Craig Huey, California refugee and marketing expert, offered a solution that Congress could pursue to bar activist leftist judges from issuing rulings designed to block executive actions made by President Donald Trump.
Since Trump assumed office, many of his executive orders have been blocked from taking effect by rulings issued by district court judges.
For example, Trump’s executive order pausing funding of foreign aid assistance programs was struck down by a single judge, U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali, last month.
In another example, Trump’s executive order directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take down webpages promoting gender ideology was also struck down by a single judge, U.S. District Judge John Bates.
Huey said the conduct by the judges ruling to block Trump’s executive actions is “judicial resistance.”
“These judges at a district level are trying to impose their own political ideology on the entire nation,” Huey explained on Tuesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
“They are legislating from the bench with their own political ideology. They do not look at the Constitution. They do what they interpret to be the right thing to do in their political, ideological eyes,” Huey added.
Huey said the transformation of the judiciary began under the Obama administration and ramped up during the Biden administration.
“What has happened is that the judiciary has been transformed by Obama, by Biden, where they have cherry picked ideologues. Now, that’s contrary to what Trump has done in appointing strict constructionists who look at the Constitution, look at the law, and whether they agree with it or not, they interpret it. That’s what you want,” Huey said.
“These judicial activists are part of the judicial resistance to stop anything that Trump is doing,” Huey added.
Huey said there are two ways to stop activist judges from overriding executive actions – impeachment and congressional action on restructuring the district court process.
“We’ve got to be able to hold these judges accountable. Again, these are people who are Democrat donors, they go to political rallies. They’re activists in a black suit, and they got a gavel. This is a battle for the soul of America with these judges. So Andy Ogles and several other congressmen are willing to impeach some of these activist judges, and I think that is an incredible spotlight on what is going on in the abuse of the judiciary. That is one thing that can be done,” Huey explained.
“The second thing, we have to take a look at how to restructure this. One district court cannot make a decision for the whole United States. That’s what’s happening. So Congress can reconfigure so that you have, say, three district court judges who have to be in agreement, and then you’d have a fast track way to the Supreme Court,” Huey added.
Huey said he believes restructuring the district courts so that a majority of three district judges must be in agreement to block an executive action is “the most logical way to be able to ensure a judiciary does not abuse its own power.”
“It’s just common sense to be able to prevent abuse by one rogue district court judge,” Huey said.
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