🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Holy crapola! This federal judge went so far off the rails, Trump Administration really has no option but to seek mandamus! 1/ 
2/ Yesterday, Blue States sought to enforce TRO entered by Rhode Island federal court. Gov't responded spending isn't covered by TRO, other is allowed by statute, other is because of computer freezes given amount required.
3/ Judge's Order today prohibits any freeze on ANY federal funding which is much beyond what lawsuit challenged. Here's order I bought on Pacer and uploaded to Courtlisterner. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
4/ Note this footnote, for instance, which I believe has a typo and should say Paragraph 3 because Paragraph 2 isn't on page 2 and also because Paragraph 2 says what they can't do, whereas Paragraph 3 says what they can do.
5/ If, as I assume, that footnote refers to Paragraph 3 of the Government's notice re impact of TRO, the Court is greatly expanding the TRO beyond its already ridiculous scope to interfere in Executive Branch. Also, these provisions are nutso:
6/6 Complaint did not challenge the prexisting OMB directive 25-11 and the Unleashing pause came from that directive. In short, this outrageously broad order may end up being for the best b/c it provides a solid basis for mandamus.
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