Congressional Cowards is a weekly collection highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—regardless of how disgraceful or lawless his actions.
Republicans within the Home and Senate have been fast to observe Donald Trump’s March 18 orders to question federal judges who dominated towards his unlawful actions.
However when pressed about which excessive crimes and misdemeanors the judges dedicated to warrant such an excessive measure, Republicans had no good reply.
As a substitute, the one “crime” they got here up with was that the judges did not let the lawless president trample over the Structure to do no matter he needs, whether or not that be deporting immigrants with out due course of; letting co-President Elon Musk and his Division of Authorities Effectivity bros entry delicate authorities techniques, shut down federal businesses, and chaotically hearth federal staff; or take away well being information from authorities web sites as a result of it was tangentially associated to “gender identity.”
For instance, CNN host Kasie Hunt requested Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio what “high crimes or misdemeanors” these judges dedicated.
Jordan replied with what can solely be described as verbal diarrhea.
“All I’m saying is, if you’re acting in a political fashion and not just following the law, the ruling on the law, and I would argue that frankly just his ruling in and of itself, remember the Constitution is pretty clear, Article II Section I, very first sentence, says the power in the executive branch shall be vested in a president of the United States. The president has the authority,” Jordan mentioned.
In fact Jordan unnoticed that Article III of the Structure says that judicial energy extends to “all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States”—which is what the judges have been doing when plaintiffs argued that the Trump administration was violating U.S. legal guidelines whereas finishing up its harmful agenda.
Rep. Brendan Gill of Texas, who filed articles of impeachment towards the choose who tried to cease Trump’s unlawful deportations of Venezuelan immigrants (an order the Trump administration ignored), was additionally requested which impeachable offenses the choose dedicated—and had a horrible response.
“This is for usurping the executive’s authority, for demeaning the impartiality of the court by making a politicized ruling, and forcing a constitutional crisis,” Gill mentioned on Newsmax. “That is a high crime and misdemeanor.”
Different Republicans additionally backed Trump and Musk’s name to question judges who rule towards the administration.
“America is a Republic, not a dictatorship of the judiciary. It’s time to get rid of the political activists masquerading as judges and re-establish proper separation of powers,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida wrote in a submit on X. “That’s why I’m proud to announce that I will be joining my colleagues in impeaching ALL the activist judges who are unconstitutionally blocking President Trump’s agenda.”
And Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri mentioned he was going to introduce a legislation that might ban judges from with the ability to order nationwide injunctions.
“District Court judges have issued RECORD numbers of national injunctions against the Trump administration – a dramatic abuse of judicial authority. I will introduce legislation to stop this abuse for good,” Hawley mentioned, with out acknowledging that possibly it’s as a result of no different administration has ever initiated so many lawless actions that violate the Structure.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley didn’t explicitly say he supported impeaching the judges, however he made it clear he believes what the judges did was improper—and can use his highly effective committee to go after these judges.
“Another day, another judge unilaterally deciding policy for the whole country. This time to benefit foreign gang members,” Grassley wrote in a submit on X. “If the Supreme Court or Congress doesn’t fix, we’re headed towards a constitutional crisis. Senate Judiciary Cmte taking action.”
And it appears that evidently Musk learn Grassley’s remark as being supportive of impeachment, as a result of after Trump’s demand to question the judges, Musk donated to Grassley and 6 different Republicans who’ve supported the hassle besides them, The New York Occasions reported.
From the Occasions’ report:
Mr. Musk contributed on Wednesday to Representatives Eli Crane of Arizona, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Andy Ogles of Tennessee, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin and Brandon Gill of Texas. He additionally donated to Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, in keeping with two of the individuals briefed on the matter.
“This is a judicial coup,” Musk wrote on X of a courtroom ruling that blocked Trump from banning transgender individuals from the army. “We need 60 senators to impeach the judges and restore rule of the people.”
In fact, it takes 67 senators to question—a truth you’d assume Musk, who Trump and Republicans have framed as a genius, would know.
Finally, this impeachment effort is futile.
Even when Home Republicans someway achieve impeaching these judges, there is no such thing as a means that Democratic senators would vote to convict and take away them in an impeachment trial.
The tip results of this ridiculous posturing: making judges concern for their very own security as they obtain loss of life threats for his or her legally sound rulings, due to Republicans’ vile rhetoric.
