Commentary
It’s that time again when I leaf through my stack of stuff, some old news but worthy of salvaging for my commentary, including those on lawsuits and rogue judges.
No president has faced more charges under the law than President Trump, in his first term, while campaigning for his return to office, and now in his second term.
I’ve often wondered about those brief exchanges between the president and those individuals along the path to the lectern for a speech before Congress. The accompanying photo of him with Chief Justice Roberts is one such moment.
Though a conservative, Roberts has disappointed me on occasion. While he didn’t call out Trump by name, he made it known that calling for an impeachment “is not an appropriate response” to a disagreement over a judicial decision.
Trump is right, and Roberts knows it. Trump was elected by a strong majority of Americans because they supported his plans to return America to greatness. If a lower-level judge can place an injunction on whatever the President of the United States has ordered, there is no need for an election.
The judge, who sought to interfere with the deportation of illegals, including Venezuelan gang members, is an activist who was judge shopped by those opposing Trump’s agenda.
It has since been made known to those of us who are not attorneys, a federal district judge has no authority to issue a universal injunction. Now, the mess in the lower courts needs to be straightened out, and it’s up to Roberts to get on with it and put the gavel down on them.
I was struck by the headline. “Trump’s Dangerous Disregard for the Courts,” over William A. Galson’s column in the Wall Street Journal until I read his admission to being “an old-fashioned liberal.”
Citing his belief in the checks and balances and the rule of law being protections for liberty and against tyranny, Galson criticized Trump, who believes” we have rogue judges that are destroying our country.”
Prior to Trump taking office, then Senate Majority leader Schumer took pride in pushing through Biden court nominees using numerous procedural votes and late-night sessions before Congress adjourned and the Republicans took over.
Included were 13 of those district court judges confirmed between Thanksgiving and late December.
In addition, I don’t recall Galson calling out Joe Biden, when he defied the Supreme Court in March last year as he cancelled $144 billion in student loans.
Had New Jersey’s Democrat Senator Booker hoped to move public opinion with his marathon speech on the Senate floor protesting Trump’s agenda, he failed. He claimed, “the threats to the American people and American democracy and even our aspirations as a people for, from our highest offices, a sense of common decency.”
In a Wall Street Journal article reporting on state attorneys general who are taking Trump to court on various orders, Minnesota’s radical attorney general Keith Ellison conceded that they “need to win in the court of public opinion.”
April Fool’s Recognition
While I didn’t publish yesterday, I didn’t fail to select my April Fool’s “honor.” It goes to all those fools who are protesting in opposition to Elon Musk, especially the guy holding the ridiculous sign reading, “Musk is Inept,” and another who was asked if he had checked out the DOGE findings transparently being posted on the Internet, who responded, “it’s not true.”
Incidentally, the “inept” Musk designed the Tesla with a Sentry Mode, exterior cameras to continuously record what’s happening around the car. It has been successful in catching vandals, even those keying the car while walking by.
May God continue to bless the United States of America
