Judge furious as he rules Trump blatantly ignored order: 'Ham-handed attempt to bully'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

October 14, 2025 10:21AM ET


A federal judge in Rhode Island has accused the Trump administration of defying its order prohibiting officials from withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency funds from jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with Trump's immigration policies.

U.S. District Judge William Smith in Rhode Island initially blocked the administration from enforcing this policy in September, ruling that it ran afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act.

But in a new scathing opinion handed down on Tuesday, Smith said the administration has basically not changed its policy in any way, and is still telling areas applying for disaster relief they have to follow the policy "conditionally."

"Despite the Court’s order, Defendants have now inserted the contested conditions into Plaintiff States’ award letters for DHS grants, along with statements promising that '(i)f the injunction is stayed, vacated, or extinguished, the [contested conditions] will immediately become effective,'" wrote Smith. This is not acceptable, he wrote, because it's essentially just telling states and cities that the court order isn't worth regarding.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fema-judge-ignores/?utm_source=superhead

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59597/gov.uscourts.rid.59597.75.0.pdf

[progressoid]

1. "... the court order isn't worth regarding."

Duh.

Who's going to enforce it?

[durablend]

2. TSF: "So what you gonna do about it? Oh right, nothing HAHA"

[peppertree]

7. "Now - if you'll excuse me, I'm expecting company."

"Some young, appealing company. Very young, in fact - almost too young, you might even say..."

[Mossfern]

11. Exactly the same words

that came to mind for me!
Except I thought "watcha" instead of "what you."

You know what they say about great minds ....

[cstanleytech]

3. Arrest and heads of the government agencies in charge for contempt then.

Also start holding the government attorneys responsible as well.

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. Until a judge

has a Trump flunky hauled into the court in chains, they will disregard these orders. Of course if they do, Trump will have them arrested,

[Seinan Sensei]

15. Bring the Lieutenants to court

They don’t have the deep pockets that Gen Shitzenpants has

[BurnDoubt]

5. ENFORCE THE LAW.

Lock-up and DEPORT scoff-law officials.
No Law for them... No Law for ANYBODY.

REALLY... it's NOT OPTIONAL... It's the LAW.

[slightlv]

16. I like the lock-up and deport aspect of your reply! Until we start stripping these

people of their citizenship and deporting them to other countries... say, El Salvador or someplace in Africa (if given my choice) we're never going to be rid of them.

Once we get our government back under true democratic rule, we have to rule the republican, conservative, and Maga parties as being terrorist organizations and back up the statement with the explanations of what that entails. As well, those indicted and convicted of treason have to pay the ultimate price they've always had to pay -- capital punishment. Our "laws" have always been handed down with an iron fist on those who can't afford top line lawyers or who don't have friends in high places. We have to change that such that a disproportionate number of those "well to do" end up paying from current and past crimes in higher numbers. Eventually the pendulum can swing back to the middle, where the law is the law no matter who you are. Perhaps lawyers can only be paid what the average person can pay a lawyer, and no more - not in money or in bribes with other material assets. We have to have a way to level out the field for everyone. Obviously, the more money you pay for the higher ranked lawyer, the less likely you are to pay for your crimes, as the world goes now. That has to change. I look forward to the pendulum swinging!

[BurnDoubt]

20. Yep! Yep! Yep!

And YEP!

[gfarber]

6. The Insurrection Act Gambit

At rallies, he'd grin and incite,
“Just punch them!” he’d bark with delight.
Crowds knocked out dissent,
With Trump’s full consent —
A coward who cheers on a fight.

He lost, then incited a siege,
Still crowned in a second prestige.
Democracy cracked,
Yet voters came back —
Their pledge just performative… liege.

He remodeled the office with flair,
Gold ceilings and faux-leopard chair.
A throne, not a desk,
All power grotesque —
Like Saddam, but with worse hair.

His kin count their crypto with glee,
From Gulf states with no press set free.
Once “funders of terror,”
Now pals with no error —
If the bribes come in USD.

“El-Sisi,” he beamed, “keeps the peace!
Their crime rate is wondrously least!”
No press and no rights,
No protests or fights —
Just torture and prisons that feast.

He plots to send troops where he pleads,
To crush every march that impedes.
While red states protest,
Blue states are suppressed —
The Union, now fractured by creeds.

ICE men with their badges concealed,
Draw guns when their crimes are revealed.
No names and no tags,
Just threats in black flags —
Like Gestapo in Portland, unsealed.

He toys with a law made for war,
To bring military to your door.
With “rebels” defined
As whoever won’t mind —
When he tears up the Constitution’s core.

Ben Franklin would have cursed at the sheep
Who traded their rights for “safe” sleep.
“You’ll get neither!” he’d yell,
From democracy’s shell —
As tyrants their promises reap.

From protest to press, all are threatened,
With freedoms once sacred, deadened.
The strongmen he praised
Have left justice razed —
And still, half the country said, “Seconded.”

[modrepub]

8. (yawn)

[Bev54]

9. Where are the contempt charges? The lawyers arguing the case along with the cabinet secretary

need to be punished with high fines and/or jail time, until such time as they obey the court orders.

[moonshinegnomie]

10. subpeona the heads of the agencies involved to appear in court and tell them to bring their toothbrush

and then have them taken into custody for contempt.

[ancianita]

12. If his is not a contempt of court ruling, he's not serious. Only a contempt ruling triggers enforcement.

His fury and a bus token will get him across town.

[yellow dahlia]

13. Administrative Procedure Act -

another term of law and government for us to learn.

There has been so much (one might say TOO much) of that stuff to learn in the past nine years.

Article 1; Separation of Powers; appropriations; impoundment - a continual master class in government, civics, and law.

We know why we will peaceably protesting on the 18th.

[North Coast Lawyer]

14. as if rule of law still exists

[Joinfortmill]

17. We're in trouble.

[Hotler]

18. Do something about it. Put up or shut up. nt

[republianmushroom]

19. And so what are you gong to do judge ?