🔥On Friday, the Blue States filed a Motion to Enforce TRO claiming Trump Administration had violated TRO. Tonight Trump Administration responded. The filings illustrate precisely what I noted were issues before: that court failed to conclude what law would be violated.
2/ Here's the link to Blue States' filing: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
3/ Here's link to Trump's response: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
4/ Response makes several points that I had highlighted before as things still allowed: Some of the funding frozen was frozen b/c it came from other agencies that weren't defendants. Other funding frozen b/c it was frozen by earlier EOs and an earlier OMB Directive.
5/ Other grants are in review process to ensure comply with statutes--and TRO said you can w/h if required by statute, reg., or grant.
6/ Also interesting is that grantees all started to try to pull huge amount of funds out triggering automatic red flag that required manual review of files and that is causing delay.
7/ Court created mess because it never addressed any specific grant or specific Defendant so it now needs to determine if Trump Administration violated TRO with variety of different grants, with a variety of reasons they weren't yet distributed, including reasons unrelated to
8/8 freeze. I'd wager, nonetheless, court will find violation of TRO, which is absolutely nuts because there is no irreparable harm--you can always sue & get the money for everything they are complaining about.
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