Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway used her opportunity as the new media journalist in Thursday’s White House press briefing to question whether the Trump administration plans to take any action to stop an ongoing effort by lower courts to impede President Donald Trump’s agenda.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt greeted Hemingway by describing The Federalist as providing “fearless journalism and coverage of politics and culture to millions of readers all over the world.” Her response to Hemingway’s question about whether the White House planned to rein in the “rogue lower court judges” keeping President Donald Trump from executing his presidential goals, however, was evasive. more
this is where I take some exception with the president and his administration. his strategy right out of the gate has seemed to be to issue wave after wave of executive orders that will challenge the courts. Then he screams foul when the court challenges him back.
But then when it comes to areas where he clearly has executive privilege, such as funding Ukraine and Israel, he acts as if he is helpless and can only act as some type of negotiator or mediator.
I am proud to support Trump when he makes the right call, but I will also call him out when he is playing games.
Perhaps I’m being overly optimistic, but it may be that Team Trump doesn’t want to show their hand too early, giving their opponents time to develop countermeasures.
I’d really like to see legislative efforts to slap down these rogue judges, but about that I’m definitely not optimistic.
And I won’t even start on the craven SCOTUS.
does anybody have the nerve to reveal all the names, corruption and rot in DC? My faith/expectations in this bunch is waning due to the never ending excuses. Trump needs to be much more assertive and I am afraid he is getting filtered information about many things.
The “courts” are clearly out of order. He needs to slam the bastards. Cuff’em and perp walk the treasonous bastards. Start with Roberts and you will see the rest of them become American patriots in an instant.
Let them shoot their wad, then respond and settle it once for all. There’s no need for the Trump Admin to telegraph their response, strategy or tactics, until the judiciary are all dangling in the wind of their own volition. These ‘judges’ want this administration to fight each action piecemeal; the strategy is to tie the administration up in court with consecutive actions. They want to run out the clock on DJT. It is more efficient and effective to slap them all down at once. It will require the SC to do so, and like Uncle Al stated, they can’t be counted on to do the right (lawful) thing. It may come to a point that President Trump, like President Jackson before him, will just have to ignore them and proceed.
President Trump is probably getting all these Leftists lined up in a row like “Fruits and Vegetables” on a long table, then take his “Gallagher Sledge – O – Matic” to pulverize them all over the World Stage to the point they can’t find all the pieces to regroup and stop all these Leftist Blocks and Injunctions once and for all.
Jason, keep in mind that in both Trump’s first administration and in the current administration, the courts would not let Trump write, enforce or delete previous executive orders. At the same time, they allowed other presidents to write and delete executive orders. The courts are clearly using unauthorized authority to keep the money flowing out of the taxpayers pockets and into those who support some other form of government instead of a constitutional republic.
As noted by the others, the EOs that are clearly constitutional are being stopped by politicized judges. This does look like a push to have the legislature and the Supreme Court put the brakes on lower court decision impeading lawful actions in the executive branch.
Dave,
In Trump’s first term he signed 220 EOs and 72 were revoked; some by courts but mostly by Joe Biden. In his second term so far he has signed 152 EOs and 25 have been challenged/blocked by the courts, 3 of which are by the SCOTUS.
I don’t think that is an overwhelmingly unfair challenge rate for a President, especially one who is targeting, by choice, civil rights cases. His team should expect challenges and they should have their ducks in a row, not whine to the press, who is more and more friendly btw, about checks and balances “not being fair”. I voted for a fighter, not a big baby who is gonna cry and insult everyone who questioins his choices.
And like I said, are the courts blocking him from doing the right thing in foreign affairs? No. But he seems bent on keeping the wars going by funding Ukraine and Israel. That’s on him.
Here’s some good news:
Sotomayor and Jackson hardest hit.
There more than enough blame to be mustered out, but the courts have clearly over stepped their leash.