Victor Davis Hanson | Left-Wing Judges Try to Stymie Trump

Victor Davis Hanson |
March 24, 2025
Left-Wing Judges Try to Stymie Trump
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/24/liberal-lawfare-2-0-left-wing-activist-judges-plan-to-stop-trump/
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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Ostensibly, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance won an overwhelming victory, and you can define that in a variety of ways. Not just a plurality, but I think it would be called a referendum on America.

After all, they were the first ticket on the Republican side to have won the popular vote in 20 years. They won an overwhelming majority in the Electoral College. They retain control of the House of Representatives. They won the Senate. There’s a 6-3, supposedly, conservative majority on the Supreme Court. They won all of the swing states.
So, they came into office with this momentum from the American people that was expressed through a national election. And yet, they are now stymied.

Almost all of their initiatives are facing two types of opposition. The first is, in a pre-planned way, liberal organizations, lavishly funded by what they themselves might want to call oligarchs, have funded massive lawsuits against the Trump administration, stopping executive orders.
Remember, this idea that executive orders were a rapid and effective way for a president to rule didn’t come from Donald Trump. It came from former President Barack Obama. He recalibrated the use of executive orders when he lost the majority in Congress and he said, “I have a pen and I have a phone. And I’m gonna act accordingly.” And he did so.

But what we’re seeing now is that these liberal organizations are targeting left-wing judges.

Judge Ana Reyes in Washington—who was described as a Biden appointee, as the first Latina, LGBTQ—she just ruled to stop the Pentagon’s new policy, not having or forbidding transgendered people in combat units.

Judge Jesse Furman, another lower district judge, he just put out a stay not too long ago rescinding the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil.

And Judge James Boasberg stopped the deportation of this very dangerous Tren de Aragua gang of South American criminals who came here illegally.

Now, what was the argument that the Trump administration was using that incurred the wrath of liberal activists? All they wanted to do was say, “We don’t know the effect of transgendered people in combat units. This is a new phenomenon. For now, we’re gonna put a stay on it.” That was the Department of Defense and the Trump administration.