Newsmax continued to be unhappy that judges won’t let President Trump to do anything he wants (or anyone else for that matter). Michael Dorstewitz groused in an April 4 column:
Members of the judiciary have lately become activists — they’ve gone beyond their traditional roles of interpreting the law and applying it to a given set of facts.
Judges are now re-writing the law, to say whatever they want it to say.
Although the federal judiciary has been the biggest culprit, this week an Illinois judge all but ignored a federal statute in order to find one of America’s most respected armorers liable for injuries inflicted by a third person.
Dorstewitz complained that the “armorer” in question — gun maker Smith & Wesson — was being sued for marking guns to teenagers following a massacre:
Former President Joe Biden has often railed against the PLCAA, claiming that it gives gunmakers unprecedented total immunity from prosecution.
Gun manufacturers are “the only industry in America that is exempted from being sued by the public,” he claimed on Feb. 3, 2022. “The only one.”
However, gunmakers can be sued under product liability laws for any injury sustained due to a defect in the design or manufacture of their products — just like any other company.
[…]Judicial overreach has been an issue lately within the federal court system, where U.S. district court judges have enjoined President Trump from implementing his own policies nationwide.
In effect, these local judges are setting their own national policy.
[…]If these federal judges disagree with the president’s policy decisions, they should probably run for president and promote their own policy ideas.
Michael Reagan wrote an April 22 column headlined “Trump Leads Nation with Facts, Judges by Injunctions,” but he didn’t complain about judges except for an end-of-column reference to “the 670 federal district judges who evidently really run this country.” Much of the rest was spent rehashing claims about what Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, allegedly found, such as dubious claims about Social Security fraud.
Reagan’s May 17 column references judges only in the headline; the column itself is a tirade against federal employees who telework and Trump’s efforts to end such arrangements, with Reagan smearing federal employees as “invertebrates.” He also baselessly attacked the Bureau of Labor Statistics as “number-skewers,” adding that “there is a not negligible chance the BLS is gourmet-sauteing the numbers once again to make the federal employees as a whole look better.”