Budget bill would make administration immune from contempt of court

[Anonymous]

https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/05/19/gop-lawmakers-target-the-courts-ability-to-hold-trump-administration-in-contempt/

I've seen other stuff about this, but not so far as I know in the Big Bad Bill.

I know very superficially that Congress has the power to establish some constraints on the judiciary but this?



DENVER—Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled US House is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings.

I think this is it:
SEC. 70302. RESTRICTION OF FUNDS.
20 No court of the United States may use appropriated
21 funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply
22 with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no
23 security was given when the injunction or order was issued
24 pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), wheth
563
1 er issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enact2 ment of this section.

I guess we need a volunteer militia to step forward in that case, in which case good thing we have 2A

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/05/19/gop-lawmakers-target-the-courts-ability-to-hold-trump-administration-in-contempt/

I've seen other stuff about this, but not so far as I know in the Big Bad Bill.

I know very superficially that Congress has the power to establish some constraints on the judiciary but this?



DENVER—Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled US House is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings.

I think this is it:
SEC. 70302. RESTRICTION OF FUNDS.
20 No court of the United States may use appropriated
21 funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply
22 with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no
23 security was given when the injunction or order was issued
24 pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), wheth
563
1 er issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enact2 ment of this section.

I guess we need a volunteer militia to step forward in that case, in which case good thing we have 2A

So the judge can order $1 in security.