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Dems and their media have been shouting about a “constitutional crisis” for two weeks now. If you believe Rep. Jared Huffman, it’s even the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War.
But the actual constitutional crisis is once again proving to be a judicial coup.
Democrat federal judges have blocked lawful moves by the Trump administration under various technical pretexts with the aim of upending legal presidential authority. We’ve already seen this during Trump’s first term, so it comes as no real surprise, but it’s even more aggressive out of the gate with leftist activists and leftist federal judges moving rapidly to try and block nearly anything that the Trump administration does.
This isn’t just limited to broader national policies, like NIH funding caps, but the management of the federal government, including removing political appointees and reassigning federal employees, offering them buyouts, pausing the appropriations process and ending relationships with contractors.
All of these are under the purview of the executive branch until federal judges decided to step in.
Whatever one conceives of the role of the federal judiciary, it is not wielding executive authority. And that is what federal judges are effectively doing by vetoing a broad range of publicly supported policies on the thinnest of pretexts.
There is no way to make meaningful reforms without challenging judicial review or more properly judicial supremacism, but nonetheless it’s clear that the crisis is approaching sooner than anyone expected.
The judicial coup returns us to the fundamental question of who runs the government: elected or unelected officials, by way of the question of what powers the judiciary has and what powers it does not have.
“There is no way to make meaningful reforms without challenging judicial supremacism.”
That’s for sure and it’s long overdue, even though Trump has only been President for 22 days, which is only three weeks. He needs to ignore illegal rulings by crooked judges who are Dirtbagocrat operatives and tell them to try and enforce their orders, then have AG Bondi go after them. If the AG wants to prosecute them, she has the legal authority to do so. The D-Bags will never vote to impeach their corrupt operatives but the AG can have the FBI arrest them and she can prosecute them. She has the authority.
The Constitution grants Congress to establish tribunals and courts inferior to the Superior Court and doesn’t prohibit a President from doing so but I doubt President Trump would ever try, much less accomplish it. It would be great if he were to establish a new court designed to prosecute political criminals with somebody like Mike Davis as the judge. He’s honest, he knows the Constitution forwards and backwards and he’s young, so he could serve for a long time.
But I’m just fantasizing, though. The D-Bags would never go for it. But AG Bondi can go after ANYBODY who breaks American law, and ALL those D-Bag operative judges have. Trump needs to stop wasting America’s time by challenging those scummy criminals through the court system, and go after them directly, but I have no confidence that he will. Too bad. It would end the lawfare immediately.
Why should I write my thoughts when you just did?
Excellent strategery, Jeff.
Well, tweaking the immortal words of Leftist hero Joseph Stalin, “How many divisions does the Judiciary have?” It is way past time that the Spectre of Marbury v. Madison be exorcised. I know Musk is pushing to have these hack-in-black Hawaiian Judges de-frocked and kicked off the bench but it presupposes the political will of the GOP to lead the way to impeach them, and since the GOP sadly is also part of the problem my guess is this is a non-starter sadly.
What Trump should do is merely drawing a line in the and and declare the Judiciary completely out of order in usurping Executive Branch constitutional authority.
Also, at some point down the road, there ultimately will be another Democrat President the likes of which will make Obama look positively Reaganesque and they will either be successful packing the courts with hordes of Ruth Bader-Meinhoffs and other wise Latinas and/or removing Clarence Thomases at will on trumped-up charges. Or otherwise bastardizing Trump’s decision to nullify a rogue Judiciary and ignore legitimate rulings (if they every occur again with a likely non-originialist bench).
I think we are truly at a major tipping point in the life of the Republic, as it is or perhaps as we wished it still was but is for sure no longer.
Trump is trying to restore something that perhaps cannot be restored, not with the ideologies and political sides as they are constituted.
Yes, we are at major tipping point in the life of the Republic. The Leftist in power are not just going to roll over and say “oh well we lose this one to Trump better luck next time.” The establishment is not going to tolerate a 2nd Trump Presidency. If one thinks the antics of the past 8 years was over the top, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
The rats are scurrying not knowing what to do for their end is nye.
As long as the judiciary reigns supreme, as it does, the country will not recover. Something BIG will have to give….Democrats will not give up power voluntarily. It’s what we’re watching unfold.
True, but Americans don’t seem to care about D-Bags performing for the Mintrue Media cameras. Their daily media addresses have all been failures and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. They’ve even been locked out of federal buildings like the defunct USAID and the Department of Indoctrination…..uh, I mean Education? I haven’t seen Maxine “James Brown” Waters, Jamie Asskin, the Squat or any of the usual suspects try to storm federal buildings of agencies being trimmed or axed since they got the boot from Linda McMahon’s Department of education. None of the usual Minitrue Media sniping is having any affect on the public. Only no-name nobodies who seek attention like that black racist from the House who blustered about a “street fight” have made an appearance since last Friday or so.
