GOP removed language in Senate bill protecting Trump from courts AND REPLACED IT WITH SOMETHING WORSE
The reporting on the earlier provision being stripped was good news - see
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220393195
and
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-contempt-courts-trump_n_684b9b3be4b0c4fd78ff7f2e
But what the GOP did next wasn't in the original story.
The new provision will make it harder to stop passage of the bill, and much harder if not impossible to stop Trump and the federal government through the courts.
From the now-amended HuffPo article:
Instead of saying a court can’t enforce a contempt citation when someone violates a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction in cases where a bond wasn’t posted, the Senate bill would require any plaintiff seeking a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction against the federal government to cough up potentially millions or billions of dollars in the form of a bond, effectively barring legal action from anyone who didn’t have the funds.
This language is narrower than the provision in the House bill ― it only applies to the federal government and temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunctions ― but it would make it exponentially harder, if not impossible, for people to bring lawsuits against the government.
See the new language in this Bluesky post:
As I just flagged, this has been replaced with something which is arguably worse; requiring that basically every plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction against the federal government pay millions or billions of dollars in "security" to pay for "costs" to the federal government if they later win.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T14:02:20.193Z
And because this is limited to the federal givernment and does pertain to the budget, the arguments against the earlier provision don't apply.
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