Is it Time to Ignore the Judiciary?
American Thinker,
by
Clarice Feldman
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
4/20/2025 6:33:32 AM
It seems clear to me that the broad scope and speed of the administration’s actions have knocked the sense out of the media, the Democrats and, alas, the judiciary. They cannot seem to process the swift and expansive range of change without making themselves look ridiculous.
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I could describe many examples but the easiest most complete one is that of the gang banger, wife beating, human trafficking suspect Salvadorean citizen who illegally crossed out borders and resided here. You know who I mean -- the thug the press describes as a “Maryland Man.”
So the nation is transfixed -- or at least Democrats and the news media --
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mifla 4/20/2025 6:52:31 AM (No. 1936102)
No. Congress needs to define the scope of federal judges. If Republicans start to ignore judicial rulings, sow will the Dems when they are in power.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/20/2025 6:59:12 AM (No. 1936106)
The question is invalid. It should be, 'Is it time for ALL Americans to ignore the judiciary , not just Democrats?'
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/20/2025 7:18:37 AM (No. 1936113)
I agree with #1 Congress needs to clean up this mess. They are the ones that put all of these "judges" where they are.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 4/20/2025 7:23:43 AM (No. 1936117)
The Supremes are garnering less and less confidence with some of their latest rulings, so..if the security of our country is at stake then to hell with them, and especially these low federal judges. Biden ignored the Supremes, so can we. There was a reason for separation of powers, they do not rule the executive branch, it appears these rogue judges and even the Supremes are letting politics guide them instead of the constitution. Maybe they all need a refresher course, American welfare and lives are at stake. Illegals broke the law, have committed horrible crimes here, get them out now!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/20/2025 7:46:52 AM (No. 1936132)
The left already picks and chooses when to fall in line with judges' rulings. Congress cleaning things up will only affect law abiding politicians. If the left ever gets back in power, America will be doomed. Look at how these fools are acting now! Laws are for US. not them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/20/2025 7:56:40 AM (No. 1936136)
The dems already ignore the Constitution and all laws that do not benefit them. The case of Karmelo in Texas has already become a media circus and he hasn't even been to court yet. We need to focus less on citizenship status and more on individual violent behavior since the entitled black boy did what many of the gang bangers who crossed our borders do, kill for no valid reason and sit back and accept thousands of dollars from sympathizers. This kid should be on the next plane to El Salvador along with his fellow animals from all parts of the world who take advantage of American decency, forgiveness and generosity.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/20/2025 8:18:27 AM (No. 1936144)
The courts are making themselves irrelevant. This is the final brick to fall in the Conservative remake of government. Dems, media, Deep State have all been pushed aside because they simply do not have the authority to do what they have been doing for decades, ignoring the Constitutional structure of our government. Trump has been pushing hard to expose them and get them out of the way. This is really funny because they accuse Trump of acting outside the law but he is beating THEM over the head with it.
The problem is, THEY think the law is what they SAY it is. Unfortunately for them, the law says what it says and it IS what it says. The only time judges have leaway is when the law is insufficiently precise. That can lead to several outcomes. The judge can decide the law simply doesn't apply. That STILL needs to fit within what the law does say. The judge could decide the law does apply based on the language in the law and logical extension of intent within the language. The judge could say the law applies in a certain way or NOT in a certain way, again based on the language used and intent. All this is subject to further appeal and review, so judges that go too far afield are subject to being overturned.
The key thing is, the judge MUST stay within the language and intent of the law as written.
The bad thing for the Left is the groundwork Trump laid in his first term of appointing Conservative judges who apply the law as written. However, there are still a lot of liberal judges that remain. If we had a strong Conservative Congress, they might write a law that requires the court's decisions to adhere to the written language of the existing law. But we do not have a strong Congress.
It seems the only option is the SCOTUS to provide crystal clear and strong language to rebuff non Constitutional actions by lower courts. With Roberts as Chief Justice that's a long reach but the alternative is for him to have ownership of the courts falling into further disrepute because they are continually squabbling.
It would also be good to require schools to teach strong Civics courses about Constitutional government.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MattMusson1 4/20/2025 8:27:35 AM (No. 1936152)
Close the DC courts and roll them up into another Jurisdiction. It would only take a simple minority vote in Congress. Easier than impeaching someone.
