{"id":353083,"date":"2020-06-19T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=353083"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T20:01:51","slug":"the-era-of-judicial-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/06\/19\/the-era-of-judicial-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Living Through an Era of Judicial Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I have some thoughts on the Supreme Court ruling that happened that I want to get into and share with you today because it\u2019s even worse than what my original instincts about it were yesterday, and I\u2019ve come to this realization with the help of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativereview.com\/news\/horowitz-time-trump-conservatives-crush-judicial-supremacy-heres\/\">Daniel Horowitz at Conservative Review<\/a> again. He basically has laid out what we\u2019re up against.<\/p>\n<p>What we are up against is not liberal judges and conservative judges and Republican presidents coming up with the right appointees. That\u2019s not what\u2019s going on. What\u2019s going on is that we are living at a time in the so-called American experiment where the judicial branch believes it is supreme over the other two branches. We are having a direct problem with judicial supremacy, and you can see it in the ruling that came down on DACA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-353105\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061920-SCOTUS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061920-SCOTUS.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061920-SCOTUS-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061920-SCOTUS-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see it in any number of rulings. But the way it\u2019s manifesting itself&#8230; I didn\u2019t say it that way yesterday or the day before, but this is exactly what I was trying to get at. We had a caller yesterday who tried to tell me, &#8220;You know, you are wrong. Trump just has to redo this damn executive order, and the court said just do it the right way and we\u2019ll get you what you want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;You really believe that?&#8221; That might be what they said! Trump is never gonna get the Supreme Court to rule in his favor on this, and the reason why is the purpose of this Supreme Court as to make sure that the Obama presidency is not unraveled. Much of the Obama presidency was enacted via Obama executive orders, because Obama could not get legislation passed to affect his agenda, to implement it.<\/p>\n<p>He had a big thing in Obamacare, but, I mean, that didn\u2019t even get a single Republican vote. Contrary to what everybody thinks, Obama was not that popular. But there\u2019s another factor, and that factor is that Congress &#8212; and this has been the case for a number of years or maybe even decades. They\u2019re perfectly fine with the Supreme Court being the final authority. It takes the pressure off of them. It takes the heat off of them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/06\/17\/hawley-and-cotton-stand-out-as-conservative-heirs-to-trump\/\">like Josh Hawley from Missouri said earlier this week<\/a>, &#8220;We don\u2019t do legislation in the Senate anymore. We don\u2019t do legislation in the House anymore. The Supreme Court\u2019s where laws are coming from. The judicial branch is where laws are being written. The Supreme Court is where laws are being decertified as unconstitutional,&#8221; and the legislative branch is perfectly happy with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/06\/17\/hawley-and-cotton-stand-out-as-conservative-heirs-to-trump\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-352637\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061720-Hawley-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061720-Hawley-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061720-Hawley-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061720-Hawley-2-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t have to do the heavy lifting. They don\u2019t have to get into any area of controversy. They don\u2019t have to take on anything that might damage reelection or fundraising. The court, as is a human nature characteristic, is happy to take on this new power. But we do have&#8230; We\u2019re living in a moment where the Supreme Court &#8212; and the entire judiciary &#8212; think that they are supreme over the other two branches, and you can see it.<\/p>\n<p>You can see it in the wording of the majority opinion that Roberts wrote on the DACA thing. But it boils down to, if you want to put politics in it &#8212; and you can\u2019t keep the politics out of it. What it boils down to is, the practical result of all of this is that this Supreme Court is making sure the Obama administration is not unraveled by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump wrote his own executive order to get rid of Obama\u2019s executive order, and the Supreme Court said, &#8220;Well, yeah, no, Obama\u2019s executive order survives. You can\u2019t get rid of his executive order the way you did it. You gotta go back and do it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, they may go back and do it again. I\u2019m gonna tell you: The result\u2019s gonna be the exact same. They\u2019ll come up with another way of denying Trump what he wants to do, what he promised to do on DACA, because the objective is to make sure &#8212; for whatever reasons &#8212; the Obama presidency is not unraveled.