Trump is working overtime to restore the rule of law

The Spectator ^ | 19 Mar 2025 | Roger Kimball

[Rummyfan]

Watching the excitable anti-Trump lilliputians of the media running around shouting that the President is “defying court orders” reminded me of More’s eloquent defense of the law.

Not, I hasten to add, because I believe Trump is acting as William Roper would have More act.

On the contrary, I believe that Trump is working overtime to restore the rule of law.

Restore it from what? Essentially from two things: first, Trump is acting to restore the law from the depredations of lawless, indeed un-constitutional, arrangements whereby the core powers of the presidency and of Congress are undermined by unaccountable bureaucrats.

Second, he is acting to rescue the executive powers of the presidency from the un-Constitutional interference of district court judges. It is the latter that has focused everyone’s attention these last weeks as various judges have issued orders to say that the President of the United States may not fire people who work for him, that he must spend money controlled by agencies of the executive branch, and that he may not deport certain illegal aliens. Here I remind my readers of the first sentence of Article II of the Constitution: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”

[Rummyfan]

[Rummyfan]

But remember that just a couple of weeks ago the Court decided, five (and thank you, John “finger-in-the-air” Roberts and your epigone, Amy Coney Barrett) to four, that Donald Trump had to disburse $2 billion in foreign-aid reimbursements. Associate Justice Samuel Alito responded with condign tartness: “Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars?” Alito wrote. “The answer to that question should be an emphatic ‘No,’ but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned.”

I am stunned too.

[McGavin999]

We all are stunned. I had to apologize to God for praying so hard for the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Unfortunately, he may have to break judicial penumbra laws to do it. Roe v Wade did more damage than just kill 70 million of our most innocent.

[Diogenesis]

JAG is working to restore the rule of Law.

https://realrawnews.com/2025/03/military-arrests-radical-leftist-judge-james-boasberg/

[nopardons]

BTTT

[AndyJackson]

How is he going to do that with an AWOL CJ and his TDS deranged squish sidekick?

[Vaduz]

The battle with the unaccountable bureaucrats is in his MAGA plan and he has the power of the people with him.

Corruption will be their undoing and they don’t know whos talking.

[The Duke]

If I were Trump I would be asking ... 'What part of "district" don't you understand?'

[bobbo666]

If such does not result in jail time, lots of it, this is all a show.

Heads on pikes, dammit! The criminals are stoopid. Stoopid only learns by example. If you are unwilling to teach get out of office — you are a sham.