Author Margot Cleveland profile“‘[E]veryone, from the President on down, is bound by law.’ That goes for judges too,” the Supreme Court declared last week in holding several lower court judges erred in entering nationwide injunctions in the lawsuits challenging Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. The Supreme Court’s Friday decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc. represents the high court’s most recent check on what it branded an “imperial judiciary.” Yet, there appears no end in sight to the lower courts’ entry of lawless injunctions against the Trump Administration.

The Supreme Court — or more specifically, Chief Justice John Roberts — holds much blame for enabling this coup by court. Early on during the second Trump Administration, when single district court judges began crowning themselves Kings (or Queens) of the Constitution, rather than forcefully halt the lawlessness of the lower courts, Justice Roberts led the high court in providing gentle corrections. …

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