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The Kneecapping of President Trump’s Agenda Isn’t Happening by Mistake

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“No District Court Judge, or any Judge, can assume the duties of the President of the United States. Only Crime and Chaos would result. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” President Donald Trump says.

He’s right.

As Trump works to implement his campaign promise of deporting gang members and foreign terrorists out of American communities, leftist judges are usurping democracy with unprecedented injunctions. They’ve tossed aside that Trump is a duly elected president, put back in the White House by the American people. Not only did he win the electoral college, locking down the so-called “blue wall,” but he also secured the popular vote in a national election just four months ago.

In fact, new analysis from Blue Rose Research shows if every registered voter had participated in the election, Trump would have won in an even bigger landslide.

“Democrats cannot rebuild a national majority merely by juicing higher turnout, since registered voters as a whole were more pro-Trump in 2024 than those who actually showed up at the polls. Nevertheless, many progressives have attributed Harris’s loss to depressed turnout among Democratic voters specifically. They point to the fact that, between 2020 and 2024, the Democratic presidential nominee’s vote total fell by significantly more than Trump’s tally increased,” Vox reports. "If all registered voters had turned out, then Donald Trump would’ve won the popular vote by 5 points [instead of 1.7 points]."

Democrats lost in November and are suffering a catastrophic, multi-generational shift away from their political party.

But the kneecapping of Trump’s agenda isn’t happening by mistake.

During his time as Senate Majority Leader, Democrat Chuck Schumer packed the judiciary with judges not dedicated to upholding the rule of law, but to thwarting Trump’s second term if he won in November.

“The good news here is we did put 235 judges, progressive judges, judges not under the control of Trump on the bench last year and they are ruling against Trump. Time after time after time,” Schumer admitted during an interview with PBS News Hour this week. “They restored the money to NIH, they required that 8000 federal employees have to come back. We’re in over 100 lawsuits against them and we’re having a good deal of success.”

Because they can’t win elections on their policies, ideas or vision for the country, Democrats are resorting to lawfare. They're ignoring the decisions of Americans they believe have voted incorrectly, or engaged in "wrongthink" on behalf of the Make America Great Again movement. It’s a bad, undemocratic strategy and blatantly unconstitutional.

“It takes 5 Supreme Court justices to issue a ruling that affects the whole nation. Yet lone District Court judges assume the authority to unilaterally dictate the policies of the entire executive branch of government,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says. “Think about the work that goes into electing a president - The idea that a single district court judge can claim the powers of the president on Court matters of the executive branch policy is legitimately insane.”

Insane indeed, and an issue Congress, currently led by Republicans, must work to stop. The Supreme Court must also quickly clarify the executive powers of the president and get the lower courts under control.

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