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How The Congressional GOP Is Letting Activist Judges Torpedo Trump's America First Agenda
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How The Congressional GOP Is Letting Activist Judges Torpedo Trump's America First Agenda

For the love of God, can someone in the Republican Party grow a set of balls? It’s October, Trump 2.0 is in the White House fighting tooth and nail to secure our borders, slash the bloated federal bureaucracy, and rein in the runaway spending that’s bankrupting our grandkids—and what do we get from Republicans on Capitol Hill? Recess and congratulatory backslapping over the passage of one meaningful bill. A collective shrug from the so-called conservative majority that’s supposed to have our backs.

Instead of reining in the rogue federal judiciary that’s turned into a one-way ratchet for Leftist obstructionism, these GOP enablers sit on their hands, pretending judicial reform—which is absolutely in their purview—is some forbidden fruit. The federal judiciary is out of control, and Republicans are complicit in the chaos by their inaction—while Democrats obstruct every step of the way, from shutdown standoffs to sanctuary strongholds.

Let’s start with immigration, because nothing screams “America First” like sealing the border against the invasion that’s overwhelmed our cities.

Trump hits the ground running in January, vowing mass deportations to restore order. By August, he’s rolling out a fast-track deportation policy to expedite removals of criminal illegal aliens without the endless due-process charade the Left has constructed that lets them game the system.

Boom—federal court says no. A judge slaps down the entire effort as “extremist and unjust,” tying the administration’s hands just as ICE gears up for sweeps in sanctuary strongholds like Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago. The ACLU crows about rejecting the “unjust policy of fast-tracking mass deportations without due process,” but this isn’t justice under the law —it’s lawfare sabotage. And it gets worse on the local front, where Democrat city and state leaders have ordered cops to stand down, refusing to help ICE apprehend illegal immigrants flooding their streets.

In Chicago, for instance, under explicit directives from Blue-state bosses (hello JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson), local law enforcement is forced to sit idle, watching criminals roam free while federal agents twist in the wind. Now, the federal bench is piling on, with the Seventh Circuit upholding a halt on Trump’s National Guard deployment to the Windy City, blocking troops from aiding in roundups amid the migrant mayhem, even as federal law enforcement agents are under assault and calling for back-up.

These aren’t close calls; they’re blatant power grabs by judges who’ve forgotten Article III doesn’t make them kings.

Emboldened by this federal bench cover fire, a Cook County judge—nowhere near his judicial purview—just issued an order barring ICE agents from making arrests on county court property—including parking lots—turning courthouses into safe havens for illegals and no-go zones for federal law enforcement.

Chief Judge Timothy Evans’s decree explicitly prohibits civil arrests, as if immigration enforcement is a suggestion in sanctuary swamps like Chicago. Meanwhile, anti-ICE actions are rampant: from local ordinances shielding deportable thugs to judicial edicts that handcuff federal operations, all while Democrat overlords pat their minions on the back for their unconstitutional sanctuary policies.

Where are the Republicans in Congress? Yawning over their morning coffee while the streets are awash in blood. They’ve got the votes—House, Senate, the works—to launch impeachment proceedings against these judicial tyrants, or at least pass legislation redefining the purview of federal courts to curb their overreach on nationwide injunctions, which they issue like candy on Halloween.

Remember the Supreme Court’s June warning about “universal injunctions” improperly meddling in Executive Branch turf? That was a golden opportunity to codify limits on these abuses by narrowing judicial scope to its proper lanes. Instead? Nothing. Today’s GOP leaders stare into the cameras when asked about this like retarded deer in oncoming headlights. They’re too busy fundraising off “drain the swamp” bumper stickers to actually touch the faucet, even as Democrats filibuster every reform attempt.

Fed up? You should be. Every blocked deportation means more fentanyl in our streets, more strain on schools and hospitals—on taxpayers, all because congressional cowards won’t fight the bench, letting anti-ICE zealots from city halls to courtrooms run roughshod over the law, with Democrats cheering from the sidelines.

But hey, maybe they’re saving their energy for downsizing the government, right? Wrong.

Trump’s team announces plans to cull the federal herd—layoffs targeting redundant and wholly unnecessarily employed bureaucrats who’ve turned DC into a jobs program for Ivy League paper-pushers. Enter the shutdown drama: with Congress deadlocked on funding as Democrats dig in their heels, the administration seizes the moment to issue reduction-in-force notices to over 4,100 workers across agencies, a brilliant move to finally trim the fat that’s swollen the workforce to Soviet-era levels.

