On Monday, the Trump administration struck back at the legal-industrial complex’s war against MAGA. President Donald Trump’s Justice Department filed an emergency request asking the Supreme Court to take a stand on the “epidemic” of national injunctions that leftist district court judges are using to halt the Trump agenda.
Trump’s lawyers said on Monday that only the Supreme Court can stop this “power grab.”
The success of Trump’s presidency could hinge on whether the court will come down hard on this cozy collusion between anti-Trump litigants and injunction-happy judges.
In Monday’s emergency application, Trump’s Solicitor General Sarah Harris challenged a San Francisco district court judge’s injunction preventing federal offices in all 50 states, including Agriculture, Defense, Treasury, and Commerce, from downsizing. In February, as the downsizing began, government unions and nonprofits sued in the Northern District of California, notorious for its leftist bias. They were immediately rewarded for their court shopping.
A sympathetic judge, William Alsup, commanded that the Trump administration hire back all 16,000 terminated provisional employees and indicated he would micromanage each reinstatement. Never mind that the public had just elected a president who promised smaller, more affordable government.
While Harris’s emergency appeal was landing at the Supreme Court on Monday, down the street at the U.S. Court of Appeals, leftist judicial militancy was on full display.
Appeals Court Judge Patricia Millett was excoriating the president’s deportation of suspected Tren De Aragua gang members using the Alien Enemies Act.
At issue was a nationwide injunction imposed by a district court judge – James Boasberg, halting the president’s deportations. The act empowers the president to arrest, detain, and deport noncitizens the president believes pose a risk to the nation during war, invasion, or any enemy incursion. That includes mass invasions across the southern border.
Trump’s lawyers went to the Court of Appeals to ask that Boasberg’s injunction be lifted, calling it an “unprecedented and enormous intrusion” on the commander in chief’s authority.
Millett shut her ears to that constitutional issue and insisted instead on advocating for the 250-plus gang members already deported to an El Salvadoran prison. “There were plane loads of people. There were no procedures in place to notify people,” Millett said, chastising Trump’s lawyers. “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than has happened here.”
Sorry, Judge. Cry me a river.
As Trump border czar Tom Homan said, Tren de Aragua is “a designated terrorist organization.” Homan slammed a reporter, reiterating the judge’s sob story about the deportees. “Talk to Laken Riley’s family.
What due process did she have?”
Truth is, the Alien Enemies Act does not require any regulations like Millett suggested. The president’s discretion is “as unlimited as the legislature could make it,” a federal court ruled in Lockington v. Smith. When the act was challenged during World War II in Ludecke v. Watkins, the Supreme Court ruled again that some statutes “preclude judicial review.”
Millett tried to weasel around these precedents, claiming she was questioning not the law but only the president’s implementation of it. It’s a distinction with no difference. No court has ever struck down the implementation of the Alien Enemies Act, per the left-leaning Brennan Center for Justice. The law does not guarantee individualized hearings before deportation, or a burden of proof government must satisfy.
At Monday’s hearing, Millett showed herself to be a left-wing firebrand. But another judge on the three-member panel, Justin Walker, nailed the American Civil Liberties Union lawyers representing the deportees, asking why they didn’t bring a habeas corpus action in Texas, where the deportation flights originated. In response, the ACLU offered only double-talk because the truth is, they went court shopping.
Now we wait. The three-judge panel has yet to rule on whether to lift Boasberg’s nationwide injunction. Until then, deportation of Tren de Aragua using the Alien Enemies Act is on hold.
Even more critical is the Supreme Court’s response to Trump’s emergency petition. Dozens of federal judges are blocking policies – from downsizing government to ending DEI and evicting gangs – that voters chose when they elected Trump. Four justices are on the record expressing concern about national injunctions. It’s time to act.
As the lefties are always claiming – but this time it’s true – democracy is at stake.
Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt. Governor of New York State and cofounder of Save Our City at saveourcityny.org. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey.
COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of AMAC or AMAC Action.
This is beyond outrageous. While Biden and his so-called “Justice Department” blatantly violated the Constitutional rights of hundreds and hundreds of American citizens who were arrested and incarcerated – many without ever being charged with anything – for simply exercising their Constitutional right of protest on January 6, 2021, here are Democrat judges protecting and defending violent, illegal, foreign invaders, many of whom are members of a designated terrorist group. Does anyone else see something wrong with this picture?
Look at the private club that both Federal District Court Judge Boasberg and Chief Justice John Roberts both belong to. Maybe that will explain why Roberts has kept the Supreme Court on the sidelines, while these blatant examples of lawfare go unchallenged week after week by the Supreme Court. Just a thought.
This crap makes me so mad. How is that garbage legal? Since when do Federal judges RUN THE GOVERNMENT?
These a-hole judges, attorney generals, politicians, and other cretinous jerks like George Soros, are all knowingly trying to usurp and prohibit our duly elected POTUS from doing his job. This is blatant SEDITION and these people need to start being charged and arrested for their BS. Some of this behavior could even be considered TREASON as they are aiding and abetting criminals who could be considered invaders due to their illegal entry into our Country and their numbers.
Sedition refers to conduct, including speech, that incites rebellion or insurrection against a government, often involving the subversion of the constitution or the incitement of discontent toward established authority.
18 U.S. Code §2384. Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
This law criminalizes conspiring to overthrow, put down, or destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof.
