Since President Donald J. Trump’s most recent inauguration, rogue and activist federal district court judges have undermined his initiatives to implement the Will of the American People. District court judges’ duties properly entail handling local disputes; they should not have, and were never contemplated to have, broad authority to issue universal injunctions impacting the entire nation. Similarly, these local judges should not have, and were never contemplated to have, the power to subvert the will of the American People. Yet, for the last five months, these judges have done exactly that, throwing the Will of the People, as well as any care for the separation of powers, to the wind.
The United States Supreme Court impeded this shameless march toward judicial tyranny today, holding by a 6-3 majority in the birthright citizenship case Trump v. CASA that, under the Judiciary Act of 1789, federal courts do not have authority to issue universal injunctions and thus bind parties across the entire country; this power far exceeds the authority that Congress conferred on federal courts. In short, the Supreme Court held that the balance of powers between three coequal branches must be preserved and that rogue, activist, provincial judges are not coequal with the President of the United States.
Writing for the majority, Justice Amy Coney Barrett harshly rebuked leftists’ incessant desire to weaponize the judiciary and subvert the Will of the People. She refused even to “dwell on Justice [Ketanji Brown] Jackson’s argument” in the dissent, which she found to be “at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself,” adding that Justice Jackson “decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”
Apart from Justice Jackson, Justice Sotomayor also spewed her share of melodrama, along with a threat. Writing in dissent, Justice Sotomayor warned that, “[n]o right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship.” It is unsurprising that the same people who want to crush the Will of the American People and discard the Constitution will turn to issuing threats against the First and Second Amendments when their tyrannical program is halted. Abysmal winners are often even more abysmal losers.
The New York Young Republican Club endorses today’s decision as a first step toward restoring proper Constitutional government in the United States. Much to the dismay of Justices Jackson and Sotomayor, as well as all of the other Article III would-be dictators, this is not an empire of hundreds of fiefdoms, each controlled by a little tyrant wearing a polyester robe. This is the United States of America. Here, the People rule through their duly elected President.
We are proud to have President Donald J. Trump at our nation’s helm.