There are no fair trials in DC.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mofongo 4/20/2025 8:29:00 AM (No. 1936154)
#1. But until and unless?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 4/20/2025 8:52:35 AM (No. 1936175)
As Bill Ackman just said:
A nation in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country, but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values our democratic system was intended to preserve.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/20/2025 9:02:05 AM (No. 1936180)
Here is an idea. Go judge shopping like the ACLU. Then say as there are conflicting decisions you will obey the one you think makes most sense to the will of the voters who elected you. That will get the SCOTUS off the fence and send them scrambling. Waiting for Congress to do the right thing is a foolish errand.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ruhn 4/20/2025 9:27:46 AM (No. 1936196)
Trump is not creating this Constitutional crisis. The courts are. The Founding Fathers never intended the courts to be the last word. They made the courts co-equal with the other two branches of government and yet they were deliberately structured to be the weakest branch. Unfortunately Marbury v Madison was the camel sticking its nose in the tent over the interpretation of “judicial review” that has led the judicial overreach that we witnessing now. Congress has the Constitutional authority to abolish and/or defund these courts but is unlikely to do so.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/20/2025 9:43:41 AM (No. 1936210)
The precent has already been set. How many times has our government, at all levels, been caught 'legalizing' criminal behavior. Instead of following the constitution, the law will be whatever they see fit. We will have tyranny. Actually, we already have it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2025 10:16:48 AM (No. 1936241)
If Roberts can't reign in these lunatic, power mad, highly political "judges", all respect for the courts will be quickly sliding into the abyss. Foreigners who are illegally in the country, many creating a massive wave of rapes, murders, robberies and drug sales. Is Roberts such a politically motivated fool that he cannot see this?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Digiconver 4/20/2025 10:31:25 AM (No. 1936254)
A Jacksonian moment coming? "The judges have made their decision. Now let them enforce it!"
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
franco 4/20/2025 10:42:43 AM (No. 1936258)
Congress can and should rein in the judicial overreach by enacting legislation positively limiting the scope of the review of the lower (District and Circuit) courts. The legislative branch (Congress, spoken for by Speaker Johnson and leader Thune) should also jointly issue a statement with the executive branch (President Trump) repudiating Supreme Court "judicial review" as first asserted by John Marshall, and notify the Supreme Court that its role going forward will be limited to that defined in The Constitution. Since "judicial review" itself is an unconstitutional power first vested by Marshall's 1803 assertion, there is no need to treat it as some sort of law or amendment that must be repealed.
There is no reason whatsoever to fear the consequences of such moves, because the Democrats already treat The Constitution as a "living and breathing document"... when they pay attention to it at all.. We have seen this already in the past. When Bill Clinton was President, young Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was forcibly separated from the custody of his aunts and uncles by armed agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Not a single Democrat seemed to mind. Then GWB was elected, and Sen. Upchuck al-Schumer made a statement to the effect that "The Constitution was in full force." Really, Upchuck? What was going during the previous eight years?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/20/2025 12:08:00 PM (No. 1936306)
Where were all these judges and SC justices when Joe Biden was inviting armies of illegal invaders into our country - even flying them deep into its interior? Existing laws were being broken and flagrantly so.
(crickets)
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/20/2025 12:22:36 PM (No. 1936316)
It is worth while to read the history of the ACLU - the organization supporting the illegals now. When did they move from American citizens to illegal alien invaders like Garcia, MS13 and TdA?
https://www.aclu.org/about/aclu-history
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/20/2025 12:45:39 PM (No. 1936319)
Well after the Biden crew flooded the USA with many millions of mostly all poor and uneducated Third World origin illegal aliens, by allowing them to unlawfully cross the borderline into the USA and by even flying hundreds of thousands of them into the USA at US taxpayers expense, who the Democrats then characterize as members of minority groups, we are hearing that the Federal Courts are going to issue court orders claiming that all illegal aliens individually must have “constitutional due process” to a deportation hearing before a immigration judge, and if they are found to be deportable by that judge, to be able to appeal the case to the Board of Appeals, and if their deportation order is upheld there, to then have the matter reviewed by a Federal District Court judge, to appeal any adverse Federal District Court order to a Federal Court of Appeals, and then if necessary to seek review of the entire matter to the US Supreme Court, processes that take many years to complete when you take into account that there are millions of such cases. All that time the illegal aliens get to stay in the USA. In the deportation matters involving criminal aliens who are members of foreign origin violent criminal gangs, the Democrat position is that when such illegal alien criminals make an unsubstantiated claim that if they are deported and they could then be assaulted or killed by rival gang members operating in foreign countries, such as their so-called “Maryland Man” made, is that they should not be deported and should be allowed to remain in the USA, be granted a legal immigration status, and eventually be granted US Citizenship and of course be transformed into leftist and progressive Democrat supporters and voters. There is nothing to keep every such illegal alien gang member from making similar unsubstantiated claims that according to the Democrats, the courts should take at face value to the criminal illegal alien gang members favor. Clearly the leftist and progressive Democrats using their partisan law fare agenda in their efforts to get rid of Trump, his crew, and as many of his supporters and voters as possible, have been stripping away the reputation of the Federal Courts to the extent that any American using common sense can see, at the moment, that the Federal Courts have been greatly politicized by the Democrats. Shortly we are going to see if the supposedly highly educated Supreme Court Justices can figure that out and issue workable decisions addressing the current anti-Trump matters that are before them.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Harlowe 4/20/2025 12:52:04 PM (No. 1936325)
Poster comments regarding the establishment of the Supreme Court often reference the U. S. Constitution, Article III, Section. As background for the establishment of this country’s judiciary system, a review of Alexander Hamilton’s writings contained in the Federalist Papers is well worth reading. Following are some excerpts:
https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-71-80#s-lg-box-wrapper-25493470
Federalist No. 78 - The Judiciary Department
From McLEAN'S Edition, New York.
