Tyranny From the Bench - Part Two
In May of 2024, I wrote piece on SubStack titled, “Tyranny From the Bench”, which highlighted the litany of unconstitutional “law-fare” that was waged against Donald Trump for the purpose of preventing him from becoming the 47th President of the United States.
By the grace of God, as well as the blatant violations of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, the out-of-control rogue judicial system did not prevail. We the people overwhelmingly elected the only man that could withstand the abusive prosecution and persecution. These judicial tyrants couldn’t stop him from being elected President, but they have now declared war on Americans by squishing the power of the executive branch of government – power afforded in the U.S. Constitution. Thus part two of “Tyranny from the Bench” is here.
The Marxist radical Left has their hair on fire and continues to have public rants full of screaming, profanity, and some really bad singing in protest that Elon Musk, an appointed Sr. Advisor to the President, as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has too much power. Well, how about all the radical, unelected, unaccountable, activist federal judges who are usurping Trump’s executive authority?
The Democrat party is on life-support causing their desperation to fulminate against anything Trump’s “America First” agenda attempts to do in order to make America safe, strong, and prosperous again. Since members of Congress (both parties) do very little to legislate, President Trump has been experiencing writer’s cramp from signing a multitude of executive orders to clean up the disaster left by the Biden administration. As a result, the radical Left’s play book will again use the dysfunctional and corrupt judicial system to thwart any directive issued by President Trump.
The radical Left activist judges have opted to use “Injunction Dysfunction” as their political law-fare weapon du jour. An injunction is an order issued by a judge that forces a person or entity to perform an action or stop taking certain action. Activist organizations and judges insert themselves into the executive policy-making process, undermining the federal government’s democratically-issued mandate. The Left knows Trump only has less than four years to bring to fruition his promise to make America great again, so they are doing all they can to slow-down, impede, and disrupt any actions the Trump administration employs to deliver on that promise.
It takes a majority of 5 Supreme Court justices to make a favorable or unfavorable ruling on judicial matters pertaining to its co-equal branch of government and to uphold law or overturn laws or legal precedents. How then, does a solo district court judge have the authority and power to stop an executive order of a President utilizing a national injunction? Yet, it’s happening almost on a daily basis.
As of this writing, there have been 139 temporary or preliminary injunctions; restraining orders; or law suits filed against the Trump administration just since being sworn in for his second term. During his first term in office, he had 64 total injunctions, with 59 of those issued by a judge appointed by a Democrat President.
It should also be noted that from 2001 to 2023 there have been a total of 127 injunctions against Presidents Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden. That’s right, Trump has over half of those just in his first term, and his second term has doubled that. Gee, what’s wrong with that picture?
The profusion of injunction dysfunction in just the first 60 days since January 20th, take aim at an assortment of issues, such as: deportation of illegal alien terrorists/gang member; withholding federal funds to sanctuary cities; revoking birthright citizenship; transferring illegal aliens; keeping men out of girls sports; and the detention and attempted deportation of a pro-Palestinian activist green-card holder, Mahmoud Khalil.
In addition to the samples of injunctions just listed, there have been a whole slew of desperate injunctions against the transparent and necessary actions of DOGE. Each time Elon Musk reveals the waste, fraud, and abuse of one of our supposed trusted federal agencies, the Schumers, Shiffs, Raskins, Warrens, Jeffries, Pelosis, AOCs, Crocketts, and others freak out as if they are vampires being presented with a crucifix.
These elected officials could care less about this country, and are doing everything to stop our government from being efficient, and lowering our massive national debt. And it seems the list of rouge federal judges, who have been “assigned” these cases to file injunctions, hate America just as much as many of our elected officials.
Article III, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitutions states: “…The Judges, both of the Supreme Court and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior and shall, at stated times receive for their services a compensations which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.”
