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Federal judges crave the spotlight: In case after case, judges ruled to stymie the executive branch for one main reason.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the great injunction sweepstakes that have followed Donald Trump\u2019s second administration like a shadow, we have seen district court judges with a hankering for executive power attempt to play president in more than a hundred cases from immigration and tariffs to funding various executive branch agencies, so-called trans-rights, DEI and climate change.<\/p>\n

Some of these injunctions and temporary restraining orders are still pending. Many, perhaps most, have been resolved by the Supreme Court in ways that favor the Trump administration, not always categorically but usually by affirming the broad scope of executive power envisioned by Article II of the Constitution. \u201cThe executive Power,\u201d quoth that magisterial document, \u201cshall be vested in a president of the United States of America.\u201d \u201cA president,\u201d mind you, a single one. Not a president and hundreds of\u00a0district<\/a>\u00a0court judges.<\/p>\n

The rousing start to Article II of the Constitution is neatly put, isn\u2019t it? But those judges took it as a challenge. Trump is an affront to what every right-thinking, i.e., left-leaning, person believes. He wants to make America more prosperous, freer and more secure than it has become in the hands of Democrats and other disciples of hegemonic bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

He moved quickly to secure the border.\u00a0 Can you believe it? He is deporting scads of people who are here illegally. Outrageous. He outlawed the racist practice of DEI throughout the federal government and made federal funds contingent upon ending the scam. Horrible. He thinks that the military should be an institution specializing in fighting wars, not promoting \u201csocial justice.\u201d Clearly he must be stopped.<\/p>\n

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Like many pro-Trump commentators, I have weighed in early and often on this legal-political charade. It is a legal charade because what we have witnessed since Trump took office again in January 2025 has been a mind-boggling misuse and hypertrophy of judicial power. Whoever would have thought that a lowly district court judge (there are some 700 of them) would successfully arrogate to himself the authority to tell the President what executive agencies he should pay for and which he should close?<\/p>\n

It is a political charade, or worse, because what we are witnessing is the triumph of partisan passions\u00a0uber alles<\/em>. In case after case, judges ruled to stymie the executive branch for one main reason: because it is overseen by President Trump.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, until recently, most of the cases brought had a certain weight or specific gravity. It matters, after all, whether the border is sealed, whether DEI is allowed to trump merit, whether criminal aliens are allowed to roam the streets, whether fantasies of a climate emergency are allowed to choke off the robust exploitation of our national energy resources. In many instances, the matters at hand are important. It\u2019s just that judges think that they, having correct (i.e., politically correct) beliefs, are therefore empowered to decide how public policy should proceed. It is they who decide what happens, not this strange bumpkin from Queens who somehow bamboozled the voting public into shoehorning him into the White House.<\/p>\n

Clearly, there is a lot of injunction envy going around official judicial circles these days, especially in the deep blue redoubts that specialize in that species of hubristic bullying. Is there a faster way to get your name and your mug plastered across the news sites? That, anyway, would seem to explain Dabney L. Friedrich, a district court judge for Washington, DC. I try to wheel out Karl Marx\u2019s one certified amusing mot at least once a year. It is time. In\u00a0The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon<\/em>\u00a0(1852), Marx cites Hegel\u2019s observation that great figures and events tend to occur twice. He forgot to add, says Marx, that they appear first as tragedy, then as farce.<\/p>\n

It matters whether we have a secure southern border. It is important that the Department of Government Efficiency be allowed to help curb spending and thereby make a dent in our unsustainable federal debt (currently an eye-watering$37 trillion). But how about power washing, repointing and painting the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the sprawling excrescence just west of the White House? Mark Twain called the 1888 structure the \u201cugliest building in America.\u201d Eisenhower didn\u2019t much like the eponymous building either. But it is home to some 1,500 federal worker bees, including the Vice-President.<\/p>\n

The complex, looming building, designed by Alfred B. Mullett in a sort of super-sized Second Empire style, sits like a giant gray toad next to the White House. On November 12, Trump told Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham that he wanted to spruce up the grimy behemoth and paint it white (no, not gold, as some were saying).<\/p>\n

Not so fast, said Judge Friedrich. The preservationist lobby prompted her to enjoin the administration from doing anything in the way of architectural ablutions at least until the end of the year. The administration agreed. But the headlines have been hilarious. \u201cFederal Judge Dabney L. Friedrich has now ordered Trump not to power wash the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh dear. What will they think to prohibit next? \u201cFederal Judge Makeme A. Offer prohibits Trump from playing golf.\u201d \u201cFederal Judge Whack A. Mole orders Trump never to use gold leaf again.\u201d The Entertainment Committee, as Bill Buckley liked to say, never sleeps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Federal judges crave the spotlight: In case after case, judges ruled to stymie the executive branch for one main reason. In the great injunction sweepstakes that have followed Donald Trump\u2019s second administration like a shadow, we have seen district court judges with a hankering for executive power attempt to play president in more than a … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-tyrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113655,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113654\/revisions\/113655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}