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🗓️ 11 February 2025
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0:00.0 | category. The big cahuna is the attack on the courts. You may have seen the headline |
0:08.2 | tonight. We had a federal judge block the big cuts they just imposed on scientific and medical |
0:14.4 | research. The amount of scientific and medical research funding and the way that funding is |
0:19.4 | structured is set up by law. |
0:21.5 | And to cut it unilaterally is to violate that law. |
0:24.5 | So those scientific and medical research cuts have been blocked tonight by a federal judge. |
0:30.4 | We've also had a federal judge block the resign or else threats against millions of federal |
0:36.7 | workers that are trying to induce them into |
0:39.2 | quitting their jobs. That has been blocked by a federal judge. We've had a federal judge block |
0:43.6 | the Elon Musk improper access to the Treasury's payment system. That has been blocked by a federal |
0:50.4 | judge. We've had a federal judge block their efforts to send three Venezuelan |
0:54.7 | men to Guantanamo. We had a federal judge block the release of the names of FBI agents who |
0:59.5 | worked on January 6th cases. We've had three different judges block the effort to overturn |
1:04.8 | birthright citizenship, the American principle enshrined in the Constitution that says if you're |
1:09.3 | born here, you're American. |
1:14.9 | We have had two federal judges now block the government funding halt. |
1:21.1 | We have had a federal judge block the shutdown of USAID and the order that everybody at USAID has to be fired or put on leave. We've had judges stop thing after thing after thing that they've been trying to do. |
1:29.8 | And all of those losses in court, I mean, we're only three weeks into the administration. |
1:33.5 | How have they lost in court this many times already? |
1:36.2 | Well, it's because they're doing a lot of things all at once that seem, at least at first glance, to be quite illegal. |
1:41.2 | And so judges are stopping them from doing these things as fast as lawsuits |
1:45.5 | can be filed. You're right. We've got our toes right on the edge of a constitutional crisis here. |
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