The Judicial Insurrection Is Worse Than You Think:

On one level, what all this amounts to is an attempted takeover of the Executive Branch by the Judicial Branch — a judicial coup d’état. These judges are usurping President Trump’s valid exercise of his Executive Branch powers through sheer judicial fiat — a raw assertion of power by one branch of the federal government against another.

But on another, deeper level, this is an attempt by the judiciary to prevent the duly elected president from reclaiming control of the Executive Branch from the federal bureaucracy — the deep state, which has long functioned as an unelected and unaccountable fourth branch of the government.

It’s been quite obvious for months now that one of the tools the Democrats used to fight Trump in his first term is being repeated – and with even greater vigour than earlier – lawfare via selected judges (forum shopping). Specifically the judges, who serve on Federal courts scattered across the US, so-called U.S. District Court Judges. We’re not talking about judges appointed by states, counties or cities (“municipals” as the Yanks put it), those people can’t directly affect Federal government actions, even though decisions made in such places can filter up to the Supreme Court.

In fact these Federal courts were established decades ago by Congress to ease the burden on the Supreme Court. Decisions could be made at lower levels that, in most cases, were fairly technical and would not see either side of the case appealing up through the chain of appeal courts, circuit courts (covering a bunch of states) and ultimately SCOTUS itself, unless the decision had large, long-term, ramifications across the USA, such as future parties to similar issues still strongly disagreeing with a decision.

The process was always open to abuse of course, and the arrival of Trump in 2017, backed by a GOP Congress, put the Democrats in a rather desperate position. Thus they opened the floodgates on this process, and of course “judge shopping”, long a feature of US law when political parties are involved, became widespread. In one case a Federal judge in Hawaii placed an injunction on Trump booting illegal immigrants out of the country. The case eventually lost at SCOTUS level, where they called it an “abuse of discretion”, but by then the Democrats were back in charge of the House and able to stymie Trump in other ways, so it was “Mission Accomplished” on the lawfare front; they knew they’d lose but it gained them the time they needed to win via elections.

As a result it has been no surprise to see the same shit being pulled again. A brief sample of the actions of these US District Court Judges:

You’ll notice that quite a few of these judges are from the District of Columbia, meaning Washington D.C., so are very plugged into the Democrat-Left networks and bureaucracy of that city. Several of the ones listed here have real issues with justice, meaning that they’re less judges than political and ideological activists:

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly:
In 2024, as she was sentencing a 75-year-old Catholic woman for praying in front of an abortion clinic (charged under the FACE Act), the woman’s husband and attorney pleaded with her for mercy, citing the woman’s advanced age and rapidly declining health.  “I feel like Paulette is dying,” her husband said. “In my heart, I think she’s having a hard time staying alive.” 

Kollar-Kotelly responded to the plea by sentencing the elderly and ill woman to two years in federal prison and adding: “I would suggest that, in terms of your religion, that one of the tenets is that you should make the effort during this period of time, when it may be difficult in terms of for your husband, to make every effort to remain alive, to do the things that you need to do to survive because that’s part of the tenets of your religion.”

Yeah, she’s a cunt, in every sense of the American use of that term.

Judge John McConnell:
There’s a lot of detail at the link but the TLDR is that this guy, who ruled that the Crossroads Rhode Island NGO keep getting its federal funding, is a Director of the $31 million per year nonprofit. It gets over half its funding from federal money, more than $128 million during his time on the board. The build low-income housing but it turns out that helping the poor is lucrative when the taxpayers foot the bill. In 2023, it’s CEO Karen Santilli, got $374,000.

Not only that he essentially purchased his judgeship back in 2010 by donating nearly $700,000 to Democratic candidates and causes (it dwarfed contributions made by other Obama court appointees), including $15,530 to Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed and $12,600 to Sheldon Whitehouse, the state’s junior senator, both of whom promptly pushed hard for hs nomination and approval (and that’s a Politico report FFS).

Democrats are no longer hiding their Tammany Hall corruption.

Judge James Boasberg
Boasberg presided in the FISA court that fraudulently enabled, via a wiretap based on evidence falsified by the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane operation to get Donald Trump in 2017, and the many RussiaGate pranks that followed. As chief judge of the DC District, he oversaw the Jack Smith Special Counsel operation and all the cases associated with it, including the Mar-a-Lago raid and the J-6 case in Tanya Chutkan’s crooked court. He allowed the prosecution of J-6ers under the unlawful use of the corporate fraud obstruction statute, 18USC§1512c2, a.k.a. the Enron law. He presided over the trial of Ray Epps, the shady character recorded on video repeatedly urging J-6 protestors to “go into the Capitol.” Boasberg gave Epps a suspended sentence while grandmothers who merely “paraded” through the rotunda between velvet ropes that day got sent to jail.

Even worse is that he failed to disclose that his daughter, Katharine, works for a 501(c)(3) called “Partners for Justice” that works on “prison reform”, which thus effectively provides legal services to criminal illegal aliens and gangs, like Tren de Aragua.

So, like Judge McConnell, he should have recused himself from the case. I’d call a judge who does such things to citizens, while demanding that Tren de Aragua gang members be bought back to the US where they can kill and rape, is not just utterly corrupt but a traitor.

As to Trump’s defiance of Boasberg’s order, Trump’s making it clear that since he’s acting as Commander in Chief under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 he’s going to ignore that order. It will be interesting to see if he and his legal team will be subtle enough to play the Nonacquiescence card – as President Lincoln did in 1861 when he ignored a Supreme Court decision that his suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, in arresting Confederate sympathisers in Baltimore, was invalid.

I had to laugh at Tom Homan’s response to a reporter’s question that this was “An old law?”, saying that it was “Not as old as the Constitution, and we still pay attention to that, don’t we”

As with so many other attacks and accusations made by the left against Trump, they’ve already shot their own feet off: