Here we go again: the sun rises, another federal judge kneecaps the Trump agenda. In this latest ruling, issued Monday, a Bill Clinton-appointed jurist decided that Trump hasn’t explained himself enough and “failed to justify” his decision to put a halt to the wind project madness that has swept the country.
Sometimes I wish the president would just say, “I got 77 million votes, you didn’t — that’s my justification. Buzz off.” Of course, he can’t do that:
A federal judge on Monday ruled that President Donald Trump's administration had failed to justify its decision to suspend issuing leases and permits for new wind projects in keeping with the Republican president's wishes.
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in Boston sided with a group of 17 Democrat-led states and the District of Columbia in finding that agencies had failed to sufficiently explain why they had indefinitely paused all federal approvals of wind-energy projects.
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration had failed to justify its decision to suspend permitting of new wind projects in keeping with the Republican president's wishes.
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) December 9, 2025
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in Boston sided with a group of 17 Democratic-led states… pic.twitter.com/bljdVN6c0m
On Trump’s first day in office (January 20), he issued an executive order titled “Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects.” The name is pretty long-winded, but you get the idea: he’s not a fan of the ineffective, costly, environmentally harmful wind projects. (You might just be able to guess where I stand on them, too).
Apparently, though, Judge Saris knows better than the duly elected commander-in-chief. Saris:
“…the policy "constitutes a change of course from decades of agencies’ issuing (or denying) permits related to wind energy projects."
She said the agencies never provided a reasoned explanation for adopting the change.
"Indeed, the Agency Defendants candidly concede that the sole factor they considered in deciding to stop issuing permits was the President’s direction to do so," Saris wrote.
You know it’s a questionable decision when New York Attorney General Letitia James is a fan. The ruling is "a big victory in our fight to keep tackling the climate crisis," she crowed on social media.
We won our lawsuit and stopped the Trump administration from blocking an array of new wind energy projects.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) December 8, 2025
This is a big victory in our fight to keep tackling the climate crisis and protect one of our best sources of clean, reliable, and affordable energy.
As we have covered extensively at RedState, wind projects are not all that, and are actively harming the very environment which leftists are always shrieking about.
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It’s unclear if the Trump administration will appeal this ruling, but my guess is they’re not going to take it lying down. Wind is not the futuristic answer to our fuel needs that so many sell it as. The president is right to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
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