The Day the Supreme Court Told District Judges They’re Not God...
The Supreme Court Just Told Judges to Sit Down and Shut Up.
The Supreme Court Just Reminded the Robed Monarchs They’re Not Running This Country
Well, folks, I don’t say this often, but today I’m tipping my hat to the Supreme Court.
Because they finally did something that needed doing for decades.
They kicked the legs out from under the judicial dictatorship that’s been ballooning like a tick on the backside of American democracy.
In a 6-3 decision yeah, along ideological lines, cue the usual wailing, the justices told these district court judges to knock it off with the nationwide injunction theater.
You know, the game where one unelected Ivy League golden child decides they don’t like a president’s policy and, poof, they block it across all 50 states.
Today’s smackdown came over Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for kids born here to foreigners squatting on temporary visas and people here illegally.
Now, before the professional outrage machine starts frothing at the mouth yes, the policy is controversial. Yes, the 14th Amendment has a sentence everyone wants to tattoo on their foreheads when it suits them.
But here’s the point.
For years, these district judges have been acting like the reincarnation of King George III. They don’t just rule for the plaintiffs in front of them. They swing a gavel and block the federal government itself from functioning.
They do it without class action procedures. Without a shred of accountability. Without giving a damn about what the voters or Congress think.
And in case you forgot, this didn’t used to be normal.
As Justice Amy Coney Barrett put it in language so polite it almost sounded like a lullaby . “The universal injunction was conspicuously nonexistent for most of our Nation’s history.”
Translation: These judges invented this power out of thin air.
Let’s be blunt.
If you hand every district court judge the power to veto federal policy coast to coast, you’re not running a constitutional republic anymore. You’re running a permanent legal food fight.
Don’t believe me?
Look at the last eight years.
One president signs an order. One judge blocks it. Another president reverses it. Another judge blocks that. Nobody can govern. Nobody can implement squat. And the people? We just sit here paying for the whole circus with our tax dollars.
I’ve said it before on my Substack, and I’ll say it again.
This is how you end up with a civil war. Or what I call our 3rd Revolution.
Because when a handful of unelected lawyers can paralyze the executive branch, when they can wipe out national policies with a flick of their pen, you’re not far off from people deciding this government is no longer legitimate.
Today, at least, the Supreme Court pumped the brakes.
They reminded the robed monarchs that you don’t get to shut down the whole country because you don’t like who won the election. You can rule for the people in front of you. You can protect their rights.
But you don’t get to pretend you’re the Supreme Court yourself.
So, call me old-fashioned, but I’ll toast to this ruling.
Because no matter where you stand on birthright citizenship, this is bigger than that.
It’s about whether we’re going to have a republic of laws and elected leaders; or a judicial oligarchy where any one judge can swing the wrecking ball.
Today, the Court finally picked up the phone and said: Enough.
And for once, I agree.
These judges were never supposed to be kings. And now, at least for a day, they’ve been reminded.