What an extraordinary way to start an opinion. (Spoiler: Judge Amy Berman Jackson holds that she must take action now to prevent the unlawful dissolution of the CFPB.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Thank you Amy
mar 29, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Many, if not most of Trump's Executive Orders are blatantly, spectacularly illegal. The powers of creating and funding agencies are clearly and purposefully the responsibility of Congress. Trump is plowing headlong into laws specifically designed to prevent someone like him from being dictator.
mar 28, 2025, 9:11 pm • 36 5 • view
No need to limit it to his "executive orders." Almost everything Trump has done so far has been completely illegal and/or unconstitutional. jriddle.medium.com/trumptatorsh...
mar 28, 2025, 10:59 pm • 13 1 • view
We're talking a guy who has asserted a number of people are 1) foreigners, 2) terrorists, 3) members of Tren de Aragua and has claimed the power to rendition them to a foreign gulag without ever having to prove or even provide evidence for any of these claims. jriddle.medium.com/trumptatorsh...
mar 29, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Yea and we will talk about their ACTIONS, I think they are saying so the F what. Keep talking - praying - hoping - capitulating - Democratic leaders are as stupid as the Maga, the reason we teach history is to remove the same mistakes we made before... Talk don't work. Use the same tatics, FIGHT NOW
mar 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Chris Hayes incorrectly uses "thinks" in the same sentence as trump.
mar 29, 2025, 12:17 am • 6 0 • view
Good point!
mar 29, 2025, 3:36 am • 1 0 • view
Russell Vought needs a searing spotlight on his shiny dome. Right now, he's Oz. Pull his curtain.
mar 29, 2025, 2:21 am • 5 2 • view
Exactly this! I keep screaming it from the rooftops that Vought is potentially the most evil of all of them! He IS Project 2025.
mar 29, 2025, 3:43 am • 5 0 • view
mar 31, 2025, 8:07 am • 1 0 • view
Well, let's try (I really don't know how the algorithms work) to make his name viral. Somebody has to do it. As Arlo Guthrie said, "And friends they may think it's a movement" Imma post his name every day.
mar 31, 2025, 8:30 am • 0 0 • view
The courts give me hope.
mar 29, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
What they do, they do to hurt you.
mar 28, 2025, 9:38 pm • 4 0 • view
Exactly. Cruelty is the point.
mar 28, 2025, 9:42 pm • 2 0 • view
And sadly, as that is the only thing they understand, cruelty must be the answer.
mar 28, 2025, 10:22 pm • 1 0 • view
She knows the direction from which the attack will come.
mar 28, 2025, 8:55 pm • 14 0 • view
They sound like morons when they use the word “woke” to describe things like govt agencies, schools, libraries, museums-you name it. And they don’t even bother defining it. Just a little catchphrase for the note card. Along with illegal alien, DEI, transgender, Critical Race Theory, border… 🙄
mar 28, 2025, 9:08 pm • 56 1 • view
Past time for cracking skulls
mar 28, 2025, 9:34 pm • 9 0 • view
Right? They don't know what woke means.
mar 28, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Because if they actually defined it to the cult fans, they might get judged. 🥴
mar 28, 2025, 10:33 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s because they aren’t smart. Listen to both of them. One is a 5 year old and the other can’t complete a sentence. It’s amazing they’ve been able to convince so many people they aren’t idiots. 🤯
mar 29, 2025, 12:47 am • 2 0 • view
Finally, a judge speaking truth to a regulator with a bad script. Any chance 'CFPB' stands for 'Creative Folly Prompting Bureaucratic Gridlock'?
mar 28, 2025, 8:52 pm • 20 0 • view
mar 28, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuckin A
mar 29, 2025, 1:22 am • 0 0 • view
that first sentence
mar 30, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, snap. About time someone said it.
mar 28, 2025, 9:34 pm • 37 0 • view
mar 29, 2025, 6:49 am • 0 0 • view
I still believe strongly that everything doge does is illegal. It was never properly created. To say it’s part of another existing agency is an afterthought or a fraud.
mar 28, 2025, 9:47 pm • 59 5 • view
DOGE, everything it does, Musk's Schrödinger’s Cat position in it are blatantly, epically illegal and fraudulent.
