in World News Disobedience to Judges is Obedience to the Constitution
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Trump isn’t defying checks and balances, he’s restoring them.
Judge James Boasberg issued an oral order demanding that planes carrying Venezuelan gang members, who were not even a party to the lawsuit before him and over which he did not have jurisdiction, be turned around in international airspace. Boasberg is now infuriated that his mere utterance, not even set down in writing, was not immediately obeyed.
Democrats and their media have taken to crying that any disobedience of Boasberg, who was appointed by Barack Obama to apparently rule not only the entire country, but the planet and all its airspace, is a “threat to democracy” and a violation of checks and balances.
It’s not. If anything, it’s an urgently needed restoration of those checks and balances which have been trampled on by judges who have seized unlimited power from elected officials like Trump.
Boasberg’s coup began when the D.C. judge decided to hear a lawsuit from the ACLU based on the detention of four inmates in Texas and one in New York. Despite it being the entirely wrong venue, Boasberg took the case. The 5 inmates who were on average 1,500 miles away from Boasberg denied that they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang targeted by Trump. Despite that, they claimed they were at risk of deportation because Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act and demanded that Boasberg block a 200-year-old plus law that predates D.C.
The lack of minor matters like venue and standing didn’t stop Boasberg from blocking the implementation of a law that predates the White House, the Capitol and the entire principle of ‘judicial review’ that only came 5 years later in Marbury v. Madison before issuing an oral order turning around planes in midair. King George III would have been less presumptuous.
There’s a term for this that ends in a ‘y’ and it’s not ‘democracy’.
President Trump is not defying ‘checks and balances’ when he pushes back against a D.C. judge declaring that his word is law around the country and the world, he’s implementing them. A judiciary unbound by laws, by the limitations of venue and standing, where judges pick and choose precedents and then go with their feelings is unchecked and unbalanced tyranny.
And it’s the farthest thing from what the Founders and the Framers had in mind for America.
Boasberg may be one of the worst examples of a judicial insurrection in which Democrat judges collude with allied political organizations to seize power and impose their will on everything. In recent weeks, Democrat federal judges have seized the power to manage every contractual detail of federal appropriations, the perpetuation of federal agencies only brought into being by presidential fiat, and mandated the presence of mentally ill crossdressers in the military.