When Justice Devolves into Judicial Tyranny

“Progressive” judges are tipping the scales against President Donald Trump.

From time to time, Lady Justice’s blindfold slips — but today, our great American symbol of fairness has had her reassuring blindfold ripped off altogether by hundreds of Chuck Schumer-like judges. Justice and fairness have been abandoned.

The organized opposition that hamstrung Trump during his first term and grew more intense and malicious in the Biden years — accurately dubbed “lawfare” – is manifesting during these early months of his second term as “judgefare.” Powerful officers of the federal courts ensconced in liberal enclaves are blocking Trump’s agenda at every turn, making no pretense of impartiality.

Patriotic Americans, whose sense of justice flows from their reverence for eternal truths, should stand firmly against this fresh form of judicial tyranny.

‘Out of Control’

James Boasberg, the fully compromised chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has distinguished himself in recent days by wielding his authority in an attempt to foil Trump’s paramount campaign pledge to “make America safe again.” The Barack Obama-appointed jurist attempted to force a planeload of accused Venezuelan gang members who were apprehended stateside on charges of murder, rape, and other atrocities to veer from its deportation-bound flight path and return to its point of origin in Texas. Maddeningly, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals backed his stance. Fortunately for crime-weary Americans, the plane had already left U.S. airspace.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said simply, “This is an out-of-control judge.”

Boasberg is far from the only rogue jurist, however. Judge Leo Sorokin of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has also sided with proponents of unfettered immigration against the president. From his deep-blue bench, Sorokin is blocking Trump’s executive order rescinding birthright citizenship — an unwarranted gift to anyone born in the U.S. which has helped to swell the number of illegal immigrants in this nation to 18.6 million, according to the Federation for Immigration Reform.

All told, the president is facing more than 100 additional legal challenges to his policies, thanks to a phalanx of 235 “progressive” federal judges that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) proudly claims to have shepherded through confirmation during the Biden administration.

Power and Principle

At the heart of the black-robed legal insurrection is a regrettable rejection of America’s founding principles. Within Schumer’s Democratic Party establishment, the Declaration of Independence is regarded as a vestige of old-fashioned religiosity, with its assertion “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

And rather than being taken at its original meaning, the U.S. Constitution is viewed as a document to fold, spindle, and mutilate in accordance with the wishes of the modern cadre of cultural trendsetters. That is why Barack Obama felt comfortable announcing his intention of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” as far back as 2008.

Justice must not be hammered into a progressive concept — or, for that matter, a conservative one. Attempts to do so invariably end up producing a struggle for raw power unmoored from principle. Such is the case of activist Judge Boasberg, who has foolishly usurped the authority of a president attempting to keep innocent men, women, and children safe from the predations of criminal illegals.

Americans instinctually know the difference between right and wrong. So long as Trump is careful to meet judicial tyranny with a common-sense appeal to fairness, they will back his efforts to compel Lady Justice to reposition her blindfold and move the nation toward, in the words of the Constitution, “a more perfect union.”

Frank Perley is a former senior editor and editorial writer at The Washington Times.