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>Let me give you Trump\u2019s tweet on the Supreme Court ruling, \u2019cause I think all of this stuff dovetails. The president tweeted, and this was just this morning about 8:15: &#8220;The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won. They [the court] &#8216;punted,\u2019 much like in a football game &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be submitting enhanced papers shortly in order to properly fulfill the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling &amp; request of yesterday. I have wanted to take care of DACA recipients better than the Do Nothing Democrats, but for two years they refused to negotiate,&#8221; the Democrats, Congress. &#8220;They have abandoned DACA. Based on the decision the Dems can\u2019t make DACA citizens. They gained nothing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, they gained everything.<\/p>\n<p>They gained everything!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/06\/18\/the-chief-justice-of-the-deep-state-washington-establishment\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-352803\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061820-Roberts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061820-Roberts-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061820-Roberts-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-061820-Roberts-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>What the Democrats wanted is, &#8220;Supreme Court Tells Trump No,&#8221; and they got it. &#8220;Supreme Court Tells Trump to Go to Hell,&#8221; and they got it. &#8220;Supreme Court Tells Trump, &#8216;You Don\u2019t Know What You\u2019re Doing.'&#8221; &#8220;Supreme Court Tells Trump, &#8216;You Can\u2019t Do it This Way. Go Back, Figure Out How to Do it Right Like Any Other Normal President Would, and Tell Us Again How You Want to Do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However it is reported, the Democrats win big because it\u2019s reported as, &#8220;Gosh, this guy Trump has no idea what he\u2019s doing!&#8221; &#8220;Supreme Court Overrules Trump,&#8221; &#8220;Supreme Court Says &#8216;No\u2019 to Trump.&#8221; And then you have the ancillary stories: &#8220;Most Conservative Court in History Tells Conservative President (Raspberry!)&#8221; They\u2019re getting everything they want out of this. This essentially is, ladies and gentlemen, the court saying that Trump cannot get rid of anything Obama did unilaterally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Obama did it with an executive order, sorry, Mr. President, you can\u2019t get rid of it.&#8221; I don\u2019t think anybody realizes this. I think&#8230; Here, let me grab sound bite number&#8230; I think it\u2019s number 1 and 2. I don\u2019t have it right in front of me. Shannon Bream had Lindsey Graham on last night, and <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/06\/18\/the-chief-justice-of-the-deep-state-washington-establishment\/\">she played him a clip from this program<\/a>. The clip that they chose makes no sense here, but I have to play this to set up Graham\u2019s response, so here\u2019s sound bite number 1&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BREAM: I want to play something is from Rush Limbaugh, because he said that he thinks a lot of the establishment folks in Washington want to do whatever them to stop President Trump, and I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s including the Supreme Court, but here\u2019s what he said today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH ARCHIVE: But the thing they want is what they\u2019ve already got: &#8220;Supreme Court Says &#8216;No\u2019 to Trump.&#8221; &#8220;Trump,&#8221; whatever the headlines are, they\u2019re devastating &#8212; and it\u2019s all personal.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, when I read that when I got the sound bite roster, I said, &#8220;What the hell was I talking about?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-353150 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RUSHBREAM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RUSHBREAM.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RUSHBREAM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RUSHBREAM-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RUSHBREAM-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shannon Bream&#8230; Shannon, don\u2019t get mad at me here, but they cut that clip of me in such a way that I don\u2019t even know what I was saying! I don\u2019t know how you did. But I think it was a derivative of the point that I just made:<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats and the media got exactly what they want.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Supreme Court Says &#8216;No\u2019 to Trump!