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Who Really Are the Lawless and the Dictatorial?

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Posted By: Moritz55, 6/2/2025 3:41:05 PM

The left is in its usual sanctimonious but schizophrenic mood. The media claims daily that the Trump administration has usurped power. It is supposedly destroying democracy. It tramples on the rule of law and thus has created a virtual dictatorship. Yet at the same time, Democrats high-five the most recent district court judge who has put a stop to the current Trump executive orders—which the Trump administration abides by as it files appeals. There are two clear conclusions from the flurry of the lower-court liberal justices’ orders: 1) Trump has obeyed their record number of interventions as the appeals go forward; and 2) rarely in the history of the republic

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Starboard_side 6/2/2025 4:01:43 PM (No. 1958853)
What these clearly partisan judges have illustrated is they aren't unbiased arbiters of the law. They have been used by a cadre of progressive (very liberal) activists to do their bidding, which they've duly complied at every request.
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