{"id":95208,"date":"2025-04-23T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95208"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:39:26","slug":"fight-the-trump-administrations-defiance-of-the-constitution-and-courts-5calls-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/04\/23\/fight-the-trump-administrations-defiance-of-the-constitution-and-courts-5calls-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight the Trump Administration&#8217;s Defiance of the Constitution and Courts [5calls.org]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/5calls.org\/issue\/constitutional-crisis-trump-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Fight the Trump Administration&#8217;s Defiance of the Constitution and Courts<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from 5calls.org<\/p>\n<p>On April 14th, the Trump administration openly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-defy-supreme-court_n_67fd3ad6e4b0c8069e85c34e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defied a unanimous order from the Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0by refusing to bring back a person they knowingly sent to a torture prison in El Salvador by mistake.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Since Day 1, the Trump administration has been consistently eroding the constitutional separation of powers and system of checks and balances. They have\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Repeatedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-v-boasberg-isn-t-143327743.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stonewalled federal district judges<\/a>\u00a0in court proceedings, defied orders, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/03\/13\/nx-s1-5316340\/threats-judges-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened<\/a>\u00a0to impeach them<\/li>\n<li>Attempted to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/03\/14\/nx-s1-5327552\/trump-takes-birthright-citizenship-to-the-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revoke birthright citizenship<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Usurped Congress\u2019s constitutional \u201cpower of the purse\u201d to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ofsA8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">block mandated federal funding<\/a>\u00a0to essential programs<\/li>\n<li>Violated the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/marco-rubio-student-visas-revoked-ice-tufts-columbia-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Amendment and due process rights<\/a>\u00a0of students and activists<\/li>\n<li>+ many other items listed here&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Be more like Harvard.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2025\/04\/21\/harvard-sues-trump-administration-funding-antisemitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Harvard sues the Trump administration in escalating confrontation<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Susan Svrluga and\u00a0Danielle Douglas-Gabriel<br \/>\n<em>Lawsuit argues that government actions, including freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding, violated the First Amendment and didn\u2019t follow legal procedures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Harvard University sued the Trump administration in federal court Monday, the latest move in the escalating feud between the nation\u2019s wealthiest school and the White House.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts against multiple federal agencies, seeks to block the Trump administration from withholding federal funding \u201cas leverage to gain control of academic decision making at Harvard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Alan M. Garber, the president of Harvard, said in a message to the university community Monday that the Trump administration\u2019s actions are unlawful and beyond the government\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Trump has WAAAAY overstepped his jurisdiction and has crossed boundaries left and right. He has single-handedly wreaked havoc across the world &#8212; especially with the trade wars and by undermining the Federal Reserve. But he has also trampled on the rights of people living in America. Perhaps we need to write or revisit the job description of a President of the USA. But that&#8217;s not really going to help. He wouldn&#8217;t listen to it or read it anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fight the Trump Administration&#8217;s Defiance of the Constitution and Courts\u00a0&#8212; from 5calls.org On April 14th, the Trump administration openly\u00a0defied a unanimous order from the Supreme Court\u00a0by refusing to bring back a person they knowingly sent to a torture prison in El Salvador by mistake. &#8230; Since Day 1, the Trump administration has been consistently eroding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,72,285,201,330,480,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-legislation-legislatures","category-policy","category-political-science","category-society","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95214,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95208\/revisions\/95214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}