President Trump is head of the executive branch of our government, but federal judges have arrogated to themselves the authority to control how the government spends money, whether the government can issue orders to government personnel, and even the content displayed on government websites.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Federal judges have claimed the White House cannot offer buyouts to federal employees, cannot fire political appointees from the previous administrations, cannot pause funding, cannot cut funds to government programs, cannot change formulas allocating government grants, and cannot remove transgender ideology from government websites put there by its predecessors.
Conversely, federal judges can control any and all of these things at their whim and will. And that means they control everything and that actual elected officials control nothing at all.
In the aftermath of a landslide election, government unions contend DOGE should not be able to access federal databases and that USAID and potentially other unwanted parts of the federal government cannot be restructured.
Federal judges have mostly agreed that the government ought to be run by judges for the benefit of government employees and that the people who elected Trump have no say in it.
After 60,000 federal employees accepted a proposed buyout, government unions sued arguing they have no right to receive or accept such a buyout. Another federal judge agreed. Still more federal judges contend the federal government had no right to pause appropriations to verify they were not in conflict with Trump’s executive orders.
These judicial coups were masterminded by federal judges unilaterally deciding Trump administration decisions with which they disagree lacked a basis. The lawsuit and decision forcing the restoration of transgender ideology content to HHS, CDC, and FDA websites argued the “removal decisions were ‘completely unreasoned’ and thus were not the product of reasoned decisionmaking.” The addition of such unscientific ideology to these websites in the first place however was surely “completely reasoned” and the product of “reasoned decisionmaking.”
Such things are in the eye of the beholder. The American people voted decisively against transgender ideology in the last election and even recent New York Times polls show a majority of those voting for Leftists now oppose transgender procedures being inflicted on minors. Thus, a federal judge insisting that business continue as usual on transgenderism is not just overruling Trump, he is overruling the American people. And that is the real purpose of the coup.
The ruling relied on the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) which has been one of the leading tools used by federal judges to substitute their own worldview for that of the legally elected president. And numerous lawsuits against the Trump administration have been filed under the APA, urging sympathetic federal judges to find Trump administration policies to be “arbitrary and capricious” based on their own dislike of them. But that is an abuse of the APA.
The APA had been meant to shift power away from unelected officials and to the people by means of judicial review, and instead the judges cut out the people and took power themselves. Federal judges are not following the law, but substituting their own values and judgement for those of the elected officials whom the public chose to implement common sense policies.
The Constitution divided the United States government into three branches, but those branches are more informally divided between elected officials who follow their gut instincts and the whims of the public in making policy and the judiciary which follows the law. Under the constitutional scheme, judges cannot both serve as the leaders who make policy and who check those leaders who make policy. That is not a judiciary, that is a tyranny.
If that sounds like mere rhetoric, it comes from the highest of all sources in American history.
Thomas Jefferson cautioned that judges:
[Have] the same passions for party, for power [and] their power is the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.
The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that, to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign with themselves.
Jefferson warned:
[T]o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [would be] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
The federal judges blocking President Trump’s decisions on spurious pretexts such as the APA are engaged in a judicial coup that Jefferson, Lincoln, and our greatest leaders had defied.
If President Trump follows in their footsteps, he will not be defying the law, rather standing up for the power of the people and the integrity of the Constitution.
God speed Mr. President.
