If The Supreme Court Is Going To Ignore The Constitution, Trump Should Ignore The Supreme Court

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This can be our Master Thread on judicial overreach.

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If The Supreme Court Is Going To Ignore The Constitution, Trump Should Ignore The Supreme Court

 

The Supreme Court's shocking decision on Wednesday to allow a D.C. district court judge to order the Trump administration to disburse $2 billion in federal grant money is a major blow to the separation of powers undergirding our constitutional system of government.

But the thing about separation of powers is that they stand or fall together.  All three branches of our government — legislative, executive, and judicial — have to respect the Constitution's clear separation of powers.  If one of them doesn't, there's no reason that the others should.

 

Put another way, if the Supreme Court can simply disregard the Executive branch's constitutional authority and allow it to be usurped by an inferior federal court, which is what happened, then there's no reason the Executive branch under Trump should pay any attention to what the Supreme Court says in this case, because it's trying to assert an authority it simply doesn't have.

So here's what happened.  [...]

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/06/if-the-supreme-court-is-going-to-ignore-the-constitution-trump-should-ignore-the-supreme-court/

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This Mess Is of Your Own Making, Chief Justice Roberts

 

[...] The number of absurdly partisan judicial orders purporting to thwart the Trump administration's executive actions — whether deporting illegal aliens, scrubbing the federal budget, laying off superfluous or unproductive federal employees, or other items that involve things purely within the purview of Article II powers under the Constitution — has only grown.

 

We've had a federal judge order President Trump to rehire 30,000 federal employees he laid off.  We've had more than one order him to spend money which violated an executive order he’d given.

And over the weekend, one of the silliest and most corrupt judges in America, James Boasberg of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., actually ordered the Trump administration to turn planes around that were in the process of deporting Tren de Aragua gang members to a prison in El Salvador.  [...]

 

https://spectator.org/this-mess-is-your-own-making-chief-justice-roberts/

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US judge blocks Trump’s ban on trans people serving in the military

A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from military service on Tuesday.  US district judge Ana Reyes in Washington DC ruled that the president’s order to exclude transgender troops from military service likely violates their constitutional rights.

 

She delayed her order by three days to give the administration time to appeal.

 

“The court knows that this opinion will lead to heated public debate and appeals. In a healthy democracy, both are positive outcomes,” Reyes wrote. “We should all agree, however, that every person who has answered the call to serve deserves our gratitude and respect.”

 

Reyes said she did not take lightly her decision to issue an injunction blocking Trump’s order, noting: “Judicial overreach is no less pernicious than executive overreach.” But, she said, it was also the responsibility of each branch of government to provide checks and balances for the others, and the court “therefore must act to uphold the equal protection rights that the military defends every day”.

 

Just going to say the quiet part out loud: since when are judges supposed to be encouraging debate, instead of deciphering the law as it stands?  This is politician rhetoric.  The judicial's credibility is being decimated from the inside out.  

 

Judge Reyes claiming "all means all" and that this is a matter of equality, is preposterous.  Enlistment is by nature discriminatory, and the DOJ determining those who have mental illnesses and/or supposed necessary application of therapies, medications, and surgeries as disqualifying, is not unreasonable.  What IS unreasonable, is expecting medics to stock HRT overseas, taxpayers to cover cosmetic surgeries, and fellow service members to risk sharing a unit with someone who is not completely mentally and physically sound while putting their life on the line for this country.

 

Sorry, I'm beyond incensed.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/judge-blocks-trump-executive-order-trans-military-ban

Edited Thursday at 03:27 PM by hplusj

[Crazy Cat 42,856]

8 minutes ago, hplusj said:

Judge Reyes claiming "all means all" and that this is a matter of equality, is preposterous.  Enlistment is by nature discriminatory, and the DOJ determining those who have mental illnesses and/or supposed necessary application of therapies, medications, and surgeries as disqualifying, is not unreasonable.  What IS unreasonable, is expecting medics to stock HRT overseas, taxpayers to cover cosmetic surgeries, and fellow service members to risk sharing a unit with someone who is not completely mentally and physically sound while putting their life on the line for this country.

The way I see it, the military and the Commander and Chief have the right and responsibility to set the standards for military service....not some judge. 

Edited Thursday at 03:34 PM by Crazy Cat