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Supreme Court Overrules Trump!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, Lindsey Graham was her guest, and she said to him, &#8220;A lot of people think that the headlines are overblown because they didn\u2019t lose on the merits of the case, and it didn\u2019t tell the Trump administration that they couldn\u2019t actually do it. But if you saw the initial explosion in the media, the headlines were all, &#8216;This is a terrible day for the president.\u2019 He even tweeted, you know, &#8216;Do you think Supreme Court doesn\u2019t like me?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what Graham said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But if you saw the initial explosion in the media, the headlines were all: This is a terrible day for the president. He even tweeted, you know, do you think the Supreme Court doesn\u2019t like me? Here\u2019s what Graham said.<\/p>\n<p>GRAHAM: I understand the president being disappointed. I disagree with the court. But here\u2019s what the court said. You can rescind the policy of Obama. You just have to do it differently than you chose to do it. It\u2019s not if you can overturn the DACA program. It\u2019s how you do it. It\u2019s not if; it\u2019s how. So the president, Trump, what can you do? You can issue a memo tomorrow declaring why you think the DACA program should be set aside, and I guarantee you you\u2019ll win if you do it the way Roberts says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-353151 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RUSHSHANNONLINDSEY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RUSHSHANNONLINDSEY.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RUSHSHANNONLINDSEY-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RUSHSHANNONLINDSEY-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RUSHSHANNONLINDSEY-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I just don\u2019t think that is the case, I\u2019m sorry, because I don\u2019t think Roberts intends to allow Trump a win on anything. Not DACA, not immigration. I think it\u2019s all about preserving the Obama presidency, for whatever reason, don\u2019t even ask me why. Easy answer is, first African-American president. We know that Roberts made his health care bill constitutional when it wasn\u2019t. So I don\u2019t know if that still holds over.<\/p>\n<p>I think, actually, what it is is there\u2019s just a total hatred for Trump among the elites and glitterati in Washington, D.C. And the objective there is to deny Trump a victory on anything. And particularly now with the judicial branch exercising it\u2019s own form of supremacy over the other two branches. And they\u2019re letting them do it. There\u2019s no pushback against the judicial branch.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the last speeches he gave before he passed away, Justice Antonin Scalia said this. &#8220;Do you think the American people would ever have ratified the Constitution if they had been told the meaning of this document shall be whatever a majority of the Supreme Court says it is?&#8221; His point was it would have never been ratified and that that wasn\u2019t ratified. The Supreme Court was not established as the final authority on what the meaning of the Constitution is. The Supreme Court has assumed that role for itself in a case called Marbury v. Madison.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court in that era determined they\u2019re gonna decide what\u2019s constitutional or not. And over the years, Congress has happily let it happen \u2019cause it takes a bunch of heavy lifting away from them. And so the left then said, &#8220;Okay. That\u2019s the way it\u2019s gonna be. We\u2019re gonna populate the judiciary with as many Democrat judges as we can. We\u2019re gonna put people out there that are gonna write the law from the bench, interpret the law the way we want it.&#8221; And that\u2019s what they\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-288007\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-SCOTUS-BBB-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-SCOTUS-BBB-005.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-SCOTUS-BBB-005-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a brief break. We\u2019ll come back, get started on some phones, and then I want to share with you a couple of really good excerpts from the piece today by Daniel Horowitz at Conservative Review.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Daniel Horowitz, Conservative Review. Headline: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativereview.com\/news\/horowitz-time-trump-conservatives-crush-judicial-supremacy-heres\/\">&#8220;Time for Trump and Conservatives to Crush Judicial Supremacy: Here\u2019s How.&#8221;<\/a> Now, I\u2019ve been referring to this piece since the beginning of the program.<\/p>\n<p>And Mr. Horowitz here is an expert on the whole subject of conservative jurisprudence, conservative legal projects, how to come up with the best judges, how to nominate them, how to get them confirmed. And he says that what we\u2019ve seen in the past four years should tell everybody that it isn\u2019t about finding the best judges \u2019cause we can\u2019t. In fact, grab sound bite number 3.