A provision in the GOP’s tax-and-spending bill that would make it nearly impossible for anyone to sue the Trump administration is on track to be stripped from the bill after the Senate parliamentarian said it violates the chamber’s rules. Via HuffPost:
This provision, which is in Senate Republicans’ version of the One Big Beautiful Act, would require anyone seeking an emergency court order ― that is, a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction ― against the federal government to first post a bond that covers all the costs and damages that would be sustained to the federal government.
Judges grant emergency orders to temporarily halt actions like deportations, bans, or drilling, while a case is being decided. They typically waive bonds in public interest cases, but under the Senate GOP’s bill, public interest groups, or even individual plaintiffs, would have to cough up millions if not billions of dollars in order to seek an emergency court order against the Trump administration ― money they definitely don’t have.
In short, this provision would allow Trump to serve as a king, free to ignore the courts amid his lawlessness.
