A judicial dictatorship

By Daniel Greenfield -- BombThrowersApril 26, 2017

The left’s blackmail comes down to procedural thuggery backed by the feigned moral authority of the media

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When the left lost Congress, it retreated to the White House. Having lost both Congress and the White House, it has retreated into its remaining state governments, corporations and the judiciary. The latter has begun to function like Venezuela’s judiciary. Except it’s functioning not as the arm of a sitting executive, but as the shadow government of a former executive. Repeated illegal and unconstitutional interference by federal judges with President Trump’s policies is creating a serious crisis. Nuking the filibuster means that the Supreme Court may eventually be able to resolve some of these crises, but the left is betting heavily that judicial sabotage alone will shut down some moves, such as the travel pause, while running out the clock might give it a shot at Congress.

The scale and scope of the sabotage is unprecedented

The scale and scope of the sabotage is unprecedented. As is the crisis that it’s ushering in. President Trump is being given three choices, to either abandon his key policy initiatives, spend indefinite amounts of time fighting just to begin implementing them or to go ahead anyway. None of these are good options. But they are the work of a left that clearly does not care how much damage it causes. The left has gained a great deal of power in part because of its willingness to bend and break the rules in any sector of government. When the left controls the legislature, it demands that a Republican White House defer to it. Even as a minority party, it demands the right to dictate the agenda of the majority. When in control of the White House, it acts unilaterally, ignoring both the legislative and judicial branches. Now, in control of little except portions of the judiciary, it’s pushing that limited power far beyond the boundaries of decency and constitutionality.

The left’s Deep State functions as a mobile dictatorship

The left’s Deep State functions as a mobile dictatorship that pops up and reemerges anywhere. The end of Obama just meant that the mobile dictatorship moved from the White House into sections of the judiciary. And that’s a troubling, but inevitable development. All of this poses a grave threat to the survival of the Republic. The left’s blackmail comes down to procedural thuggery backed by the feigned moral authority of the media. And the question, as always comes down to whether we are a nation of laws or a nation of leftists. This article first appeared at FrontPageMag.

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Daniel Greenfield——Bio and Archives Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.