Only three weeks after his inauguration, the administration of Donald Trump continues to upset the balance of powers in the United States a little more, by attacking the judicial power head-on. Tuesday, February 11, the President of the United States said on his social social network, that he would not be arrested by “politicized judges”.
A reference to the forty court decisions issued against some of its decrees and ordinances, deemed illegal. Faced with this increased confrontation between executive and judicial power, some experts do not hesitate to speak of “constitutional crisis”, as indicated New York Times.
On Monday, a federal judge denounced the refusal of the White House to apply his legal mandate requesting the restoration of billions of dollars in federal aid, thus invalidating the presidential order to freeze billions in subsidies. The decision of judge John J. McConnell Jr., of the Federal Court of Rhode Island, required the administration not to hinder the funding already approved by the Congress to pay [la couverture santé] Medicaid, school meals, housing subsidies for low -income people and other essential services, “details New York dailyin another article. The federal judge, on the other hand, refrains from concluding an outrage of the administration towards the court, or to provide sanctions.
Blocked legal measures
Like him, several magistrates, have brought about forty proceedings, contesting radical decisions of the president, in particular the revocation of soil law and a decree giving Elon Musk employees access to the accounting system of the Treasury Department.
For them, many of these decisions are illegal, the executive trying to assume the powers he does not: Tuesday, Donald Trump, for example, called to close the response agency to natural disasters, Decision which normally returns to parliamentarians, while the dismantling of the large humanitarian agency USAID is also blocked in justice.
Legal opposition
The return to power of Donald Trump has not caused giant demonstrations of his opponents and the Democrats, minority at the Congress, hitherto struggle to respond to the incessant flow of stunning decrees and shattering statements. It is therefore mainly before the courts, seized by associations and unions, as well as by Democratic prosecutors, that the dispute against the 78 -year -old billionaire is so far played.
“We have found billions of dollars of fraud, waste and diversions by investigating our poorly managed government. Now, some very politicized activists and judges want to slow us down, or stop,” the American president on Tuesday on his network Truth social. “Each presidential decree will be deemed admissible by the courts, because each action of the Trump-Vance administration is perfectly legal,” said Harrison Fields, spokesperson for the White House, in a martial tone.
Beyond the first decisions in summary proceedings, it will take a long time for all these legal proceedings to go to the end, with possible calls that can lead to the Supreme Court, with a majority of conservative. It remains to be seen how far Donald Trump will go in the dispute of the delicate balance established by the American Constitution between the legislative power, the executive power and the judicial power.