President Trump was elected and entered office with some specific mandates from the electorate. There were issues the American people were fed up with, as evidenced by the electoral margins, including, immigration and it's associated criminal fallout and societal decay, not to mention out and out lawlessness, the excesses and fraud and waste in the federal government, the blatant abuse of 'lawfare' to punish one's political adversaries, corruption at the federal level (Hunter Biden's laptop, and presidential pardons...), and the bad policies that led to a bad economy, i.e. inflation. There were more, plenty more.
Trump takes office and within hours, literally, he begins to take action. Of course, the president lacks the power to 'make' laws, only Congress has the power to do that. The closest he can come is executive orders. As the southerners' phrase goes, "Katy bar the door, here they come." 125 so far, in about 90 days.
Trump campaigned on restoring common sense to government. This resonated with voters, with good reason. He brought Elon Musk in as director of government efficiency, tasked with rooting out programs, agencies, directives, systems, and practices that involved outright corruption, fraud, waste and lacked true productive purpose in government. Theoretically, and practically sensible on all levels. Obviously, the fallout was programs would end and agencies would cease to exist, meaning benefits would cease and jobs would be lost. Illegal aliens, especially those engaged in criminal activity would be prosecuted and/or deported.
All this is happening and not at the lackadaisical, lethargic, beaureacratic rate that we are used to seeing. Progressive ideologies have been offended and with the Democratic Party currently operating in a leaderless vacuum, democrats were faced with the question they haven't faced in four years, 'how do we stop Trump?' Republicans now control the executive and legislative branches of government, so what's left? The courts, of course.
In spite of attempting to destroy and discredit Trump through nefarious lawfare before he was elected, unsuccessfully, and lacking other viable options, they decided to try again. Democrats and progressives are a persistent, if ignorant lot. It didn't take them long to figure out our sometimes fallible court systems and its Swiss-cheese-like procedures. In short order, we have federal district judges issuing injunctions delaying and even halting executive actions. Almost exclusively, these injunctions were being ordered by liberal, activist judges issuing orders and injunctions as if their jurisdictions included the entire nation. Which they don't. Courts are for parties that have suffered identifiable, non-speculative injuries and damages directly caused by a defendant and are addressable by a judge. Such is not the circumstances of these cases being brought before the federal district courts attempting to stop Trump's executive actions. These judges are in effect making policy by nullifying the policy choices of the elected administration. They are not settling the rights of the parties to a lawsuit, they are enacting law on the nation, far beyond their jurisdiction for as long as the injunction lasts.
The judicial branch, all of it, is tasked with saying and interpreting what the law is. They cannot write it or enforce it. They do not have the authority to make policy, that prerogative is given to the political branches accountable to the people whose lives are affected. The courts role is to settle the rights of the parties involved and nothing more.
The constitutional authority in this ignorance/blindness to separation of power is Congress. For unknown reasons, Congress has been unassertive, even silent so far. Illegal criminal aliens are being deported, allegedly without due process, taxes are being imposed (tariffs) that have and continue to demonstrably damage the American economy and so far the Big Cahuna (Congress) is yet to utter a word. The solution to these issues we face doesn't lie with the person we elected to the office of the President. He has rules he must follow. When he fails to do that there is one government body he must answer to. But they must insist that he do so. Mr. Speaker, what say you?...
#tariffs #constitutionalcrisis #federaldistrictcourts #lawfare #DOGE
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