OPINION:
Following the law shouldn’t be a one-way street. Liberal pundits and politicians brand President Trump an “authoritarian” for his supposed disobedience to judicial rulings. Except, the president’s men have thus far scrupulously complied with the text of every federal court command, no matter how daft.
A lower-level judge has devised a strategy to put the administration in the novel position of either accepting its recent Supreme Court win or obeying his decree that says the opposite. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy, an appointee of President Biden, has been setting this trap for months.
From his Boston courtroom, Judge Murphy fired off a series of demands designed to protect foreigners who sneaked into the United States to commit additional misdeeds. Each received “due process” in the form of an immigration attorney from one of the many radical nongovernmental organizations that facilitate open borders.
Once advised, these noncitizens developed a