Miranda Devine: Trump is fighting a cartel of vile, corrupt and far-left judges trying to kill his campaign promises

If you ever doubted that Washington’s corrupt cartel of Democrat law firms, judges, NGOs, and deep state bureaucrats is a machine designed to thwart the Trump administration, just watch as judge after judge blocks the president’s ability to keep his campaign promises. It may not be brown paper bags changing hands, but this lawfare that defies the people’s will is every bit as corrupt. It will be up to the Supreme Court to define the limits of presidential authority, but Chief Justice John Roberts’ preemptive scolding of Trump for musing about judicial impeachment doesn’t bode well for the president. Trump won a thumping mandate in the November election, winning every swing state, the popular vote and both houses of Congress.Democrats are rudderless, fighting each other and incapable of mounting an effective opposition. So they are depending on the federal courts to be the “Last Bulwark Against Trump” as The New York Times puts it, celebrating the fact that almost 600 federal judges in courtrooms from Rhode Island to Seattle can issue emergency rulings to “stop the White House in its tracks.” Politico has dubbed it the “court case presidency,” noting approvingly that “the courts have provided the only real opposition to Trump 2.0 so far.” And so they have.

According to Attorney General Pam Bondi, judges issued more than 14 injunctions against Trump’s administration actions in February alone, with 160 “resistance” lawsuits winding their way through the system. For example, we had Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, blocking the deportation of illegal alien criminals deemed a national security threat. Judge Theodore Chuang, an Obama appointee, blocked DOGE’s dismantling of USAID, which turned out to be a slush fund for shady Democrat projects rather than a foreign aid agency, and ordered a stop to the freeze on $2 billion being sent out of the country. Judge Ana Reyes — a Biden appointee — blocked Trump’s execut...