More than 40 lawsuits seeking to stop Donald J. Trump's ExecOrder fantasies have been filed since January 20th by state attorneys general, unions, and nonprofits. As a result, judicial orders in nine Federal court cases will, for a time, partially bind the administration’s hands -- at least on paper. Those things Trump sought illegally to do include ending automatic citizenship for babies born to undocumented immigrants on U.S. soil; transferring transgender female inmates to male-only prisons; potentially exposing the identities of FBI personnel who investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol; coaxing federal workers to accept “deferred resignation” under a tight deadline; and freezing as much as $3 trillion in domestic spending -- all those ExecOrders are now enjoined by judges.
On Friday afternoon, Judge Carl Nichols, a district judge nominated by Trump. said he would issue a temporary restraining order halting the administrative leave of 2,200 employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the looming withdrawal of nearly all of the agency’s workers from overseas.
Also, late on Friday night, in the first victory for Trump’s new administration in Federal court, Judge John D. Bates, appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush, rejected a request by a coalition of unions for an emergency order blocking Elon Musk’s team from accessing Labor Department data.
The
NYTimes reported that while the executive branch is entrusted with the capacity for swift, decisive action, "the judiciary is slow by design, and the legal opposition to Mr. Trump’s opening moves may struggle to keep up with his fire hose of disruption."
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