BREAKING: Leftist Judges Shocked to Learn Trump Won’t Roll Over and Play Dead

by Kurt Schlichter

Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity…

OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions.

Stop. Panicking.

First, no one should be surprised by any of this. The administration certainly isn’t. We always knew exactly what they would do. Do not take the fact they are not screaming and yelling as them rolling over. They are not rolling over. There’s plenty going on behind the scenes as administration lawyers prepare their papers for the legal fight to come.

Second, since we have to have this fight, this is the time and the battleground to have it. Why? We want it settled right at the beginning of the administration so that we don’t have to deal with this down the road. And we want to fight on these orders because 1) they are manifestly the result of bad faith judge shopping and the opinions themselves are both procedural and 2) they are substantively ridiculous. They are legal jokes. Don’t listen to the dummy lawyers on Twitter – only listen to me or the people I tell you that you can rely on. Everyone telling you these are reasoned, valid legal decisions is either a legal illiterate or thinks you are stupid.

Third, the way this fight is happening is to our advantage. Wait, you ask, we’re getting decision after decision against us! How can that be good? Because they are leaving the Supreme Court no choice. People want Trump to sound off about this, but he doesn’t need to. What’s left unstated is the fact that he can just not obey these manifestly improper orders. They say it’s a constitutional crisis now, but that becomes a real one when they push Trump too far. He’s not going to submit forever to micromanagement of the executive branch by activist District Court judges in blue cities across America. And Chief Justice Roberts knows it.

CJ Roberts and majority of the court know these are ridiculous legally, and the last thing they want to do is stake the credibility of the Court – which famously has no divisions – on this kind of nonsense. They are not going to jump on the grenade that is these decisions. There might someday be a fight with a president about something where he is legally in the wrong, but this is not that time. This is not the hill the Supreme Court will die on. Wisely, Trump’s not adding fuel to the fire by threatening to do what it’s very clear he can do, which is disobey. This provides SCOTUS the cover it needs to deal with these upstart district courts without looking like Trump strong-armed it.

So relax and let the process go forward. We’re going to win on all these injunctions, and I expect fairly quickly.

Think of the Trump administration as a virulent but benevolent virus that has infected the monstrous, bloated, Vindmanesque blob that is the United States government. The beauty of it is that Trump, predominantly through DOGE but also through his other appointees and staffers, is using the state against itself much like a virus does. A virus will find a vulnerable cell, inject itself into it, and use the machinery of the cell to replicate itself. It turns the host cell against the organism. And that’s what Trump is doing as he infects and, hopefully, kills the hateful administrative state.

A pathogen infects the organism, and the organism tries to fight off the infection. That is like what’s happening here, except the main symptom of Trump fever is awesomeness. An organism typically has an immune system that identifies infectious agents and mutated cells and then attempts to destroy them. The problem for the Democrats is that they no longer control the federal immune system. Trump does. He owns the executive branch. Moreover, the Republicans own the legislative and judicial branches, too – or at least pretty much control the court where the judicial buck stops. We’re seeing some of the immune system response there as lower court district judges try to enjoin the executive from executing. The rulings of the liberal judges are all legal nonsense, but that’s par for the course. The executive has a right to do executive things, and administering programs is a quintessential executive function. These lower courts will slow down the process, but that’s been factored into the campaign plan. We expected it, and it won’t last long. For every major impediment at the district court level, you’ll have an appeal to the circuit, and eventually, big ones will get to the Supreme Court, which is going to toss out most of the challenges not simply because six judges are nominally conservative but because the legal theories are such garbage.

The courts are pretty much the only part of the immune system that is functioning right now. The immune system response within the executive branch has been completely neutered. Why? Like the HIV virus, Trump has specifically targeted the immune system actors within the executive branch. He fired a bunch of inspectors general who might have tried to interfere. He’s also fired a lot of senior bureaucrats in powerful positions who would have otherwise slow-walked orders, dissembled, obstructed, and generally fought the power. Trump learned something about the bureaucratic immune system when it stymied him during the Trump 1.0 administration. That’s why he’s gone directly at its throat, and it’s worked. There have been a few minor instances of internal resistance, but the administration has ruthlessly crushed them and summarily terminated the resistors. Trump sent others home to sit on the couch at full pay without access to their workstations before they could start causing problems. Sure, it’s expensive to rubber-room these losers but think of how much they’d cost if they were back pretending to do their jobs.

You can also fight an infection from the outside, which the Democrats are attempting to do. The problem is that it’s hard to fight a virus. There are few effective antivirals compared to antibiotics, which only affect bacteria. But even with antibiotics, a pathogen can develop resistance. We conservatives have developed a strong resistance to the regime media. Eight years ago, when the Russiagate hoax was spinning up, and it was “Russia, Russia, Russia!” all over the regime media 24/7, Republicans cared. Republicans don’t care now. The regime media has disgraced themselves over the last decade, and the Trump people are not about to slow their roll because the Washington Post calls them names.

Moreover, the Trump 2.0 infection is overwhelming all external attempts at intervention. It’s spreading so fast and infecting so many systems so hard from so many different directions that the regime media can’t figure out how to coordinate their response. The media’s ability to coordinate a response across the media was their most effective weapon. Every outlet and pundit would be on the same wavelength, with talking points memos having been issued and everybody sticking to the same narrative. But there are so many things going on now that by the time they figure out what they’re going to respond to from yesterday, the Trump administration has done five new things today. The virus is spreading too fast and mutating too quickly for traditional medicine to stop it.

The shrieking Democrat morons who try to counterattack from the outside are just as ineffective. You’ve got shrieking morons like Senator Chris Murphy whining on X about how Donald Trump is launching a coup, which is an interesting way to refer to exercising the power of the office he was just elected to. Nobody cares. You have that ridiculous fool Representative Jasmine Crockett crying about mediocre white males – I guess alienating one of the two largest groups of voters is a kind of strategy, though not the good kind – and gesticulating like a lunatic on CNN, which nobody watches. You have other senators and other congressjerks trying to disrupt the business of confirming nominees and passing legislation, but they’re in the minority, so they can sound off for a little while, and the Republicans can still do what they want. Representative Maxine Waters can get out there and try and provoke another riot, but with Republicans in charge of the Department of Justice and the DC US Attorney’s office, it’s probably not going to be fun for anybody who gets uppity with the burning and looting this time.

So, we have a disease racing rapidly through the organism that is focusing on not just the vital organs—in this case, the organs that fuel and fund the liberal administrative state—but also on the immune system that’s supposed to protect the organism from this kind of attack. The pathogen is largely immune to outside intervention by the regime media and the Democrats. There’s pretty much nothing they can do to stop it.

The problem for Democrats is it never really occurred to them that they wouldn’t always have their soft, girlish hands on all the levers of power, but now Trump‘s mighty fists have grabbed them, he’s able to do to Democrats what the Democrats did to us. They have no defense. The fever is hitting 110°F but they can’t do anything about it. It’s going to go on and on. Think of long COVID, except it’s Donald Trump sitting at the resolute desk every day, signing executive orders, smiling, and owning the libs for the next four years.

No, we are not sick of all the winning.