Originally published February 28, 2025 for our End-of-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.
By Joshua Bontrager, Political & Cultural Correspondent
“Trump, I believe, understands he is in a fight to the death. The American establishment tried to discredit and ruin him, to imprison him, to assassinate him. They stole his 2020 reelection from him. They tried to steal his New York properties. It is not possible for Trump to have illusions about what he is up against. He is up against evil.” –Paul Craig Roberts
“And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.” –Deuteronomy 1:16
“You seem…to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy… The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots.” –Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Jarvis, Sept. 28, 1820
INTRODUCTION
Donald Trump is “a president who counts every week like it’s his last,” says Vice President JD Vance. In his first six weeks, Trump has unleashed a historic, multi-faceted, and withering counter-revolution against the authoritarian Marxist regime that nearly destroyed America and himself.
Since 2016, the opposition has weakened significantly. The mainstream media is less trusted now than Trump, and has been exposed as mere state-funded propaganda. Fearful Senate Republicans have confirmed every one of Trump’s nominees thus far, while billionaire elites who once resisted Trump are eager to curry his favor and the Democratic Party remains toxic and rudderless.
Against this surging America First tide, rogue judges have issued a flurry of rulings to sabotage Trump’s popular mandate. In their minds, “defending democracy” means “protecting the Deep State” while defying the Constitution and American voters.
President Trump is no stranger to judicial tyranny, as his administration lost about two-thirds of lawsuits filed against it in his first term. Trump survived the Russiagate hoax and two impeachments. Multiple courts rejected challenges to the rigged 2020 election, including the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear an election lawsuit in December 2020 from 18 state attorneys general and 106 Republican members of Congress.
Ultimately, judges were unable to bankrupt and imprison Trump, remove him from the ballot, and block his return to power. Now, they are desperate to stop Trump and his allies before his renewed war on the Deep State becomes impossible to reverse.
This report will (1) break down the 80+ lawsuits against the Trump administration, (2) review the history and growth of judicial tyranny in America, beginning with the poisonous ideologies of Hegel, Marx, and Darwin, and (3) assess how current legal battles will likely play out in the days ahead.
- 80+ LAWSUITS FILED AGAINST TRUMP
“Appointed federal judges, on their own subjective judgment and using all their power, have written pieces of paper that overruled the wishes of 74.2 million Americans who have expressed their will concerning the shape of the regime that rules them. Instead, they say, permanent bureaucrats should rule all without any say from the voters who pay all the bills. That is called tyranny.” –Jeffrey A. Tucker
Eighty-eight lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration (according to Fox News), with most of them emanating from Civil Service Strong, a coalition launched by lawfare assassins Marc Elias and Norm Eisen on December 19, 2024. The coalition includes all Democratic state attorneys general and eight key leftist groups.
Multiple lawsuits have been funded indirectly by Mark Zuckerberg (who now claims to be pro-Trump). Since 2015, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has funneled $2 billion to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which supports the anti-Trump legal outfit Protect Democracy.
- TRUMP LOSSES – Over 30 rulings have paused various aspects of Trump’s agenda:
While the media has framed many of the above rulings as absolute defeats for Trump, some have been temporary restraining orders, not longer-term preliminary injunctions, meaning they only temporarily delay Trump’s agenda.
- TRUMP WINS – Judges have also ruled in favor of President Trump:
- OBSTRUCTIONIST JUDGES – Many of the rogue judges were appointed by Democrats such as Obama and Biden, but some were appointed by Bush, Reagan, and even Trump. Most are loyal to the Deep State, not the American Republic. The judges include Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who sentenced seven peaceful pro-lifers to prison, including a 75-year-old grandma, and Judge Angel Kelly, who is friendly to Communist China and has said that systemic racism plagues America’s judicial system.
- THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN JUDICIAL TYRANNY
“The rule of law, not the rule of men, is the foundation of a free society.” –John A. Stormer, Betrayed by the Bench, 2005
In 1962, the Republican majority-appointed Supreme Court ruled to remove prayer and the Bible from government schools. In 1973, the Court condemned over 60 million innocent unborn babies to death in Roe v. Wade.
