The Judiciary’s role in a Uniparty System.

President Trump’s immigration and economic policies – everything he does and attempts to do actually – are under attack from the federal judiciary. An unprecedented number of lawsuits have been filed against the administration’s actions and policies and many of the plaintiffs are prevailing, at least initially.

Far-left plaintiffs are “cherry picking” the judges who will oversee their cases. Cases filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. and New York City by leftist plaintiffs are almost guaranteed to receive a favorable ruling no matter how ridiculous and unconstitutional they may be, which then may or may not be overturned on appeal.

But not a few of the favorable results are a result of rulings by judges appointed by none other than Donald Trump himself, as well as George W. Bush.

I don’t have the time to do a deep dig into every federal judge to see how many nominated by Trump, George W. Bush and Bush Sr. have actually turned out to be conservatives, but a look at the Supreme Court justices appointed since the Nixon administration is sufficient to illustrate why the federal judiciary skews hard-left despite the White House being occupied by Republicans for 32 of the past 56 years.

Going back to the Nixon Administration, Republican have successfully nominated the following Supreme Court Justices: Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis Powell, William Rehnquist, Warren Burger, John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

Of those 15 Justices, only Rehnquist, Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch have proven to be reliable “conservatives.” The rest were/are “swing votes” or outright liberals. Barrett was supposed to be a female version of Scalia but other than on abortion she often votes with the liberals.

Here’s the list of Justices nominated by Democrat Presidents during the same time period: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. All of them reliable hard-core liberals.

Fifteen Justices nominated by Republican administrations since 1968, including three Chief Justices, compared to just five by Democrat administrations over the same time period – yet the “conservatives” have never been able to achieve a genuine, reliable majority on the Supreme Court. That should only surprise those Americans who still think the Republicans are a genuine opposition to the Democrats (Communists) rather than collaborators, or at best they play defense until the Democrats always eventually get their way. That’s how it works in a uniparty system dominated by leftists and globalists. The Republicans remain the Washington Generals to the Democrats’ Harlem Globetrotters.

During his first term, Trump nominated Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett. Only Gorsuch is a reliable conservative. Kavanaugh is pretty good but not completely reliable, while Barrett has been yet another disaster.

Six members of the current Supreme Court were nominated by Republican Presidents, yet there is still no reliable conservative majority.

Many federal judges nominated by Republican administrations are members of the Federalist Society, which is nominally referred to by the corporate media as “conservative” but which actually represents the more globalist-oriented wing of the party, aka RINOs. So the Democrats always nominate true-blue leftist judges while the Republicans nominate a combination of good conservatives but also enough RINOs to ensure that there is never a legitimate opposition to the entrenched status quo.

As I have recently written in another Substack column (https://donwassall.substack.com/p/postcards-from-the-empire-c6c), this same pattern holds true among GOP politicians at the local and state levels:

“The Republican Party is very weak at the local and state levels. Well, not necessarily weak when it comes to keeping the party predominantly a closed country club for grifters and Chamber of Commerce nerds; it’s the elected politicians of the party across the country who are weak because they too often consist of collaborators and emasculated cowards when it comes to standing up for their country in its time of dire need.

“It should surprise Trump’s MAGA base that the Republican Party is the weakest in the ‘reddest’ states, the ones where it should be establishing and then exporting rock-ribbed alternatives to the communist wastelands of California, Oregon, Washington State, Illinois, New York and the other ‘blue’ strongholds.”

Writing for the Federalist, Shaun Fleetwood also notes the phenomenon of RINOs dominating “red states”:

“In many so-called ‘red states’ across America, Republican lawmakers are quietly thwarting the will of their constituents.

“. . . and that’s only Texas and Florida. The situation is just as bad in other GOP-run states. In Oklahoma, Attorney General Gentner Drummond — who’s running for governor next year — is actively fighting in court to prevent the establishment of the nation’s first religious public charter school. Last week, the Oklahoma Republican’s counsel argued on his behalf before the U.S. Supreme Court, pushing Drummond’s outlandish claim that the board’s sponsorship of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School violates the Oklahoma Constitution and the U.S. Constitution’s establishment clause.

“In North Dakota, GOP Gov. Kelly Armstrong vetoed two bills last month containing policy priorities widely supported by Republican voters. While one sought to expand school choice, the other stipulated that a ‘public library or a school district may not maintain in an area easily accessible to minors explicit sexual material.’ As The Blaze’s Daniel Horowitz noted, it’s unlikely there are enough votes in the GOP-dominated legislature to override Armstrong’s vetoes.

“In Montana, nine Republican senators were censured by the state GOP last month for actions the latter claims amounted to ‘undermining the Republican majority leadership, and giving control of the Senate floor to Democrats,’ and ‘obstructing key Republican priorities.’ The state party said in a statement that the GOP senators in question ‘are no longer considered by the MTGOP as Republicans for the damage they have exacted on the Montana Senate by undermining the Republican Senate leadership, the Republican Party, and the will of the Montana Republican voters.’

“In Tennessee, the GOP-controlled legislature ended its session a few weeks ago without passing a pair of bills that sought to effectively bar illegal immigrant children from enrolling in state schools. Had one or both of the measures passed and been signed into law, it likely would have teed up a challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1982 Plyler v. Doe decision, which stipulated that states cannot deny a free public education to children of illegal aliens.

