Mayday! Mayday!

Do you get the felling that Trump is a bull in a china shop? In his small brain who can do anything including adding taxes to businesses! Because that is what is really is. It require law firms to spend money defending people.

Trump's new executive order says private law firms will do free work for accused cops

Insider

By Jack Newsham

April 29, 2025

• A new executive order calls on the Justice Department to "unleash" police across the country.
• One provision calls for law firms to provide pro bono assistance to officers who get sued.
• It's not clear how much of the order is legally or practically possible.

The Trump administration will seek to enlist private sector law firms to defend police officers "unjustly" accused of wrongdoing.

In an executive order signed Monday, President Donald Trump instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to help defend police officers named in civil rights lawsuits. According to the order, whatever system the Justice Department creates "shall include the use of private-sector pro bono assistance for such law enforcement officers."

The order does not explicitly direct any particular law firm to do anything. However, following previous executive orders targeting a number of elite firms, nine have agreed to deals with the president and collectively agreed to provide $940 million in pro bono legal services to support the president's priorities.

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Critics of the deals — and four law firms that have sued Trump over them — call them unconstitutional. They have so far been successful at limiting their reach. One firm, Susman Godfrey, made the decision to fight the administration in just two hours, Business Insider previously reported.

The terms of the deals that Trump has posted on Truth Social generally give the firms an indefinite period to honor their obligations. The firms that have struck deals have also emphasized that they wouldn't have to take a client just because Trump said so.

To me that see like a tax... you are doing something of value for free for the government. In medieval times kings required surfs who couldn't pay their taxes to work for the king... now Trump is requiring law firms to do free work.

The Rolling Stone has a different view on the EO, they looked at the part of the EO that give the police a "Get out of jail" free card!

Trump Issues Executive Order Ramping Up American Police State

The order directs the government to provide legal resources to police officers accused of wrongdoing

By Charisma Madarang

April 29, 2025

During Donald Trump‘s final weeks of his 2024 reelection campaign, he fantasized about “one really violent day” of policing as an answer to eradicating crime in America. Speaking to supporters gathered at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, in late September, Trump mused, “One rough hour — and I mean real rough — the word will get out and it will end immediately, you know?”

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Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to launch a program providing free legal resources to police officers accused of wrongdoing, while also ordering his administration to increase the supply of “excess military and national security assets” to local law enforcement.

So they give a "bye" to the police for their crimes. In another EO they go on to write...

The directive was issued alongside a separate executive order calling on the attorney general to identify and punish so-called sanctuary cities that “obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws.”

You know that this will be blocked by the courts, they blocked him in his first term and they will block him again!

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His current attack on sanctuary cities and once again the courts said not so fast!

Reuters reported...

US judge blocks Trump from withholding funds from 16 'sanctuary' cities, counties

By Nate Raymond

April 24, 2025

Summary

• Sixteen cities and counties, led by San Francisco, filed suit
• Judge says withholding funds would cause "irreparable injury"
• Judge also blocked similar Trump order in 2017

 A federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump's administration from withholding federal funding from more than a dozen so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that have declined to cooperate with the Republican president's hardline immigration crackdown.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco issued the injunction, opens new tab at the request of 16 cities and counties nationally. San Francisco, which led the lawsuit, in its complaint filed in February argued that the Trump administration was unlawfully trying to force local officials to cooperate with federal immigration arrests.

You know that they say that one of the symptoms of mental illness is doing something over and over and expecting different results. The EO from his first and now in his second term both were stopped by the courts.

The jurisdictions include the cities of Minneapolis; New Haven, Connecticut; Portland, Oregon; St. Paul, Minnesota; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Seattle, which have laws and policies that limit or prevent local law enforcement from assisting federal officers with civil immigration arrests.

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The lawsuit challenges an executive order Trump signed that threatens to cut off federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions that limit or refuse to cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Now there are no laws allowing this and there are actual laws preventing it. One of the facts that the judges cited was the Constitution... Article I, Section 8, Clause 1  givesCongress and not the president-the authority to allocate and condition federal funds. The executive branch cannot unilaterally impose new conditions or withhold funds appropriated by Congress but that is something that Trump and the Republicans seem to forget.

So once again his EO will go down in flames and Trump will blame the "activists" courts and rally his base against the courts. You know who does that? Putin, Kim Jong-il, Orbán, Ortez, and Maduro!