Author: Alexander Hamilton
To the People of the State of New York:
WE PROCEED now to an examination of the judiciary department of the proposed government.
(Excerpts – Emphasis Added)
“ ...the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. THE EXECUTIVE NOT ONLY DISPENSES THE HONORS, BUT HOLDS THE SWORD OF THE COMMUNITY. THE LEGISLATURE NOT ONLY COMMANDS THE PURSE, BUT PRESCRIBES THE RULES BY WHICH THE DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF EVERY CITIZEN ARE TO BE REGULATED. THE JUDICIARY, ON THE CONTRARY, HAS NO INFLUENCE OVER EITHER THE SWORD OR THE PURSE; NO DIRECTION EITHER OF THE STRENGTH OR OF THE WEALTH OF THE SOCIETY; and can take no active resolution whatever. ...
“ ... that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power...
“ ... NO LEGISLATIVE ACT, THEREFORE, CONTRARY TO THE CONSTITUTION, CAN BE VALID. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. ...
“... that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, ... A CONSTITUTION IS, IN FACT, AND MUST BE REGARDED BY THE JUDGES, AS A FUNDAMENTAL LAW. ... THE CONSTITUTION OUGHT TO BE PREFERRED TO THE STATUTE, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents. ...
“Upon the whole, there can be no room to doubt that THE CONVENTION ACTED WISELY IN COPYING FROM THE MODELS OF THOSE CONSTITUTIONS WHICH HAVE ESTABLISHED GOOD BEHAVIOR AS THE TENURE OF THEIR JUDICIAL OFFICES, IN POINT OF DURATION; ...”
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Harlowe 4/20/2025 12:55:21 PM (No. 1936328)
#20~ Oops! Should read: Article III, Section 1
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
spacer 4/20/2025 1:21:50 PM (No. 1936335)
After reading Justice Alitos rebuke and Justice Thomas' concurrance, Clarice is correct. SCOTUS has violated their own ruling with their deliberate illegal ruling. President Trump should point out the raw political move by the treasonous court ahd tell them to pound sand.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 4/20/2025 4:52:45 PM (No. 1936399)
Long PAST time.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 4/20/2025 6:08:49 PM (No. 1936437)
Yes...when judges, even those on SCOTUS, ignore the Constitution that they took an oath to uphold, they abrogate their right to impose their corrupt rulings on us, and we are no longer obligated to honor their rulings.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/21/2025 6:52:56 AM (No. 1936637)
No, but it's time to clean house and remove those who claim to be judges when they got there through the generosity of Soros-funded organizations.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
nerdowell 4/21/2025 8:43:21 AM (No. 1936720)
"Fruit of the poisonous tree"
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
nerdowell 4/21/2025 9:34:48 AM (No. 1936764)
Ex-parte Merryman:
The Supreme court can decide, but it is up to the president to enact and enforce the law.
"Ex parte Merryman Taney declared that in suspending the writ, Lincoln had overstepped his constitutional authority by exercising a power that belonged solely to Congress. Taney recognized, however, that with the military certain to ignore any order he might issue, his ruling could not be enforced without the president’s cooperation. Ordering that a copy of the opinion be sent to Lincoln, Taney noted, “It will then remain for that high officer … to determine what actions he will take to cause the civil process of the United States to be respected and enforced.” Lincoln paid no heed to Taney’s opinion and continued to maintain that he had the authority to suspend habeas corpus."
From https://www.fjc.gov/history/administration/executive-enforcement-judicial-orders
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Zigrid 4/21/2025 10:20:04 AM (No. 1936824)
Bravo poster #2..I'm with ya!!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/21/2025 2:08:47 PM (No. 1937068)
No. Because then it is all over for the United States of America, as founded, and communism wins. Personal integrity and rule of law must be restored, or this country is finished. And the globalists could not be more pleased if the latter. We just need the dims, deep state, globalists, and the msn to cease with their social media and fake news head games with us.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Elljay 4/21/2025 3:55:07 PM (No. 1937112)
SCOTUS believes it’s more equal than the other branches. Trump has his own independent right to void unconstitutional acts of SCOTUS. Time to do an Andrew Jackson and ignore SCOTUS’ lawlessness, as amply argued by no other than Justice Alito.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
danu 4/21/2025 5:34:56 PM (No. 1937170)
congress is corrupt, inept. so are most of the supremes. this lot is weak, selfish, whiney, surrounded by scandal.
w/ immigration-the president has plenary powers to protect america, not twist and ignore the law to harm us.
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