By Manzanita Miller
In a flurry of legal backlash, a number of federal Judges are moving to block key aspects of President Donald Trump’s America First agenda including exposing the abuse of taxpayer dollars in the federal budget and ending birthright citizenship for illegals.
As of this writing, at least four judges have attempted to block President Trump’s executive order ending amnesty for the children of illegal immigrants, and one has attempted to block the processing of three illegal Venezuelan nationals.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin blocked President Trump’s executive order ending citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, joining three other judges who are refusing to accept Trump’s executive order.
U.S. District Judge Joseph N. Laplante of New Hampshire blocked President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship on Monday, and last week, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman of Maryland issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.
U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour also issued a nationwide preliminary injunction to block Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship after issuing a temporary restraining order to pause the executive order two weeks ago.
On Sunday, Judge Kenneth Gonzales of the Federal District Court for New Mexico granted a preemptive restraining order blocking the U.S. government from sending three Venezuelan men detailed in the state to a military base designed to hold migrants in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The base is separate from the prison which houses terrorism suspects, yet Judge Gonzales saw fit to defy Trump’s attempt to deport Venezuelans who are in the country illegally.
These justices are shamelessly defying President Trump’s executive orders on immigration enforcement, which the people elected him to implement, and revealing the lengths they will go to protect illegals over the American people.
If the defenders of the status quo are riled up over Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship, they are arguably more irate at the Trump Administration’s inspection of the federal budget and it’s web of bureaucratic beneficiaries.
As of Thursday, fourteen states led by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez filed a federal lawsuit against President Trump and Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over Musk’s role, referring to Musk as a “designated agent of chaos”. Clearly, powerful individuals do not want Trump’s team combing through the government books.
Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas ordered lawyers to confer over an earlier order issued by Judge Paul A. Engelmayer that banned Elon Musk’s team at the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records.
With DOGE locked out of the Treasury Department’s records, the auditing team is unable to verify that taxpayer dollars are being spent appropriately and legally, something that is understandably in question after DOGE unearthed rampant abuse of taxpayer funds in other areas of government.
Another judge, U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. of Rhode Island has attempted to block portions of Trump’s federal funding pause. McConnell recently ordered the Trump Administration to “immediately restore frozen funding” for multiple agencies.
At a press conference Thursday, President Trump asserted that the flurry of legal orders from judges forcing his administration to halt in the auditing process is simply giving fraudsters time to cover their tracks.
“I follow the courts, I have to follow the law, all it means is that we appeal”, Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Feb. 13. “But that gives people time to cover their tracks, and that’s what they do.”
There is no explanation for this level of negligence other than the conclusion that these judges hold allegiance to the bloated bureaucracy over allegiance to the American people.
Manzanita Miller is the senior political analyst at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.
