We've been talking a lot here lately about the danger of left-wing judges who basically ignore the law and the Constitution in search of any pretext, however flimsy, to toss out perfectly legal actions taken by President Trump. This is why Democrats are so terrified by the rise of judges like Neil Gorsuch, and even more so, the opportunity Trump will have throughout his presidency to give lifetime appointments to conservative judges at other levels of the federal judiciary. The courts are often the left's end run around the legislative process, but that end run is only available to them if they have enough left-wing judges on the courts to do their work for them.
If you want to see where this can lead if taken to its logical conclusion, let's go once again to Venezuela. The most recent legislative elections did not go well for the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro, who has presided over an economic and societal breakdown so severe Venezuelans struggle to access even basic day-to-day goods. It's so bad that the nation with possibly the greatest petroleum reserves in the world faces a gasoline shortage.
