[Original item: 02.22.2025] Ruling that a preliminary injunction was warranted here, the able USDC Judge Abelson, sitting in Baltimore, Maryland said at a minimum -- Trump's order attempts to infringe free speech, based on content -- without imminent lawlessness afoot. People are allowed to advocate for, and openly discuss inclusion, without any order restricting it. On that grounds alone. . . the at right is and was a dead letter.
But he went on to hold much more: primarily that Trump's Black Sharpie lacks the authority to do it, without the Congress. As is true of just about every one of them he's signed so far. Here's the full 63 page overnight opinion, and a bit from NPR, this morning:
. . .In addition to the mayor and the Baltimore City Council, the plaintiffs include the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, the American Association of University Professors and the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, which represents restaurant workers across the country.
Their attorneys claim the groups are already suffering the effects of the executive orders as Trump encroaches on the powers of Congress and seeks to suppress views he doesn't agree with.
"But the President simply does not wield that power," they wrote in the complaint. "And contrary to his suggestions otherwise, his power is not limitless. . . ."
To be clear, this is a nationwide but temporary order -- but the plaintiffs have made a compelling showing that Trump's "theories" of the law surrounding executive orders (if they may even be called that) are. . . BUNK.
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