Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, who is also a liberal, recently talked about this on FOX News and clearly sees this as judicial interference.
His point is simple. The people of America elected Trump, not a small group of activist judges.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
HEMMER: So the way we frame that question where there’s 650 district court judges across the country and what Barr says, a judge in the same court down the hall could disagree with him. That does not give the original judge the authority to go over the executive power. How do you view that?
TURLEY: No, I think there’s a legitimate complaint here. It’s like having a car where every passenger is grabbing the emergency brake. It’s pretty hard to drive that car.
And, you know, what you have here are judges that are imposing national injunctions which the Supreme Court, including liberals like Justice Kagan, have objected to. She said this is madness that you have all of these trial judges who are imposing national injunctions. Congress is looking at legislation to curtail the ability of lower court judges to do precisely that.
So I think there’s merit to that. I think that the Trump administration is likely to win. I also think the Trump administration is likely to prevail in most of these cases.
I think that federal judges have overextended themselves. I think they have intruded into areas of Article II or presidential authority. […]
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