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a great setup for this. Audio sound bite number 3, Chris Wallace. And, by the way, Chris, congrats on your book. Chris Wallace\u2019s book about the decision to drop the bomb is number 1 in hardcover on the New York Times list. But he was on America\u2019s Newsroom this morning, talking about the Supreme Court and the balance of the court. He didn\u2019t get a question&#8230; I guess he did. I don\u2019t know who asked.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here\u2019s the point that he was making&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>WALLACE: Republicans have not been as good&#8230; I don\u2019t know what it is, but they haven\u2019t been as good at putting people on the court who will follow their views as Democrats are. Democratic presidents put people on the court, and they tend to stick to liberal judicial philosophy. The argument that\u2019s made by some conservatives is these justices are conservative.<\/p>\n<p>They get to Washington, they go to dinner and cocktail parties with a lot of liberals, and they start breathing the air and drinking the water here. Whatever the reason is that you do see Republican-appointed justices moving to the center and even sometimes to the left, you don\u2019t see it Democrat-appointed justices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativereview.com\/news\/horowitz-time-trump-conservatives-crush-judicial-supremacy-heres\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-353257\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-Conservative-Review-Tearaway-061920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-Conservative-Review-Tearaway-061920.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-Conservative-Review-Tearaway-061920-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-Conservative-Review-Tearaway-061920-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>RUSH: Well, isn\u2019t that fascinating? He doesn\u2019t understand it. He is admitting he doesn\u2019t understand. Why do the liberal judges never wander off the reservation? And he says he chalks it up to the fact that they stick to the liberal judicial philosophy. Yeah. Exactly! Why is that? What is that? The liberal judicial philosophy is there\u2019s only one decision in every case, and it is the preferred liberal decision.<\/p>\n<p>And you shall not ever abandon whatever it is. In other words, these are not judges! These are liberal activists who work as judges. They wear the robes of judges, but they are not judges. They are not judging the law. They are there to implement the liberal agenda. Conservatives don\u2019t see it that way. They don\u2019t see that they\u2019re there to implement a conservative agenda.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re there to judge the law &#8212; and conservatives think that they are really, really great when they decide cases against themselves because that proves their fairness, and that proves their open-mindedness. The liberal judge doesn\u2019t give a rat\u2019s rear end what anybody thinks of him, and he certainly doesn\u2019t care whether you think he\u2019s fair or not.<\/p>\n<p>He is there to decide the liberal answer on every case. The liberal decision, the preferred liberal outcome is the only reason. That is what liberal judicial philosophy is, and so Mr. Horowitz says this is a no-win situation. It simply isn\u2019t possible to appoint the right judges. Gorsuch was said to be the epitome, and after him, Kavanaugh &#8212; and before them, Roberts was said to be.<\/p>\n<p>They have all, at one point or another, strayed for whatever reason.<\/p>\n<p>We can all come up with our wild guesses as to why.<\/p>\n<p>But it is true that when any conservative decides to vote against himself, his party, his movement &#8212; be it a legislator, a judge, or whatever &#8212; (impression) &#8220;There\u2019s an open-minded guy! We might want to do a Washington Post Style section profile of you.&#8221; So Mr. Horowitz believes that it is abject mistake to even think about winning this battle by finding the right judges.<\/p>\n<p>It simply isn\u2019t possible because that\u2019s not the playing field. Antonin Scalia, remember, in one of the last speeches he gave before he died, do you think the American people would ever have ratified the Constitution if they had been told that the meaning of the Constitution is whatever a majority of the Supreme Court says it is? That wasn\u2019t the deal. That\u2019s not in the Constitution. The Supreme Court does not have that authority. They gave it to themselves, legislative branch let \u2019em have it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question for Trump and conservatives headed forward is where to go from here, now that so many have realized &#8230; that the minute you agree to the premise of judicial supremacism &#8211; that the courts stand above the other branches in deciding fundamentally political questions &#8211; no amount of &#8216;appointing better judges\u2019 will rectify,&#8221; the situation. &#8220;The solution is to uproot the concept of judicial supremacism altogether.