by Paul Craig Roberts

If Trump plays by the corrupt judiciary’s rulings and allows judicial edicts to override executive orders, he and his movement are finished. 

One can say that the absurd judicial edicts will be overturned by higher courts, but, as Trump says, stopping the President from acting gives the corrupt Democrats, who have been stealing the American taxpayers blind for years, time to cover up, to “lose” data, “mistakenly” erase it, etc.  Moreover, trust in higher courts overlooks that the judiciary is not indifferent to its own power and often rules not on the basis of law, precedent, and the Constitution, but in the interest of its own power.

The Democrat corruption includes  the judiciary.  By accepting a judge’s use of judicial edicts that have zero basis in law, Trump is risking conceding victory to his and our enemies.

The corrupt judiciary seems determined to impose its power over the executive in order to block Trump’s agenda.  Here is an example. John Bates, a District of Columbia federal district judge appointed by the disastrous George W. Bush regime, has ordered Trump to reinstate funding for the  gender ideology websites that Trump abolished. This is not merely a judge claiming authority over the US budget.  It is also a judge ordering a president to reinstate the executive order of a predecessor. Biden can order the funding of gender ideology and DEI federally funded websites, but Trump cannot order the termination of their funding.  What is John Bates’ edict based on other than his personal preference?  Nothing.  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-federal-judge-orders-trump-admin-restore-gender/

A leftwing lobby group called “Doctors for America” brought a lawsuit to the obliging John Bates claiming that Trump had harmed their ability to provide needed medical care.  Not only does John Bates have zero authority for his ruling, the lawsuit is utter nonsense. Trump’s executive order does not prevent doctors from “helping” people with gender change operations.  All the executive order does is to stop federal government funding of gender change websites.  In other words, there is no basis for John Bates ruling even if the ruling was within the judiciary’s power.  Would it be OK with John Bates for the federal government to fund anti-abortion websites, anti-illegal immigration websites?

Consider also that the partisan Democrat DOJ attorneys, who did everything in their power to ruin Trump and his supporters, will be certain not to well argue Trump’s side of the  case in courts, preferring Trump’s defeat.  They will go through the motions and be content to lose the case for Trump.

When the judiciary g0t in President Andrew Jackson’s way, he ignored it.  Trump could do the same thing.