Trump vs The Judiciary

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III:

It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.

Trump is losing in court so now he wants to arrest the judges.

As Jacob Knutson of Democracy Docket wrote, Trump suffered at least 11 legal setbacks in April as judges blocked Trump from unconstitutional violations:

He can not gut the Voice of America media outlet.

He was blocked from removing people in Colorado and New York under the Alien Enemies Act.

A judge ordered the administration to comply with discovery requests from Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers.

Courts told the Department of Education not to implement anti-DEI measures.

Judges blocked Trump’s executive order about interfering with local and state elections.

Judges stopped the administration from impounding money from cities that don’t comply with its mass deportation orders.

The Court blocked the administration from ending collective bargaining rights for federal workers.

The Trump administration deported several U.S. citizens including a two-year-old with cancer born in the United States even as the child’s father tried frantically to keep her in the U.S. Judge Terry A. Doughty of the Federal District Court in the Western District of Louisiana, a Trump appointee, said that “it is illegal and unconstitutional to deport” a U.S. citizen, and set a hearing because he has a “strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”

Recently, a Time interviewer asked Trump:

“Mr. President, you were showing us the new paintings you have behind us. You put all these new portraits. One of them includes John Adams. John Adams said we’re a government ruled by laws, not by men. Do you agree with that?”

Trump replied with surprise: “John Adams said that? Where was the painting?”

When the interviewer pointed out the portrait, Trump said:

“We’re a government ruled by laws, not by men? Well, I think we’re a government ruled by law, but you know, somebody has to administer the law. So therefore men, certainly, men and women, certainly play a role in it. I wouldn’t agree with it 100%. We are a government where men are involved in the process of law, and ideally, you’re going to have honest men like me.”

He has a long history of dishonesty in his marriages, businesses, and as a politician.