No, the DOGE revolution is not in danger.
Efforts to cut wasteful spending and downsize government will not be stopped by a gaggle of obscure district court judges in blue jurisdictions who have signed ridiculous temporary orders purporting to limit President Trump’s ability to be president.
This from townhall.com.
Do not listen to the black pill battalion. The Trump-Vance team will not lose this fight. They are going to win it—BIG time. Listen to the vice president—J.D. Vance has gotten a lot of heat because he pointed out this is a legal farce. And as usual, he is right.
[T]o the extent there is a constitutional crisis—which there isn’t—it was brought on by uppity jurists hoping to distract the administration from its mission by embroiling it in a separation of powers fight. Except that’s not going to happen.
There are a few things non-lawyers need to understand. The first is that this nonsense will not stand.
There are many reasons why, but the most important reason is that these emergency temporary restraining orders (and the injunctions that will likely follow) are legally meritless.
Once a serious court gets a look at them, “they will end up on the ash heap of judicial history.”
The next thing to understand is that after this fight, Donald Trump will be more secure in his ability to be president than he has ever been.
This kind of nationwide injunction will go extinct like the dinosaurs, passenger pigeons, and alternative pronouns in government correspondence.
Why? The most obvious reason is the orders are legally ridiculous, but another key reason is that Chief Justice John Roberts is fully aware of the danger to his institution this phenomenon poses.
These orders are crazy. They are from a venue where a Leftist lawyer has identified a handpicked sympathetic judge who does not care about the law.
NOTE: Emergency temporary restraining orders are few and far between, and honest judges are reluctant to grant them. There is a long list of things required to be shown just to get a regular restraining order. Among those showings is “irreparable harm.”
In one order, the anti-Trump plaintiffs claimed that the ‘irreparable harm’ was that they weren’t going to be able to read a government website about some DEI nonsense and, therefore, their patients were going to die. That’s simply crazy. Yet, the judge nodded and signed.
Another requirement is “standing.”
You must have suffered or be about to suffer an injury that would allow you to sue. Many of the suing groups cannot show any kind of individualized injury. [And] the judges don’t even care.
Nor do they care about the consequences of their usurpations of executive power.
Please understand the things you see happening with Trump and his administration never happen in non-Trump court cases. Not ever.
So, the question is, how should Trump react to these affronts upon his intelligence?
Exactly how he has been—by playing it smart and playing the long game that will achieve victory over the enemy’s battle plan, which will enable him to solidify his position for the future.
The President’s ongoing tactic requires the patience to use the legal process to work this through. The Trump-Vance team is not going to fix this; they are going to let Chief Justice John Roberts get his own house in order. This will take time. And, yes, there will be great annoyance for the President and for We the People. But the President will be successful, and he and our beloved country will be much better off when this battle is complete. The Supreme Court will hear a case and make a decision that will bring a stop to the ridiculous temporary orders once and for all.
God speed to the Trump-Vance team.
