🚨 What Good Is a Court Order If No One Has to Follow It?

They’re trying to change the law — by making it unenforceable. Veterans, civil rights advocates, disability attorneys, and public-interest litigators should be sounding the alarm on Section 70302.

Section 70302 in the budget bill could quietly gut civil rights enforcement — retroactively. Here’s what’s at stake.

They slipped it in quietly — a single line buried in the budget bill that could erase decades of civil rights enforcement with the stroke of a pen.

It’s called Section 70302, and it says that no court can enforce contempt penalties if the original injunction didn’t require a bond.

That might sound technical — but it’s a nuclear bomb for public-interest litigation.

Judges routinely waive bonds in civil rights, disability, housing, education, and prison reform cases. Without that waiver, the cost would lock out the very people those laws are supposed to protect.

Now imagine all those court orders… suddenly unenforceable.