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Gov’t to SCOTUS: “The government cannot function—and the President cannot discharge his Article II responsibilities over foreign affairs—if a district court can appoint itself the claims-processor for the federal government and second-guess the Executive Branch’s determinations on pain of contempt proceedings.”

Legal Insurrection

A well-organized and financed effort that was planned for several months to paralyze the executive branch through lawfare has unfolded in several dozen lawsuits since the Inauguration. Unfortunately, some — but not all — district court judges have overstepped their constitutional boundaries to micromanage and second-guess policy and political decisions. There is no better example than AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition v. U.S. Dept. of State, where they obtained a crazy (I don’t use that term lightly) order that DOS pay $2 billion in invoices by midnight tonight.

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