On Monday, the Trump administration struck back at the legal-industrial complex’s war against MAGA. President Donald Trump’s Justice Department filed an emergency request asking the Supreme Court to take a stand on the “epidemic” of national injunctions that leftist district court judges are using to halt the Trump agenda.
Trump’s lawyers said on Monday that only the Supreme Court can stop this “power grab.”
The success of Trump’s presidency could hinge on whether the court will come down hard on this cozy collusion between anti-Trump litigants and injunction-happy judges.
In Monday’s emergency application, Trump’s Solicitor General Sarah Harris challenged a San Francisco district court judge’s injunction preventing federal offices in all 50 states, including Agriculture, Defense, Treasury and Commerce, from downsizing. In February, as the downsizing began, government unions and nonprofits sued in the Northern District of California, notorious for its leftist bias. They were immediately rewarded for their court shopping.
A sympathetic judge, William Alsup, commanded that the Trump administration hire back all 16,000 terminated provisional employees and indicated he would micromanage each reinstatement. […]
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