The insane overstepping of the lower federal courts in defense of Democrat priorities has reached a new level of impropriety. On Monday, a judge in Rhode Island ruled that the Trump administration has violated a temporary restraining order and is now ordering the end of all spending freezes instituted by the White House.
All those crazy grants that were being given out by USAID to organizations promoting transgenderism and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in foreign countries? A left-wing judge just told American taxpayers they have to keep paying them and that the executive branch has no discretion in how federal bureaucracies operate. It’s hard to see that as anything other than a soft coup.
Normally, a temporary restraining order can’t be appealed, but due to the extreme circumstances involved, the above suggestion is to seek mandamus. In layman’s terms, a lawsuit would be filed in the appellate court accusing this rogue judge of operating outside his authority. An order could then be issued for him to stop.
A judge is not supposed to expand a TRO outside of the scope of the original complaint. In this case, it appears that’s exactly what happened.
The strategy of these left-wing judges is simple. They want to keep issuing TROs in favor of Democrat politicians and activists because that would theoretically keep the Trump administration in a type of legal purgatory, unable to appeal. It was one of their most effective tools during the president’s first term.
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One can only hope some of the remedies being mentioned are effective. The issue of control over the federal bureaucracy has to get to the Supreme Court as soon as possible. Without a broad ruling from the high court putting a stop to this nonsense, it will just continue for the next four years, stealing constitutional authority from an executive branch rightfully won by Republicans. Democrats and their allies were never going to willingly let Trump be president. They are going to have to be forced to.