In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to recognize same-sex “marriage” in Obergefell v. Hodges. Following Obergefell, then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) proclaimed, “The court has ruled, and it’s time to move on.” Many Republicans who were relieved that courts allowed them to wash their hands of controversial moral issues were unhappy when Roe was overturned.
Over 100 years, Supreme Court opinions centralized state power, corrupted morality, and perverted the Founding vision. Yet, the roots of judicial tyranny started with the Marxist/humanist ideology that infected America’s legal system 150 years ago.
- THE FOUNDING ERA – The Declaration of Independence criticized King George for “[making] Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.”
Judicial tyranny was discussed in The Federalist Papers, with James Madison writing in Number 47, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands…may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
The Founders envisioned Congress as the most powerful branch and the judiciary as the least powerful. However, Anti-Federalist and New York judge Robert Yates warned that the Constitution’s proposed Supreme Court would hold “immense powers” and be “very liberal” in interpreting the Constitution. (Yates ultimately withdrew from the Constitutional Convention because he said it was exceeding its instructions.)
In Marbury v. Madison (1803), the U.S. Supreme Court gave itself the power of judicial review, allowing the Court to de facto legislate by striking down laws it deemed unconstitutional, a power that was fully exercised in the 20th century.
Thomas Jefferson warned that allowing the judiciary to determine the constitutionality of laws would make it “a despotic branch” (1804 letter), and said the judiciary’s establishment of “law by precedent” was “sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution” (1823 letter).
In his inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln said if the Supreme Court is the final authority, “the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.”
- THE RISE OF LEGAL PROGRESSIVISM – In his Commentaries on the Laws of England, English jurist William Blackstone recognized God’s natural law as “binding over all the globe” and said that “no human laws are of any validity, if [they are] contrary to this.”
Post-Civil War, America shifted from Blackstone and the Christian common law recognized in the Declaration of Independence toward “case law,” inspired by George F.W. Hegel, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx. In 1970, Christopher Columbus Langell was appointed Dean of Harvard Law School. Langell’s “case law” posited that legal right and wrong are determined not by absolutes, but by societal evolution.
Later Harvard legal minds promoted this new philosophy, including Dean Roscoe Pound. One of Pound’s followers, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, claimed, “We are under a constitution, but the constitution is what we say it is.” Presidents Woodrow Wilson (the father of the modern administrative state) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt heartily embraced this view. Decades later, Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan asserted, “The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it may have had in a world dead and gone but in its evolving character.”
In 1920, the American Civil Liberties Association (ACLU) was founded by Fabian Socialists John Dewey and Roger Baldwin and Communists William Z. Foster and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. In 1925, the ACLU initiated the “Scopes Monkey Trial” to promote evolution and denigrate Biblical Creationism.
Tragically, the corruption of American law coincided with the rise of mass propaganda, compulsory education, economic centralization, and cultural/family destruction.
- POWER OF THE SUPREME COURT – In the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, the Supreme Court increased its power and deployed the Commerce Clause and the Incorporation Doctrine to expand federal authority at the expense of states and individual liberties.
The Incorporation Doctrine used the 14th Amendment to turn the Bill of Rights – originally designed to limit federal government power – on its head and weaken the liberty of states and individuals.
The Mises Institute’s Ryan McMaken states, “We can have a functioning Tenth Amendment, or we can have an Incorporation Doctrine. But not both… The idea of the American confederation was to provide protections for liberty through competition among states, and through balancing state power against federal power.”
- HOW CURRENT LEGAL FIGHTS COULD PLAY OUT
“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” –Vice President JD Vance
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California Berkeley Law School, said, “It’s very frightening to think that they will disobey court orders. If they don’t, it will be a constitutional crisis unlike anything this country has seen, because if the president can violate constitutional laws and disobey court orders, then the name for that is a dictatorship.”
In reality, rogue judges fueled the current Constitutional crisis by shredding the Constitution for 100 years. Chemerinsky and his fellow regime apparatchiks despise constitutional law and American voters.