mar 28, 2025, 10:48 pm • 14 1 • view
She's one of traitor trash judges
mar 28, 2025, 11:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Omg why couldn’t we have had this judge instead of Aileen Cannon 🤦🏻♀️
mar 29, 2025, 2:13 am • 3 0 • view
OK, there’s so much going on. I’m gonna talk about Wisconsin. So again judges say no it’s illegal musk for you to hand out money for people to vote. Why is musk not in handcuffs and thrown into jail?! in fact, let’s go ahead and send him to El Salvador with the other guys.
mar 29, 2025, 1:18 am • 2 1 • view
Glad that a judge finally seems to understand what's really at stake. There's no remedy after shit is already destroyed.
mar 28, 2025, 9:39 pm • 10 2 • view
Exactly. The ongoing destruction of the agency without a TRO in place IS the irreparable harm.
mar 28, 2025, 10:08 pm • 5 0 • view
📌
mar 29, 2025, 12:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow!
mar 28, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
📌
mar 29, 2025, 5:11 am • 0 0 • view
I wonder if she's learned anything since the days Roger Stone spent pissing in her face on a daily basis.
mar 28, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Pirate parrot? Or Flaubertian parrot?
mar 28, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 30, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Go Amy, Go, Amy, Go, Amy!
mar 29, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
They haaaaate Liz Warren.
mar 28, 2025, 10:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Yep.
mar 29, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) aims to ensure a fair, transparent, and competitive consumer financial marketplace by implementing and enforcing federal consumer financial laws, educating consumers & taking action against unfair practices. If you're against that, you're a villain.
mar 28, 2025, 9:44 pm • 38 7 • view
Also, this damning little footnote effectively admitting that they couldn’t find ANY fat to cut (which I guess led them to decide they should scrap the whole CFPB)
mar 29, 2025, 2:56 am • 1 0 • view
mar 29, 2025, 5:43 am • 0 0 • view
This Mob (Trump, Musk, et al) are stealing the money we pay to have a safe and honest country. They take money we pay for programs to make us safer and dismantle them to bribe, and destroy all accountability for their crimes. Sorry but tax breaks for the rich” really misses their crimes.
mar 29, 2025, 2:36 am • 4 1 • view
I LOVE that she’s living in the real world. Refreshing.
mar 28, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I remember meeting a car salesman (a former executive) who told me that he had lost his entire life savings in the 2008 financial crisis, and was forced to return to work.
mar 28, 2025, 9:17 pm • 4 0 • view
After that face she made behind Trump's back and this, she may be my favorite on the bench
mar 28, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
I think more judges should use the administration’s own words against them.
mar 28, 2025, 9:02 pm • 79 0 • view
Trump doesn't really care about the CFPB. He just wants CHAOS. He knows most of his government destruction efforts will eventually be overturned by the courts, but he can create chaos which makes the government look bad and decrease the public's trust.
mar 29, 2025, 6:55 pm • 4 0 • view
But why would that be his goal? My logical brain cannot understand the need for disorder and chaos.
mar 30, 2025, 12:34 am • 0 0 • view
Simple. It's just a diversion to help distract from the fact that they're looting America.
mar 30, 2025, 12:58 am • 2 0 • view
To what end? Whatever they steal or break won’t last forever. A hungry, poor country with children working nights and no tourist trade is not attractive.
mar 30, 2025, 1:02 am • 0 0 • view
“Consumer Protection”, Trump has taken away all protections. There is no scrutiny left for his administration or sycophants. If Consumer Protection is saved let’s hope it can expand .
mar 28, 2025, 9:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Who is on the April appeals panel?
mar 29, 2025, 1:13 am • 2 0 • view
Judge Amy Berman Jackson on the CFPB employee whom the administration forced, under oath, to parrot its false claims denying the illegal dissolution of the agency: “He had the demeanor of an abused wife brought to court by her husband to drop the charges.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
mar 28, 2025, 9:30 pm • 3,111 813 • view
Damn.
mar 28, 2025, 9:51 pm • 2 0 • view
📌
mar 29, 2025, 5:13 am • 0 0 • view
God bless Amy Berman Jackson.
mar 28, 2025, 10:04 pm • 22 2 • view
Holy 😆
mar 28, 2025, 9:55 pm • 1 0 • view
This is an astonishing reminder that our arbiters of justice must sometimes speak in plain English, for the People, in the name of Justice. The regime, and firms in league with it, may have desecrated the Law of late, but she still stands—eloquent, defiant, despite the filth they’d cast upon her.
