Y’know, folks, the President and Congress are hating life with all these judges blocking what they are trying to do. Well, if they’d done it correctly in the first place, they wouldn’t be having these problems now, would they? Ha, doing things right definitely does not apply to the Mango Mandarin. And Congress is sticking its nose in. They feel the judges are usurping their authority. Well, folks, if you had been behaving like you *should, again, you wouldn’t have these problems! Personally, I’m *loving* this!
So, how about some names and actions? From Yahoo News:
Judge James Boasberg for blocking the use of the Alien Enemies Act. We know about him. He’s made the biggest amount of noise and news. tRump wants to impeach him, and Rep Brandon Gill of Texas filed articles of impeachment shortly after Agent Orange screamed about it.
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer limited DOGE’s access to sensitive Treasury data, and I’m glad! That’s some touchy information in there and if they screw it up…..
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ordered the government to pay out $2 billion for foreign aid work already completed. This should be a no-brainer!
District Judge Ana Reyes blocked the administration’s ban on trans service members. In response to that ruling, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth questioned whether Reyes was a real judge and instructed her to report to a military base for duty. Sorry, Pete, my boy, you have no authority over her.
U.S. District Judge John McConnell blocked tRump’s administration’s sweeping federal-spending freeze. Rep. Andrew Clyde, of Georgia, announced that he had also introduced articles of impeachment against him.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang blocked Elon Musk and DOGE from further dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development and restored email access for current USAID employees. Didn’t think that could happen, right, boys? Ha. found that, among other things, the closure of USAID—an agency established and funded by Congress—violated the separation of powers. Hilariously, the basis Rep Andrew Ogles offered for impeaching Chuang was that the judge had—you guessed it—engaged in his own “patent violation of the separation of powers.” Enforcing the Constitution is now itself unconstitutional. I’m sure you’re glad to know that.
Congress has voted to impeach judges only 15 times in its history, and there’s no real chance these efforts will pass. Musk is using the impeachment cosplay as a litmus test for which primaries he will fund. Last week, he donated the maximum allowable campaign contributions to seven Republican members of Congress working to impeach judges. So even if this is just a fundraising stunt, it’s certainly rewarding the craziest of the crazy. Musk has NO business trying to impeach *anyone*.
Republicans are also taking legislative aim at nationwide injunctions, including a proposal from Rep. Darrell Issa, of California, that would limit the power of any district court judge to issue injunctions with sweeping national implications.
And finally, not to be outdone with his members’ attacks on individual jurists, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson raised the possibility of defunding or eliminating U.S. federal district courts altogether, telling assembled reporters on Tuesday: “We do have authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can—we can eliminate an entire district court. We have the power of funding over the courts and all these other things. But, um, desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.” Yer grasping at straws, there, Mikey. And it is yet another bitter irony that, after howlingly condemning Democratic consideration of court reform under Biden, Republicans are now floating the idea of shutting down altogether the courts that might rule against Trump.
So, here we have the judges following the law, and Congress being pissy because judges are following the law, when Congress should have already stepped in. There’s no power to usurp something when you’re not doing your JOB. Don’t we have such a fun country?
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When judges keep stopping you from enacting your “mandate,” perhaps you need another mandate. Or maybe you didn’t have one at all. A mandate derived from an electoral college win means no more to me than used toilet paper; that election usurping institution should have been in mothballs long ago! This is the party that has touted itself as pro-law and order on many occasions, but from the looks of it, they don’t understand or much like the law, just the giving orders part.