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Victor Davis Hanson says, "Ostensibly, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance won an overwhelming victory, and you can define that in a variety of ways. Not just a plurality, but I think it would be called a referendum on America."
"After all," he says, "they were the first ticket on the Republican side to have won the popular vote in 20 years. They won an overwhelming majority in the Electoral College. They retain control of the House of Representatives. They won the Senate. There’s a 6-3, supposedly, conservative majority on the Supreme Court. They won all of the swing states."
Davis says, "So, they came into office with this momentum from the American people that was expressed through a national election. And yet, they are now stymied."
Robert Knight says the judges want to be kings.
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Hanson says, "Almost all of their initiatives are facing two types of opposition. The first is, in a pre-planned way, liberal organizations, lavishly funded by what they themselves might want to call oligarchs, have funded massive lawsuits against the Trump administration, stopping executive orders."
"Remember, this idea that executive orders were a rapid and effective way for a president to rule didn’t come from Donald Trump. It came from former President Barack Obama. He recalibrated the use of executive orders when he lost the majority in Congress and he said, 'I have a pen and I have a phone. And I’m gonna act accordingly. '” And he did so.
But what we’re seeing now is that these liberal organizations are targeting left-wing judges.
A quick look at some of the judges.
- Judge Ana Reyes in Washington—who was described as a Biden appointee, as the first Latina, LGBTQ—she just ruled to stop the Pentagon’s new policy, not having or forbidding transgendered people in combat units.
- Judge Jesse Furman, another lower district judge, he just put out a stay not too long ago rescinding the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil.
- And Judge James Boasberg stopped the deportation of this very dangerous Tren de Aragua gang of South American criminals who came here illegally.
Hanson says, "You remember Judge Arthur Engoron, Judge Juan Merchan, and Judge Lewis Kaplan—he was the judge in the E. Jean Carroll case. And we had the Alvin Bragg judge and the Letitia James. They were all—like these judges, they had two things in common: They were left-wing activist judges, appointed by either former President Joe Biden, Obama, or former President Bill Clinton. And they had minor to major conflicts of interest where people in their family were big, either had worked for a prior Democratic administration or themselves were activists."
And what did they do? They tried to put Donald Trump in jail.
Matt Vespa, at Townhall says, "The judges that Trump is battling are all the activist type: insane, post-constitutional, and way too big for their britches. James Boasberg is trying to direct all federal immigration policy. Another blocked the president’s ban on transgenders in the military, while another blocked a recent hire because this person previously worked at the Department of Government Efficiency."
He continues, "These little judges don’t have this power and shouldn’t be permitted to issue nationwide injunctions, especially since these posts have become nakedly political. A district judge has no say regarding who gets deported, nor do they have the power to tell the commander-in-chief how to run the military. These are powers not delegated to them. By this logic, these little judges think that troop deployments, airstrikes, and other military operations should run through them because that’s how liberals think."
"Trump is facing a judicial insurrection, and he’s behaving in a way that’s too nice for my liking. I’d ignore the rulings and impeach the judges," Vespa says. "These are unlawful orders, but he’s using the appeals process, banking on the Supreme Court to rein in these rogue clowns in black robes. The problem there is that Chief Justice John Roberts opened his dumb mouth, saying that impeachment shouldn’t be used in response to unfavorable rulings. John, know your role and shut your hole—until the Supremes are involved; stay hidden."
Robert Knight, a columnist and best-selling author, says these judges want to be kings.
American Family says, "Two of Mr. Trump’s most popular executive orders – banning transgenders from military service and denying federal funds to hospitals that subject minors to chemical or surgical sexual mutilation – were put on hold by federal judges."
Likewise, federal judges have temporarily blocked Mr. Trump’s orders ending birthright citizenship and firing federal employees who run diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.
One judge ordered payment of much of the $2 billion in grants that Mr. Trump froze on Jan. 20 from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Another judge put a hold on Mr. Trump’s suspension of certain refugee programs that are part of his strikingly successful border security effort.
Democrats charge that anything Mr. Trump does constitutes a “constitutional crisis.” But the real crisis is allowing any of more than 677 unelected district judges around the country to cancel the policies of a nationally elected president.
Knight tells American Family, "[These judges are] issuing sweeping injunctions [and] they shouldn't have the power to do this. We're talking about district judges – the lowest rung on the federal judiciary. These are Obama-appointed judges or Biden-appointed judges, some [by Bill] Clinton; and they're giving the Democrats what they want, which was to stop President Trump's agenda in its tracks."
Do these judges actually think they can prevail over the US President?
Victor Davis Hanson says, "Will this succeed? I don’t think so. I think the district courts will over—the appellate courts will overturn it, if not, then the Supreme Court. But they know that. The point is, they want to delay, delay, delay."
"Donald Trump is already a lame-duck president. He only has four years left. And he has got less than two years before the midterm elections. Their plan is to drag all of these executive orders, which are backed by a vote of the people who elected Donald Trump, is to drag them through the courts and stop him. Create a sense of chaos. Make the Republicans, in general, and Donald Trump, in particular, overreact. And then, cause chaos, controversy, constitutional crisis. And eat up these precious four years."
"As of now, it’s succeeding, but time will tell," he concludes.
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