Trump rebuked at every turn; Courts and Congress show new spine as Americans take to the streets

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Rachel Maddow rounds up a litany of recent court losses Donald Trump has suffered, as even some Republicans in Congress are agreeing to block or otherwise mitigate the damage Trump's policies are inflicting on their constituents, all while Americans rally in protest of abuses and outright crimes committed by Trump's ICE agents.

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0:00.0	Thanks to you at home for joining us here this hour. I'm really happy to have you here. Now,
0:02.5	I'm not going to start here tonight where you think I might be starting. But just hear me out.
0:08.2	Stick with me. You will see where this is going in good time. All right, today amid just the
0:15.2	blitz of headlines on what has been a gigantic news day following a gigantic news week. You might not have noticed
0:23.4	the news today. You might not have seen the headline today that today a federal court blocked
0:28.5	the Trump administration from cutting energy funding just for blue states. This is billions of dollars
0:34.6	Congress appropriated for clean energy projects of various kinds all over the country.
0:39.3	Trump administration decided, and they admitted this.
0:42.3	They decided that just in blue states, just in states that didn't vote for Trump, they would cut all of that funding.
0:49.3	They'd leave the funding in place in states that voted for Trump.
0:52.3	They would cut it in states that
0:55.1	didn't vote for Trump. A federal court today ruled that that is illegal and stopped the Trump
1:01.3	administration from doing that. That ruling today came after another federal court today
1:07.0	stopped Trump from shutting down a big offshore wind farm in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
1:14.2	Trump's shutdown of that project, according to the courts today, was also illegal, and so yet
1:20.1	another federal court blocked Trump on that as well, so that work on the wind farm will be able
1:25.6	to go ahead.
1:27.1	Both of those rulings today follow last night, yet another federal court blocking Trump,
1:32.6	this time from cutting funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
1:37.5	This is a doctor's group, a pediatrician's group that criticized the flock of ducks-level insane quackery at Trump's Department of Health and Human
1:46.4	Services under RFK Jr. Trump responded by canceling federal grants for the American Academy
1:52.7	of Pediatrics. A judge has now ruled that that was illegal retaliation. And so Trump is blocked
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