Moves afoot to rein in judicial obstructionism.
When almost every action taken by a new president is blocked by federal judges, it’s clear that this is about more than the rule of law. No other president in living memory has been hit with so many injunctions – more than a dozen – just two months into his presidency, spanning almost every policy directive. The most high-profile fight has now landed in an appeals court. US District Court Judge James Boasberg on March 15 issued a temporary restraining order (TRO), halting deportation flights and even demanding that planes already in the air turn around and return to American soil – which did not happen. On March 24, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals heard legal arguments pertaining to President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport…
