Posted on 05/05/2025 9:40:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Thursday, April 24, was a day like any other day – the sun came up, the sun went down, and Donald Trump was hit with at least three nationwide injunctions by federal district court judges.
That’s just the way it goes if you are a president who wants to take back America from the entrenched left-wing bureaucracy and restore common sense to government before it is too late.
The danger of the bureaucracy was predicted by Julien Benda in his 1927 book “The Treason of the Clerks,” which warned of the danger of the intellectual class adopting political passions that had previously been the sole domain of the masses. We see this most distinctly today in the federal bureaucracy, which I dare say has the greatest concentration of degree-holders from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia (and the like) of any sector in the nation, other than the incestuous universities themselves.
The treason that Benda described was the loss of independence of thought and dispassionate reason by intellectuals, and the accompanying subservience of intellect to political passions. During Trump’s first term, I wrote a column describing the danger that Benda had foreseen:
Benda wrote at the beginning of the age of mass communication, and yet he already saw that “political passions have attained a universality never before known. … Thanks to the progress of communication and, still more, to the group spirit, it is clear that the holders of the same political hatred now form a compact impassioned mass, every individual of which feels himself in touch with the infinite number of others, whereas a century ago such people were comparatively out of touch with each other and hated in a ‘scattered’ way” …
It seems that we are now living out Benda’s worst nightmare — an age of manipulation
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We should call it what it is, sedition.
We continue to allow the judiciary to define the limits of its own power. That is a mistake. Both Congress and the Executive branch should be all over this. Loudly and sternly.
And the ACLU should be in prison.
My take on this :
"Intellectuals" have always been collectivists since recorded history, wanting to control everything because , according to them, they are the only individuals intelligent enough to understand "today's unique challenges".
And they have always lived and worked in hermetically sealed idea bubbles, insulating themselves from anything challenging their views, such as reality, or history.
Congress, who established all federal courts except the Supreme Court, has an obligation to reign them in, by clearly defining limits on the courts’ authority or by dissolving them.
If Congress doesn’t act, these courts won’t stop at usurping the powers of the executive; they will continue (as they have already shown) to make laws by fiat, and render the Legislative branch moot.
They won’t be able to walk the street
The Judiciary powers are quite limited and well defined by Article IV , Section 4 of the Constitution. This is where the states are GUARANTEED a “Republican” form of government by the federal government. We the people were given ELECTIONS as the tool to implement our will and intentions. We elect people to legislate and then execute the will of the people. If We the people don’t like how any of it is being done, WE THE PEOPLE elect someone else. THIS is where the POWER exist, with We The People. Anything presuming otherwise is acting against the intent of the founders and their “guarantee” in Article IV, Section 4. This means that those we ELECT outrank lifetime appointed judges at ALL levels, including the Supreme Court.
Exactly
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