{"id":42216,"date":"2025-04-24T13:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42216"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:27:04","slug":"so-which-institution-takes-trump-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/04\/24\/so-which-institution-takes-trump-down\/","title":{"rendered":"So Which Institution Takes Trump Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An important opinion, recently issued, by Federal Judge Wilkinson, with the usual too-brief commentary:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lmzy6m2rjc2p\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiakdn2newjgx2iincjes5dn5ne3oxxxyerc2dcu2dwsth3epca2gu\">\n<p lang=\"en\">This is indeed incredible. \u201cConservative judge\u201d doesn\u2019t quite cut it as a description of Wilkinson. He is one of the most deferential-to-government-power judges in the country. When he writes like Justice Sotomayor it\u2019s signs-and-wonders level.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3?ref_src=embed\">Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a furocious floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3\/post\/3lmzy6m2rjc2p?ref_src=embed\">2025-04-17T20:49:18.913Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is indeed incredible. \u201cConservative judge\u201d doesn\u2019t quite cut it as a description of Wilkinson. He is one of the most deferential-to-government-power judges in the country. When he writes like Justice Sotomayor it\u2019s signs-and-wonders level.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case the above <strong><em>BlueSky<\/em><\/strong> link disappears, this is from someone named Evan Bernick, and includes a clip from Judge Wilkinson&#8217;s recent opinion concerning the implicit suspension of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>habeas corpus<\/em><\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Garcia debacle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson is considered a very conservative judge; his rejection of a key legal argument, and accompanying ridicule, is basic proof that the judicial branch rejects President Trump&#8217;s lies, arguments, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislative branch remains under Trump&#8217;s control, and has little enforcement powers in any case. The Executive remains under President Trump&#8217;s thumb, and since most or all law enforcement resides there, it seems unlikely that we&#8217;ll be seeing Trump marched away in cuffs.<\/p>\n<p>Or will we?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, it remains unlikely. but it&#8217;s not beyond possibility that one of the agencies will decide to simply arrest him and let the fallout go where it will.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re more likely to see him impeached, either as Johnson comes to his senses, or a successor takes responsibility seriously, and then someone arrests him. Possibly Vice President Vance, if he is called upon to assume the Presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important opinion, recently issued, by Federal Judge Wilkinson, with the usual too-brief commentary: This is indeed incredible. \u201cConservative judge\u201d doesn\u2019t quite cut it as a description of Wilkinson. He is one of the most deferential-to-government-power judges in the country. When he writes like Justice Sotomayor it\u2019s signs-and-wonders level. &mdash; \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/04\/24\/so-which-institution-takes-trump-down\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42217,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42216\/revisions\/42217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}