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, what that means in this in this case, the Supreme Court has assigned itself the singular authority to determine what is legal and illegal, what is constitutional and unconstitutional. And all of America has sat by and let it happen. Every June we wait with bated breath to find out what nine people &#8212; well, we know what four of them, the four liberals we never doubt what they\u2019re gonna say, they\u2019re gonna come down on the liberal side of every damn thing, so we wait to find out what the five, in this case conservative judges, are gonna do.<\/p>\n<p>And when we fall for the trick, because if the court goes our way, there we go, law of the land, never intended this way. So the judicial branch has supremacy. It\u2019s gotten to the point Congress don\u2019t even write law anymore. They do budgets and stuff, but even that\u2019s broken. The budget process is broken. You got a bunch of continuing resolutions, not an annual budget every year. Plus it\u2019s been blown to smithereens by the lockdown, the shutdown and coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>So the legislative branches, they don\u2019t write law, and if they do pass legislation, it\u2019s gonna depend whether the Supreme Court approves it years down the line. And we\u2019ve just sat by and accepted this evolution of the power of the court because in a way it\u2019s easy. How in a country of 320 million people are you gonna get the God answer? And everybody wants the God answer. On issues of controversy, culturally, politically, we want the God answer. What would God say? God is the ultimate authority. If God could speak to us, if God did speak to us, if God had the ability to tell us is abortion good or bad, then that would decide it once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the Supreme Court has assumed the role of the God voice, and everybody\u2019s accepted it. Well, not everybody\u2019s accepted it, but we\u2019ve accepted that this is the process. And it\u2019s absurd. It\u2019s absurd in a country this large, this diverse, that nine people who never even wrote the original legislation being discussed, being debated, being argued, being decided, get to determine it. They\u2019re not elected, either. They\u2019re appointed for life. They are not elected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-278827\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-030118-Rush-Court-Gavel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-030118-Rush-Court-Gavel.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-030118-Rush-Court-Gavel-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>The really frustrating thing is that members of the House and Senate over the years have happily, happily let this power of theirs be usurped because it takes away all controversy. It takes away negative political ads. It takes away from opponents of incumbents the right to say the incumbent made a bad decision, stupid, because they\u2019re not doing anything. They even appoint blue ribbon commissions to handle tough decisions when budget cuts have to happen.<\/p>\n<p>So Mr. Horowitz writes, &#8220;So Trump should defy the court?&#8221; Is that what you\u2019re saying? &#8220;No. The courts are defying the law, the Constitution, and 130 years of their own settled case law that illegal aliens have no standing to sue for a right to remain in the country against the will of the political branches of government. It is they who are defying the law. Moreover, as Hamilton noted in Federalist #78, the courts &#8216;must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm for the efficacy of its judgments.\u2019 Thus, Trump declining to actively use his powers to violate immigration laws duly passed by Congress is not defying the courts; it\u2019s following the law being defied by the judiciary. You see, this case is different from almost every case that comes before the courts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the DACA case. He says, &#8220;The president has no choice. This is not just about amnesty.&#8221; Don\u2019t be fooled and think the DACA kids, the DACA case is about amnesty. &#8220;This is about everything he has done during his presidency.&#8221; Everything he has done, the judiciary, somewhere, has come along and said, no, you can\u2019t, &#8220;Whether it\u2019s numerous other immigration policies, the census, or environmental and energy regulations, the courts are mandating a continuation of Obama\u2019s presidency. They are saying that Trump cannot get rid of anything Obama did unilaterally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even if Obama made it happen unilaterally, Trump cannot do the same thing to get rid of it. So &#8220;unless Trump and Republicans promise to do as Lincoln did and push back against this judicial supremacism, there\u2019s no purpose,&#8221; to finding better judges, there\u2019s no reason for it \u2019cause that\u2019s not the way to fix what\u2019s broken here. 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