Deep Staters are panicked because their taxpayer-funded empire of grift, propaganda, and tyranny is crumbling, and they view the courts as their last line of defense.
- HOW WILL THE SUPREME COURT RULE? – With several exceptions, President Trump seems poised to let the current legal drama play out until it reaches the Supreme Court, which he hopes will rebuke lower court overreach. Justices Sotomayer, Jackson, and Kagan will vote against Trump, while Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch will likely favor Trump, leaving Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett as the swing judges.
The Federalist’s Sean Davis contended, “John Roberts and SCOTUS have two options here: they can bring these inferior malcontents to heel, or they can get used to the President simply ignoring these inferior courts or Congress eliminating them entirely.”
On February 25, Chief Justice John Roberts delayed U.S. District Judge Amir Ali’s unconstitutional order demanding that Trump unfreeze $2 billion in questionable USAID contracts by midnight.
- WILL TRUMP DISMANTLE JUDICIAL SUPREMACISM? – For eight years, Trump has been assaulted by a weaponized legal system, leaving Trump and his allies battle-scarred, resolved, and organized in a way they were not in 2016. Consider these signals from key Trump allies:
- Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: “We believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law. The real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch.”
- Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: “The Founders created a unitary executive branch in which ‘the executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States.’ All executive power is vested in the one man elected by the whole nation. No unelected bureaucrat has any ‘independent’ ”
- Vice President JD Vance in 2021: “Trump should…fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people, and…when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say the Chief Justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it.”
The President who narrowly escaped at least two assassins is unlikely to let rogue judges thwart his efforts to decentralize government power and restore American greatness.
- WILL JUDICIAL ACTIVISM SPUR REFORM? – Below are several potential reforms that could be undertaken by Congress:
PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS
“If we don’t rid ourselves of the false construct of judicial supremacism, the same judges from January 6 in the D.C. federal district and circuit will be governing the country.” –Daniel Horowitz
Judicial activism will continue as Democrats, unable and unwilling to provide an alternative vision for America, fearmonger about “dictatorship” and “constitutional crisis.” These same Democrats will ignore the real constitutional crisis that began when humanists injected evolutionary “case law” into the legal system 150 years ago.
Either lawfare will defeat Trump’s second term as the plandemic did his first, or (more likely) rogue justices will give Trump an opportunity to weaken judicial supremacy or even end it once and for all.
If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s agenda, the Left will continue tarring the Court – which shifted from 68% trust in 2019 to 44% trust in 2024 – as illegitimate. Such calls could motivate assassination attempts on conservative Supreme Court justices, similar to the 2022 media-inspired plot to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh. On the other hand, if the Supreme Court greenlights Trump’s agenda, Marxists could inflame riots and conflict “in the streets.”
However, Democrats will have difficulty reclaiming a popular narrative, as their Party doubles down on wokeness and once “respectable” DNC propaganda outlets lose taxpayer funding and viewers. Stopping Trump’s populist reforms will be difficult… but only if the President continues delivering on his promises and can avoid war, full-blown economic collapse, or a coup from the shifty billionaire tech elite.
While Trump and Congress can rein in out-of-line judges, American patriots must strive to strip unconstitutional powers from all three government branches and the bureaucracy and return authority to states and individuals. (The New American notes that nearly 80% of federal government “is unconstitutional”.)
In the final analysis, a greater challenge than reversing judicial tyranny and centralized power will be undoing the Marxist/humanist cultural revolution that destroyed America’s Biblically-based law, education, churches, economy, culture, and families over 150 years. Restoration will require rejecting the devil’s promise to “be as gods” (Genesis 3) and submitting to God’s divine wisdom and authority.
Former Communist Whitaker Chambers articulated the choice: “God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.”
America still confronts this epochal crossroads, one that will determine the fate, not only of our legal system, but also of our future, families, and freedom.
FURTHER RESEARCH:
Betrayed By the Bench: How Judge-made Law Has Transformed America’s Constitution, Courts and Culture – John A. Stormer
Judicial Tyranny – Samuel Francis
The American Covenant: The Untold Story – Dr. Marshall Foster
