INSIDER: What’s the point of having a president if judges crown themselves kings and queens?

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Just about seven months ago, the American people resoundingly voted to elect Donald J. Trump as their president and gave him a decisive mandate to carry out badly needed reforms.

But it’s since been looking as though elections don’t matter, and really, what’s the point of having a president in the first place if unelected judges can nullify the will of the electorate with their politicized rulings?

In the early stages of Trump’s second term, the resistance has moved from the Justice Department and the bureaucracy to the courts with the president’s efforts to deliver results on the illegal immigration crisis, foreign agitators stoking antisemitism on campus, and cleaning out corruption and waste in the government being stymied with an endless series of national injunctions and restraining orders that have effectively paralyzed the administration.

In the latest and most outrageous case of lawfare du jour, unelected judges moved to commandeer the chief executive’s ability to use his authority to impose tariffs on exploitative countries – which when it comes to ripping off the US, includes most of the world – and to bring manufacturing back home after decades of job losses that have decimated lives and made America dependent on adversaries such as China.

It’s official: elections do not matter. Only the courts set policy. pic.twitter.com/Yi5MhyKWzb

— Just Loki (@LokiJulianus) May 29, 2025

With a Wednesday night ruling, the Manhattan-based Court of International Trade blocked Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, a stunning escalation with the activist courts having avoided interjecting themselves into economic matters, which are now also apparently on the table as judges all but openly declare themselves to be kings.

China was jubilant, and they should be considering the way that the US political system has been dynamited by Democrats and their saboteurs on the bench.

But the extension of lawfare into international trade policy may have been a bridge too far with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rapidly moving to at least temporarily pause the ruling, a win for Trump, but it does nothing to address the much larger issue.

The trickle of injunctions has become a mighty flood, with Thursday seeing another Barack Obama-appointed judge move to block Trump’s cutting Harvard’s enrollment of foreign students, a win for the elite Ivy League nest of antisemitism that may as well just change its name to Jihad University.

And still another Obama appointee, U.S District Judge Rudolph Contreras, also moved to usurp Trump’s presidential trade authority by following the Court of International Trade with his own blocking of the tariffs.

The latest injunctions come as other federal judges have already inserted themselves as the ultimate authorities on matters of national security by barring Trump from deporting violent criminal illegal alien thugs and demanding that those who have already been kicked out of the country be brought right back and presumably put back out onto the streets to commit acts of rape and murder.

So far, Trump hasn’t done what some have urged by just ignoring the rogue lower court judges, perhaps confident that he will ultimately prevail at the Supreme Court.

However, the current composition of the SCOTUS is not in Trump’s favor with so-called conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett increasingly joining the other women and Chief Justice John Roberts potentially being the deciding vote after having himself often sided with the left side of the bench, and he has publicly scolded Trump on more than one occasion in recent months.

Add Roberts into this witches’ brew, and we have a leftist Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/IBsTGS8Zc8

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 20, 2025

When civil liberties were stomped on by Democrats during the COVID pandemic and the Biden regime ran roughshod over every established norm with its weaponization of the legal system, there wasn’t a peep from the so-called principled judges who are little more than robed activists who obviously fancy themselves as being superior to American voters, like kings and queens.

The SCOTUS needs to act because either elections matter or they don’t. And if unelected judges can overturn them, perhaps it’s time to just do away with the entire rotten facade of a democratic system because whatever now exists in the US isn’t it.

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