The left continues to use “lawfare” to oppose President Donald Trump’s and other normal people’s efforts to save America.
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The left continues to use “lawfare” to oppose President Donald Trump’s and other normal people’s efforts to save America.
Deep State groups continue filing suits in hopes of preventing Trump from cuttng the waste, corruption and bad decisions imposed on the nation by the Biden Administration, aka Obama Term II.
Conservative commentator Mark Levin surmises Chief Justice John Roberts, who spoke out against Trump’s proposal to impeach federal judges who attempt to usurp the authority of the elected leader, is attempting to pick a fight with Trump, edging the country to a constitutional crisis.
Levin said President Trump called for the impeachment of rogue judges like Obama-appointed activist James Boasberg after Boasberg and his cabal of leftist judicial tyrants began issuing orders naming themselves the Secretary of State, Defense, and Homeland Security among others so they could not just block President Trump’s agenda but order him to carry out Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ policies.
Roberts didn’t respond by marshalling the Supreme Court to issue a ruling ending the lawless practice of local judges issuing nationwide injunctions.
Instead, Roberts took Trump to task for standing up for the Constitution and defending America from what amounted to a judicial monarchy.
Although the well-oiled Democrat machine leftists have filed dozens of suits and shopped left-wing judges to assure getting decisions they want, Bradley Devlin, politics editor of The Daily Signal, publication of the Heritage Foundation, points out that Trump continues to rack up important legal victories despite the Left’s efforts. He writes: More than 130 cases have been filed against the Trump administration since Trump’s return to office just two months ago. With the help of activist federal judges, the Left’s large-scale lawfare operation has caused some setbacks for the administration, which helps explain why its ire has been focused on these lower court judges’ use of temporary restraining orders (TROs).
Nevertheless, as the administration prepares for another active week in court defending the president’s powers and the president’s efforts to shrink the size of government and end DEI, it is not without its own court victories.
As of late, the Trump administration has earned favorable rulings regarding the dismissal of federal officers, employees, and contractors—part of Trump’s effort to “drain the swamp.”
One favorable ruling came on Feb. 20, when a D.C. district court judge blocked a TRO request on Trump’s firing of probationary employees in National Treasury Employees Union v. Donald J. Trump et al. Judge Christopher R. Cooper denied the request brought by the NTEU and four other unions because the court “likely lacks subject matter jurisdiction” in the matter.
Instead, the unions will have to file their complaints with the Federal Labor Relations Authority, which has Congressional authority to review such matters under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute.
DOGE has been a major focal point in legal efforts to upend the Trump administration’s agenda. Wherever DOGE goes, lawsuits tend to follow.
Though the Left has attempted to prevent DOGE from accessing large swaths of the federal government, DOGE is steadily increasing its footprint.
In four separate cases, however, courts have upheld DOGE’s access to government systems as it attempts to identify, expose, and eliminate government waste, fraud, and abuse of American taxpayer dollars. Court victories have expanded DOGE’s access to the Department of Treasury, Department of Education, Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and other agencies.
The flurry of litigation over DOGE’s actions against USAID, the agency that now serves as the administration’s poster child for taxpayer waste, fraud, and abuse, has led to a series of seemingly conflicting court orders.
While a March 18 ruling in a U.S. district court ordered the restoration of USAID electronic systems to certain employees and a halt on reductions-in-force, a previous court order in Personal Services Contractors Association v. Trump sided with the administration’s effort to fire contractors.
On March 6, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols denied a TRO request that would have reinstated fired contractors. Despite bureaucrat bellyaching, the D.C. district court ruled President Trump was well within his rights to fire USAID contractors and place USAID employees on administrative leave.
Personal Services Contractors Association v. Trump is just one of the many cases challenging a crucial part of the Trump administration’s DOGE strategy: the removal of nonessential, nonproductive personnel across federal agencies.