I admit to feeling relieved the US Supreme Court ruled that federal judges do not have the power to issue nationwide injunctions. Judges should not have the power to do that on matters that are generally under the power of the Executive branch, and particularly on issues that are not class actions.
Some of my less cognizant acquaintances have claimed that federal judges have always have that power, but only if they define ‘always’ as since the end of the George W. Bush administration. Too many federal judges have gotten it into their heads that they are the ultimate power, that they can ignore the Constitution and order the Executive branch to do anything they want done. Some believe their rulings have power outside the US, Judge Boasberg (DC District Court) being one of the more recent examples of that when he ordered aircraft that were in international air space to turn around and return to the US and tried to stop further deportations of illegal aliens from Texas. He had no jurisdiction there either. We’ve had a federal judge in Hawaii issuing rulings and orders to districts that were well out of their jurisdiction.
It appears that other judges have decided that they can ignore or overturn US Supreme Court decisions because “they know better”. It’s time to prove to them they’re wrong with one sure way of doing that being by throwing them off the bench, if not having them disbarred. Judicial activism by ignoring the Constitution is not bravery. It is malice and authoritarianism. It is more about ‘feelz’ than it is about law. It is more about supporting The Narrative than the law.
It is something that needs to stop.