America is sick and tired of the warped agendas of “woke” hate mongers.
Yeah, America is deep shit, that’s for sure and it all comes from Dirtbagocrat and RINO asses. Most of it plops from the D-Bags, of course. The RINOs are like little dogs who come after the big ones and add to the steaming pile.
Congress has the authority to abolish lowered courts and most of them should be abolished, but the D-Bags would never vote to get rid of their judicial strongholds, of course.
John Marshall and Andrew Jackson had this out almost 200 years ago. It will happen again today. Andy won. The judges LOVE personal power like most other people. After all they were at best mediocrities in high school otherwise they would not be political lawyers.
Let us keep in mind that all of these communist death democrat fanatical judges were placed in their positions with the willing help of all the Republican Senators who voted to confirm these evil persons.
Amy Berman Jackson ordered the twerp keep his job without even looking at the arguments presented. She’s a dictator, pure and simple and has placed herself in personnel management of the Executive branch.
It can’t be that this gets settled one whiny, entitled bureaucrat at a time in front of a megalomanical jimminy cricket judge then to a higher court. That will bring a halt to this election having any consequences. It will be one more nail in the idea of government by the people. What is the sweeping solution?
The consensus of comments are all common sense and blatantly apparent – the demonKKKrats are trying to hold onto their wild partying lifestyle when that’s not what they were elected to do.
It’s time for CONgrASS to go to work and become the Constitutional Congress as laid out in our living Constitution.
Their gravy train is being cut off. After President Trump 47 they will not be forming fake groups to get taxpayer money to put in their off shore numbered accounts.
Political Grifting will be a thing of the past.
There will never be a shortage of ego maniacs that tell themselves they can lead and direct the true will of the people, They just won’t become multimillionaires in the process, and this is what they are crying about – this is not a Constitutional Crises this is a crises of money laundering grifting.
Yes their fear of exposure is palpable and the rage it causes is on display. Who do they think they’re fooling? Not the public, that’s for sure. They’re just playing for the cheap seats. The largely apathetic public is started to realize the truth about the rampant corruption of government agencies and the extent of their payouts to the Dirtbagocrat Party.
Just do what the demoRATS always do……. ignore the judges and do what you want anyway…..
Yes, Alzheimer Joe is on video stating his intention to do just that, and so are plenty of D-Bags in Congress.
The fate of these executive orders will be decided by judicial review. The standard applied to judicial review is not always the same, and this will likely be addressed by the SCOTUS.
One standard is the “reasonableness” standard requiring evidentiary support. Later, the “rational basis” standard was applied to uphold New Deal economic regulations similar to others that had previously been struck down under the “reasonableness” standard. Rational basis review did not require the evidentiary support or the Reasonableness standard, but was upheld if any “rational basis” could be imagined without evidence – the brainchild of the progressives of that time.
An excellent and concise explanation of these concepts is explained here:
https://www.fjc.gov/history/administration/judicial-review-executive-orders
Progressives may have hoisted their own petards as more and more discretion has been given to Executive Orders.
The Big Crisis created by the Demo-Rats and their Bottom Feeding Partners in crime the M.S. Media
Frustrating beyond what I thought possible. As Scott Jennings said last night , any one of a mere 300 Federal Circuit courts judges cannot be allowed to halt the entire Executive Branch who oversees these agencies or 77 million voters. Having said that, if these delays are short in nature until a judge can hear arguments from both sides , then Trump should play this out in the conventional way. A few weeks at most is survivable. But if, as I suspect, these Federal Judges have other motives, then it may indeed be time for a “Constitutional Crisis.” It seems astounding to me that with all 3 branches of government reasonably pushing in one direction , along with the will of the electorate that change can be thwarted this easily. While I dont look forward to us having to fight this battle , it is quickly appearing inevitable.
I used to think judges were appointed because of their legal knowledge. Now I think they are mostly appointed for political reasons.
Q – What do you say to a lawyer with an IQ of 75?
A – “Hello, your honor.”
Just ignore them, as DementiaJoe ignored SCOTUS in re: Student loans.
How many divisions does the inferior federal court have?
All fed courts below SCOTUS are creatures of Congress – so terminate them; we own congress….
Alzheimer Joe went on TV and sneered that he would ignore the SCROTUS and he and his handlers did, with impunity. Naturally, the D-Bags supported that whole heatedly.
Only Congress has the constitutional power to abolish lower courts, though. Too bad for Americans who oppose government corruption.