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By John Zmirak, The Stream, July 6, 2023

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”

A belated “Thank you!” to President Donald Trump is long overdue.

In the past week, two different Stream authors have cited the crucial role that Trump’s impact on our federal courts is playing. Jason Jones noted that the U.S. Supreme Court, as reshaped by Trump, is our last line of defense against lawless federal agencies and our ruthless pagan elites “in the wake of the dodgy 2020 election, and given the failure of House Republicans to use the power of the purse to rein in the Deep State.”

Our columnist Mark Judge pointed to the role of that court in reversing the march of “punitive liberalism” which blames America for everything evil on earth, and wants to punish Americans accordingly. Judge’s own steely fortitude in resisting Christine Blasey Ford’s perjury aimed at destroying Brett Kavanaugh was crucial in making the current Court possible. …

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