Cue the robes: US District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco—shocker, a blue-state bench Clinton appointee—slams the brakes with a temporary injunction, declaring the firings “likely illegal” and whining about the “human cost.” Human cost? Try the human cost of a $35 trillion debt crushing taxpayers! This isn’t some rogue operation; it’s straight out of the playbook Trump promised, yet the judge seeks to halt it cold, blocking new and existing layoffs at more than 30 agencies during the shutdown.

Let’s call it what it is: sabotage of the people’s mandate, enabled by Democrat stonewalling in the Senate.

And the Republicans? Democrats are the ones refusing to pass a clean bill, dragging us into this shutdown mess over healthcare funding for illegal immigrants and a restoration of funding for ridiculous DEI foreign programs. Yet, the GOP appears shocked when judges exploit the vacuum. Speaker Johnson could ram through a simple resolution affirming the president’s authority to restructure during fiscal crises—hell, he could even cite the 1974 Impoundment Control Act reforms that give executives substantial leeway.

But no. They’re too busy stampeding to cameras and microphones; too busy tweeting platitudes about “fiscal responsibility” while judges like Illston play HR director for the Deep State—and oh, look, there they go again, back-slapping each other over the passage of that “big beautiful bill,” Trump’s shiny new spending package loaded with border wall funds and tax cuts, as if one win excuses a summer of inaction amid Democrat obstruction. It’s infuriating.

These black-robed tyrants aren’t impartial arbiters; they’re obstacles to efficiency, and Congress has the constitutional hammer to smash them, but treats it like an impotent feather, with Republicans too timid to act while Democrats load the judges’ chambers with activist ammo. Where’s the cost-benefit analysis for the American taxpayer footing endless bureaucracy bills?

If that’s not enough to make your blood boil, consider the spending cuts—or lack thereof. Trump’s budget blueprint slashes discretionary outlays by tens if not hundreds of billions, targeting pork like endless and frivolous foreign aid and green boondoggles. But the courts? They’re the ultimate veto pen.

That same shutdown layoff block isn’t just about jobs; it’s a direct assault on spending restraint, preserving payrolls that balloon the deficit. Judges are freezing funds at FY 2025 levels—$8.6 billion for the judiciary alone—while decrying any trims as “crises.”

And in today’s fresh outrage, Illston’s order halts mass firings aimed at cutting costs during the impasse, effectively forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for idled agencies. Two unions are cheering the “victory” over what they call illegal actions. Victory for whom? Not for the strapped families watching their paychecks vanish into the federal swamp, especially with Democrats blocking every GOP bid to override these judicial roadblocks.

Republicans, this is on you. You’ve controlled the levers of power since January 2025, yet you’ve done squat to curb the judicial overreach; the blatant judicial activism that’s neutered two branches of government—all while Democrats obstruct reforms at every turn. This is what you get for going along to get along while Clinton, Obama, and Biden packed the federal bench with activists and operatives. That shame is on you for being collectively too stupid to understand the consequences.

Impeach the worst offenders—start with those issuing blanket injunctions. Pass the REINS Act on steroids to claw back regulatory power. Or, heaven forbid, invoke Article III, Section 2 to strip jurisdiction from activist circuits and redefine the purview of federal courts once and for all.

But no, you’re too scared of upending “precedent” or rejecting the Democrats’ fake “bipartisanship” to act. Trump and his team are out there taking the heat, defying court orders on everything from refugee bans to grant funding, while you hide behind “process”—the same process Democrats manipulate to their advantage at every turn.

The real illegality, the real crime against the American people, is Congress abdicating its duty to protect the American people from the tyranny of the judiciary and the criminals for whom they advocate, with Republicans fiddling as Democrats fan the flames.

Enough. Your base is sufficiently pissed-off at your inaction and cowardice, donors are eyeing the primaries, and history will remember you not as reformers who marched in a counter-revolution to far-Left socialism, but as the do-nothings who let judicial tyrants run the country.

Listen up, Republicans in the House and the Senate: Step up, or step aside. America can’t wait for you to find your balls—because the bench sure as hell isn’t waiting to grab more power.

When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.


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In Closing…

Okay, let’s cut the crap: Trump’s fighting to secure borders, cut the size of government, and return to fiscal sanity, but Capitol Hill Republicans? They’re on recess, high-fiving over the passage of one bill. At the same time, judges—black robed activists packed by Democrats—slap down deportations, shield criminals in sanctuary swamps, and block the downsizing of bureaucracy that could save trillions.

Chicago’s chaos, San Francisco’s shutdown sabotage—it’s lawfare, not justice. Republicans, you’ve got the votes for impeachments, jurisdiction strips, and REINS Act firepower. Ditch the deer-in-headlights act. Step up, or step aside—America’s bleeding from your inaction and, frankly, we’re running out of blood.

Until next time…

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