couldn’t be more serious
pic.twitter.com/V57MTUdDeH https://t.co/t4744jFyj3
This is when you tell the judge to GFY. The law is written in stone and not open to any ambiguityIm Gipper said:
Just when you thought these judges couldn't get any dumber,Federal judge orders Border Patrol *not* to arrest illegal aliens without a warrant—even though federal law specifically authorizes them to do so
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) April 30, 2025
My fellow Americans, we have a problem
It couldn’t be more serious
pic.twitter.com/V57MTUdDeH https://t.co/t4744jFyj3