{"id":81135,"date":"2025-03-26T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=81135"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:09:19","slug":"the-end-of-federal-law-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/03\/26\/the-end-of-federal-law-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of Federal law in the USA?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have kept saying, since Trump was re-elected, that the likelihood was that the end of the rule of law in the USA was nigh. He is a man who has no desire to be told what to do by a judge, as he has proved time and again with his contempt for the legal system.<\/p>\n

Now this seems to have been confirmed.\u00a0 As the Guardian has reported<\/a> this afternoon:<\/p>\n

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Republican\u00a0House speaker\u00a0<\/span>Mike Johnson\u00a0suggested potentially defunding, restructuring or eliminating US federal courts as a means of pushing back against judicial decisions that have challenged\u00a0<\/span>Donald Trump\u2019s policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Johnson, a former constitutional attorney, raised the prospect of congressional intervention in the court system.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have already suggested<\/a> that Trump's grand plan is to end the US federal government - and so, in effect, the USA. It appears Mike Johnson is now endorsing the plan, and the end of US democracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have kept saying, since Trump was re-elected, that the likelihood was that the end of the rule of law in the USA was nigh.
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