Ousted From Power By Voters, Dems Turn To Activist Judges To Defy Trump

The Federalist ^ | February 11, 2025 | John Daniel Davidson

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What’s happening right now is that Democrats, having been thrown out of power by American voters in a landslide victory for Trump, have decided they’re going to deploy a widely-used tactic from Trump’s first term to thwart the president’s agenda: use the federal judiciary. Under the false pretext that the lower federal courts are part of a “coequal branch of government” with the executive, they’re aiming to shut down Trump’s reform efforts with a fusillade of preliminary injunctions.

In recent days dozens of lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration by Democrat attorneys general and various left-wing groups. These groups have carefully selected their venues, ensuring the lawsuits come before rabidly anti-Trump activist judges. So far, the tactic seems to be working. As of this past weekend, eight different rulings from the federal bench have temporarily halted the president’s executive orders.

Federal judges in Democrat-majority districts have issued preliminary injunctions blocking Trump’s executive actions to end birthright citizenship, reform and downsize the United States Agency for International Development, and offer buyouts to federal bureaucrats. A federal judge this past weekend blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and all other political appointees in the Trump administration — including the Treasury secretary and his deputies — from accessing payment data at the Treasury Department.

One judge even issued a restraining order halting a Trump order that would have ensured federal inmates are housed according to biological sex, not transgender identity, and also would have prevented tax dollars from being used to pay for “gender transitions” for federal inmates. (Another judge, appointed by Obama, took the extraordinary step of ordering the administration to pay back every cent of federal funding that’s been paused...

[napscoordinator]

Where are the 250 judges trump appointed? Why don’t they get chosen?

[napscoordinator]

And how many has the senate confirmed so far this term? Biden got 40 or so done in December. Republicans can’t get any done in four weeks?

[kiryandil]

#JudgeWatch

[Yogafist]

Since we no longer have a justice system, red state AG’s should make this a complete clown show. Texas is very much in line with what Trump has done, and Paxton should be filing lawsuits over every one of these “decisions.” I have read he is investigating a couple schools in the Dallas area who are hiding their transvestite athletes.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Jaysin]

Ummm, trump hasn’t nominated any judges yet.

[Dennis M.]

Now it our turn to play the impeach game.

[chuckee]

A solution to Democrats forum shopping single politicized district court judges for injunctions against their political opposition is to require an app for TRO against the government or fed legislation be heard by 5 district judges nationally chosen by blind pool. Such legal arguments can be made in one zoom presentation to the 5 judges. That would stymie forum shopping and we would see less apps for TROs if the Dem legal, operatives could not stack the deck with one of their judges

[OpusatFR]

Boy oh boy. The left can’t see the woods for the trees.

They are being outrun, outflanked and flailing all over without actually seeing what is there.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article E. Pluribus Unum.

"Warren: "Only Congress -- not Donald Trump, not Elon Musk, not some 22-year-old programmers..."

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I cannot believe that post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Warren said that.

• "Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time [emphasis added]."

• “3. The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters [all emphases added]; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction [spin] and no excuse for interpolation or addition.” —United States v. Sprague, 1931.

[Dr. Franklin]

Where are the 250 judges trump appointed? Why don’t they get chosen?

It's called forum shopping. The lawyer finds a court that is likely to have a favorable judge, or maybe the court administrator is corrupt and will assign a favorable judge to the case. This is all highly political. These Rat judges essentially bought their judgeships with large donations to the Rats. Now they are obstructing Trump and MAGA with as much lawfare as they can muster. Ultimately, Congress needs to actually pass some laws to stop this.

[Parley Baer]

“Ummm, trump hasn’t nominated any judges yet.”

He did in his first term along with a couple of Supreme Court judges.

[Eli Kopter]

It won’t work for very long. Did you ever see the movie “The Blob”, with Steve McQueen? It rolls up, eating everything in sight, without emotion, until it consumes the whole world. Trump is the Blob to the Administrative Bureaucracy world, and he will destroy it. One Department at a time.

[zeestephen]

Re: "Democrats, having been thrown out of power by American voters in a landslide victory for Trump..."

Sorry, that is delusional.

Kamala Harris lost the election by 230,000 votes, spread across WI, MI, and PA.

[RightOnTheBorder]

The thing about activist judges is they are all leftists. That means they are all corrupt, all you have to do is look. Deep dive into their finances, and their spouses, and their children.

[napscoordinator]

Well he needs to. He needs to beat Biden at the historic number he got. The most of any president in the first term in history. And we are seeing the results and it sucks!

[lewislynn]

Winning all battleground states as well as the popular vote is considered a landslide.

Since YOU say it isn't, what is your exact definition?

Show your work.

[zeestephen]

Re: "Show your work."

LOL - you are not going to like it!

If Kamala had chosen popular PA Governor Josh Shapiro as her Vice President...

And, if Kamala had made a highly focused effort to pull votes away from RFK and the Green Party in WI, MI, PA...

Kamala would be in the White House as you read this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

Kamala wins WI - if she flips 1.0% of Trump voters.

Kamala wins MI - if she flips 1.4% of Trump voters.

Kamala wins PA - if she flips 1.7% of Trump voters.

2024 Election - Kamala Electoral Votes...

226 + 10 (WI) + 15 (MI) + 19 (PA) = 270

270 Electoral Votes = President Kamala Harris

Welcome to the Real World, lewislynn!

[ViLaLuz]

Impeach every Soros judge.