In case you missed it, when the House passed Donald Trump’s Billionaires’ Budget Bill, it included a Trump-requested provision limiting the power of federal judges to hold people in contempt, potentially giving the Felon 47 administration the ability to violate court orders with impunity.
Some Republicans claimed they wouldn’t have supported that provision had they known what they voted for what was in it, USA Today noted.
So, the Senate came up with a workaround for Dear Leader: A proposed provision making it prohibitively expensive to challenge Trump’s authoritarian rule.
HuffPost explains:
This bill would require that anyone seeking a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction against the federal government first post a bond that covers the costs and damages that would be sustained to the federal government, in the event it loses the case. We’re talking millions if not billions of dollars being required upfront, effectively shutting off people’s ability to sue the Trump administration.
