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Summary

A senior FEMA official froze grant funding despite a federal judge’s order to resume payments.

Stacey Street, FEMA’s Grant Administration director, emailed subordinates to freeze awards in an urgent email just after the judge’s order.

The freeze affected programs for emergency preparedness, homeland security, firefighting, church security, and tribal safety.

Trump called for FEMA's termination, criticizing its aid distribution. The White House defended Trump's executive authority, rejecting court injunctions as politically motivated.

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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly. Who the fuck is going to stop them? You want to hit them with another lawsuit and say they should go into time-out? Legal orders mean nothing anymore. Everyone will carry on listening to their direct supervisor because they don’t want to get fired sooner. Just following orders here, boss.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Best case: Put out a warrant for their arrest. Step two, wait for the doj to not do their job. Raise hell about it, hopefully American citizens still care, get Congress to do their job, impeach the president (again)

That's all predicated on citizens knowing enough about how the government is supposed to work to be outraged.

They have to try though.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The president ignored a court order. Another impeachment will be characterized as a coup. And the Jan6ers will happily show up with guns to defend the president.

The president is willingly ignoring the constitution. Why would he care about impeachment and maybe removal? He’ll just call it illegal or something

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah I don't have high hopes for our institutions, and I'm probably in a strong state of denial. I just want something to hold out for.