mar 28, 2025, 10:10 pm • 13 1 • view
Jesus Christ he's already dead your honor
mar 28, 2025, 10:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Ouch! 😊
mar 28, 2025, 11:02 pm • 3 0 • view
What we've all been saying since 2016.
mar 29, 2025, 4:52 am • 2 0 • view
In every which way
apr 1, 2025, 4:03 am • 1 0 • view
Meaningless words. We need to stop taking solace in meaningless words from judges. A contempt citation would show they actually care and mean what they say.
mar 29, 2025, 1:45 pm • 9 0 • view
Due process. If the judge doesn't go through all the steps another judge can easily dismantle any orders.
mar 29, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Saying the words of judges are meaningless and not worth the solace they may provide isn't effective opposition. These judges are literally the only thing slowing the fascists down. Judges making knee jerk contempt orders isn't democracy. The opposition wants to preserve democracy
mar 29, 2025, 2:55 pm • 8 1 • view
Legit Federal judges are slammin
mar 29, 2025, 3:42 am • 4 0 • view
I see you have a gift for understatement. 😱
mar 29, 2025, 1:48 am • 5 0 • view
Basically Mafia. in league with the russian authoritarianism and some scapegoats who fled from Venezuela.
mar 28, 2025, 11:02 pm • 13 0 • view
It pretty much says it all: Courts cannot trust anything the #Krasnov administration tells them. This should be no surprise to anyone honest watching, but the court had to go through the back-and-forth legal process (do its due diligence) so it could finally state the obvious in the legal record.
mar 29, 2025, 2:19 pm • 28 6 • view
If the governments’ counsel can’t be trusted to tell the truth, it’s truly a dark place.
mar 29, 2025, 2:46 am • 5 2 • view
Good grief. That’s where we are today.
mar 28, 2025, 11:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Now we wait and see just how deep “scotus” is in this. They either shut him down or we will be a lawless country. I don’t think there is any middle ground.
mar 29, 2025, 5:25 pm • 30 2 • view
i hold out hope that scotus sees that capitulation to djt means their own demise, just as it's meant for congressional Rs. still, hard to imagine the man who gleefully crafted that immunity decision comin to jesus & owning the frankenstein he's made. would not want to be roberts now. or ever, really
mar 29, 2025, 8:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Alito and Thomas are lost causes. We have to hope the others will hold up
mar 30, 2025, 12:29 am • 12 0 • view
Regretfully, I am not optimistic. bsky.app/profile/coff...
mar 29, 2025, 6:35 pm • 2 1 • view
Who said: I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. Stop the steal, it’s all about control! Be fierce. Be free!
mar 29, 2025, 1:54 am • 11 1 • view
Wow
mar 29, 2025, 2:26 am • 2 0 • view
It is well past time to call lies LIES and liars LIARS!
mar 29, 2025, 2:14 am • 17 2 • view
I’ve never seen anything like that before in an opinion. Incredible.
mar 29, 2025, 3:58 am • 3 0 • view
Oh, bam
mar 29, 2025, 7:42 am • 1 0 • view
UPDATE: DOJ lawyers still losing credibility daily
mar 28, 2025, 11:41 pm • 46 1 • view
DOJ: department of jerkoffs
mar 29, 2025, 1:40 am • 8 1 • view
Interviewer: I see here you spent years at DOJ? You: “Jerkoffs” not Justice. Interviewer: That’ll do. That’ll do just fine.
mar 29, 2025, 2:06 am • 6 0 • view
mar 29, 2025, 8:32 am • 1 0 • view
I'm not a lawyer and I've never read an American federal judge's opinion beyond the odd snippet in the media, but I cannot shake the feeling that this is almost apocalyptically scathing.
mar 29, 2025, 1:55 am • 102 5 • view
She’s saying the Department of Justice cannot be trusted to tell the truth about anything. So yeah, apocalyptically scathing.
mar 29, 2025, 2:05 am • 170 10 • view
The presumption of irregularity
mar 29, 2025, 2:28 am • 23 1 • view
WOW. Strong words under any circumstances, but coming from a judge? That’s the legal equivalent of “back the f*ck off, you lying motherf*ckers”.
mar 29, 2025, 2:32 am • 32 2 • view
But they won’t back off, and no one will do anything about it.
mar 29, 2025, 8:24 am • 3 0 • view
Sounds like you won’t at any rate.
