Trump’s Big Win

The federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia just gave President Trump a big legal victory over the activist judges trying to block his agenda.

President Trump is massively restructuring the federal government. Every department and agency is under review. The president issued an executive order revamping the US Agency for Global Media, which runs Voice of America (VOA). Both entities had gone “woke.”

Administration officials also put 1,300 VOA employees on leave. Of course, a district court judge, acting like he has as much power as the president, blocked the order and demanded that the Trump administration rehire the dismissed VOA employees.

In a 2-to-1 decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the lower court lacked jurisdiction over VOA personnel actions, decisions that belonged to the executive branch. This ruling could easily apply to several cases that have blocked Trump’s actions to cut the size and scope of the federal government.

The jury is still out on the significance of this case, but Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, “If upheld, this pushback on judicial activism could largely destroy the Left’s judicial coup against Trump’s effort to restore political control of the administrative state.”

There is another case coming up soon that could also go a long way toward reining in rogue judges. On May 15th, the Supreme Court will hear the Trump administration’s request to lift injunctions against the president’s order ending birthright citizenship.

Multiple district court judges issued nationwide injunctions against the order. The administration is asking the justices to “declare that enough is enough before district courts’ burgeoning reliance on universal injunctions becomes further entrenched.”

In its own way, it may be more important to win the argument on limiting lower court injunctions than it is to win the case on the merits of birthright citizenship.