If you ever doubted that Washington’s corrupt cartel of Democratic law firms, judges, NGOs, and deep-state bureaucrats is a machine designed to thwart the Trump administration, just watch as judge after judge blocks the president’s ability to keep his campaign promises.
It may not be brown paper bags changing hands, but this lawfare that defies the people’s will is every bit as corrupt.
It will be up to the Supreme Court to define the limits of presidential authority, but Chief Justice John Roberts’ preemptive scolding of Trump for musing about judicial impeachment doesn’t bode well for the president.
Trump won a resounding mandate in the November election, winning every swing state, the popular vote and both houses of Congress.
Democrats are rudderless, fighting each other and incapable of mounting an effective opposition.
So they are depending on the federal courts to be the “last bulwark against Trump,” as the New York Times puts it, celebrating the fact that almost 600 federal judges in courtrooms from Rhode Island to Seattle can issue emergency rulings to “stop the White House in its tracks.”
Politico has dubbed it the “court case presidency,” noting approvingly that “the courts have provided the only real opposition to Trump 2.0 so far.”
And so they have.
According to Attorney General Pam Bondi, judges issued more than 14 injunctions against Trump administration actions in February alone, with 160 “resistance” lawsuits winding their way through the system.
For example, we had Judge James Boasberg, an appointee of President Barack Obama, blocking the deportation of illegal alien criminals deemed a national security threat.
Judge Theodore Chuang, another Obama appointee, blocked DOGE’s dismantling of USAID, which turned out to be a slush fund for shady Democratic projects rather than a foreign aid agency, and ordered a stop to the freeze on $2 billion being sent out of the country.
Judge Ana Reyes — an appointee of President Joe Biden — blocked Trump’s executive order banning transgender individuals from military service.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt weighed in at her press conference Wednesday, pointing out that “67% of all of the injunctions in this century have come against … President Donald Trump … and 92% of those have been from Democrat-appointed judges. This is a clear concerted effort by leftists who don’t like this president and who are trying to oppose or slow down his agenda.”
The judge who has most angered Trump is Boasberg, chief judge of the notoriously left-leaning Washington, DC, District Court, who convened an emergency hearing Saturday to block the deportation of 251 dangerous illegal alien criminals, going so far as ordering that the planes be turned around in midair.
Midair disaster attempt
Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 Saturday to deport two planeloads of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, who he declared are “perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion … and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States … at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.”
The planes landed in El Salvador, which is being paid $6 million to detain the deportees for a year, as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on Biden’s disastrous illegal migration project.
“One unelected federal judge [is] trying to control foreign policy,” Bondi railed Wednesday.
Full op-ed over at The New York Post:
Miranda Devine: Trump is fighting a cartel of vile, corrupt and far-left judges trying to kill his campaign promises https://t.co/aYRFg37C72 pic.twitter.com/BJHiPnNArw
— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) March 20, 2025
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