Treason is defined as the crime of betraying one’s country by attempting to overthrow the government or by supporting its enemies. Punishment for treason is death or imprisonment.
18 U.S. Code §2381. Treason – Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason
Penalties for treason as outlined in this section:
Death
Imprisonment: for not less than five years
Fines: under the title, but not less than $10,000
Incapacity to hold any office: under the United States
Why aren’t these criminal judges tried for sedition and or treason? If they were appointed by obamma they are 200% guilty. Obamma was put in to set up the Deep State crooked DOJ, etc and appoint Puppet left wing judges. Then the plan was for biden to take over to finish killing the U.S. in 2017 but biden was busy going senile and couldn’t be ready to be the puppet they needed so they said he was in mourning for his dead son. When that didn’t work and Trump got in they became vicious. They rushed in to ‘save their day’ with a biological weapon they had at the ready to use on political foes. Covid did the job…it allowed them to hide biden in his basement and not campaigning and it forced the election to be mostly by mail so they could easily win by fraud.
Gee you’d think the huge “MS13” or “TDA” tattoos they sport would be enough “due process” for these nims.
Just read an article about Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court election for a new judge to replace a retiring one. The article dealt with their political affiliation, monies raised and recent rulings with ‘weak on crime’ or a ‘strong conservative’, and a few names of wealthy donors (some out-of-state). So it seems media has contributed to judges’ being more political in their case judgments.
Either they are judges or political agitators in which case they have no business judging anything unless we have the justice Chinese style ,where all is for the people with the people in the name of people, to hell with the people.
When ANY judge over-steps his jurisdiction or authority, breaks ANY law in handing down injunctions, or violates the Constitution, THEY SHOULD BE IGNORED and PUT ON NOTICE with the warning ‘Do it again and you will be impeached”, imagine if this happened, these corrupt, bias judges would get a wake call to curb their bias BULL$HIT.
These outlaw leftist judges are trying to usurp Presidents Trump’s constitutional authority and need to be impeached! I pray they are removed from their positions, disbarred, and never allowed to have a government job of any kind evermore.
Down with commies everywhere!
How long does it take for SCOTUS to rule on the obvious? We lose there we lose the country!
When is Congress going to start impeachments against these “ judges”, aka leftist advocates???
Sorry Betsy, but democracy is not at stake. Our Constitutional Republic is.
May God help all leftist people with wisdom and patriotism, because we couldn’t ask for worse enemies to do us harm than what these people are already doing to us all. Even in CA we are experiencing “home invasions” from illegals already, and homeowners are brutalized, raped and even murdered, yet Democrats want them here? who is the BOSS of these Judges?
Scrap Fed District court system
Restructure FDC.
I don’t see where illegal immigrants have the same rights as U.S. citizens. They should be deported as soon as they are caught.
Can’t judges be recalled? As I understand it, the judicial system is to weigh impartially, cars bright to them. Not actively go after an opposing party of their personal choices. Where is the check and balance here?. It feels like tit-for-tat politics
The democrats with the bribed judges by Soros and other billionaires are running this country. Under Biden for sure. The man couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag. And for four full years they propped him up and the courts ruled. And it continues. Their is no Justice. Their is no constitution in the dem world. And it continues today. When are the reps going to stand up and call them out for what they are doing. It’s theonly way we can avoid becoming a communist country.
Not so sure we can count on the Supreme Court to uphold our Constitution. Lately Roberts did not stay true to the Constitution. Seems as if this nation is further gone than some of us thought. It is frightening to see all of these Marxist judges coming out of the woodwork. The Marxists may not be in the White House now, but they seem to have the power to block everything President Trump attempts. I fear a real civil war is on the horizon unless somehow, someway the Marxists-appointed “judges” get put in their places.
If these treasonous people would get their just punishment, we could pay off a great deal of debt that they put us in with the fines that they would be charged to pay and prison or even death sentences to curb future crimes
Start the civil war now, its clear the demoncrats have these evil judges in place to undo the President and the majority of Americans. If the Supreme Court does not stop ALL, I mean ALL, of these radical judges then its time the American people that voted for Trump take drastic action against these judges and the demoncrats entirely. ITS ALL OUT WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i just destroyed a bible because it contains so many lies
the maga christian nationalists and their religious leaders lie more than anybody else on the planet
magats have always been hypocrites and have always believed in do as i say and not as i do and that’s what trump believes too
magats religion is trumpism even though most claim it’s christianity
you magats essentially aren’t even human, you’re more like machines who blindly follow trump and care about trump more than your own children and grandchildren
how maga responds to trump
trump tells people to wear a green shirt after waking up
all maga puts on a green shirt and if they don’t have one run out to the store to try and buy a green shirt, there are fights in stores over the last green shirt
trump tells people to eat breakfast at mcdonalds
all maga get in lines to eat at mcdonalds, some miles long whether or not they like the food
trump tells people to go to the grocery store and buy peanut butter
all maga floods grocery stores and they sell out of peanut butter, there are fights for the last jars
trump tells people to give him half their money
all maga sends trump half their money whether or not they can afford it
there are 50 million magats who blindly follow trump no matter what he says, they almost all claim to be christian but trust trump more than jesus, but their favorite thing in the world is harming democrats
I just started 3 weeks ago this web income system that my friend recommended to me and I’ve gotten 2 checks for a total of $9,200… this is the best decision I made in a long time! This extra cash has changed my life in so many ways, thank you!
Here is I started_______ Rebrand.ly/homejobs20