Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson predicted Tuesday on his show that the Trump administration will next have to confront “insurrectionary judges,” as federal courts continue to challenge the administration and Congress.
District Court Judge Joseph LaPlante, a George W. Bush appointee, issued a new nationwide block on President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship Thursday — marking the first such ruling since the U.S. Supreme Court ended lower courts’ ability to block policies. While discussing continued federal pushback on “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson called the judges “egomaniac, narcissistic people.”
“These guys are so arrogant. I mean they tried to nullify a congressional act, you know about defunding Planned Parenthood. They’d always said they were only going after executive orders,” Hanson said. “These judges are really egomaniac, narcissistic people. They think that they can run the country. I don’t know, I think we’re gonna get to the point though where we’re gonna get some insurrectionary judges. I don’t know how they would enforce it. They’re not federal law enforcement.”
On June 27, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, found that lower courts had exceeded their authority by issuing a nationwide block on President Donald Trump’s order to limit birthright citizenship. (RELATED: Supreme Court Lets Trump Admin Move Forward With Slashing Education Department Staff)
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Prior to the high court’s ruling, the Trump administration had appealed three lower court orders that blocked the limits on birthright citizenship, which were set to take effect in April. The administration then asked the Supreme Court to restrict district judges from blocking nationwide policies through universal injunctions.
“But we’re getting to a point when you’re shooting ICE agents, and you have people egging them on, or you have Hakeem Jeffries posing with a bat, or you have Democrats saying that our constituents want us to take a bullet and get violent,” Hanson added. “Or you got Jasmine Crockett every day spouting off about white people. I think you’re getting to a point, if we’re not careful, it’s gonna be scary. It is scary now.”
In addition to judges like LaPlante stepping in to block the Trump administration, Obama-appointed federal Judge Indira Talwani issued an injunction July 7 temporarily restraining Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” from cutting funds to Planned Parenthood under Medicaid.
Despite the budget resolution being approved by lawmakers and signed by Trump on July 4, Talwani extended the temporary restraining order on Friday.
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