mar 29, 2025, 9:26 am • 2 0 • view
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
mar 29, 2025, 9:28 am • 0 0 • view
Useless
mar 29, 2025, 9:53 am • 1 0 • view
Thats called trolling, it's wandering from post to post trying to get a rise out of people
mar 29, 2025, 2:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Wish they had kept their asses in X...
apr 24, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Perhaps, but also not living in a fascist state, so swings and roundabouts.
mar 29, 2025, 9:59 am • 0 0 • view
Yet. Say hello to Farrage and the delightful people of 55 Tufton St.
mar 29, 2025, 10:09 am • 1 0 • view
With his 4 MPs.
mar 29, 2025, 10:12 am • 0 0 • view
🤌
mar 28, 2025, 10:18 pm • 28 1 • view
Lawyer twitter advice please: “If not intentionally false” is more than just “no gold star,” right?
mar 29, 2025, 5:46 am • 4 0 • view
It's judge-speak for a sentence ending with the words "...and the horse you rode in on."
mar 29, 2025, 6:07 am • 8 0 • view
@davidallengreen.bsky.social we need a "well" here.
mar 29, 2025, 8:06 am • 6 0 • view
Thanks for that - I have RTd with my own comment.
mar 29, 2025, 8:10 am • 2 0 • view
Amen!
mar 29, 2025, 12:24 am • 2 0 • view
Christ
mar 28, 2025, 9:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Well, that's unexpected.
mar 28, 2025, 10:06 pm • 2 0 • view
How does her own husband treat her. Does she vote for him?
mar 29, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 1 • view
Damn, your honor...
mar 28, 2025, 9:59 pm • 11 0 • view
I know they are supposed to stay calm and restrained and "judicial" and all that, but it is really nice to see judges finally getting pissed off at this blatant bullshit and calling it out when they see it.
mar 28, 2025, 9:57 pm • 185 7 • view
The DOGE folks told the court everybody was still working at CPFB. Meanwhile, they told everyone to stop working, and even set up a snitch line for banks to let DOGE know if any rogue employee was actually trying to do their job.
![Also by February 13, the agency had established a tip line through which banks and other stakeholders in the community could report enforcement or supervision staff who were still asking them for information. Diotalevi Decl. ¶ 6; Pls.’ Ex GG [Dkt. # 60-1].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t7ayphiew2kysdunfu6xm2at/bafkreibt23f7tqz2mtll2br5y46nxvaqvnhfw4popuhz2t74l6zzesjw3q@jpeg)
mar 29, 2025, 3:18 am • 61 17 • view
Trump is following no laws nor court orders. It is a crisis for the rule of law. Soon a Constitutional one…
mar 29, 2025, 5:13 am • 2 1 • view
For negative values of soon.
mar 29, 2025, 5:13 pm • 2 0 • view
They are pushing a Dark Enlightenment… It is a strange philosophy
mar 29, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 1 • view
Wow
mar 29, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
Are more judges pissed off now than any other time in US history?
mar 28, 2025, 10:10 pm • 4 0 • view
Well, our SecDef is permanently pissed, so the Judiciary is feeling a bit behind the curve…
mar 28, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
ABJ is a real one. People should not forget that she was the presiding judge in the Roger Stone prosecution and was targeted with violent memes that Stone's fashy friends helped put together.
mar 28, 2025, 10:38 pm • 32 2 • view
damn
mar 28, 2025, 9:39 pm • 8 0 • view
This was an extremely damning and well written ruling.
mar 29, 2025, 1:10 pm • 13 0 • view
💔
mar 29, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
She’s consistently a great judge.
mar 29, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view
Judge Jackson doesn't mince her words....
mar 29, 2025, 3:42 am • 3 0 • view
"He had the demeanor of an abused wife brought to court by her husband to drop the charges." Ouch. But that would certainly be on-brand for the Trump administration.
mar 29, 2025, 1:42 am • 11 2 • view
Well yeah. Many people have compared his whole circus to the behavior of an abusive spouse. And considering that we know he is one, nobody ought to be surprised.
mar 29, 2025, 4:08 am • 9 1 • view
Yup. I've been making that comparison re the Republican Party in general since pre-Trump. Gaslighting, belittling, threats, emotional volatility, demanding financial control, "look what you made me do", etc, etc. Trump just ramped it all up.
mar 29, 2025, 10:57 am • 3 1 • view
Hell, maybe it's stretching the point, but driving away supportive friends is common. That's Canada! And I hate to say it, but the Democratic Party tends to do the "walking on eggshells", "we shouldn't make them angry" thing. It's all very creepy. And infuriating. (
mar 29, 2025, 11:16 am • 5 0 • view
Oh not stretching it at all. At least one other poster I've seen in recent days specifically mentioned isolating us as another abuser tactic. We're the spouse who got away and then went back, and we might end up dead if things continue.
