Posted on 01/15/2019 1:37:00 PM PST by detective
Sunday’s injunction against Trump-administration religious-freedom rules is nothing but judicial #Resistance.
It’s déjà vu all over again. A federal judge has blocked a lawful Trump-administration policy, essentially enshrining the Obama administration’s policy choices in social-justice granite. The practical result is a judicial equivalent of a one-way ratchet. The pattern is clear:
Step One: The Obama administration uses its executive power to implement a progressive policy (such as DACA or the contraceptive mandate).
Step Two: The Trump administration uses its executive power to repeal the Obama-administration action and implement a more conservative policy.
Step Three: Progressive plaintiffs file suit in a friendly jurisdiction using dubious legal theories to seek a broad injunction against the Trump-administration action.
Step Four: Progressive judges join the #Resistance, write obviously flawed opinions, and seek to freeze Obama’s policies in legal amber.
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Do judges get paid during the shutdown?????
Cases like these will be the ones RBG decides she’s too sick to participate, leaving it a 4-4, at best
Judges who act outside of US Congress, legislative law, much be put in prison. USA is so lost to even allow such behavior by a judge. Lost with apparently very little strength to fight for USConstitution.
She’s a lefty, so if she does sit them out, it would help President Trump.
Scrotus is as big of a problem as the lower courts. It’s way past time that PDJT step up to the plate and defend the Constitution and his office. Ignore these unconstitutional injunctions.
I agree with that too. What are they going to do about it?
Nothing. The press, dems, rinos and NeverTrumpers will go to defcon 1 with hysteria and calls for impeachment.
Who cares? There’s really no point in staying in office if you’re going to be paralyzed by the tyrannical courts or with the threat of impeachment.
It’s time to go all out of these traitorous SCUM.
Fast tracking to the Supreme Court is the best way to do that, IMHO. They almost always rule for him, and it’s 100% legal.
The solution is to have a Trump appointed judge issue a “ruling” countermanding what the Obama judge did.
I think that is the answer - 1 federal judge should not have the authority to block a supposedly co-equal branch of the government. Further the executive branch is elected.
That’s not the point. Trump doesn’t need a green or red light from the courts do the work of the executive under the Constitution.
If he does, we might as well let the courts run everything and skip these messy election thingies. The sad reality is that, at present, they are running everything. It’s called judicial tyranny.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863
The SC needs to rule on the ability of ANY federal court, other than itself, to overrule the executive branch. Until they do that, it’s not safe for Trump to just disregard the orders, no matter how much I’d like him to. The dems could use that to impeach him, and I wouldn’t trust the rinos to disagree with them. Not on this issue.
I wasn’t aware the Constitution gave SCROTUS the power to overrule the executive...
“a supposedly co-equal branch of the government.”
Which it’s not(judiciary being the weakest branch). Co-equal is a myth. Like separation of church and state.
What I'm about to suggest is laughable with the current House but It'd seem like Congress Needs to act to constrain such activity via legislation.
Anyhow all of this is pretending the constitution matters - when it seems in reality it doesn't
The solution is to have a Trump appointed judge issue a “ruling” countermanding what the Obama judge did.
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Well, we’d have a better chance of that happening if Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell would GET BUSY and fill the NUMEROUS FEDERAL JUDGESHIP VACANCIES.
We have a large number of ACTUAL federal judicial vacancies. IMHO our HIGHEST PRIORITY needs to be FILLING ALL JUDICIAL VACANCIES — EXISTING vacancies.
FOR THIS YEAR I’d like to see the Republican Senate and the President work so, by the end of the calendar year, we’ll be able to count the number of remaining judicial vacancies on one hand.
BOTH the Senate and President Trump need to get cracking to QUICKLY fill the MANY VACANCIES on US federal judgeships. There are over 140 vacancies of which around 70 had nominees pending in the last Congress. But there were around 70 for which Trump had not yet submitted nominees.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies
And there are other judgeships where near-future vacancies are known. These also need nominations in the pipeline.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/future-judicial-vacancies
I hope President Trump (and Lindsey Graham, the new Judiciary Committee Chairman) give this effort the URGENCY it needs.
TIME TO GET MOVING SENATOR GRAHAM!
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