Although the Constitution does not explicitly order life-time tenure, it is simply implied. Lifetime appointments for federal judges, while intended to preserve judicial independence, bring with them challenges that question the impartiality and effectiveness of the judiciary, especially because they are appointed and confirmed by the party who holds the power in the White House and Congress.
These reprobate judges think their highly biased decisions and Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) can override the will of the vast majority of voters who put Trump in the White House to save America. The majority of these Democrat-appointed rascals are located in the DC District Court, which makes it so very convenient for judge shopping.
All states have at least one federal district court, but these are often divvied into smaller divisions that usually automatically assign cases among one or two judges. Litigants can strategically file in a division with an ideologically-friendly judge to boost their odds of a favorable ruling. That is what is taking place now at an alarming pace. This is referred to as “judge shopping” which is a practice where by litigants hand-pick judges who are sympathetic to their ideological goals in order to evade random assignment.
The Supreme Court has never ruled on whether a single judge can issue a nationwide injunction stopping conduct or barring government from acting. Liberals and conservatives alike have used this for years. The Supreme Court needs to address this immediately, but they likely won’t.
In Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilton wrote: “The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.”
And, in Federalist No. 79, he wrote: “The precautions for their responsibility are comprised in the article respecting impeachments. They are liable to be impeached for malconduct by the House of Representatives, and tried by the Senate; and, if convicted, may be dismissed from office, and disqualified for holding any other. This is the only provision on the point which is consistent with the necessary independence of the judicial character, and is the only one which we find in our own Constitution in respect to our own judges.”
It appears with the recent rash of injunction dysfunction has severely unbalanced the balance of power dictated by the U.S. Constitution. To file a national injunction, a plaintiff must establish there will be irreparable harm without an injunction. Enter chief judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia, James “Jeb” Boasberg, who has a history of ruling unfavorably in cases or filings dealing with Trump.
Do you remember former FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith during the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax? He was the one who doctored the email about Carter Page’s relationship with the CIA. He was convicted, and given just a gentle slap on the wrist and said he was “truly ashamed.”
Well, guess who was the presiding judge – that’s right it was Boasberg.
Judge “Jeb” Boasberg also presided over approximately 70 cases against defendants charged with storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. While so many who attended the “Stop the Steal” rally on that fateful day were wrongfully charged with felonies and sentenced to unreasonable, and perhaps unconstitutional sentences, this judge also presided over the Ray Epps case. Epps was seen on video encouraging and inciting rally-goers to enter the Capitol. After the corrupt prosecutor and Epps’ lawyer agreed to only charge Epps with a misdemeanor, Boasberg issued Epps another slap on the wrist sentence – twelve-month’s probation.
At the sentencing hearing, Boasberg slammed, who he called conspiracy theorists, by denying the FBI was involved in the J’s incident. Boasberg described the violence as an “insurrection by supporters of the former president and not some violent act instigated by antifa or the FBI.”
Boasberg has kept himself front and center on the judicial shelf, ready for any judge-shopping assignment that needs a partisan rubber stamp. Once again, Boasberg seized the opportunity to thwart Trump. He was “shopped” to be the judge to issue temporary restraining order prohibits the Trump administration from removing any illegal aliens solely on the basis of the “Alien Enemies Act of 1798,” that Trump invoked on March 14, 2025.
Trump cited in his proclamation, “Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States.”
The “Alien Enemies Act of 1798” states, “Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies.”
It is clear that the reckless and destructive actions of the Biden (or whoever was running the show during those four miserable years) administration, created dangerous and irreparable harm for Americans by allowing millions of illegal (many criminal) aliens invade our country.
But of course the Trump-hating Judge Boasberg doesn’t believe that Tren de Aragua and other criminal aliens invaded our country, or caused irreparable harm. Boasberg would rather side with the biased and unscrupulous ACLU and keep terrorist thugs in our country. Just ask the surviving victims or the families of the not-so-fortunate victims, if they support getting these criminal illegals removed from our country immediately.