mar 29, 2025, 12:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Oof. I missed the "got away and then went back" similarity, but yeah. And then there's the dismissive "it takes two to make a fight" thing, which could be compared to the media's insistence on "both sides" framing.
mar 29, 2025, 2:28 pm • 2 0 • view
I really hope this is a good sign for the 100s of cases that will eventually land in their court.
mar 28, 2025, 10:23 pm • 10 0 • view
Oof
mar 29, 2025, 2:27 am • 0 0 • view
That is remarkable
mar 28, 2025, 9:56 pm • 6 0 • view
Berman Jackson’s finding here is absolutely priceless 🙏🏻
mar 28, 2025, 10:36 pm • 4 1 • view
WOW
mar 28, 2025, 9:35 pm • 20 0 • view
The "abused wife" reference had me laughing out loud and saying "omg, omg." After 5 decades of reading court opinions, I know how rare that kind of sentence and that opening are. But right now such stark language is critical.
mar 28, 2025, 10:05 pm • 100 6 • view
I had the identical OMG reaction. Only 4 decades here, but I think this is the best and most amazing passage I have ever read in a court decision. If I were that DOJ lawyer I’d immediately resign.
mar 29, 2025, 12:23 am • 23 3 • view
I feel like federal judges are just done. Ofc there's a few who agree/kowtow to the Admin.
mar 28, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 1 • view
Y I K E S ! I I K K E E S S ! !
mar 28, 2025, 9:54 pm • 51 3 • view
Nice.
mar 28, 2025, 10:47 pm • 4 0 • view
Wow!
mar 28, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 1 • view
This line is heartbreaking: "Steege’s fear of leaving her surviving family members saddled with her student loan debt came to pass on March 15, when she died."
mar 28, 2025, 10:19 pm • 18 0 • view
Yes but the CFPB employee still lied (“false claims”). Far too many Americans have no integrity. So many will steal and sell a neighbors child into servitude for a buck or if they were just following orders. Wonder when history has seen such deprave conduct before.
mar 29, 2025, 6:11 pm • 1 1 • view
mar 28, 2025, 9:59 pm • 3 1 • view
🔥🔥🔥
mar 28, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
lol
mar 28, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Pure gold
mar 29, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
This opinion is quite entertaining to read
mar 28, 2025, 11:04 pm • 4 1 • view
Jesus.
mar 28, 2025, 10:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Making an abused wife testify to get charges dropped sounds very conservative to me. Conservative is just another word for abusive.
mar 29, 2025, 8:03 am • 5 1 • view
Berman Jackson is a name history will look upon as a hero for her intellect, bravery, and general bad-assedness
mar 29, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
mar 28, 2025, 10:01 pm • 28 1 • view
mar 28, 2025, 10:08 pm • 3 0 • view
🔥
mar 28, 2025, 10:22 pm • 2 0 • view
This is an excellent account of why judges should be requiring live testimony under oath, not just affidavits, much less relying on representations by DOJ counsel (who obviously know little of actual facts). Being able to observe demeanor is crucial.
mar 28, 2025, 10:27 pm • 60 6 • view
As weird and all as Muck is, I'll bet he is a closet transgender that is fighting to stay in his closet and try to project his masculinity. For someone supposedly so masculine is sure cries and whine worse that any child I have ever met. Think Musk is hiding deep secrets about his gender identity.
mar 29, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
How many of these lost lawsuits disallowing agencies to be closed does there need to be before SCOTUS can just step in and order the whole administration shut down?
mar 28, 2025, 9:41 pm • 8 2 • view
Why would they do that? Most of them support this administration.
mar 28, 2025, 10:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Another filing, another ‘alleged’ crime. At this point, his lawyers need a punch card. 🥊
mar 28, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
And will this matter *at all*? Will it accomplish *anything*? These people simply ignore the courts and steamroll what they want. They don’t understand words or laws. They will only understand violence.
mar 29, 2025, 2:23 am • 1 0 • view
im glad the judge is finally doing what they all should have been doing. what is concerning though is that even if the department is saved, it’ll be run by the same circus who called for it to be dissolved.
mar 28, 2025, 10:13 pm • 2 0 • view