Neighborhood Ministries

We are seeing a rash of liberal district judges who are issuing injunctions to block President Trump’s executive actions and liberal judges around the country are treating it as legally binding on their jurisdictions. Nowhere in the Constitution does it give district federal judges authority over the whole country. District judges are over federal districts and do not have authority beyond their districts. They also do not have authority over the President of the United States. Their job is to rule on disputes between States and concerns that transcend State boundaries within their jurisdiction. The Constitution gives only two entities power over the President. Congress may enact laws overriding the President’s actions or the Supreme Court can rule the actions unconstitutional. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court in its recent decision allowed that the President had a right to take the action he did but decided not to rule on whether district judges could block the President for some reason leaving a legal mess which allows liberal district judges to continue to harass the President and block his actions.

There are many State and local judges and politicians who continue to ignore the Constitution and Supreme court rulings, imposing their views on the American people. While the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the right of the Kentucky man who makes T-shirts, to refuse to print shirts for the local Gay pride festival, officials in the State of Kentucky continue to harass and threaten him. If the governor appointed those involved, he should fire them. If he does not, he is guilty of dereliction of duty and the people should not reelect him or if he isn’t up for reelection, they should circulate petitions to remove him. If the people elect the judges as they do in some States, the voters should vote him out. The people need to elect judges that will obey the law and monitor them to see that they do. If they don’t, replace them with judges who will. We are a republic based on the rule of law, not a dictatorship of the judiciary. Our officials need to be held accountable for their actions and the actions of those they appoint or we will continue to suffer such injustice and it will spread. Many public officials currently ignore or overturn votes of the people and if the people don’t exercise their right to vote now, the officials will abolish elections and then the people will no longer have a voice. People tell me that will never happen but a few years ago when the Supreme Court held a liberal majority, the Justices in a footnote to their majority opinion on State marriage laws stated that votes of the people are merely advisory and not binding on public officials, an opinion clearly violating the Constitution, but which many politicians subscribe to. Therefore it is all the more important that you to vote in officials that will respect the laws for city, county, and State, as well as federal offices, and vote out those that don’t.

While we now have a President that supports the Constitution and the rule of law, and we now have a majority of Supreme Court Justices who support the Constitution and the rule of law, it is a shaky victory. Democrats stated that if they were able to get a majority in Congress, they would impeach the President and Justice Kavanaugh, though they have no evidence of crimes committed by either. They tried twice by approving articles of impeachment against President Trump even though they could find no evidence of wrong-doing and their investigation exposed the fact that the charges against President Trump of colluding with the Russians was a fabricated lie by Hilliary Clinton to discredit President Trump and remove him from office and charges of inciting a riot on January 6 were false. He tried to stop it and Democrats blocked his attempts to protect the capital building. Fortunately Republicans had the votes to block it in the Senate both times. We may not be so fortunate next time. While liberal politicians claim that President Trump is undermining the rule of law, we are seeing a very determined effort by liberal politicians to subvert the political process by openly violating the law.