Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the GOP’s multitrillion-dollar budget bill is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings.
That single paragraph reflects far more than legal minutiae—it signals a structural assault on the judiciary’s ability to constrain authoritarian governance. Nestled quietly in the depths of a sprawling Republican budget bill, the clause stripping courts of their power to enforce contempt findings against the federal government erodes the foundation of checks and balances. Courts…
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