Like WorldNetDaily, writers at Newsmax were unhappy that judges were doing their job and not letting President Trump run roughshod over the country and its citizens. Newsmax articles touted various whining from the Trump administration about judges who committed the offense of standing in Trump’s way. For instance:
- Trump: Judge Merchan ‘Should Be Disbarred’
- Musk Calls for Impeachment of ‘Corrupt’ Judge in Treasury Ruling
- Trump Slams Judges Blocking His Orders
- Elon Musk Pushes for ‘Wave of Judicial Impeachments’
Josh Hammer grumbled in a Feb. 14 column (also published at WorldNetDaily):
In his frenetic opening weeks, President Donald Trump has channeled the spirit of The Federalist No. 70, in which Alexander Hamilton argued that only a unitary executive can govern with “decision, activity, secrecy, and despatch.”
In starker, more modern terms, this newer Trumpian era has fully embraced two key principles associated with close MAGA allies: Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone” and Elon Musk’s “move fast and break things.”
[…]Accordingly, left-wing lower-court judges have, over the past few weeks, already issued many such nationwide injunctions against the new Trump administration’s executive orders.
The reemergence of the judicial “resistance” reached a fever pitch this week, when Judge Paul Engelmayer in New York City attempted to stop Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department payment systems, and Judge John J. McConnell Jr. in Rhode Island threatened Trump administration officials with criminal contempt. Those rulings followed Vice President JD Vance’s post on X last Sunday that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”
Barr and Vance were both correct to call out judicial overreach against executive authority.
As Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas explained in his 2018 concurring opinion in the “travel ban” case of Trump v. Hawaii, American courts’ authority has historically been understood as “fundamentall(y) the power to render judgments in individual cases.”
[…]The Republican-led Congress could also join in on the anti-judicial “resistance” fun by meting out both large and small punishments to the judges who are now interfering with executive authority with their dubious nationwide injunctions.
Congress could file articles of impeachment against wayward judges, dissolve entire lower-court judgeships, or strip lower-court judges of jurisdiction over certain types of cases — or even pettily demand that jurists pay out of their own pockets if they want their robes dry cleaned. Congress has nearly limitless tools at its disposal to rein in an overweening judiciary — tools it ought to use more often.
The judicial resistance may think it is acting nobly, but it is acting unconstitutionally — and setting itself up for utter humiliation.
James Hirsen raged in a March 21 column that any judge who rules against Trump should be impeached, focusing on one in particular:
In a recent blatantly illegal ruling, an Obama-appointed federal judge interfered with the legitimate powers of the president.
In his ruling, District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration not to deport a group of Venezuelan nationals who pose a danger to our country.
In an apparent attempt to thwart President Donald Trump’s agenda, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit seeking judicial intervention in halting the removal of terrorist gang members from the United States.
Within a few hours of the filing, Judge Boasberg issued a ruling complying with the left’s request. He granted a motion for injunction which sought to prevent the administration’s implementation of the president’s proclamation for a 14-day time period.
In a further overreach, the judge ordered an aircraft that was en route to deport the illegal immigrants to return back to the U.S.
[…]Congress is the branch that has within its power the ability to impeach federal judges who abuse their authority. It has done so in the past.
To this end, Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, indicated in a post on X that he will be filing the necessary paperwork to impeach Judge Boasberg.
Elon Musk reposted the tweet and wrote that the impeachment is “necessary.”
In this writer’s legal opinion, if ever there were a case in which a judge was deserving of impeachment, this is it.
Unfortunately, activist judges have increasingly been intruding upon executive authority.
Judge Boasberg’s ruling is one of the most egregious examples of the violation of the fundamental constitutional principle of separation of powers — that crucial system of checks and balances between the three branches of the federal government.
Judge Boasberg, you’ve earned it.
And for the good of the country, hopefully you will soon own it.
Seems like a threat. Hirsen did not explain why Trump must be held above the law.