Professor Jenny Breen spoke with the Christian Science Monitor about a provision in the Trump budget bill that no federal court “may use appropriated funds” to enforce a contempt-of-court citation for failing to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order “if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued.”
“What Congress is trying to do here is ease the way for the administration to ignore court orders,” says Breen. “Our system requires each branch to step up and check the other branch, and this bill just broadcasts that Congress is not interested in doing that for this president.”