COURTROOM CLASH: Judge SMACKS DOWN Trump's Deportation Strategy
Talking Feds with Harry Litman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKa2j0-Ze_M

In this video, Harry Litman discusses a preliminary ruling against the Department of Transportation. It is DOT's intention to withhold money from states that do not actively cooperate with federal law enforcement. Transportation funds. Law enforcement. It's hard to see any relevance of one to the other in this instance. For me, the essence of this court case is that the Trump Maladministration believes the executive branch has legislative branch authority (Spending Clause) and it believes that states do not have sovereignty when Donald Trump thinks they do not have sovereignty. If you watch and listen to this ten minute Harry Litman video, let's see what you think. I'll attach a capsule account of the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. It is my opinion that we should go back to the eighteenth and nineteenth practice of capitalizing the first letter when we speak of the People. The People is not just a really big number of individuals. The People is one of the most fundamental principles of the United States of America.

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: #10thamendment #democrats #departmentoftransportation #donaldtrump #dot #eightysix47 #harrylitman #immigration #migrants #tenthamendment #uspol #uspolitics :

The State of #California has filed its lawsuit challenging the #Trump administration’s decision to send #troops under #federal control into #LosAngeles in the name of protecting #immigration agents from #protesters.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.1.0.pdf

#Minnesota became the first state on Tues to sue the #DOJ over its threats to cut federal #funding to states that allow #transgender girls & women to participate on sports teams that correspond w/their #gender #identity.
The suit from Keith Ellison, MN’s AG, said that 2 of #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrders & enforcement letters from the DOJ violated state #sovereignty rights under the #10thAmendment, usurped the power of #Congress & violated the #AdministrativeProcedureAct.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/minnesota-trump-transgender-athletes.html?smid=url-share

Listening to The PoliticsGirl Podcast (Stop The Bad Laws!: A Conversation with Melissa Walker from The States Project): https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/537745/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTH4506557218.mp3?updated=1682368897

You only have to look around the country right now to see the power state legislatures have over almost every part of our lives. While the 10th Amendment is a check on the power of the federal government, it gives state leadership an almost infinite amount of power, and in the wrong hands, this unchecked influence has been an absolute disaster for human rights, civil rights and democracy. For 40 years, while Republicans invested billions of dollars and focused energy into building and holding state governing majorities Democrats focused the majority of their attention and money on national races and, while it seemed like things were progressing around the country, individual states were actually putting the pieces in place for regressive laws that would take us back. This stops today. You wanna fight back? We do it at the state level and the States Project tells us how.  Guest social: www.statesproject.org Twitter: @StatesProjectUS Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/StatesProjectUS Instagram: @statesprojectus YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheStatesProject Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl Thank you to today’s sponsors! trymiracle.com/politicsgirl Code: PoliticsGirl https://genwhypod.com/

https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/537745/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTH4506557218.mp3?updated=1682368897 #politics #StateGov #fascism #fuckGOP #VoteBlue #democracy #statesproject #statesprojectus #10thamendment #votingrights