Where Were These Guardians of Justice During the Biden Administration?

Since the very beginning of his term as President, Donald Trump has been hit with a lot of TROs, injunctions, and other legal procedures blocking his measures to undo many of the things Biden did. And a lot of the things Biden did are why Kamala Harris got a severe beat down in general, not to mention her own incompetence in particular. But the results of the last election demonstrated pretty clearly that most voters did not care for DEI, FBI/Legal overreach, and perhaps most of all, the invasion of illegal aliens enabled, abetted, and encouraged by federally crafted negligence on our southern border. We didn't like that, so we voted in someone who promised to restore the latter and eradicate the former. The progressives did not like that, so after coming out of shock, they began doing the same stuff that they did with Trump before the election: lawfare. And even though those things didn't entirely work out so well for them, they seem to be big believers in persistence. If, at first, you don't succeed...

Everyone knows about Judge Boasberg and Judge Reyes, who blocked Trump's deportation measures against terrorist gang members and the prohibition of transgenders in the military. Last week, Trump called for the impeachment of Boasberg and was rebuked (at least indirectly) by SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts for doing so. Checks and balances, I get it. Then you have U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman attempting to block the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a Middle Eastern guest who has no inherent right to be here except at the pleasure of the federal government. As a foreign national who actively supports terrorism on college campuses, his proselytization diametrically conflicts with the outlook of said government, and now he is a cause célèbre of the American left. Move over, Luigi Mangione. So, to date, there are some 30 at least, maybe more, injunctions against Trump's EOs and orders. More likely to follow. It's a lot more than have ever been issued against any other president in history.

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So okay, I understand that Trump is brash and bold, and while I am sure he runs these measures past Legal before he issues them, it's apparent that many of them are still...brash and bold. They're controversial, no question. But are they legal? I guess we will learn soon enough since the administration is currently going through the legal appellate process to find a remedy. This will take time, and no doubt will be slow-walked by a bureaucracy that hates Trump's guts. As for impeachment of judicial members, it will never happen unless Republicans get 2/3 of the majority in the Senate and hold a majority in the House two years from now. So, I don't know what the answer to the problem is, but I do have the following question about these federal judges who seem to have realized the power they have over an administration.

Where were these Guardians of Justice when Joe Biden illegally invited and lured in millions and millions of "new Americans and undocumented immigrants?" Where? Why nowhere, of course. These robes seemingly had very little to say about U.S. Code § 1325 (based on Article IV, Section IV of the Constitution) and its undeniable violation. A violation that has, and will continue to for decades, fundamentally changed the history of America. Letting in millions and millions of aliens, and then making the citizenry pay for their everything from schooling, health care, drunk driving deaths, rapes, murders, and any other crimes they committed while here has changed life for us all on many different levels.

Now, progs like to use descriptors from "hard-working, good people seeking a better life" to "who will pick our crops and make up our hotel beds?" (Note to any progressives in the unlikely event of reading this: The latter sounds an awful lot like "who will pick our cotton and sweep up around the Big House?") Basically, I don't care if they are good people; I only care if they are bad people because they should not be here in the first place. We have plenty of our own good people and really don't need any new bad ones.

Still, where were these judges when Biden (or whoever was pushing the knobs behind the curtain) was busy border-busting? This newfound sanctimony and sudden respect for the rule of law was absent over the last four years, and the impact it will have on this country is going to be generational. And I cannot help but wonder if any of them can be suspended for impropriety. The only reasoning I can follow is that they are either partisan or incompetent, and neither of these will present well before the Federal Judicial Conference, the policymaking body of the federal judiciary. According to the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980, a judge can be subject to complaint and reprimand for operating with a bias, mental incapacity, or otherwise unable to do his job fairly. And again, I think that if you're not going to enforce border law (when the issue is presented to you), it's either because you're partisan or incompetent. This panel cannot fire judges, but they can reprimand them and rule that they should voluntarily retire. All that might do is put a scratch on their legacy, but at least it does that. If these people are egomaniacs, maybe it will hurt some. Who knows. Perhaps a reason they will give when called into the principal's office is that "Well, President Biden never issued an EO or a directive that we could properly strike down. He never proclaimed verbally or in writing an order that effectively said, 'The border is now open to all foreign nationals; come on in.'"

No, he didn't. He just (and again, it was probably somebody else) covertly let the friendly bureaucracy know what his wishes were, went on speaking tours welcoming all of our new friends, and gave them food, lodging, and airfare. From that, all things flowed since the Left clearly understood that the Great Replacement Theory was to become their newest debutant. And, golly, what do you know? It was organic. It just sort of happened, and nobody, not even Biden, could stop it. Force of nature...

What I find really, really disturbing is that these judges who are now blocking what we voted for because of their hallowed respect for the law did not have enough of that same respect to question what they saw happening on the news and in front of their faces every day. They never considered issuing any sort of TRO or injunction against Homeland Security or Customs Border Protection. Customs Border Protection? Weren't those guys victims in all of this? Yes, but they had to get their orders from somewhere, and filing an injunction against them would have forced the government's hand. It might have at least revealed the next level of fraud. But nobody did that. And Biden? Doesn't the buck stop with him? If we can all agree that it did (and yes, I know he was non compos mentis, but a TRO or injunction would still have demanded a response), then where did all of this newfound judicial courage to challenge the White House come from? Well, I guess it came from hating Donald Trump. From institutional animosity comes amazing things.

So, what can the new administration learn from this? I suppose they can determine that new policy has to be implemented in the dark with a wink and a nod...."Just do it...You know what the Boss means." I guess they can also learn that eventually, when the Right relinquishes power, our own federal circuit judges have the exact same tools to use to block, obfuscate, and slow-walk a Democratic president's will. I'm not advocating that because it corrupts a system we all believe in, but on the other hand, progressives count on it to hamstring us. Trump, in his last term and nearly 80 years old, could also simply ignore these rulings and enforce his own orders anyway. Joe Biden defied a SCOTUS ruling and forgave $48 billion in student loan debt, and nothing happened to him/his administration. No federal judge — neither on the circuit nor the highest court there is — seemed to have anything to say about that. Well, why shouldn't Trump do the same thing and just ignore them?

Because as tempting as that might be, Trump has more integrity than that, and he knows it would help to wreck the system even more so than it already is. So he goes through the appellate process and tries to right the wrongs, relying on the same judiciary system that screwed him in the first place. I just hope there are still some good judges left in that pool.

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