"The presumption of regularity."

[berg80]

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders​

Justice Department lawyers have long enjoyed a professional benefit when they appear in court. As a general rule, judges tend to take them at their word and assume they are telling the truth.

But in the past several months, as members of President Trump’s Justice Department have repeatedly misled the courts, violated their orders and demonized judges who have ruled against them, some jurists have started to show an angry loss of faith in the people and the institution they once believed in most.

The dissolution of these traditional bonds of trust — known in legal circles as the presumption of regularity — goes well beyond judges’ use of blunt words — “egregious,” “brazen,” “lawless” — to describe the various parts of Mr. Trump’s power-grabbing policy agenda.

Ultimately, legal experts say, the actions that caused such doubts among judges about the department and those who represent it could have a more systemic effect and erode the healthy functioning of the courts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/trump-justice-department-judges-courts.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20250805&instance_id=159904&nl=today%27s-headlines&regi_id=65145149&segment_id=203269&user_id=fecdfdffdaaa11107b72f0f4f6e429cc

Lawless keeps coming back as a word to describe trump 2.0. Surrounded by spineless enablers, the internal checks on Don's illegal impulses present during trump 1.0 are entirely absent this time around.

 

[OODA_Loop]

You have your judges they have theirs.

Sad its reduced to this.

But suck it nevertheless.

 

[DGS49]

Without an example - with direct quotations - of a government lawyer or official lying to the court, this is just pissing in the wind.

But there is no such example.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders​

Justice Department lawyers have long enjoyed a professional benefit when they appear in court. As a general rule, judges tend to take them at their word and assume they are telling the truth.

But in the past several months, as members of President Trump’s Justice Department have repeatedly misled the courts, violated their orders and demonized judges who have ruled against them, some jurists have started to show an angry loss of faith in the people and the institution they once believed in most.

The dissolution of these traditional bonds of trust — known in legal circles as the presumption of regularity — goes well beyond judges’ use of blunt words — “egregious,” “brazen,” “lawless” — to describe the various parts of Mr. Trump’s power-grabbing policy agenda.

Ultimately, legal experts say, the actions that caused such doubts among judges about the department and those who represent it could have a more systemic effect and erode the healthy functioning of the courts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/trump-justice-department-judges-courts.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20250805&instance_id=159904&nl=today%27s-headlines&regi_id=65145149&segment_id=203269&user_id=fecdfdffdaaa11107b72f0f4f6e429cc

Lawless keeps coming back as a word to describe trump 2.0. Surrounded by spineless enablers, the internal checks on Don's illegal impulses present during trump 1.0 are entirely absent this time around.

Further confirmation of the fact that Trump’s is a lawless, fascist, authoritarian regime.

 

[konradv]

You have your judges they have theirs.

Sad its reduced to this.

But suck it nevertheless.

That’s just MAGA’s take. It’s a perversion of the system, based on grievance, not law.

 

[PeterPilot]

berg80

Lawless is the very best word to describe the federal government (and a few state governments) for decades before Trump came on the scene politically, but I agree that he is falling right in line with his predecessors.