The credibility of our judges, justices, and courts has taken a severe beating in the last 9 years. That beating has been almost entirely self-inflicted.
Nearly a decade of anti-democracy rulings, and other actions, by the only completely unelected branch of government has led to disgust at what appears to be automatic and reflexive support of any anti-Trump legal filings, regardless of lack of legal merit.
Jonathan Turley slammed a federal judge for blocking a buyout offer to federal workers, arguing President Trump's order is "perfectly within the wheelhouse of the president."
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The strategy of finding friendly federal judges willing to instantly accept requests to order Trump to stop carrying out his mandate has backfired.
Less than a year ago, President Biden bragged that the Supreme Court could not stop his cancellation of student loan debt. Democrats cheered. The same Democrats cannot now credibly lament Trump doing the same.
These obscure federal judges are shocked that they cannot force the POTUS to spend money on woke vanity projects. They should have thought this through before issuing restraining orders on the head of a co-equal, and very recently elected, branch of government.
No one defends the transgender opera in Peru or other such nonsense. No one cites the specific law that Trump allegedly violated by defunding those absurdities. Instead, lower courts invoked the “because I say so” doctrine and it has blown up in their faces.