“In Wyoming, Republican Gov. Mark Gordon declined to sign a bill earlier this year requiring residents to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in elections. While Gordon didn’t veto the measure and allowed it to become law without his signature, he parroted unsubstantiated concerns about voter disenfranchisement when explaining his decision to forgo signing the legislation.” https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/05/conservatives-cant-make-america-great-again-until-they-hold-red-state-rinos-accountable/

The MAGA movement at the highest levels should be working non-stop to help Trump supporters take over state GOPs and to recruit strong qualified MAGA supporters to run for office at the local and state levels. This could have been accomplished much more easily if more effort had been made to sign up Trump supporters at his huge rallies. Instead, just like Pat Buchanan’s presidential runs as a Republican in the 1990s, there was very little follow-up and so when Buchanan failed to win the GOP’s presidential nomination his movement quickly withered. Similarly, Trump seems to be more interested in maintaining a cult-like following than building a bottom-up grassroots movement that will remain in place after he’s no longer on the scene, because even though he is still going strong at nearly age 79, Father Time eventually catches up to everyone.

But by recently endorsing the re-election campaign of ultra-RINO Lindsey Graham and asking for someone to primary Thomas Massie of Kentucky, the most principled member of Congress, it’s becoming obvious that like Buchanan, Trump will mostly remain a one-man show albeit a much bigger one than Pat ever dreamed of becoming.

And Trump’s continued inaction on many fronts is extremely worrying. As Donald Jeffries wrote in his most recent Substack piece:

“The People, at least the 70 million or so MAGA voters, are under the impression that they have ‘won’ something with Trump back in office. I heard Alex Jones brag about all the ‘winning’ that’s been going on. I must have missed that. The DOGE disclosures were great. But there has yet to be a single person held accountable for the 800 zillion or so in fraud that Elon Musk claims has been discovered. And I don’t see any benefits coming from the 800 gazillion or so that Musk claims has been saved. Trump has variously said that everyone making under $150,000 should pay no taxes, that tips, overtime and Social Security shouldn’t be taxed, and that the income tax should be eliminated. I just had to pay my taxes again last month. Trump even said he might abolish the IRS. Trump, if you haven’t noticed, says that he ‘might’ do a lot of things. And then, of course, there’s that $5,000 taxpayer refund from DOGE.

“The status of all these Trump promises is difficult to ascertain. That’s the magic of Trumpenstein. You just say different things that often are in diametrical opposition to each other, and no one calls you out on it. The mainstream demons don’t want to remind him of his suggestions which might actually make things better, and the MAGA people are simply stuck in the 4D chess, ‘two more weeks’ mode. Big arrests are coming! Kash Patel means business! There were stories all over the alt media in recent days about how DOGE discovered that Clinton sycophant and probable cannibal John Podesta had set up a $375 billion EPA slush fund under Biden. I don’t know, but that sounds like it’s some kind of crime. Let me know when Kash Patel, or Pam Bondi, prosecutes him. . .

“These stories flare up for a few days, and then disappear into the memory hole. Already, the JFK hearings have been forgotten. Now, former Rep. Curt Weldon, who never displayed any kind of independence when he was in Congress, has suddenly become a vocal 9/11 Truther. Ron Johnson is supposedly interested. I’m sure our ‘representatives’ will get to the bottom of it. And with the recent ‘suicide’ of Virginia Giuffre, the lovely Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s interest in the Epstein files has been rekindled. She took Pam Bondi to task again, because Pam Bondi doesn’t appear to be doing anything with all the juicy files she has had ‘on her desk’ for at least a few months. It’s probably only me, but Luna looks even cuter when she’s angry. At any rate, the Epstein list is MIA, like all those American POWs we left behind in Korea and Vietnam. No one did anything about that, either. . .

“What about Elon Musk? And DOGE? Is DOGE still auditing anything? If so, what? What happened to the Pentagon audit that Trump approved? For that matter, what happened to the guided tour of Fort Knox? Lots of promises. How many were kept? Has Trump placed an actual, tangible tariff on any country? We hear bluster, constantly shifting figures, but what really was done? Has this crazy stock market roller coaster ride been the result of threats, rather than policy? As can’t be repeated enough, where Trump is involved, everything is unclear. This is your official ‘opposition’ to all the tyranny and corruption, ladies and gentlemen. Instituting tariffs before rebuilding factories. Vacillating between pleas for peace and warmongering. ‘Mass deporting’ fewer illegals than Biden. Name calling and buffoonery. Trump governs like the WWE Hall of Famer he is.” donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/nothing-really-happens-in-wwe-politics

I’m not ready yet to call the President “Trumpenstein” but it’s undeniable that after a great start, Trump 2.0 has come to a grinding halt. Not a single criminal or traitor from the hellish Biden years has yet been arrested or even charged. With each passing day there’s more cause for concern. Because despite being repudiated soundly and looking like the clueless communist idiots since the November election that they are, the left still maintains dominance in every sphere of power and influence except for the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, and RINO betrayal in all three is setting up the Communist Party aka the Democrat Party to recapture Congress in a year and a half, which will all but end MAGA as an effective force. And if the radical left takes over the White House in 2028, you can bet they will once again go after their enemies even more viciously than they did the past four years. As I’ve written before, when it comes to insulting his adversaries, Donald Trump is Don Rickles, but when it comes to punishing those same enemies for all they’ve inflicted on not just him but the American People, Trump is more forgiving than Mother Theresa. Something doesn’t add up, does it?

https://donwassall.substack.com/p/postcards-from-the-empire-f16