And let’s not ignore the fact that Boasberg’s wife, Elizabeth Manson (not sure if related to Charles, or not) donated over $11,000 to Democrat candidates. And his daughter, Katherine Boasberg, is involved with the Partners for Justice, an NGO that provides legal services to criminal illegal aliens. No conflict of interest here!
If you support President Trump, you’re a domestic terrorist before trial. But if you break U.S. law and enter illegally, commit heinous crimes, and receive undeserved handouts from our government, Boasberg and the rest of the D.C. judiciary scum will fight for you and give you more rights than we the people! This isn’t about justice. It’s about power. And as long as activist judges control the courts, Americans will pay the price.
Because, let’s be honest, this is all the Left has left. They lost the White House. They lost the Senate. They lost the house. So they’re putting all their eggs in the last basket (agency) they’ve corrupted—the judiciary. And there are plenty of rogue, America-hating judges willing to join in the law-fare, or judge-fare.
But it doesn’t stop here. My plan was to submit this article two days ago, but the hits just keep on happening. Mr. Availability, a.k.a. Judge Boasberg just got “randomly assigned” to once again preside over a Trump administration case – Signal-Gate!
A far-left group called American Oversight, is filing the lawsuit, which alleges Mike Waltz, National Security advisor with violating the Espionage Act. This was the result of a liberal magazine editor (the Atlantic), Jeffrey Goldberg somehow being included or invited in a group chat on a national security Signal chat with Trump officials discussing actions against the terrorist Houthis in Yemen.
This same American Oversight group is also suing Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency and has attacked several Trump Cabinet nominees, including FBI Director Kash Patel, Hegseth, and Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins.
Now, Judge Boasberg has been singled out in this article, but little “Jeb” is NOT flying solo. He has a big band of judicial brothers and sisters who already have played the dysfunction injunction game, as well as the rest of those activist judges who are chomping at the bit to take down Trump and all for which he stands.
It is utterly unbelievable that lawmakers and members of our judicial system take an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, with judges additionally pledging to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties under the Constitution, but fail miserably at honoring their oath. It appears that impartiality went out with the twist. Activism and impartial don’t co-exist, and Lady Justice has tears in her eyes.
Who are the two biggest enemies of the Left? Trump and Musk. Why? Because they are from the private sector and are not swamp creatures always on the take. They have risked their lives (literally) to do what is right for America, and the world. Numerous members of Congress, as well as the judiciary are panicked, and in an uproar over the transparency by which this administration is divulging about the waste, corruption, and mismanagement by which our government has operated.
What judge or lawmaker would support criminal illegal aliens to roam our streets putting our citizens in harms way? What judge or lawmaker would support having billions of tax-payer money go to places, projects, and people that is completely wasteful or fraudulent? What judge or lawmaker would support having a minuscule minority of people’s rights (i.e. trans) dwarf or blot out the rights of the majority? What judge or lawmaker would support having males in female locker rooms, or competing against females? What judge or lawmaker would support non-citizen protestors with antisemitic views to lead rebellions and violent demonstrations on our soil? What judge or lawmaker would support our education system to deteriorate to the level it has and replace reading, writing, math, and science with gender studies and CRT?
It appears that currently we have too many lawmakers and judges that would answer “I do” to those questions. It’s long overdue that we start electing lawmakers at our local, state, and federal level that will answer “I don’t, and I won’t.” Then perhaps, in time, constitutional judges will replace the number of tyrannical judges who now sit on judicial benches. We must stop this judicial coup, and return to a balance of power in our government!
“While they promise these people freedom, they themselves are slaves to corruption, for a person is a slave to what has control of him.” 2 Peter 2:19
Mist Carter is Christian patriot who is the author of three books. Her most recent release, “We the People—Daily Devotional for Loving God & Country” is now available. Her previous books are titled, “Our Crumbling Foundation—Will God Cancel Us?” and “God’s Truth About America!” Proceeds from all her book sales go to support Tunnel to Towers!