It is long past time for the Federal District Courts to get slapped down. They have been politically active in too many cases in issuing nationwide injunctions against actions taken by the President of the United State, President Donald Trump. In fact they have no such power under the Constitution of the United States.
To his cautious and careful approach to these injunctions, Trump has always stated he will abide by the justice system and its courts. The truth is he does not have to do that but does not want to create a Constitutional crisis.
There are three equal branches of the US government: the Congress, the Executive, and the Judicial. The Congress stands on its own. The Executive is headed by the President of the United States. The Judicial branch is headed by the Supreme Court of the United States. Those three are the equal branches of government. Nowhere do you see federal district courts mentioned. They simply are not at the level of the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. They are inferior and, therefore, do not have authority equal to those three.
If there are issues to resolved, the Congress and the Executive (President) and the Supreme Court must resolve them. The President is charged with enforcing the laws passed by the people’s branch, the Congress. If it is alleged the Executive is overstepping its authority under the laws passed by Congress or delineated under the Constitution, the Supreme Court becomes the judge and determining authority. The US district courts have no place in this system. Currently, rogue judges are gumming up the works and slowing down or stopping actions taken by the President. The Supreme Court is the only body with the authority to stop or reverse actions taken by the President by determining any actions are outside the authority granted by the Congress or under the Constitution. Nothing less.
So far, the Supreme Court has neglected its duty to clarify the situation. It has been cowardly. In not acting to reign in the federal district courts and its judges, the Supreme Court is putting the country at risk. It is long past time for that to stop.
President Trump, as the head of the Executive, has wide spread power to act to keep our country safe and to move the country forward to a better future. He cannot and must not be slowed down by a rogue justice system seemingly filled with leftist judges. No federal district court judge should be able to issue a nation wide injunction. Period.
It is time for the Supreme Court justices to get a backbone and act. If it does not, it is inviting President Trump to simply ignore federal district court rulings. So far, he has not chosen this course.
Free Press
As the publisher of the Kokomo Tribune decades ago and a member of the family that owned that newspaper for 84 years, I feel compelled to respond to the May 7th editorial about a “Free Press”.
The editorial was entitled, “Free press must remain free”. I could not agree more, but do not agree with the complaint about the Trump administration concerning the structure of the White House press conferences. The editorial says the Trump administration “is drastically curtailing …. access to White House press conferences” for the Associated Press, Reuters, and Bloomberg Media. It further complains the Trump administration “is choking off the ability of an independent press to ask questions…… “, which is bologna.
Those three mentioned are so-called “wire services” that send information daily to hundreds of media outlets across the country. Their news is supposed to be the result of objective, unbiased journalism; which it clearly, presently is not, particularly regarding political issues.
The administration, any administration, has the right to say who and who will not be present in a press room at the White House. That space does not belong to the “White House Press Corps”. The Trump administration has decided to include new and different outlets from the traditional or legacy news outlets in press conferences. It has that right. And there is only so much physical space and so many seats in the press room.
And the complaint that the Trump administration is limiting the ability to ask questions is total bologna. President Trump responds to a flurry of questions daily. When compared to the Biden administration, the difference in access to the President for direct answers is stark. Trump is openly accessible. Biden never was.
In many cases, press reporters make fools of themselves when asking totally unrelated or stupid questions when President Trump is responding to reporters whatever the event. Frequently, they sound like a bunch of cackling chickens.
In decades past, there were two major wire services, the Associated Press and United Press International, which fed information to the nearly 2,000 independently owned newspapers across the country. Those services were responsible to governing boards comprised of people from those newspapers. The reporting was required to toe the line of independent, objective reporting. That has been lost. The dominance of independently owned newspapers has waned.
The time of the Internet came. New sources of information have emerged. So, it became time for new news outlets to be included with old ones. Then let the public decide where truth is found. In days of old, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post along with the Associated Press and United Press International were regarded as beacons of objective truth. No longer.
And, yes, every administration tries to influence what is reported about it and how it is reported. That is a given. The so called legacy media has in many ways lost the trust of the American people. So, it is time to openly include the new and the old. Maybe in that way journalism will return to being what it is supposed to be: independent, objective, and unbiased. A free press and an informed public are the very foundation of the United States of America.