OPINION:
The judicial resistance sustained a major setback last week. Thanks to a long-overdue Supreme Court intervention, lone judges can no longer hold the nation hostage to their whims.
In the 5½ months since President Trump’s second term began, Justice Amy Coney Barrett sat on the sidelines with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Their refusal to join their conservative colleagues allowed inferior judicial magistrates to paralyze the administration’s agenda through universal injunctions.
The longer the reluctant justices restrained themselves, the more brazen the defiance became. Left-wing groups filed a staggering 306 lawsuits in deep-blue jurisdictions to demand boundless court orders protecting the “rights” of illegal aliens, mandating wasteful spending, allowing race-based discrimination and forcing the military to embrace cross-dressing sailors and soldiers.
Liberal legal aid societies found no shortage of activist judges willing to swing their gavels against a president they despise. Although these pages have not been sparing