Remember when the judicial branch interpreted laws instead of making them? Those days seem increasingly distant as activist judges flex their powers far beyond anything the founders envisioned.
What happens when unelected judges start micromanaging presidential decisions? We’re about to find out. A wave of judicial orders is threatening to transform our constitutional republic into a system where every executive action requires a judge’s permission slip.
The latest constitutional crisis landed on the Supreme Court’s doorstep Sunday night. The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal challenging something unprecedented in American history: a lower court order forcing the president to keep a Biden appointee in power against his will.
From ‘Daily Caller’:
In an emergency application, President Donald Trump asked the justices to allow him to fire the leader of an agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers, Hampton Dellinger, after a lower court ordered his reinstatement…
“Until now, as far as we are aware, no court in American history has wielded an injunction to force the President to retain an agency head whom the President believes should not be entrusted with executive power and to prevent the President from relying on his preferred replacement,” it continues.
Unprecedented Judicial Overreach
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