I have written about this before. I cannot stress this enough. President Trump is playing with fire here, and it could cost him his Presidency and the rest of us our liberty.
Let me show you just two of the stories that have me so concerned:
You do not need to be a lawyer or any kind of ‘expert’ to see the threat here. However, in case we have some ‘Leftists’ reading along, allow me to explain it.
If the President continues to obey these judges and the Supreme Court declines to hear his appeals or — worse — sides with these lawless and rogue rulings, then it will end the Presidency and our Federal system — forever!
The reasoning is simple:
The courts have absolutely no authority to dictate matters of the Executive branch to the Executive (i.e President). The U.S. Constitution vests all authority over the Executive branch in a single President (i.e. a single person, one). What’s more, the President is equal to the Congress and the Judiciary when it comes to determining what is and is not constitutional. This makes all these judicial stays and orders an unconstitutional usurpation of the Executive’s power and authority.
If President Trump cedes to this unlawful over-reach, he gives the appearance that he agrees with their claim to power over him. Then, if the SCOTUS declines to hear his appeals, that appearance will be cemented in the public mind and we will be in the realm of:
APPEARANCE IS REALITY!
It won’t be true: the judiciary will not have authority over the Executive, but that will no longer matter. Trump will have established the precedent and it will become another de facto ‘amendment’ to the Constitution.
The risk is all the greater if SCOTUS does take the case. In that event, all it has to do is side with the lower courts and the U.S. Constitution dies and we have a new, un-elected, un-accountable oligarchy of judges ruling through the un-elected, un-accountable bureaucracies.
What the President should do (IMHO) is make a prime time address to the nation to explain why these judges are acting lawlessly, then publicly reject their over-reach. Tell the nation he will still submit to the legitimate authority of the Judiciary, but he will no longer surrender his Constitutional duties to un-elected tyrants. Then just say good night and God bless and sign off. The ‘talking heads’ can handle the rest for him (and he might want to do it while Bongino is still on the air).
If President Trump chooses not to reject these rulings and continues with the coarse of action he is currently taking, I fear he will be gambling the power and authority of the Presidency and, at the same time, the last hope to restore individual rights and liberty under the rule of law. If he is wrong, it is truly over and the Anti-Federalists will have finally been proven correct in their warnings.
–B3A
ADDENDUM 1
This is good news, but it does not invalidate my argument. Besides, this is only a temporary stay. It resolves nothing.
So long as President Trump continues to ask the SCOTUS for permission to do his job, he is gambling with the nation and the Constitution. All it takes is for SCOTUS to side with the lesser courts one time and ‘They’ have the precedent ‘They’ need to take the President’s power away from him.
ADDENDUM 2
Here is yet another story that is not as ‘good’ as it appears:
JUST IN: Federal Judge Rules Against CIA DEI Hires, Says Trump CAN Fire Employees
On the surface, this reads like a ‘win.’ However, when you read further, you see that it is not as much of a ‘win’ as it should be. The judge is still quibbling in a way that suggests he has an interest in limiting the President’s power.