The joys of ideological partisanship abound as “the courts” continue to serve the partisan needs of a faction within government that insists that the law of the land is that ‘Whatever Biden did, Trump can’t undo.’
Executive powers exercised by Biden’s Oval Office ceased the day Donald Trump was sworn back into office. This is especially true despite the swelling of facts and evidence suggesting the staff did most of what we credit to Joe himself. In other words, what Joe’s staffers do in his name, Trump can’t undo.
This is the Left’s definition of justice and Democracy. Just because you voted for something else doesn’t mean you can have it.
The most glaring example is the conveyor belt created to move millions of unvetted, undocumented, illegal alien immigrants into the interior of the country. The chief executive ignored the law and refused to execute it, this being a primary function of the office. Efforts to reverse this effect are met with injunctions, stays, and stop orders, as well as outrage that people who overwhelmed local towns, schools, and healthcare, while consuming every available resource, including those for actual citizens in need, must follow a process to be removed.
To that we can add all the crimes and hardship that followed, human and drug trafficking, missing children, those who died in transit, and the defense of all of that by the people who opened the border.
Nearly everything Joe’s staffers did in Joe’s name is now settled law, even if there is no law, and Trump cannot be permitted to reverse it.
I think that the Chief [Justice] took things too slowly and very early on, I think it was in February, he said, you know, let the system work. Let things work their way through the appellate system, and it’ll work out.
The problem with that is that Democrats are not interested, or at least the people challenging these programs and various actions are not really interested, in the ultimate outcome. They’re interested in eating up the first two years of Trump’s term before the midterms. They’re hoping they can get back the House.
So working through the system, when a district court judge interferes with the executive branch’s powers, and it takes 2, 4, 6, 8 months to get that undone by a higher court, that’s accomplishing what the Democrats want. They actually don’t care about the outcome. They care about freezing the administration.
A perfect example was that a couple of days ago, a district court judge in the Southern District of New York finally said, DOGE can have access to the Treasury Department payment systems, subject to conditions, subject to the people doing it getting certain trainings and certifications, as if that’s up to the district court. Since when our district court judges the experts on computer security, that they’re telling people what sort of certifications they need?
And on and on anon, Amen.
This is the playing field on which Trump and his counterrevolution must do or undo as much as can be done and undone in the time available. That’s four years, if he’s lucky; only two, if America lets him down in the midterms by pretending they did their job in November 2024.
The not-so-tasty reality sandwich is that this can’t all get done in four years, even if we have the right majority in Congress. President Wilson, sorry, President Mrs. Wilson did irreparable damage over just a few years. FDR had 12 years and did a lot more. Trump won’t have more than four unless he is followed by a MAGA candidate who keeps that momentum rolling.
In the end, whoever follows Trump needs to ensure that the powers offloaded to the Executive by Congress are returned to it, and that the culture of undeclared wars and changes made by executive order fiat will no longer prevail.
Where judicial activism is met with umbrage and the occasional impeachment of a judge or two.
I know, this is akin to asking Senators to support a repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment. And while I wouldn’t expect that anytime soon (ever, actually), we need to make as much of a difference as possible, and we’ll need to keep voting for it until we get it.
That could take a while, and that means everyone has to show up, every election, large and small, for the next ten to twelve years at a minimum.
