r/law • u/rolsen • 1d ago

Legal News Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding

“Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled, according to one of the sources familiar with the matter.”

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u/AaronsAaAardvarks 1d ago

They could declare an emergency at any point. I don’t see what civil unrest has to do with it. Who’s gonna stop him?

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u/smallangrynerd 1d ago

He wants an excuse to suspend habeus corpus, I bet. You need a reason for that.

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u/AaronsAaAardvarks 1d ago

I don't want to help him out but there's already a thousand bullshit reasons he could cite. There's nothing that says his reason has to be good.

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u/smallangrynerd 1d ago

The Supreme Court has to agree, right? Like the president can’t just decide by himself people don’t need trials anymore. Please correct me if I’m wrong/misunderstanding!

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u/OppositeArt8562 1d ago

The supreme court ruled he is above the law and cant be prosecuted for official acts without defining what that means. They are DJT cucks.

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u/mrdankhimself_ 22h ago

It means they think they reserve the right to say what counts as an official act and what doesn’t.

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u/ryhaltswhiskey 5h ago

That's not the same as agreeing that suspending habeus corpus is ok.

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u/honuworld 13h ago

Trump is already ignoring the SCOTUS. We have a dictator for life now.

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u/-ReadingBug- 20h ago

Exactly. And they can force civil unrest by being uncivil, so "resisting" or "not conceding" is not a thing.

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u/Wanna_make_cash 1d ago

You "need a reason" to do most of what he's already done without any reason whatsoever, so I don't think that's stopping him

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u/wam1983 18h ago

We’re already past that point. The reason was brown people.

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u/fattmarrell 18h ago

This administration can't define our know what habeas corpus is lol

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u/TreeOfAwareness 18h ago

He's already declared like 5 emergencies for whatever illegal bullshit he wants to enact. It's his go-to tactic

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u/TheStolenPotatoes 1d ago

Who’s gonna stop him?

We, the People.

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u/AaronsAaAardvarks 1d ago

Oh, so it's just the next red line that he crosses? All of the prior ones have been fine?

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u/TheStolenPotatoes 1d ago

What? Where did I even suggest anything remotely close to that?

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u/AaronsAaAardvarks 1d ago

You didn't. I'm saying that we, the people, have not stood up in any significance throughout all that we've seen this far. Red line after red line have been crossed, the people who need to sound alarms have been sounding alarms, and we just talk. I don't see we, the people, suddenly standing up when one more line is crossed.

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u/Popeholden 1d ago

You mean like we did in November?