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‘Something has gone badly wrong’: Judges across spectrum push back on Trump’s power grab
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16:01Now PlayingDonald Trump’s abuse of emergency powers to impose antidemocratic measures—from sweeping tariffs and chaotic mass deportations to a so-called “national energy emergency”--represents a “quantum leap” from previous presidents, says UC Berkeley legal scholar Daniel Farber. “Trump is going further than his predecessors in really trying to weaponize the idea of emergency powers.” But unlike in the past, when federal judges often deferred to the Executive branch, a growing number of judges, including Trump-appointed ones, are pushing back against Trump’s rule by decree. “It’s communicating to the Supreme Court that there is a sort of consensus among a lot of judges, a lot of lawyers, that something has gone badly wrong here,” he says.
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