A nation of judges, not of law

Obama judge overrules Congress, blocks defunding Planned Parenthood facilities

A judge in Massachusetts temporarily enjoined the Trump administration from stripping some Medicaid funds from the nation's largest abortion provider

The press coverage describes the judge as having blocked the Trump administration’s actions here, but in fact the defunding was part of the rescissions bill that clawed back $9 billion in previously approved spending, a bill enacted by the Legislative Branch: Congress, so she isn’t blocking Trump, she’s denying the power of t\\Congress to control spending, control that is granted to the legislative branch by our Constitution.

Readers with a memory capable of stretching back several months will recall that previous District Courts’ injunctions forbidding cuts were based on the theory that the Executive branch lacks the power to rescind Congressional authorizations of spending; so Congress acted, and reversed those authorizations. Now our judicial leftists claim that even that isn’t enough: the judges themselves must approve.

The judge who has issued this injunction is Obama-appointed Indira Talwani, the same one whose earlier stay forbidding Trump’s executive order that had rescinded Biden’s executive order on the granting of humanitarian parole program for refugees was overruled by the Supreme Court last May. Judge Talwani continues to defy higher judicial, binding authority.

Not to be outdone, yesterday two additional judges purported to have the authority to overrule the constitution’s grant to the Executive Branch the power and the duty to enforce the nation’s immigration laws:

Obama Judges Set Abrego Garcia Free and Protect Him From ICE

…. [B]ack-to-back rulings from U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Nashville, Tennessee, and Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland ... ordered Abrego's release and blocked his detention by immigration authorities in Tennessee.

Who’s the threat to democracy that the Democrats and their media monkeys claim to see? The threat can be found on the bench, not in the White House.